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I don’t blame Hinch much for any of it. All he can do is take the roster of guys that he has and try to put them in the best position to succeed. His decisions make sense for the most part. Injuries have really cramped his ability to do some of that though. Even with Harris- If you look at the team on paper, you’d think we’d have 3-4 legit power threats in Tork, Greene, Carpenter and Keith. A good glove defensive catcher who is above average offensively. A couple of guys who play high level defense up the middle in Javy and Meadows, a solid veteran bat in Torres, and the best positional prospect the Tigers have had since Al Kaline. That SHOULD be enough. Injuries have hurt—but the problem with Harris’ approach here has been that there’s no contingency on what to do if guys on the team regress at all. The bench and 40-man depth is nothing but super one-dimensional guys, and the lack of making any trades to bring in guys with protectable skill sets and MLB caliber ceilings. It seems like all of our roster moves are due to someone coming off the disabled list or going on it. There’s almost never a promotion or demotion based on performance. I’m mostly Harris positive, but my opinion of him as GM will be HIGHLY affected by how he handles this trade deadline and then the offseason (depending on lockout)

That is already known to be true. Lack of brain function contributes to dementia.

The Spurs starting 5 last night made $65 million combined this season. That is about 42% of the salary cap.

A) that tweet is awfuly written. B) POD described it better in the comments

His stats in 2026 are OBP .311 - SLG .371 - Now again he's very young, so power may develop.

Analytics is exactly what you want to use long term. You lost that argument a long time ago. I guess short-term, you could try different things, but there aren't a hell of a lot of options right now. Or they could fire Hinch and Harris and bring in some old school guys that will shake things up and play the hunches?

I just love how the public falls for these non-sequitor arguments. *if* you actually could prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon with all this noise, they you could argue about the value of that vs gas prices. But the premise is false. We couldn't prevent Pakistan from developing a weapon, we couldn't stop India from developing a weapon, we couldn't even stop N. Korea from developing a weapon. If a country as large and well educated and financial sound as Iran wants a weapon, they will get it. They could already have had one by now it they had really wanted a program that was more than a bargaining chip for them. The objective truth is the only real way to stop Iran from eventually developing a weapon is for them to decide they don't need one - that the costs aren't worth the payoff. You sure as heII don't accomplish that by attacking them constantly.

I don’t expect much out of Jung, but they haven’t really given him much of a legit chance—at least compared to a few other guys who continually underperform. Jung can play 1B/3B if we need him to and has a good minor league track record of plate discipline. We need that during a time when multiple legitimate starters are out. There’s no reason to be playing Perez or Workman over Jung.

I remember when we were told Rod Wood was just a businessman and was not going to be involved in football operations. If this report is true and this moron actually could have helped us avoid an early, week 6 bye week, then that's a problem. This idiot shouldn't be making football decisions and certainly shouldn't be choosing an early bye week given the major injury concerns this team has had the last two seasons.

As a painful reminder, I drove to Montreal on March 20 after watching the Red Wings pull out a late winner against the Habs at LCA the night before - the two teams were tied in the standings with 84 points through 69 games!

Mostly agree. If they can, find somebody with more upside than Jung though. If not, totally agree. This was something that should have been addressed last off-season, our collapse should have been enough of a reason to acquire some better bats.

He's actually more concerned about his $1.776 Billion payoff to January 6 felons than how gas prices affect law abiding folks

Analytics arent working. Maybe theyll win an occasional game or so but long term? Playing the platoon of using Short and an ineffective Tork will get basically the same results as the last 60 games or so. We are we, about 40 games under .500 since last fall? How much data is needed?

It's a big deal here, Dominion Energy has just announced it's being acquired by Nextera Energy. If approved it will make the company the largest in the world. Dominion is big into data centers. It's goingbto be interesting to see where this goes...

Does McStinky have an injury that prevents him from playing shortstop ? And Colt Keith is a DH only..and bat him first since he can't knock anyone home or until he does. But until the injured return we will have at least two black holes in the lineup.

Yes. At least until we get Torres/Baez/Carpenter back. Then you can start playing analytics because we have major league level players to do that with.

Duren has to go if Ku is correct and Detroit plans to go big on Ausar. You can't have two starters that combined to make 22 field goals from >16 feet last season. That is regular season, not the playoffs. 22 combined field goals. You can't wrap up $50-$60 million a year in two guys who can't shoot from the perimeter. Not in today's game. I loved Detroit beating teams 82-78 back in the day, but that isn't reality today. You need to be somewhat competent on offense to win today. If you swap Duren for a 20 PPG scorer who shoots >38% from three on decent volume, the Pistons are playing the Knicks tonight. I'm not saying they shouldn't sign Duren, they still should. I would try to work a sign and trade first, obviously. But if that isn't possible then sign him to a reasonable deal and attempt to trade him when he becomes trade eligible in December.

