From the too early to mean anything…
If I recall correctly he did not hit ninety miles an hour in spring training last year at all
First time he hit ninety miles per hour and the regular season was in june,
Jung with a lead off dbl in the 2nd
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Jung ended up with 2 doubles, Colt had a couple hits, Mize pitched 2 really good innings, and Dingler mashed a 400 ft homer.
Tigers 4 - Yankees 0
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Mize did look good as did Jung and Enns(??).
I will be at tomorrow’s game, need to check weather, lol
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Have fun
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Well, sadly weather looks like shit, so, will see how much baseball gets in. I think I have tickets underneath the overhang.
If not, early drinking day…
Well easier to say when it isn’t going to rain today than when it is.
9am and 1pm no rain, rest of the day rain…it figures.
Great story on a young baseball fan, feel for this family as I cannot imagine the pain and struggle.
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“His game-planning is really the next step for him,” manager AJ Hinch said. “And he’s getting better and better, as we seen last year. It’s about what pitches to hit, which doesn’t mean every single one. It’s all coming together.”
Greene typically is a slow starter in spring. The last couple of years, coming off winter rehabs, it’s taken him some time to find his groove. He brought the groove with him this year.
“I wouldn’t say I’m ahead,” Greene said Wednesday morning. “I was just talking about this with Coach Poce (first-base coach Anthony Iapoce) earlier today. It’s all about experience, right? Once you get a couple of spring trainings under your belt, like, I know what I want to do. I had a little experience last year, but I wasn’t mentally locked in on what I want to do.”
He’s not talking about working harder. There’s never been a day or a drill or a rep that Greene has attacked without full effort. He’s talking about working smarter.
“In the lives on the back field, I would go into it like, ‘Oh, it’s just seeing live pitching. I’m going to see some pitches and whatever,’” he said. “Now I’m more focused on trying to get a good pitch to hit and if I don’t, I’m not going to swing at it.
“And that’s hard. It’s hard.”
“I think everybody is in control of their roster spot,” he said. “It’s just the preparation and the play. Guys play their way onto the team. We don’t have a preset expectation on these guys. We can build the roster a lot of different ways.
“The best way for him to break with us is to be able to move around the outfield and put up good at-bats.”
That’s what Pérez did last year, turning what was expected to be a short-stint injury replacement into a vital 112-game rookie season.
“Last year doesn’t happen without his contributions,” Hinch said. “And a lot of that was at a new position at the highest level. Pretty impressive.”
It was right about this time last year when Hinch pulled Pérez into his office and told him that he could store his infielder glove. He was going to be playing outfield from this day forward. For Pérez, who was battling a mental block on the shorter infield throws, it was like having a massive weight lifted off his shoulders.
“He played with a lot of freedom when we put him out there,” Hinch said. “He adapted well. He’s a good athlete. And he’s going to play center field some, too; that’s still very important for him. But what I’ve learned about Wenceel is he can handle it.
“The at-bat quality is really good. The feel for the outfield is better than I think any of us expected. And he’s continuing to get better.”
Baez making first appearance of ST at DH today.
Definitely a glass half full kind of report.
Maeda got rocked in his third inning and took the loss.
Agree that its too early to conclude anything though.
On Wednesday, Skubal was sitting at 100.
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Nothin cheap about that one…wow
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Speaking of cheap ones…watched some of the jays game today vs the Phillies. The wind is blowing out. Been about 5 homers that were routine fly balls and the wind just took them. The announcers are all excited but they gotta know those are mostly all easy outs in the dome. Gotta drive pitchers nuts when the wind is blowing out
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Liranzo is a effing beast
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