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Ability matters, performance matters. Stats may or may not reflect those two, so by themselves, stats don’t really matter in the spring environment and with such small samples.

1. This is normal for baseball not just Detroit. 2. I'm pretty sure the majority of the Tigers roster has played baseball in northern cities during the spring, doubt any will be suprised. Assuming this point was just a throw in negative point yet seems a reach. 3. Are we complaining that they didn't go and spend a bunch of money this offseason? I, for one, probably in the minority on this board, like the approach they took and didn't feel now was the time to spend big dollars. I do think Chris I will spend when Harris and Hinch ask him to do so. 4. Agree to a point, not really judging this team based on last years team or injuries. Good news is we seem to have SP depth in Toledo and Erie. Some quality depth. 5. BP will definitely play a big role as it usually does. I agree offense remains a question mark but I like the addition of Keith and the addition of Urshela. 6. Hinch isn't in any trouble good start or bad. I 100% agree that team needs a better start this spring.

Repeat after me Clark + Monigal + Wilson > Langford. Hopefully.

I do feel that if the Tigers had anybody they were truly confident in that they would be starting over Javy regardless of Javy's contract. I don't buy into the fact that they are starting him solely based on that. If they had a Jackson Holliday in their system right now I can almost guarantee he'd be on the team and Javy would either be DFA'd or relegated to the bench.

I'd rather see Kreidler at SS than Baez just because I don't like them being stuck with Baez for four years. However, I have no more confidnce in Kreidler than I do in Baez as a regular over a full season.

Agree. I do think this season is a little unusual in that before May 17, more than a quarter into the season, the Tigers play exclusively outdoors in cold weather cities, except for one series in Tampa. That's 40 of the first 43 games. I think in most seasons we play more games in domes or warm weather towns during the first quarter of the season. It might be more of a challenge than normal although, to your point, professionals know how to play in cold weather. Agree, and you're not in the minority on that here. This team is both not in a position where a big-money signing means the difference between playing baseball and playing golf on October 25th; and we're not a top destination for top talent just yet. We have probably the deepest starting pitching this season than arguably any time since I have been alive, even if the rotation itself is not so close to the best we've ever had. By which I mean, it's not as big a drop from #5 to #6, or #5 to #7, or #5 to #8, than has typically been the case for us. BP is short for batting practice. Also, preëmptively, DH is short for designated hitter. 😉 Not only may Hinch never be fired by the Tigers, I think there's a very good chance he moves from the field to our front office when it's time.

Our friend ERod will start the season on the IL with no estimated return time frame. So glad he is not in Motown this year.

I think their interest in Ohtani did not extend beyond brief daydreaming about him in our lineup and rotation. There was not any chance he was coming to Detroit, so I doubt we even made an overture in his direction. We had other, plausible things to concentrate on this winter.

Does the maintenance staff at Maranello even remember where the flags are?

It's everything they do in games, on the back fields, in practice sessions. It's the mechanical changes and adjustments they have made, overall health and conditioning, mental stamina, everything. It's not results at all, but the estimation of capabilities vs. the competition in providing team needs.

Let's not forget that both Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle were banned for life for there associations with casinos and then let back into baseball with the next regime (Uberoth). Now baseball is fully in bed with casinos. Rose is a HOF player and should be there.

If they let Pete Rose back into baseball, then they will have to let every other player run out of the game for gambling back into baseball, too. That includes the Black Sox, and I don't mean just poor Joe Jackson and poor Buck Weaver—I mean Chick Gandil and Swede Risberg, too. All of them. Furthermore, they would never, ever to be able to ban anyone from the game permanently for gambling ever again, even if they bet on their team to lose. Unless they write new legislation specifying things like different penalties for gambling on your team to lose versus gambling on your team to win, which, if they do, then good luck to them on that, because litigating that kind of thing will be a time- and resources-intensive bitch. That's the beauty of the current legislation they have on it: they don't have to figure that part out. Gamble on your team. period? You're out, period. And if it comes to all that, to where players and coaches can start gambling on games they play right out in the open because they'll be able to stay in the game even if they do, then I will walk away from Major League Baseball at that point. Because it will no longer be competition. It will be theater, and I will have no interest in that.

I used to be dead set against Rose going into the Hall of Fame. Given, how incredibly hypocritical MLB is about gambling though, I really don't care anymore about whether he gets in or not.

Obviously a Hamashole.

Part time baseball player, part time surfer dude. He was a Tiger a few seasons ago. Might be an answer in an upcoming immaculate grid.