by Ron Mock | Aug 30, 2020 | Old Detroit Blog
Trea Turner hit safely in 8 straight trips to the plate starting with his double in the 8th inning Friday evening. He went 5 for 5 Saturday, and 2 for 2 in his first two plate appearances Sunday. Even counting his strikeout to end the top of the fourth, Trea is now...
by Ron Mock | Aug 14, 2020 | Old Detroit Blog
The Wolverine nightmare continues unabated, their winning percentage holding yesterday at .165. The 10th place team — the defending champion Rosebuds today — got a little better yesterday and are again more than twice as good as the W’s. Royal...
by Ron Mock | Aug 9, 2020 | Old Detroit Blog, Uncategorized
Take a look at this table: Batters Prosp Rk Current OPS Jurickson Profar 1 .416 Gavin Lux 2 .000 Eloy Jimenez 4 .728 Lewis Brinson 12 .143 Rafael Devers 13 .543 Trea Turner 13 .536 Luis Urias 17 .000 Austin Hedges 18 .182 Josh Bell 25 .579 Tm Average 29.9 .470 Austin...
by Ron Mock | Aug 1, 2020 | League Updates, Old Detroit Blog
As Jamie has pointed out the last three straight days, the Woeverines stink. Friday W hitters had 32 plate appearances. I didn’t listen to 28 of them. In the ones I missed, Wolverine hitters got 0 hits and four walks. When I realized (late in the day) what...
by Ron Mock | Jul 23, 2020 | Old Detroit Blog
… but let’s hope you’d be wrong. I just finished reading an article about a new AI program, GPT-3. Kevin Lacker writes about his observations from giving a Turing Test to GPT-3. (A Turing Test is a set of prompts designed to see if a computer can...
by Ron Mock | Apr 19, 2020 | Old Detroit Blog
MLB published today on its website a story about the highest-scoring half-innings in baseball history. The intro to what should have been a mildly interesting piece includes this: Here is a look at the top 10 single-inning performances in modern baseball history...