This is what I want right now: 1.) Keith (3B) 2.) McGonigle (SS) 3.) Dingler (C) 4.) Greene (LF) 5.) Anderson (2B) 6.) Vierling (CF) 7.) Malgeri (RF) 8.) Jung (DH) 9.) Torkelson (1B) Bench: McKinstry, Rogers, Jones, Lee Torkelson and Keith still have ways to get on base even if the power isn’t there, so put them back to back—but if Tork can’t perform out of the nine hole then he goes to Toledo when Gleyber is back. McGonigle needs to actually have chances to hit with guys on base….stop leading him off. He hits a lot of balls down the right field line so if someone is on base ahead of him they can go first to third easily on a lot of McGs hits. Dingler and Greene are the only real power threats—so you go Ding 3 and Riley 4 to break up the L/R stretch. DFA Short and Vanasco, call up Anderson and Malgeri. Send Wenceel Perez to Toledo. See if these two guys can be a spark in the lineup. Workman has been abysmal defensively and he’s striking out at almost a 45% clip. Demote him back to Toledo and call up Jung—who can at least draw a walk and give us some defensive options to get Tork out of the lineup some days. Keep Lee and McKinstry for defensive versatility and so we can use McKinstry in the outfield more for now. Vierling is perfectly fine as the 4th outfielder and can play CF every day for now. Rotation: Valdez, Mize, Montero, Anderson, Bullpen Day. Bullpen: Flaherty (can be an opener), Hurter, Holton, Vest, Jansen, Finnegan, Smith, Seabold, Sommers. Maybe Flaherty can reinvent himself as a short-inning guy. DFA DeJesus now and leave the 40-man spot open for when Melton/JV need to come off the 60-day. Holton can be next to go to Toledo. Does this fix everything? Probably not. But insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results. Hold players accountable for their performance. We are 1/3 of the way through the season.

I want the Canadians to win the Cup at this point. I would like to see a Canadian team finally break the streak and win won. Go Habs Go!

Just don't turn him into Colt Keith . An infielder that can slug , run and play defense is mucho valuable. Yes 44% is crazy but 30% is ok with me if he slug 50 %. The Tigers have become too focused on OBP. It's important but IF you can Slug then let it rip. Leave the OBP to those without power.

Well those two are the most disappointing and I know Keith has a solid OBP which at least is something positive. I just do not understand how someone can hit a home run for five straight games and provide next to nothing over the other 40 games ? And looking at Keith you see someone who should be knocking down walls and his "hits" are like he's using a plastic bat. Keith is a beautifully wrapped birthday gift with a whoopee cushion inside. At least Hinch is using him as a DH only and batting him leadoff which is optimizing what little he offers.

The best way to secure your network is to hire a security expert that was a hacker. *** I can't think of too many good things about the AI revolution. It's not good for schools (I was a professor), it's not good for the manufacturing / design world (I was an engineer), and it's not good for our energy grid and the resources needed to cool it. For society as a whole to grow and flourish, you need energy. Building huge data centers that consume massive amounts of energy, along with massive amounts of water is a disservice and huge misallocation of investment capital to the public at large. Once built, they don't employ enough people to make much difference, but they still eat the energy and water. We the people don't benefit. Already stories out there about data centers making people lives miserable who live close by. Higher bills, water problems, noise, etc. I talked to a guy who works for a concrete company working on a data center in mid-Ohio that need 8 trucks with generator's running 24/7 to power the damn thing. They would also need to be re-fueled on a regular basis. Probably has online power to and electric company that can't supply enough. What exactly, is so good about this? Who does it benefit? And for what? So we can ask it how to fix our car, or write some code? And hope it's right? Plenty of stories about that too, and not all have happy endings. I remember when renewable energy was the thing. First thing that was said is we need to improve our infrastructure. Without a doubt. Our power grid needs a massive upgrade for EV's, charging stations, wind farms, solar farms, hydro or nuclear. Massive upgrades. Add in cryto mining that uses the power of small countries/cities...Now the AI craze... Good ****ing luck with all that. There is a local company here who runs electric lines all over the state. Huge money. It's all for data centers according to the warehouse manager I talk to at the local **** hole bar. They are working for the electric companies like AEP. This might be the only good thing about this - new and improved transmission and distribution lines that may eventually do some good other than feed the AI data center hunger when they turn into the failure they are destined to be. We'll see I guess. Of note; I have tracked my electric bill for about 5 years. AEP Ohio is the supplier, but I shop for my electric rates. AEP has 3 charges; transmission, distribution, and customer charge. The customer charge has been $10.00 a month as long as I remember. Last month, it went to $13.50. I wonder why?