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"Hit" might be a bit subjectively vexxing given what we are seeing out of the team as a whole, but you are spot on. As many times as people want to cry and complain about CastroW out in the OF, its certainly due in some part to Cabrera being unavailable to do anything defensively. CastroH shouldn't be playing as much, but guess what, they need to put someone at 1B. Candelario needs a day off, or Schoop needs a day off, or this, or that, or another.... Well, they're dealing with a 12 position player roster plus Cabrera. 2 Cs, so a bench IF and a bench OF. The Castros are necessary because they can play multiple positions. And for as much as Shep likes to speak of how the Tigers have that roster flexibility, they really don't. The Castros can move around, and that's about it. Oh, Schoop can play 1B? Yippee. There's only so many moves this dumpster fire can make on a day-to-day basis or in game moves. Cabrera will do nothing in the field. If he could, he'd have played a few games at 1B by now. But it clearly isn't going to happen. And even with a healthy start for 2023, he probably won't be of any defensive value again. But they have to carry his worn out carcass because people like memories of what used to be rather than acknowledge the actual situation at hand. This team sucks so much right now. But, hey, they've got Cabrera to goof around from the dugout for the camera. And I guess the main point to some is that Cabrera has earned this for some reason or another.

Another day, another homer for P.Meadows

The Life of Bert. It would be an interesting novel. Heck, it could be written "fictitiously" as if you were a character and I think people who enjoy the literary arts would enjoy it; That's how good your written thoughts are.

god bless eloy jimenez and his complete inability to field his position. lololololol.

The Cabrera discussion doesn't exist in a vacuum. In theory there is a team trying to win games - or not. Unless they hire another totally incompetent GM, I think we can be pretty sure that he will be able to come up with a DH who will be far more productive than Cabrera (assuming there is no miracle forthcoming for the knee). At that point you have only one question - are you trying to win games or not? The only way a one-legged Cabrera should be in the line-up next season is if a new GM comes in committed to another tank job.

Or we could freeze him in carbomite.

Yes, he should be taken out back and shot. /s

Yes, he's unhealthy and ineffective. The latter might improve based on getting the former resolved, but for some reason, the Tigers/Cabrera seem unmoved to the health issue. Put him on the IL, let him travel with the team, he can still be in the dugout throwing sunflower seeds at teammates or making balloon animals or whatever for the cameras. Its gotten to the point where he's getting to be a sideshow and well past the point of being an effective baseball player. Any incremental milestones he hit from here on out really don't do anything for his resume. He's a hall of famer. But he looks like AAAA material that can't actually move around on the field of play anymore.

His job is to hit. He does nothing else. The other 8 players do things other than hit.

You’ve been warned posting about Bernard.

He was itching to hit better.

Well, he did contribute to them scoring no runs and almost getting no hit.

well, that is the thing. On the very few occasions where he could push off the back leg, he was still able to drive the ball and be productive but it only lasts a day or two. But apparently there is nothing that can be done for the knee. Well, losing 40 lbs would probably help it immeasurably, but the last time Miguel lost serious weight it didn't go well with the bat and he claimed he had lost his hitting leverage so I don't think he sees losing significant weight as an option - assuming he still even could. He needs to hang 'em up.

That would be the best thing right now. Let him get his legs healthy, do whatever procedures need to be taken care of right now. Hopefully he can be a league average hitter with better mobility next season. Sending him out there every other game right now and shorting the bench a healthy body doesn't make sense.

a functional front office would have someone to take his place, but they dont considering hia broken down ass is still one of the best hitters on the team. he's also been your greatest player since kaline and has earned the right to go out on his terms, imo.

Miguel is 2 for his last 35 and can barely run. And he was thrown out on a play in the 9th that almost everyone else in the league would have at least had a chance to beat out. He's a legend obviously, but there's basically nothing exciting about his play right now. When you look at this team's body of work over the past 10 games, he's a feature of that that stretch, not an exception. Maybe Kerry Carpenter isn't ready for prime time and never will be. But at least trying different guys out when you are 28 games under .500 can engender at least a modicum of hope in the fanbase. And get used to it... I suspect the team will be doing more of it for evaluation purposes as well. I love Miguel, but there's no hope remaining there. It just is what it is.

they score 0 runs and almost get no hit and your focus is on whether your dh can beat out a grounder to end the game?

Matt Manning takes the hill for the hapless Tigers. What fiascos are in store for this evening? Base running mistakes? Misjudged balls in the outfield? Middle infielders throwing errors? A historically (really!) bad offense? Only one way to find out fans. Tune in to tonight’s debacle for all the answers.

hopefully this ends up in the "pistons are trading for deandre ayton" trash file.

Sweet! Another arm to call up and injure.

As good as Parker Meadows was tonight, seeing Reese Olson have 6 innings of 1 hit ball (1BB, 10Ks) may be the best news

Damn... Parker Meadows is actually going OFF...! He's 3-4 tonight with another HR (3 games in a row... I think that was mentioned above?) And Reese Olson's line tonight? 6 shutout innings, 1 hit, 1 BB, 10 K's.

