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A lot of fans (not saying anyone here, just generally) approach baseball from a football mindset, like there's only 16 games. And it doesn't really work... even the best ballplayers during a 162 game season are fully capable of a stretch where they strikeout more than normal or struggle to hit. (We should all know by know, given how the 2022 Tigers have played more generally!) That said, the Tigers are paying him a lot of money to be the guy, and in a period where the rest of the guys have struggled, he hasn't been the guy, at least on offense. Undue as it may be, it's not surprising that folks are impatient.

It makes your head spin, Thomas can sign on to an opinion written by his wing man that looks to the guidance of a 12th century misogynist who believes women only exist as appendages to their men, all the while draping himself it the mantra that nothing his wife does reflects on him as there couldn't possibly be so much as influence in their marriage. I don't care if there is anything illegal there or not, the intellectual prostitution is breathtaking.

if there is a problem, its the tigers paying him a lot of money to be "the guy." he's only really been the guy one year of his career. other than that year, he's been too streaky to be the guy. but like you said, most people here figured he would be what he has always been and would - at the very least - been a big upgrade on nico on defense. which he has been.

im not really pro or anti javy. they needed an upgrade at shortstop and he was an upgrade at shortstop. he's a good defensive player, sometimes great. he was the cheapest alternative on the market. so be it. but the idea that he was somehow going to replicate his last month with the mets for a whole season was fool's gold. he may yet have a month like that, but it will only be a month, not a season. javy is almost 30 now, he is what he is, and will almost certainly decline in the next few years.

better yet - just make the kids clean it up.

So when you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and objective reality demonstrates you are wrong, there is nothing left than to deny reality and create fantasy. The GOP is on the exact same road Putin has gone down. Those that would seek power while denying truth never have any other choice. But the Universe is an unforgiving place, and eventually she will crush those that deny what is, just like that convoy on the way to Kyiv. The only question for America is whether the GOP will fail in its denials of reality before or after it takes the US with it.

The skinny on on Skubal is that it's a bone bruise on his leg, but when he threw his glove on the dugout floor he tore his rotator cuff.

Can't remember the last time I was as happy about a rain out as this one lol.

Javier Baez = Neifi Perez as an example.

Sure, but past isn't prologue nor is it predictive of future results in this sport either. Aside from the 2021 Tigers, the 2021 San Diego Padres are a great example... they ended the year playing .333 baseball (18-36 past 1 August), yet still finished 79-83. Different team, maybe more talent, maybe excused some by Tatis sustaining injuries, but still, teams can go through sustained periods where they play much worse than their final record. I'm not saying that I expect them to meet the number I gave them in Spring Training or even that they can get to 79 wins, I just don't know that looking at the record to date means all that much when judging where they might land when the season ends.

If Manning gets back and pitches well and Faedo pitches well and assuming Pineda and Rodriguez are only out <6 weeks each. But they sure can lose 100 if Skubal ends up the only reliable starter. Steve Carlton won 27 games by himself in 1972 while the Phillies were losing 97 as a team.

I don't think so, they are saying Ivey and Sharpe have higher ceilings, and the Pistons should take the highest ceiling player, granting that Murray has the higher floor.

You got it all backwards. With the team threatening to lose 100 games again, they need Jack Morris in the booth, and they need Kirk Gibson in the booth. Anything to take the focus off the current team and put it on the 1984 glory days instead. Remember when …

I get the impatience with Baez and the team..... It's the whole "they didnt tell us it was a 100 loss team!" thing that I object to. The only way this is going to be a 100 loss team, or even at a 90 loss rate for the balance of the season, is due to bad luck/injuries. That having been said, the hope for a winning season, much less the playoffs, is fading quickly.

My favorite Barkley quote.

News and Freep are free to me - the SO is a newspaper junkie.

No need to call the "internet police". When you say something dumb, I'll let you know. That's how conversations work.

False. It'll be rained out.

Chuck vs. Warrior fans is the best thing about this playoffs. Second one is NSFW.

McJesus

Any mistakes that AJ Hinch makes.

As I said before, still don’t understand the Useful part.

Nobody is claiming that he is hitting well. He certainly isn't. A 66 OPS+ is awful. It's your asinine Neifi Perez comp that is the problem.

This is a stupid, asinine thread.

OTD 16 years ago, Michael Barrett earned his place in my own personal Hall of Fame.

A pitcher.