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But the system should be better than 5 years ago. The Tigers have had the advantage of picking earlier in the draft than most other teams for over 5 seasons now. That is, of course, assuming picks were made well and prospects were added by other means and development occurred. Just because a couple of prospects made their way to the majors, it doesn’t excuse the Tigers to fall towards the bottom of the barrel if due diligence is happening elsewhere.

You forgot Trayce Thompson.

Well, there's really only one way to go from here.

Hilarious? Laughing to keep from crying?

Just heard an "on this date" from yesterday about the National League moving to a 162 game schedule in 1962. The American League did so in 1961. They expanded in different seasons (Los Angeles Angels & Washington Senators in 1961 and Houston Colt .45s & New York Mets in 1962). So that 1961 World Series was played by teams with about a week's worth of difference in games played. The other coincidence about the schedules is that Maris' 61 home run season came in the first 162 game season. For as much asterisk talk as there is about expansion and schedule length, I don't know that there is mention of the fact that it was the first 162 game regular season played.

That's a fun looking box score.

That’s probably good life advice.

Not sure if the Mets tried that. Anderson was out of Oakland after the 1998 season. The Phillips flip flop inning happened in 1999. And I was wrong about LaRussa being the manager for Oakland for that game. He was gone after 1995. Art Howe was in charge in 1999.

Hold on now.... They are former Tigers. We're not allowed to have this discussion, are we?

Seems like they could have just run the Motor City Cruise out there tonight. What's the difference?

In his prime, Phillips was awesome. Switch hitter, worked counts, had some pop, stole a few bags, could be moved around the diamond. So fun. There was a game in his second go around with the A's, they were playing in Detroit. In one of the later innings, LaRussa shuffled he and another IF back and forth between 2B and 3B based on the hitter for Detroit. It wasn't a current day shift, although the Oakland IF was shifting a bit from line to line. Phillips and this other A were essentially swapping defensive positions during the inning. Oh, yes, its this one.

I'm drawing a blank on who could have been the Milwaukee representative on some of those nonMolitor Brewer teams. That might be interesting to look back at. Sure, having Ripken as the seemingly annual starting SS takes away one slot. And then there's never a shortage of OFs when Yount moved to the grass.

Hall of Fame SS/CF Robin Yount is on a podcast that I am listening to. Guess in your mind how many all star games he made. Got it a number? OK. It ain't that many. Only 3 times. Seems odd to me that a hall of fame position player would have MVP votes in 7 seasons, including it in a season where he wasn't named to the all star game, and only 3 all star game appearances.

It doesn't look like rosters are posted, but there is a pretty prominent photo of Cabrera on MLB's WBC link.

Same, but with the way politics has been cascading into a grease fire, what will we end up with for options?

Forfeit. They ain't messin' around with the tank.

Washington Wizards vs Detroit Pistons

Ban him.

I thought the clip was fun. He never really came across as a demonstrative type of person, so that was interesting to see. Of course, he was never in a playoff type of game like that, so that could be part of the reason we never saw that kind of emotion out of him.

This one resignates with me.

Thank goodness the dance team came out to break up the potential brawl.

Sure. The strike zone might be octagonal area above the plate rather than just the front or back of the plate, but the break of the ball up/down or right/eft or any combination of those can't be that great above the plate. The slow pitch softball scenario brings to mind the Tiger Stadium right field upper deck overhang and the lore of how it turned against the wall outs into home runs. Holy heck, that place has been gone damn near a quarter of a century now.

Detroit Pistons vs Dallas Mavericks

Upset?

Man, I remember in 2021 somebody theorized that Hinch had his hands all over the organization, much more so than as the field manager. Why he gave up some of that power to Avila after the success of 2021, I just cannot imagine,