The big thing about Meadows production is that his overall numbers at Erie are largely tempered by the first month at Erie, presumably making the adjustment between High A and AA. It suggests something really may be clicking with him.... I doubt that he's a dynamic player in the long run, but it seems like he's ready for AAA and would warrant protection on the 40 man. At least IMO.

LOL - Yeah - this one was pretty funny. I *almost* feel sorry for Brooks. He's a guy who has lost his long time faith as a righty and without it he doesn't see how any institutions can stand because after all, weren't they all supported by an ideology that failed? So now he can only see what the DOJ is doing in a purely politcal/transactional light, ignoring that you do some things because they are right. His problem is that he doesn't realize that his premise is wrong. It was never right wing ideology or values that held up the democratic West. They have been a perversion since at least Nixon. The values that hold up the democratic West are truth and justice. The ideology of the American right not only never had any monopoly on those it never even cared much about either.

I was born in 1952 and started following the Tigers in 1961 and was huge huge into it through 1968 — baseball cards, glossy photographs of the players on my wall, pennants, all the paraphernalia symbolizing magical amulets that sort of it made me feel good made me feel a part of something bigger and better than myself. After the World Series victory in ‘68 I had got what I needed in life and was generally disinterested because I was a young man living a young man’s life and that was more nourishing than being a boy and liking a baseball team. It was like in the Bible where you put away childish things. In 1973 I moved to Arizona couldn’t pick up Ernie on the radio and the team sucked so often even a box score disinterested me. I pretty much missed The Bird and only saw him on national TV broadcasts. I was in my 20s and livin’ the life in the mountains and desert and it was better than the baseball team I worshiped as a child In 1984 in Tucson where half of my best friends were from Detroit we followed that magical season with shared passion. After games my friends who had lived in Detroit would tell me about going to bar in Corktown and seeing the players there. Gibby once crashed at friend’s house after a night of partying in Ann Arbor. I felt like I was sort of in the mix with my pals that year. I moved to Idaho in my mid-30s and ‘87 was a good year then hugely disappointing and I totally forgot about the team. Then in 2004 a fast and surprising start and my discovery of MTS through the Internet brought me back into the fold. The responsibility of life in my 30s was exhilarating and oppressive and going back to something from my childhood made me feel better. Now I’m back to generally not giving a shit. I’m 70 years old I could die in the blink of an instant because people I know are doing that all the time and my time could be better spent on something other than a profoundly unsatisfying team. The only thing that keeps me interested is you morons because I love you more than this stupid blanking team.

After 12 years with 18 different teams, Wynton Bernard has finally made it to the show,

Beto O'Rourke is awesome! He called this guy a mother fucker for laughing at kids being shot with AR 15s/

There will be a Detroit Lions #9 jersey enshrined in Canton one day. Hopefully for us, it will be for Jameson Williams.

Very nice gesture from that young man.

Just when you thought you heard every putrid offensive stat imaginable for the Tigers Shep comes out with another banger. The Tigers have only scored 8 runs ALL SEASON in the 1st inning of road games. They've played 56 road games so that's 8 runs in 56 innings. The league average MLB team this year averages .5 runs per 1st inning so an average team would have scored roughly 28 runs in those same innings so were like 70% worse than AVERAGE in the 1st inning.

Sounds like Skubal is done for the year.

Yes they were to the tune of # 2 in wins during the decade. MLB : Regular season wins in the 1980's World Yrs in Series World Yrs in Franchise Wins Series Playoffs W L New York Yankees 0 1 2 854 708 Detroit Tigers 1 1 2 839 727 Kansas City Royals 1 2 4 826 734 Los Angeles Dodgers 2 2 4 825 741 St. Louis Cardinals 1 3 3 825 734 Boston Red Sox 0 1 2 821 742 Houston Astros 0 0 3 819 750 Toronto Blue Jays 0 0 2 817 746 New York Mets 1 1 2 816 743 Washington Nationals 0 0 1 811 752 Milwaukee Brewers 0 1 2 804 760 Oakland Athletics 1 2 3 803 764 Baltimore Orioles 1 1 1 800 761 Los Angeles Angels 0 0 2 783 783 Philadelphia Phillies 1 2 3 783 780 Cincinnati Reds 0 0 0 781 783 San Francisco Giants 0 1 2 773 795 San Diego Padres 0 1 1 762 805 Chicago White Sox 0 0 1 758 802 Chicago Cubs 0 0 2 735 821 Minnesota Twins 1 1 1 733 833 Pittsburgh Pirates 0 0 0 732 825 Texas Rangers 0 0 0 720 839 Atlanta Braves 0 0 1 712 845 Cleveland Indians 0 0 0 710 849 Seattle Mariners 0 0 0 673 893