RandyMarsh

Good job morans for screwing up your lottery odds!!

Good for Lorenzen! Seemed like a great guy when he was here and glad for his success. He may have been a token All Star selection at the time but he's been a straight beast since that game. Quietly been one of the best pitchers in baseball the past 5 or 6 weeks. Making himself a lot of money with each passing start.

Eddys Leonard goes deep for his first HR with the Tigers down in Toledo, now sporting a cool 1.175 OPS in the 4 games since the acquisition.

My AAT was Parker Meadows, not gonna lie when I picked him I thought he would've atleast been up for a cup of coffee in the majors by now but it seems that just isn't in the cards this year. He's been pretty solid for the most part this year and has had some great stretches but he hasn't quite been as good as I thought he was gonna be after his Ruthian Spring Training. I was expecting an OPS of .900 or better with Toledo, basically be so good that he would have to force the Tigers hand but that hasn't quite been the case.

One of Dombrowski's best attributes was his willingness to trade prospects and not fear the repercussions if that player ended up being a star. I think his mindset was it really doesn't matter to his organization how that player turns out all that matters is how the player they get in return helps Dombrowski's team out. Like when we really needed another starting pitcher and 2B to help win us the division he didn't hesitate to trade Jacob Turner cause he knew Turner wasn't ready so he wasn't going to help us accomplish that goal but Sanchez and Infante might, if Turner ended up being a star so be it, we got what we wanted and that's all that mattered to him. Yeah in the long run with that philosophy you may have a couple trades that people will mock you for but ultimately I bet in most cases you will come out on top as DD has shown.

Zack Ohtani!

Henning complaining about E-Rod screwing up our "lottery odds", oh joy that'll be the dead horse he beats every one of his starts until the end of the season.

A thing of beauty!

In the grand scheme of things it isn't ideal that we didn't trade E-Rod but seeing games like this makes it more tolerable short term cause if we traded him we'd just be having to watch some AAAA guy like Wentz throw a garbage game. Atleast keeping him saves us from seeing 10ish extra games like that.

Zack Short has quietly been pretty good for us this year, he's currently sitting at 1.1 WAR over 160 ABs which rates out to over 3 wins if he was a full time regular for a whole season. Of course it's hard to say if he would have the same production if he played every day but regardless for the role he has been given he has been more than adequate.

Teddy to me is the perfect backup QB, if God forbid Goff goes down in week 1 and we have to use him for 16 weeks is he going to save us? No probably not but that's unrealistic of any back up QB, a great backup QB is one that will prevent you from free falling if your QB goes out early in a game or has to miss a month or so and I think Teddy is that guy. If Goff were to sprain an ankle or something and miss 5 games I think Teddy may help us go 2-3 or 3-2 and right the ship where as somebody like Sudfield we may go winless and in turn totally send the season into a tailspin.

I also look at some of his post Red Sox trades notably the Sale trade. He made sure he kept Devers but gave up Moncada(the then number 1 prospect) and Kopech one of the best pitching prospects. Both have had their moments but they haven't been the elite hitter that Devers has.

Max has the "clutch gene"!

I remember watching him in that Tigers intra squad game that they televised leading up to the Covid shortened season and I remember being blown away with his stuff, at that point I wouldve bet the house that he'd be an impact late inning reliever within the next calendar year.

Dombrowski has a pretty good track record of keeping the prospects that pan out and trading the ones that don't so that worries me a bit but nobody's perfect(ie Eugenio Suarez) so maybe this will be another one of those rare times he gets rid of the wrong guy.

It would've been petty even if the pbp guy said it unsolicited but the fact that the graphics were up it obviously was a planned segment by the network which makes it even worse. I mean how can you suspend him for just reading what was on the screen and/or reading the content that he was given?

Rapaport confirms we are signing Bridgewater. No word on the numbers of the deal though.

I can't remember where I read it maybe the Athletic(wasn't by JEIII) but I guess Kerr or Grant Hill flat out said that he would be on the main team and the only reason he isn't is because he is working his way back from injury so he's under a bit of a load management at this time.

Kiley Mcdaniel put out his top FAs and had Erod at 7. This is what he had to say. Rodriguez blocked a trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers and now will have to deal with his opt-out. He should easily be able to clear the three years and $49 million left on his deal, but that could also be accomplished by reworking it with the Tigers to avoid hitting the open market. Here's yet another starting pitcher with all the components to project a low-nine-figure deal, but there's a real chance he never reaches the open market.

Nice to know that he seems to have learned his lesson from his injury and in turn isnt trying to throw a ball through a brick wall everytime like Degrom.

Off topic but on ABC right now they're doing Celebrity Family Feud with current players vs. Hall of Famers and CJGJ and ARSB are on the current players team. BTW they've only played a couple games so far and Amon Ra is definitely better at catching footballs than playing Family Feud. lol "Name a food that turns you on when seeing a women eat it" Amon Ra - "chewing gum" "Name something that is hard for a man to admit they aren't good at" Amon Ra - "reading"

I've already given up on Manning as being anything more than a serviceable number 4. He'll string together a few good starts in a row here and there to give you hope but ultimately revert right back to the player he truly is which is a mid 4s type pitcher. BTW that's not necessarily a bad thing, there's some value to being roughly league average and giving you 5-6 innings a start but any hope of him being an All Star caliber pitcher like we envisioned at one point is long gone in my eyes.

Bigbie is a little older but otoh he wasn't drafted till 2021 so this is only his 2nd full season in pro ball which to me helps offset the age and something I pay attention to. If he was drafted out of HS and this was say his 5th or 6 season in pro ball I would feel worse about his age but that isn't the case.

Meadows turns on a 97mph fastball for another bomb!

It's nice to hear some positive stuff from guys like Kerr and other outsiders, it's easy to take everything with a grain of salt when it's local beat writers or team insiders but it carries more weight to me when it comes from the outside.