RandyMarsh

This will be a good test for young Beauseph, if he can put together a strong start against a good Red Sox lineup in the friendly confines of Fenway then that will go a long way towards me being a believer in him.

Rich Hill is the very definition of wily lefty/crafty veteran. Dude's been navigating through lineups since the Eisenhower administration.

The thing with Baddoo too is that yes he was a Rule 5 pick so people will immediately question his possible legitimacy but even before that draft several people of the national outlets were saying that he was different than a standard Rule 5 player and were actually quite surprised he was even available. I remember reading some people say that the Twins really didn't want to expose him to the draft but they were so deep they had to expose somebody which is why they reluctantly had to leave him available.

One of the reasons I was a Baddoo believer coming into the season is how well he responded last year after his dreadful stretch of play. He got to that hot start then completely fell off a cliff, usually it feels like once that happens the flash in the pans roll over and continue to suck from there on out i.e. Brennan Boesch. But Baddoo on the other hand rebounded and actually got better than he was before the downfall, atleast in terms of his peripherals like K/BB% and batted ball profiles. That to me gave me hope that he could be legit and really I still have that glimmer of hope that he can be.

Mathurin also has elite athleticism and has actually shown the ability to shoot from the outside as well as wreak havoc in transition. Yes his ability off the dribble needs work but I think he has just as good of chance to develop that to his game as Ivey has to be a legitimate shooter in the NBA.

Reyes with the weak infield pop up followed by Grossman K and Miggy weak groundball. This is the Tigers offense that we have grown accustom to!

Coincidentally enough I just saw a tweet from Beck that the Dodgers are indeed close to acquiring an OF from the Tigers but not Grossman, instead former Dodger and brother of Klay in Trayce Thompson who the Tigers have been playing in Toledo. I haven't been paying attention but apparently he has been pretty solid hitting .299 with 9 bombs in only 25 games.

Also I echo the statements about the sun and would love it there was a way to correct this. The Hard Rock stadium in Miami basically transformed their stadium by extending the roofs allowing for the most of the seats to be in the shade. That's the only stadium I can think of that has done that, I wouldn't expect Comerica nor would they need to go that drastic since as bad as it is I don't think it was as bad as what that stadium in Miami was pre renovations but perhaps they could do something similar.

If the Tigers were to move the fences in from CF I wonder if they could potentially move the statues from up in the concourse there and and have their own little version of the Yankees monument park between the moved in CF wall and where the shrubs are at now.

There are very few things on Earth I hate to the extent that Lynn hates Comerica Park and its dimensions. Bitching about it again this morning on twitter after Grossman was quoted as saying that he didn't like hitting here as an opponent. If I understand his last sentence correctly it sounds like Lynn has blown past just moving the fences in and wants a whole new ball park.

I think it's a little premature to say that, yes Brieske and Faedo are off to good starts in their MLB career but who knows if that is going to last. If they are indeed legit that helps the argument but if they aren't who can you really point to at this point as a success at the MLB level outside of Skubal and a relatively small sample of Turnbull before he had a major injury? Just about every team in the league can point to that type of "success", particularly if they drafted as many high end pitchers as we have. I will say it has been nice seeing guys like Flores and a couple others take positive steps in the minor leagues and along with the aforementioned turnarounds of Brieske and Faedo I have a little more confidence in the pitching development than I did say a year or so ago but I think it's too early to say that they have been good at it.

Yeah when the day it first came out Trevor Thompson mentioned during the telecast that he will still be getting paid during the whole ordeal.

Yeah hard to imagine another team picking up Hutch and even if they do its not like it will be a major loss.

It was always a little joke with me and my friends during the Lewin and Gibby days about how they would routinely just go off topic and talk about the most random things while the game was going on. I was in HS at the time so during our baseball games when we'd be sitting in the dugout we would often mock them by calling the game we were playing like they did. We'd be talking about the game score or something that was going on at the plate then immediately say something like "so any idea who you plan on taking to Prom this year(then proceed to talk about girls before returning to game action). lol looking back it was a little childish but a HS kid it kept us entertained in the dugout and we thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Yeah it's only 2 games and it was against a couple mediocre pitchers albeit one in Dunning that has had success against them in the past but still nonetheless it has been nice seeing them actually hit the ball hard and score runs. I still think they dug themselves too big of hole to come back and play any sorta meaningful baseball this year but if they can have more games like the last two the rest of the way atleast they will be more exciting to watch and give us a little more hope for the future.

Barnhart thrown out by a country mile, in his defense he hasn't been on the bases much this season so his base running is a little rusty.

The one benefit of drafting a HS pitcher vs. one that went to college for 3 years is that college coaches can sometimes be notoriously hard on the pitchers, after all their main concern is how they perform for them and their team, how they perform down the road in the majors doesn't really matter to them. Where as if you draft them and control them for those 3 years he would otherwise be in college you get to monitor his workload give him access to professional coaches,trainers, facilities, medical staff and can just better dictate his development. Of course considering the Tigers history at doing so that may not be the best thing for a player.

Some NSFW language at the end but for those that have seen Breaking Bad you will a kick out of this! Great work by whoever did it!

The Tigers city connect jerseys should consist of an Orange hat and jersey, white belt, orange pants, white socks and orange cleats this way they resemble a construction barrel cause Lord knows nothing represents this city and state more than those.

Kinda crazy when you think about all the things that have happened in baseball in that time frame, between the expansion of the leagues, all the new ballparks, steroids, juiced ball etc. yet atleast in the AL the top HR marks remain unchanged in all that time. If you remove Maris' season then the top 4 would have been the same for 85 years now. BTW Judge is on pace to change this as last I looked I believe he's over a 60HR pace.

I didn't see the early part of the game but that's nice to hear. I wonder if it's a new strategy or if it's just the fact that the starting pitcher was terrible even before the game so they thought there was no need to make him work to try to get him out of the game early. I'm hoping for the former and that we will start to see this going forward. Even if it's not all the time atleast try to mix your approaches up sometime.

I like the city connect uniforms but I'm not a baseball traditionalist per se. Like I don't care if teams even with classic uniforms like the Tigers, Yankees and Dodgers mix it up for a few games a year with something different. I don't like how the NBA does it though where it seems like the teams where their city connect jerseys nearly as much as they do their regular ones including still in the playoffs. Also changing the court to match the unis every time they wear them makes the franchise lose their identity even further. Basically If teams just wear them a few times a year for a special occasion I'm cool with it.

Last summer I looked in depth of all the High School players drafted in the top 10ish(I didn't have a firm cut off but tried to keep it at 10 but if I saw a guy at 11 or 12 I'd include them) from 08-18(I cut it off there cause I figured 2019 and 2020 was too soon to really get an idea of them) and I found that the hit rate was virtually the same whether it was a pitcher or hitter when it came to players coming out of High School. They both hit at a relatively low rate so really picking any player out of HS is a great risk.

This 14 run performance really throws a wrench in my daily pathetic Tiger offensive stats post(s) I've been starting to enjoy doing recently. It was kinda my coping mechanism for their suckiness I guess.

Olsen has been impressive since we got him, atleast statistically. It appears that getting him for a half season of Norris could be one of the rare Al trades that turns out good.