casimir

I've been to the baseball and rock & roll hall of fames. Personally, I look at both as more of a museum rather than a career defining achievement. Of course there are enshrined members as part of the museum, but I guess I just find that aspect to be more subjective and not quite as interesting to me. Heck, what defines rock & roll to begin with? Why are Eminem and Dolly Parton being inducted into a Rock & Roll hall of fame when you wouldn't find their albums in the rock & roll section of a music shop? I visited the baseball hall and was able to see a display of Whitaker & Trammell memorabilia. Jerseys, hats, gloves, cleats, photos. It was great, it made me happy to see. This was way before Trammell's induction as a player and, in my opinion, they really should have been inducted as a duo. But the powers that be don't agree with me on that. C'est la vie, I can't help it that they're wrong. (And to be honest, the room with all of the baseball plaques was quite boring compared to all of the other displays on hand anyway.)

Do you mean actuals bats or ball players that know how to use said bats?

The SOs are a bit worrisome to me. But he's only 23 and he's a C, so there's time for him to determine his fate.

Nope. The Motor City Kitties will be lining up in victory formation in the bottom of the 9th tonight. Book it.

Exposed by a special chair?

OK, no overall roster limit, but an active roster limit of 28 for games at AAA & AA. I guess I didn't realize that had changed last season.

I don't want to blame only Soto for the loss. Its tough for pitchers to have margin for error of about a run given the ineptitude of the offense. But its past time to realize that Soto isn't a high leverage pitcher.

I like looking at baseball reference’s end of year projected records. Over the course of their 1,000 computer simulations, the Reds aren’t projected to be the worst team in baseball. Heck, the Pirates are 3 games below them in the division according to their guessing games.

I like the irony of this clip in the "catch-all" thread.

I don't know how players from different eras can be reasonably compared to each other. So much of the game has evolved over time. What hasn't changed? Free throws have kind of remained the same, but that's about it.

Hold on now, that's cheating.

I was looking at the roster on MILB, and even with the 7 day ILs taken into account, the Mud Hens appear to have 17 Ps, 4 Cs, 6 IFs, and 4 OFs. Seems a bit over the limits? Must be some headshots need to be taken down off of the site?

Adam Everett? You couldn’t find a pitcher?

I suspect there will be a an unholy amount of dirt dug up about Majewski. I doubt there was much digging before as he was considered a long shot.

Double digits hits today. (Never mind that it came in a doubleheader.)

He did give up 2 hits in 1 of his 5 IP at Toledo. Does that count?

I don't know that this is completely true. The "anti Trump" candidate, Matt Dolan, followed a lot of Trump's platform, but wouldn't fall in line with the whole stolen election falsehood. The complete Trump lapdogs (JD Vance, Josh Mandel, Mike Gibbons, Jane Timken) garnered around over 70% of the R vote. I highly doubt Ryan can win easily barring some unforeseen event such as Vance reversing course and again going against Trump which could cause chaos among the TRs.

AL AVILA READS THIS FORUM, STEALS MY THOUGHTS!!!! I ain't right often, so I'm taking a bow on this one.

Tell you what, Faedo might be the P to call up tomorrow. Assuming both Detroit & Toledo have rainouts today, Faedo is supposed to pitch today, but he could probably make the drive up north tomorrow, the Mud Hens will play the makeup game as a part of a DH which will be a pair of 7 inning games shaving 4 IP off of the top end of the organization. This assumes the Tigers are comfortable with the 13 position players on hand, and Grossman's hand might be the determining factor there.

A doubleheader tomorrow works fine for me. Game 7 Cincinnati Cyclones at Toledo Walleye was going to be on my TV tonight anyway. The Tigers can call up another player for the DH, maybe its another P, maybe its another Castro, maybe its Clemens,...... Any chance there's a pitcher named Kody Castro in the organization?

Ah, I see it now, they are going with 13 Ps, not 14. They had 14, placed Alexander on the IL and DFAd Garneau to get from 28 to 26. I is a idiot.

Hinch had Marwin Gonzalez for a bit in Houston. It kind of seems like he's trying to find that player in Detroit. I think there's definitely value to having that kind of a player, especially given the roster inflexibility and landlocked positions that the Tigers have with their starters. But I agree, bite the bullet now in the bigs and just bring up the defensively appropriate players. They probably aren't that much offensively inferior to the Castros. Let the position flexibility experiments happen in Toledo. Gain on the defense, and hope the underperforming starting bats heat up. At least it gives the Ps a better chance to reduce extra outs, which in turn might lead to not needing that 14th P.

I was eyeballing where they have been as hitters in terms of career. Probably not the most exact way to do it. Either way, they should be better hitters than what they've been so far this young season. I would think the early season league wide OPS should increase over time. BSD had a stat earlier on this season, and I don't recall what hitting stat they used, but it was broken down by month, and there was a general ramp up throughout the season. It was probably just proof of a general theory, but this put some actual numbers to it. Just as a cheap barometer, OPS going back a few seasons have been .728 last year, .740 in 2020 (which maybe gets flagged with an asterisk), .758 in 2019, and .728 in 2018. Now, if you want to look at just April (which I think is a bit more germane to the season), that becomes .699, N/A, .742, .719. I can understand an argument for bringing Clemens/Short up. If it costs CastroH (I thought someone said he's out of options), that's fine. I hate the 14 man pitching staff and shorting the bench, but unfortunately circumstances are kind of dictating that now above preference. Too many SPs have been dinged up and there doesn't seem to be enough length per arm in the BP. So where does that leave things with the position players? Well, they aren't going to move any of Barnhart, Haase, Cabrera, Torkelson, Schoop, Candelario, Baez, Grossman (let's assume he doesn't need an IL stint), Meadows. That's the catching duo and every starting bat except for CF, so 9 of the 12 position player spots. Some combo of Hill/Baddoo in CF, which brings up the total to 11 (and keep in mind the Reyes probably isn't too far away). That leaves one spot for a backup IF, and that cat has to cover 2B, 3B, and SS because that backup doesn't exist among any of the aforementioned players. Granted, there's not going to be a lot of time needed to cover these spots, but the nagging day-to-day things that pop up on a road trip and Baez needs a day or two off of his feet after getting a shinburger or something like that. It kind of excludes Clemens at the moment, and the team is stuck with choosing among Castro, Castro, and Short. Clemens' only shot might be an injury to one of Schoop/Candelario (maybe Torkelson if they slide Schoop over to 1B at which point we'll all be miserable at this season) or reduction of the pitching parts from 14 to 13.

Ha! I just looked at the coaching staff. Only Coolbaugh and Nieves are younger than me. Now, I’m not that much older than Hinch, Paul, and Lombard, but older nonetheless.

Candelario (.200) and Schoop (.175) also have pretty low BABIPs so far this season. Clemens might be the shiny thing in Toledo, but it might be best to just grunt through these slumps and assume that they’ll rebound towards the mean. We all know players go through boons and busts. Either or both could be on the verge of flipping the switch. And if the Tigers were to try Clemens or Short in place of Candelario or Schoop, what becomes of the latter? Can’t send them down. Just release them? And then what if Clemens/Short isn’t the answer? Who else is in the system to call up? I don’t think there’s much else to do right now other than ride things out with the vets. I suppose there’s an opportunity to demote a Castro and call up one of Clemens/Short and maybe go with some sort of 3 players for 2 defensive positions rotation. That could be a way to go for now.