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They also get burned every time they jump into the drafting and developing of players to fix their problems. They also get burned every time they jump into the trading of players to fix their problems. I think their problem may be with the people who are doing the jumping into things, not the things that they are jumping into.

A lot of people will blame Soto but those three runs are 100% on mismanagement and Hinch. Once the bases were loaded Hinch should of had Vest or Chaffin ready to come in and Soto sat down. Did Hinch really think Soto was going to find his form after 25 pitches. He didn't look good from the first batter.

The clock has run out for me. If this doesn't look different by over the weekend, Coolbaugh needs to be gone at minimum. If your GM can't pull that trigger, him as well. If the manager wants to go to the wall for his coach, so be it, him too.

The wife who only hears me groan when they lose and bitch when they suck thought that we could organize a big event at Comerica with all her buddies when we visit Detroit in July. I put the brakes on that noise about a week or so ago. "They just are not an MLB baseball team right now and I wouldn't want to waste our money on them" Mind you that I'm already paying MLB.tv and Directv to watch them.

Meadows with a HR. W. Perez playing for Erie tonight. I guess he got promoted. Wenceel finishes 2/4 BB. Nice start to a new gig.

You don't need to create a new thread every time a thought enters your mind. There are so many threads now, I can never find the thread with the topic I am looking for. I would appreciate an update on the Tigers record when Reyes starts though.

going for 3rd with 2 outs....

That's like the Port-A-Potty vacuum guy saying "I need someone to take my route next week).

Looks like people in this forum are increasingly hopping aboard the First A.J. Hinch and the Horse He Rode In On train. I'm definitely not there yet, but I won't argue against it, because it's so hard to defend the historically-bad results so far. But I will say this: if this organization fires Hinch and all his coaches while keeping Al Avila, especially as the season is still in progress, that will be the final confirmation that this organization has no plan; that they never had a serious plan in place; and frankly, don't care enough about putting a consistent winning product on the field to put a well-thought-out plan in place and see it through. At that point, it would be obvious that they appear to care about winning only to the degree that they can do the bare minimum they can get away with to have some winning drop into their lap. That's what I would take away from a midseason firing of A.J. Hinch and coach(es) TBD. Speaking only for myself, if/once that happens, I would be hard-pressed to care about the direction of the Detroit Tigers organization anymore. I would still care enough to root for them in individual games I see, as I do with the Lions, Pistons or Red Wings, because of the city on the uni. But I will have no remaining faith that they'll ever be able to figure out how to get us back to contending for the playoffs consistently, except to luck into it by throwing a little money at it, a la the Papa Doc days. The only thing that's missing from that era is the one guy at the top who knows what he's doing who can make that happen.

This is pretty bad. All the life they had last season with AJ constantly putting the other team on the defensive is gone. The hitters are cold, the team is passive, AJ is passive, the team is boring and predictable. A couple guys did get hits tonight before they were down in the count, but it's tiny scraps. They need some new voices talking to them. I'm becoming very skeptical a whole team can slump this long without there being a systemic problem.

Now here's the flip side to the Soto hate I feel responsible for starting here tonight: Soto got the L in the box score, but final strike call notwithstanding, the Tigers hitters really should be the ones wearing this loss.

Well at least they had a nice game of ping pong and nobody got mad at each other in the meeting.

Daz can keep his abs, but get Robbie ABs lol

javy lol

Turn on the game a few minutes late and the game is over already. No way this team scores more than 3 runs.

You guys are so negative. Look at the positive side that we don't have to wait until the top of the 9th for the Tigers to lose the game.

I know. And my point is that he's not gonna exercise an opt out because he will not have another job lined up.

He fills a need, a vacancy that currently exists: "a player that I am interested in".

do we expect riley to be better than tork? maybe a little better? probably not too much better. hopefully he's the next willie mays, but chances are he struggles. regardless, its good to have a reason to actually watch.

I’m halfway between being excited to actually watch this dumpster fire of a team and having to worry about him getting Coolbaughed.

lol!

