casimir

50 minutes ago, pyrotigers said:

To be fair, I'm not far off that and I haven't gotten a hit in about 19 years 

There was a group of 12 people at work yesterday and one was chest puffy about Cleveland beating Detroit on Wednesday.  I turned and looked at him and said, “Look around, if we can get 100 pitches thrown around the plate tonight, we could beat the Tigers.”

3 hours ago, KL2 said:

not unless he dies. Under control for a $6 million salary is a reasonable risk. 

Yeah, but if his Achilles continue to have long haul vertigo….

1 hour ago, buddha said:

can we all pitch in and get cade a better pair of shorts?

If only there were some teal horse heads on those….

Personally, I wouldn't rule it out that Hinch becomes the new GM and forgoes his on field responsibilities.

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

According to B-Ref WAR, Meadows is the Tigers 4th best position player this year!  

He might fall up to 3rd by season's end.

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I’ll be at this one. Taking the gf and her dad to the game for Fiesta Tigres and he really wants to free hat giveaway. 

Just make sure Ernie knows where you're from.  That way if you catch a foul fly ball, he can let folks know where you're from.

17 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

And this year he'll probably prove he can lose 100 games with any roster, a roster where almost every position player failed to meet expectations.  He won so many games with Arizona that they fired him mid-season.  

I was thinking of this a bit the other day.  Last season's team (.475 winning percentage) overachieved.  This season's team (.375) has underachieved.  Split the difference, call it a .425 team (around a 68-94 season record) over the past two seasons.  Fair enough?

Los Angeles Angels (51-67) at Detroit Tigers (45-75)

10 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Two walks for Victor Reyes tonight.  That is something you don't see every day or any day.  

Buck Reyes cementing his 2023 roster spot.

25 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I wonder if we start to see more of that type of scheduling.  It does cut down on travel for the visiting team a bit.

Possibly.  It does seem a bit silly with Detroit vs Indiana, though.

10 hours ago, sabretooth said:

My goodness, this umps high strike calls.

For whatever reason, my mind's voice reads this in a Dan Dickerson voice.

25 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

A lot of the help Preller provided wasn't above board. Look into his suspension.

Question: Is Theo Epstein a retread? Was AJ Hinch a retread when the Astros hired him?

Sure.  Dombrowski, Leyland, Anderson,.... all retreads.

They have back to back home games vs Atlanta early in the season and back to back home games vs Indiana later in the season.  A back to back home/road with Philadelphia in the middle of the season.

We’ve seen the home/roads before.  I’m not sure I remember the back to backs against the same opponent in the same city.

With CastroW’s 5th home run of the year, Cabrera is now 8th on the team in home runs with 4.

WILLI!

Not a quality start for Norris.  An effectively wild start.  Where is the EW column on baseball reference?

10 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Harold injured?

Another pitcher injury?!

5 hours ago, djhutch said:

Have you heard the gambling sports shows? I don't even know who produces them - maybe Bet MGM? They're awful. It's full volume - talking really only about the bets. I usually wouldn't care but our lone sports station Up North takes CBS Sports radio off the air every afternoon/evening & puts this crap on.

Podcasts.

I happened across a person wearing a red Expos hat today.  Sacre rouge!  Allez les Expos de l’equipe de baseball de Montreal!

1 hour ago, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

I can admit that this used to be me. Now I get angry at those people that are doing nothing but artificially moving the merge point way back from where it should be. 

I've done a lot of roads trips over the last month, so I can't remember where I saw it, but they actually had signs telling people that a lane closure was coming but NOT to merge yet. Then at the last 1000 feet or so, there was a "zipper now" sign. There wasn't much traffic at the time, so I can't really say if the signage really helped at all, but I thought it was a great idea.

Now that you mention it, I remember seeing a "zipper merge" sign somewheres this year, also.  New York state?  Pennsylvania?

3B Wilmer Flores was mentioned before (sorry, cannot recall who).  Originally I thought, yeah, OK, whatever.  But you look at his production, and he would be a triple crown winner for the Tigers.

Defensively, he might be no better/worse than Candelario.  And maybe Flores is best used as a not quite every day but 4  or 5 days out of a week type of player.  But he could be a handy player at 3B/1B if acquired inexpensively.

They could go with Clemens/Flores at 3B and focus heavily on another OF and middle IF to try to resurrect the offense for next season.  Clemens/Flores would also allow a season at Toledo for Kreidler/Colt/Perez if they are considered reasonable bets for beyond 2023.

5 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

That’s a good thing no ?

After he wins 2022 AL ROY, Carpenter will mention you at the presser and thank you for your bulletin board material.

3 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Do we have an 84 Tigers 35-5 run in us cause that's all it will take to get us to the 80 win mark that many of us hoped for preseason. Actually 35-8 so they have a little bit of a cushion.

38-5 would put them on the edge of the wildcard.  Sort of.  Maybe.  If we squint.

9 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

About 2 seconds after I called Barnhart "Tucker Mendoza" he went 1 for 3, then 3 for 4, and now 1 for 2 today...

I think he's reading my posts in here...

The Mendoza Tigers.

Detroit Tigers (45-74) at Cleveland Guardians (62-55)