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Did not know he had been converted to pitcher

Santana has been pretty darn consistent at Low A, and that is the problem.

my wife gets mad at me because I only like black coffee. No flavors. Same with tea. No lemon. No mint. Just black tea. The flavor is there. I'm a basic guy. Same with hummus. You start putting **** in the hummus then it's not hummus anymore.

Don Leshnock Don Leshnock pitched one inning against the California Angels on June 7, 1972. It was his only career major league game despite spending the entire month of June on the Tigers' active roster after being recalled from Toledo on May 30. Leshnock pitched the 9th inning of a 5-1 Tigers loss, during which he struck out Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan and future Tigers batting coach Vada Pinson. He surrendered two hits and no runs, giving him a pristine career ERA of 0.00. Ryan pitched a complete game 3-hitter, striking out 5 Tigers batters to pick up his 5th win of the season. Leshnock spent three more seasons pitching for assorted minor league teams and was inducted into the Youngstown State University Hall of Fame in 1986.

I think the willingness to focus on HS bats to such a degree indicates that whether they are correct or not, this FO believes they can look at a prep hitter and project with more confidence than the old regime I think that is what you have to do. Get outside the top 10 picks and pretty much any bat that achieves an OPS+ positive in the majors is an extreme outlier and even big stats from college end up not being all that predictive. So we'll see if Harris and Co. are as good at this as they seem to believe they are. I just hope we don't lose the ability to find arms that the old regime - despite all their other flaws- had done a pretty good job with.

A lot of up the middle position players who will put the bat on the ball. Something the big league team is missing. Put guys on base and nobody can put the ball in play. This draft is a long way from helping solve that problem though. Harris continues the battle for the strike zone.

jz- please refrain from personal attacks. Doesn’t add to the conversation, and we’d prefer that our members not go down that road; it never ends well. thanks.

Perron...Larkin...DeBrincat Ras...Compher...Raymond Berggren...Copp...Sprong Kostin...Veleno...Fischer

1. Clark 2. Keith 3. Jobe 4. JHM 5. McGonigle 6. Jung 7. Flores 8. Meadows 9. Madden 10. Dingler Based mostly on the likelihood to get to the majors and have some sort of impact. Really wanted to include Graham and/or Santana, but they have been pretty inconsistent at low A.

I am in agreement.

In regards to JHM being in the top 5 I have him there just cause I think he has a higher floor than all the other Tigers prospects.(not counting this class since I dont know much about them or the guys I have above him) I think at the very least JHM is going to be a league average bat in MLB for atleast a few seasons. While that isn't all that valuable as a whole as a floor that is alot more than I can say about the rest of the Tigers prospects outside of the folks I mentioned.

i guess better than the opposite. But even if one values plus/minus, I think we’d have to adjust that guys like Compher, Sprong and Holl played on really good teams while the Wings players did not.

Indeed. And will flop calls be subject to challenge?

I couldn't make it as a barista.

I'm glad they made these changes, but refereeing that flop penalty is going to be interesting. I wonder if they're going to do it on the fly or if they'll have to go to video each time to make that call.

😄. Yeah, you need to ask for a black coffee… a regular means with milk&sugar, but that’s not new - I remember needing to order it black (so as to not have it w/milk&sugar) 45 years ago. Other than that, just the sheer number of ways to order coffee preparations makes your head spin. Kinda insane. 🤪

Connors State must have a robust NIL program.... Guys like this used to go to the NY Penn League or a similar short season circuit. He's probably too far along to be in the FCL...may not be room for him in Lakeland. The Connecticut Tigers were a great place to park college draftees and UDFA's. I think they erred in eliminating that short season A tier

Collective security FTW!

Wowza. What would that be age adjusted?

I am happy with this draft not because I actually know much but because I trust Harris and his team and that it feels very different from Tiger drafts over the past 30 years. I think we are in good hands and hope Chris feels the same and keeps investing $$. Next test is the trade deadline !!

Makes sense. Just like early picks get more opportunities that later picks. And new GMs usually prefer their picks over previous front office picks. Tork better figure it out....Harris prolly thinks "I didn't pick him" 😆

I'll take the 80 year thin dude who rides bikes over the 77 year old fat guy who eats fast food daily.

Ed Irwin Ed Irwin played third base for the Tigers on May 18, 1912 as part of a squad of replacement players. Many readers here know the story of Ty Cobb being suspended by American League president Ban Johnson for attacking a heckler in the crowd, and the team's subsequent refusal to take the field until Cobb was reinstated. After Johnson threated to fine Tigers owner Frank Navin $5000 for any forfeited games, the notoriously tight fisted Navin ordered Tigers manager Hughie Jennings to "find players". The Tigers were in Philadelphia to play against the Athletics, and sources report that Jennings recruited any young men he could find in the neighborhood of Shibe Park, the Athletics' home. Irwin was one of those young men, and in his only major league game, he astonishingly hit two triples in three at bats. Tigers starting pitcher Allen Travers, also making his only MLB appearance, said that he was actually pitching well "until they started bunting. The fellow playing third base had never played baseball before." According to Wikipedia, Irwin died four years later when he was "thrown through a saloon window in Philadelphia, a shard of glass penetrating his jugular vein." There is no report on whether the squad of replacement players was issued Tigers uniforms, or if they just played in whatever attire they happened to be wearing when found. Also, this is what the internet offers for an image of Ed Irwin.

My favorite is Ed Irwin, but I'll let Boom tell the story.

Chris Bando Bando appeared as a defensive replacement for the Tigers on September 13, 1988 in a 9-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Having previously served as the backup catcher for the Cleveland Indians since the 1981 season, Bando had been released by the Tribe on August 14 after struggling to a .125 batting average. The Tigers signed Bando on September 2, adding him to the active roster thanks to the September expansion. Despite spending almost a month with the team, he came into a game only once, replacing starting catcher Matt Nokes in the 8th inning, with Nokes having been pinch hit for by Mike Heath (who grounded into a double play) in the 7th. Bando caught reliever Paul Gibson in the bottom of the 8th inning in Toronto, which featured Gibson retiring future Hall of Famer Fred McGriff on a ground ball to third. Bando was released by the Tigers following the '88 season, after which he played in one more career game for the Oakland Athletics.

If we're a lottery team in 2026 I'm giving up basketball and becoming a cricket fan.

Silo really stuck the landing with their season finale. Can't wait to see where things go for season 2.

Saw something on Reddit yesterday. A guy had his identical twin brother listed in his phone as Spare Parts.

I have everyone in my phone with their full names, even my children. If I did nicknames, everyone would be Mr/Mrs Captain Dip****, which seems like it would be confusing.

Is that wowza for whatever junior college league Connors State is in?