Jim Cowan

Looking at that list, we certainly can't say that "the Tigers don't sign enough Latin American players". They just don't sign the correct ones.

When you said "I really don't care anymore" that resonated with me, I don’t know for sure who is in the playoffs and even if I did know, I couldn't name more than 4 players on each team. I feel like it has become so much more watered down over the last 20 years that I am going to spend a lot less time on it in the future. .

They're the worst.

I also think it might have been a reference to comments made here that modern "regular" players get more rest days than their predecessors did. I didn't think it was a specific Tigers reference.

Wayne made some brief appearances in Ball Four.

One of my kids saw this online: People who are giving Matt Gaetz a hard time are forgetting all the good work he has done, making the nation's highways safer for young people. To learn more, Google "Matt Gaetz" plus "minors" plus "traffic".

Yeah, your face has a weary look, I can see that you are a little under the weather. Hang in there, you will be radiating optimism again in a few days.

John Schneider was the smartest guy in the room today, managing the pitching staff.

Jack LaLanne, wow. He's the granddaddy of them all.

LOL!!! Did you see the lady sitting on Trump's legal team at the front of the courtroom? She looks exactly like the lady who plays Melania on the Colbert show, sucking in her cheeks.

I think he was always a line drive hitter who was so strong that a lot of his "contact" went over the fence.

He wasn't "terrible" by any stretch of the imagination. If you hit it right to him at third base he made all the plays, and he had a cannon.

Not Chapman, please God no. He is already 30, I don't ever want to commit a contract to a position player beyond age 34, ever again. He's not a game changer, he is a lifetime OPS+ guy of about 110. Please stop talking about him.

The other part of my dissatisfaction with Kaline was that the DH rule was so recent, and a lot of fans including me hated it. So when he got his last 150 hits as a DH my feeling was that it was cheap, all the other greats got 3,000 by playing a defensive position too, it was an important part of their durability.

Kapler is out in SF.

I remember being dissatisfied with Al Kaline's struggle for 3,000 hits, it took him 3 years to get the last 300. I thought that it was undignified and totally self-centered.

Yes that was 62, he would have hit 45 home runs that year. An attempt at a diving catch...do you remember if he caught it?

My favourite Terry Francona story, oft-repeated, one more time. Sean Casey, playing for the Red Sox, was thrown out twice at second base, trying to stretch a single, within one week. After the second one he was visibly upset in the dugout, in a rage, and so Francona put his arm around Casey's shoulder in a fatherly way, and walked him up the runway towards the clubhouse. When they were safely out of earshot of the other players, Francona turned to Casey and asked: "are you sure you don't have polio?" That's why I love Terry Francona.

Back to Kaline, he hit 25 in 1967 but broke his hand when he angrily slammed his bat into the bat rack after striking out. He missed 26 games, the dumbass, and cost the Tigers the pennant.

Kaline's 29 homers in 1962 were done in 100 games.

Interesting for sure.

Yes I think that it is not impossible for him to improve his OBP, there is some of that in his history. He'll never have an arm, but his glove doesn't really hurt you that much in LF.

Like Denny and the Mick. And the best part of that sequence will always be Pepitone, coming up next, showing McLain where he wanted it, and McLain throwing it right at his head.

Yes he has 2 tools I think. Juan Encarnacion had three, he had the arm too. But neither of them had the glove, or the hit/OBP. I sort of hope the Harris regime prioritizes those 2 over power.

Baddoo still has the tantalizing power and speed.