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Gross.

San Diego Padres (54-44) at Detroit Tigers (39-58)

Instead of curly fries, you should be able to just get your own Arby's restaurant after this outburst.

What have I been telling you morans? Just wait until the weather warms up. Well here we are. Enjoy.

In one game or a series?

I think it has more to do with the game thread intro, but that’s just me.

Pounding the ol’ Budweiser today.

The more recent memories of Mike Ilitch make him seem a more win or go home owner. A lot of folks forget about the Randy Smith era. This seems like that in that it’s obviously not working, but it seems that blind loyalty is too strong.

They would likely bring up Cameron or Hill if they moved Grossman. Cameron hasn’t shown he’s not promotable and Hill hits like a pitcher and stays as healthy as a Detroit pitcher.

Agree. Less risk involved moving relievers than with moving Skubal. But they need to move on from Avila as GM. It’s just not working.

We can complain about Grossman's playing time (or any other position player). But as I scan over the offensive numbers, I notice this team's best bats this season are an end of bench utility player and a backup catcher. They've pretty much all sucked. None of the position players deserve regular playing time on a major league baseball team this season. But they have to put somebody on the field. And so here we are.

San Diego Padres (54-43) at Detroit Tigers (38-58)

I’ve been wondering about that, and also (and this will draw some ire) if the pitching coaching might have a sliver of responsibility as well.

The 2022 Tigers have used 28 different pitchers (which includes 3 position players). 15 different pitchers have started a game for the team. In 1984, the Tigers used a grand total of 14 different pitchers. 10 of those 14 started a game. 5 of those 10 accounted for 146 of the 162 games started. 4 of those 5 started 130 of the 162. Kids, we ain’t even at game 100 yet.

<heavy sarcasm warning> Its just another day. <heavy sarcasm warning>

Clemens at 3B. AJ Hinch is so desperate that he's here reading our suggestions.

He might be in our conversation, but is he in the Tigers' conversation? I think sometimes its easy on here to confuse what we think the Tigers should do and what the Tigers think they should do. 3B next season is a prime example. My opinion is that the Tigers are more likely to bring Candelario back than the majority of folks here would. As far as Clemens in the 3B mix, he has moved around the Toledo diamond a bit this season after seasons of being a 2B exclusively. I'm fine with trying him there. I think there was some open concern about his arm strength. If he can pick it down there with some sort of range (which I don't think Candelario has much of) maybe at worst its a net change of 0 defensively. I don't know. If a remember correctly, Candelario was never projected to be a traditional offensive threat for the 3B position anyway, but he's obviously well below those nominal expectations this season.

Nope.

For some reason I thought Candelario was only at $4M this season, but, yes, it looks like he's at $5.8M. I don't know how much it will go up, but it doesn't seem it would go up all that much based on lumping in this season. I can't imagine him here in 2 years with how this season is going. On the other hand, Buck Farmer was around for parts of 8 seasons, so, yeah. Cots' list of free agents doesn't seem up to date. Just looking at 3 players (Tim Anderson, Jose Ramirez, and Xander Bogarts), Ramirez and Bogarts have signed extensions and are not free agents this offseason. I guess technically the White Sox have a club option on Anderson. Who knows, maybe they will decide to go with Clemens/Kreidler in some form or fashion at 3B next season. Or they will see Brandon Drury's out of nowhere 2022 and throw 5/$100M at him.

And to think that Candelario was essentially benched just last weekend for poor play.

Minnesota Twins (51-44) at Detroit Tigers (38-57)

How does an arbitrator look at 2022 numbers and rule in favor of the player? Never mind the fact that numbers haven’t been exchanged yet. I understand what you’re saying, though. His price tag might be too much for questionable production. That’s a perfectly fair point.

They may keep Kreidler in Toledo rather than starting his clock. It’ll be interesting to see what they do when rosters expand. I may be wrong, but didn’t they limit September rosters to only 28 or 29 with the current CBA? They’ll probably go with another pitcher, maybe a 3rd catcher, and probably a position player already on the 40. I’m not at all suggesting that Candelario has earned a role next season. I just don’t think they’ll pursue an upgrade. I suppose there’s probably room for both Candelario and Kreidler on the roster. Or maybe they find a way to get another Castro.

That May figure is a little deceiving, too, as he only played 6 games during the month. But the .521 out of the gate in April really set up a deep hole to climb out from.