They aren't going to fire AJ, but I guarantee if AL remains the GM for much longer/after the season, we wont have to worry about AJ getting fired; he'll be outta here on his own volition the day after the season ends.

Looks like the work of antifa to me

The Dominion News Network? Since their viewers don't read or watch outside the bubble, Dominion should take over, but pretend it's still the old people running things. Then mess with all the old people who think they are watching the truth.

that's why we need to trade them bertuzzi in a package that nets their #1 pick next year. they seem to think last year was an aberration and they are actually close to the playoffs.

clemens was raking at triple a and everyone wanted him to come up. he did and he predictably sucks. they dont have a ton of minor league talent and the high end talent they do have is injured. that's really the story of this year: injuries. i didnt expect them to be above 500 this year, but was looking forward to miggy chasing 3000 and watching the young players play. unfortunately injuries have taken a lot of the fun out of that. sure, it would be nice to see them win, but i wasnt expecting much. but not seeing greene, mize, and manning has made this season really boring. other than skubal, this season has been a total loss.

That surgeon general is a hack. It's malpractice what he's doing and the fact DeSantis has people like that around makes him scarier in some ways than Trump.

We need Riley to wear that bomb outfit from the Hurt Locker every time he comes to plate just in case.

The question for Tesla stock is whether the company has any conceivable route to it's earnings growing enough to justify its valuation, and in a market as mature as autos with as many established competitors over which you hold no unique sustainable advantage that's very hard to see for Tesla. I think Tesla's valuation was driven by the idea that they were an Amazon or Google or Apple kind of company, but they are not. They don't have a product or technology that has created an entirely new market that never existed before and whose size ultimate can only be guessed at. They build cars. A car with at the time new design features, but a car that was going to be used exactly as cars before it had. No-one is going to buy a Tesla beyond someone who was already going to buy a car.

I was thinking of taking my 4 year old daughter to her first game this summer but I'm afraid if she sees this product she will turn against baseball forever.

Okudah excites me because he’s virtually no risk and potentially enormous reward. He’s a product of the prior regime, and if he’s unable to come back from the Achilles, well, we are building up from last year anyway. If there is any chance of him still becoming a starting to elite caliber NFL CB (as many scouts - not just Quintricia - believed), I fully believe this regime can do so. And he could instantly turn the defensive backs group into a strength on this team.

I'm hesitant because recency bias is a real thing, but honestly I'm not sure I've hated a Tiger team more than this one. Maybe hate is too strong of a word, but I at least hate watching this stuff more than the others... And I was here for 2003 and 2008 too. I'm happy for the individual performances and growth of players like Skubal, Brieske, Faedo, Lange, Vest, etc. But the rest of this product largely sucks to watch.

Vest and Fulmer as well

Democrats in disarray

Sounds like they should have discussed ignoring Coolbaugh at their "players only" meeting lol

I'm serious, this sounds like total bull crap to me. No hitter can divide pitches into 7 zones before deciding to commit. No wonder they are all late all the time. That's a recipe for paralysis. See the ball. Hit the ball. That's hard enough for any major leaguer without extra layers of embellishment..

John Oliver says that Spiro Agnew is an anagram for Grow A Penis.

Yes his OPS is in the .700s now, used to be in the .400s, so he's been doing better

Forgot to copy the link and now I can't find the tweet but anyway I saw a tweet that said Campos was hitting like a .950 OPS in June in low A. He just turned 19 the other day and this is his first full season of pro ball so that's a good sign he is already starting to pick things up. It would be nice if we could finally hit on international market.

so ivey is smarter than we may have thought.

Sure. I was just commenting out of my sense (after having lived there for a time) that unlike Detroit where we tend to have an inferiority complex about acknowledging the limits our market will support, they almost treat it as part of their civic virtue.

Sounds like he wants to be brought in to the hearings... Come on down Donnie!

Meadows has started to turn it around at Erie after struggling initially. Hitting .300/.342/.557 in the last 19 games.