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I’m considering what the goal probably was going into this season. The fact that the division has developed into an absolute dumpster fire wasn’t completely impossible, but it was highly unlikely that this Tiger roster would have delivered enough to make things interesting for themselves. Things have changed over time, but it’s hard to see this continuing into the summer.

Go ahead and glare at that lineup, Matt, but you’re overdue on delivering a quality start.

I’d go further than this season with the marathon for this team. This season and the build of its roster is to try to decide what might be usable next season and the season after. It’s been awfully fun to be this close to .500 and the “division lead”, but I don’t think either are really the prize this season. The almost .500 record is buoyed a bit by favorable success in one run games and in extra innings. The division is a dumpster fire and Minnesota would be 2.5 games behind the last wildcard if the AL went strictly by record rather than factoring in geography for the postseason. So we’re enjoying a bit of a mirage right now. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s delusional to think there’s anything more to this season than prepping for next season.

You’re also English sucks, two.

Malloy might be a bit of a victim of unfortunate BABIP lately. His OBP is still awfully healthy. He’s also gotten a few games in LF here lately. I wonder if they’ve decided his future is the OF and/or we’re about to see Keith moved up to Toledo shortly. Maybe their futures are such that they’ll have two “primary” positions and between two they’ll be the 3B with some LF and 2B duties as well. I don’t mind the proposition in general. I don’t know if either are well suited for those roles are not. I was in a discussion about kids and high school and college and studying a couple of days ago. I don’t know if this is a reasonable analogy or not. Malloy might be “naturally smart” as a hitter in the minors, but he still needs a bit more work at studying before he gets in college at the majors in order to be successful. And this is in terms of his defense as well as his offense, although I don’t think anyway is his accusing his defense as being naturally smart. Its kind of silly to me to see posts and complaints about Torkelson’s shortcomings to the point of some folks actually ready to call him a bust at the rule old age of 23 years and 282 days old. And a few posts later, there’s bemoaning about how Malloy and Keith (both of whom are younger) aren’t yet promoted. I also wonder, had Harris been around going into last season, would Greene and Torkleson have been ticketed for Toledo rather than Detroit? Maybe neither were really ready then. Maybe they needed more polishing up, but Tiger manglement mangled up their progression. Greene is ready now. Torkelson hits the ball hard for the most part, but we’ve seen questionable strike zone judgement. Bottom line for me is that there’s no victory this season that I’d chase right now if it comes at the consequence of the future of the few prospects that the Tigers have that might be due up in 2024/2025. Yes, watching Nevin and Ibanez struggle this season stinks. They’ll be gone once Greene, Carpenter, and Kreidler are healthy (and baseball gods willing that there aren’t other injuries that foil that plan). It stinks for now, but I think patience is the rational path here. The division looks there for the taking, but the Tigers just don’t have the roster for it, especially with the litany of ailments that have been hitting lately.

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I'm not sure they ever really had one this season.

While football is being brought into the discussion, I will say that I think sometimes baseball fans misconstrue the magnitude of game by game results from football onto baseball. A loss is much more of a severe penalty in football than it is in baseball because of the number of games played. A loss in baseball sucks, but there are 161 other games to play. Plus, we're Tiger fans. A loss shouldn't surprise us the past several years.

This is probably the case.

He’s probably still in shock about what he just saw. And we have no idea what conversations there are between Hinch and Harris. We have no idea what the targeted goals are for this season. We can assume the general development of youngsters, try to get veterans tradable, that generic kind of stuff. It’s probably safe to safe playoff contention wasn’t a part of the discussion. And the way the rotation is getting hurt again this season, at this point, what do they do there?

A stinker is a hybrid of the slider & sinker? Learn something new everyday. 😆

Prompting Malloy now that he has slowed down after April or promoting Keith past AAA are both ideas that are unmitigated ass.

For all of the dumpster diving that was referred to as depth building, there really ain’t any depth at Toledo. And before anyone suggests promoting Malloy, he’s slowed down after a torrid start. Low .700 OPS after April. Probably still some lessons to be learned.

The umpire didn’t even flinch. He was probably frozen because he couldn’t believe where the pitch was going. Was the call a header off of the ump’s nugget and tag out the runner trying to advance home? The ricochet was slightly miscalculated.

I don’t believe what I just saw.

Thanks @Dave Christian for catching the game time.

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Hasn't this been a round for a couple of seasons already? Don't get me wrong, it is helpful. My worthless guess is that the recent rule has helped more overall. Certainly we can agree the pitch clock helps move things along with every plate appearance while the reliever rule helps things move along later in the game.

Might this be the genesis of the stress fracture?

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Well, its not election season, so it had to be one of gambling, lawyers, or beer.

That'd be a good fund raiser to sell lottery tickets for.

Hadn't thought of it as being the yips.

Leyland had the Sunday lineups, too.

One would think this would be quite the selling point assuming the "refurbish" is being done correctly.