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But Sweeney had a setback, so you can just 60-Day him and make the move.

when they were part of the Washington Post they were doing better work than either of those two, but that didn't sell enough magazines. The US is no place to get rich doing quality journalism.

Newsweek and Daily Mail do seem to be peas in a pod these days. Remember when the former was up there with Time and U.S. News & World Report?

well, he was bleeding from the mouth, couldn't move his left arm, and appeared to be concussed - any one of those could rate a night of observation I suppose. He was not in a good way when he finally got up.

I may have. I honestly can't remember. Share a link to anything you see if you come across one. Thanks.

I knew you were going to say that! 😀 That's what they are though and we knew that coming in. The homers will come with the weather warms and the run totals will increase. I am not worried about the offense any more than I was at the beginning of the season. The pitching was supposed to be top 5 in the league and it's been terrible. We knew the fielding wouldn't be great, but I think it's been worse than expectred.

Not enough GRIT...

I heard this somewhere and I thought it was a pretty good take: The Tigers hitters come up to bat as though they haven’t been watching the at-bats before them.

Yes run prevention is the bigger issue, but while the offensive numbers are true in aggregate it's largely because of 2 lopsided wins, also true they've scored 3 or less in 6 of 13 games.

I wasn’t watching the game when the collision between Parker and Riley occurred. Wow Parker’s in the hospital overnight?

i've said before that at some level there seems to be disconnect between Hinch and whole 'control the zone' concept. Hinch constantly re-iterates that he is always telling his hitters to "get a good pitch to hit". Well what if you don't? A major league pitcher can easily throw you 3 pitches in the zone and none of them are going to be 'good to hit'. So you just give up any AB when you don't get a cookie? How is that controlling the zone? You can win a lot of games waiting for mistakes when you are facing bad pitchers, but what about when you aren't? If you make it 'defend the K zone until the pitcher makes a mistake' that means you have to have a real defensive two strike approach with a short stroke to keep fouling pitches off. Do we see a lot of Tigers with that? Riley does say he's trying it.

Why is everybody blaming the offense? They are not hitting home runs, but they are 8th in MLB in OBP and 10th in wRC+ The home runs will come when the weather warms up. The real culprit is run prevention: They are 20th in xFIP 21st in fielding This team is built on run prevention. That is where they need to excel. It's been terrible so far.

the problem with Riley is that he seems to go overboard with everything. He was hitting too many ground balls in the 1st couple of years to he revised his approach - to the 2nd the most extreme upper cut in all of baseball. Last yr he struck out too much, so far this year his K rate is down a lot, his walk rate is up, but he's not getting any hits either.

When it comes to hitting, it feels like the Tigers strategy is to assume those who underachieved last season will be better next season and those who overachieved will continue to do so.

I can’t believe that this power outage will continue for much longer.

Wenceel not in the Toledo lineup tonight.

I've beaten this point like a drum. They cannot pressure the puck in their own end. They lack the quickness to challenge and the strength to get a take away if they do get there. That is a skillset, and it's basically the same skillset needed to forecheck effectively, and Wings simply do not pay any attention to it in their roster construction for forwards and have not going back to before SY took over.

Riley will be fine, but could be a deadline deal if we turn into sellers

There was always the chance that the real Tiger team was the team we saw in the September and the team we saw in the 1st half was the one not playing to its mean level. Keith seems to be the only guy that has started the season hot and he doesn't hit for the kind of power that can help carry a team past other guys' underperformance.

If this continues, which I don’t think it will, the blame will be squarely on his shoulders.

https://prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-detroit Worth a read. One passage stood out to me: “At the team-level, this is a team that simply could not disrupt the opposition’s cycle, allowing a league-high 560 cycle chances against at 5v5 this year. They allowed the 7th most 5v5 high-danger chances against while generating the 3rd fewest.”

The last 3 years I have been critical of his roster construction. Harris has been pretty awful with his FA signings. He hasn't signed a mlb bat other than Torres. The offense was awful the last half of last season and he did nothing to change it. I'm not saying fire him but maybe he could do something to help the team score runs? It's too late to do anything of note this season so his plan once again is just hoping everything works out for the best

It doesn't shake anything up. You would just be turning over the last roster spot which won't make much difference. The season is tied to Greene, Torkelson, and Carpenter. The Tigers are going to fail or succeed based on how those guys perform. They have no one to replace them with in the minors and if they all continue to suck, they end up in last place.

Would guess Wenceel gets the call with Parker in the concussion protocol.

26-27: 58M 27-28: 62M 28-29 67M (Player Option) Paul George also has two more years at around 50M. Combined that about 70% of the cap. The also don't own their first round picks in 2 of the next 3 years (or something like that). Sorry, Philly. You're gonna be bad for a while.