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50 goals for Cole Caulfield and the Montreal crowd erupts.

Great powerplay! Great penalty kill! 4-1 Wings after three goals in first five minutes of the 2nd period.

Both true.

Maybe something about flying with a possible head injury given the pressure changes and some other thing I know nothing about nor care just take off on time and don't lose my bag please.

Almost 2000 reposts. People eating it up....lies.

40 goals for DeBrincat, he has at least met expectations since coming over in a trade. 1-1 after 1.

It was the hardest hit Greene has had all year.

I was joking. Partially!

Agreed. But the meme claimed he said it in an interview. Never happened.

That is probably partially true. He didn't say it publicly, but I am confident that he has thought about it!

Whatever the case, in today's game, our pitching only gave up 3 runs. A team should win a majority of the games when they only give up 3 runs.

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.