RandyMarsh

While I disagree with the decision unfortunately that's how managers always treat the closers, they seem to get the longest leash. They get to stay in until it's too late, if that was anybody else there would have been somebody up throwing after the first walk then rocket from the 2nd hitter but not for the closer.

I do like how when the Tigers hitters get burned on a strike call Jack will say something like "Just outside the zone but as a hitter you can't take it that close", then when the Tigers pitchers get the benefit it's "That pitch wasn't near the zone, Tigers got lucky there."

Good call blue!

Soto with the longest underhand throw I have ever seen, it worked though. Perhaps the Tigers should've used that method in the 06 WS.

I mentioned him before on here but Austin Bergner had another great start for Erie. 6 innings of 3 hit, 1 run ball with 7 Ks to drop his season ERA to 2.41 with a 1.01 whip and 9 k/9. I don't know how legit of a prospect he is, he's 25 so not exactly young but was just drafted in 2019 so doesn't have a ton of pro experience. Only info I can really gather about him was that he was a top 5ish pitching prospect coming out HS but chose to go to UNC instead. It would be nice if he rounds into another legit pitching prospect, perhaps if we gather enough of them we may be able to deal some for a legit bat.

Whoa a Riley Greene sighting on a Tigers telecast.....too bad it's for a Car Shield commercial and not him on the field.

In the top of the first the Tigers got a 3-1 count and swung and missed on an offspeed pitch, then got a 2-0 count and preceded to hit a weak groundball on an offspeed pitch below the zone. I don't have the stats but it feels like this is a common occurrence with them, when they do get ahead in the count the opposing team doesn't even bother throwing a FB for a strike cause they know they will jump on a bad pitch.

Out of the 156 qualified hitters 147 of them have a better RC+ than our team and out of the 9 that don't 4 of them are Tigers including the bottom 3. So there's essentially 5 everyday players throughout the entire league that are worse with the bat than our team has been.

Yeah I'm beating a dead horse and it's not news that our offense is terrible but here's just a nice clean visual of just how bad.

Forgot to copy the link and now I can't find the tweet but anyway I saw a tweet that said Campos was hitting like a .950 OPS in June in low A. He just turned 19 the other day and this is his first full season of pro ball so that's a good sign he is already starting to pick things up. It would be nice if we could finally hit on international market.

https://theathletic.com/3365655/2022/06/16/nba-draft-2022-top-75-prospects/ Hollinger's latest big board. Since its him I don't know if it's more analytical or scouting based, reading through some of the reports it has a bit of both but not sure how much it sways to either side. He has tier 1 guys as 1. Jabari 2. Paulo Tier 2 3.Ivey 4. Chet Tier 3 5. Mathurin 6. Sharpe 7. Murray Tier 4 Sochan, 9. Daniels 10. Minott 11. Wesley

I love the post that one of the commentators of the article put, to paraphrase "The first question the NBA should use in their concussion protocol is 'Do you want to play for the Kings'"

Okudah is a major question mark not only because of his first year but because of the achilles injury. While I think we have made advances in it to the point that isn't isn't a death knell to somebody's career it's still an injury that is more devastating than say an ACL tear. The fact that somebody like Ojabo could be drafted in the 2nd round despite just tearing his makes me think that NFL teams don't fear it as much as they used to. If it was viewed as a potential career killer like it used to be no way would a team use that early of pick on a guy that just ruptured his.

The ironic thing is that the fact that our guys are having such horrible years may be the best thing for Avila. For arguments sake lets pretend that Chris actually gives a shit about the team and is indeed thinking of firing Al. He may be able to convince Chris that these guys are off to such flukishly bad starts that nobody could have foreseen coming which is why the team is losing and once those stats correct themselves the team will turn it around. On the other hand if the guys were performing at or near their personal expectations AND the team was still losing Al would have no excuse, it would show that he constructed a team that wasn't capable of winning even when the players are performing to expectations.

yep, I say this unironically but I legit have the most faith when Harold and now Victor Reyes are at the plate. Like when they show the order for the next inning and I see one of them is coming up I have atleast some faith that something positive might happen. The fact that this is the case shows just how horrible this lineup has been.

Candy 2-4 with a double in his first rehab start in Toledo. I guess we can hope that maybe he was feeling banged up to start the year and didn't say anything so now after this time off he comeback and start to hit.

On top of this in the 3 biggest trades they've made in the past decade in terms of getting back potentially a top 50 prospect that could be an impact bat they instead chose or atleast settled on a pitcher the centerpiece instead. I'm talking about Norris in the Price trade, Fulmer in the Cespedes trade and Franklin Perez in the JV trade.

Yeah I was thinking something along those lines as well. Ultimately since the buck stops at Al he of course needs to shoulder the blame but to me they need to clean house top to bottom with the exception of Hinch, Fetter and Garko who I will give a pass since he hasn't been here that long. If they just fire Al and keep on all the same scouts, minor league instructors, and whomever else has any role in player development or player scouting then the team won't get any better. Those guys are the root of the problems, I doubt Al just looks at a board and without any input randomly decides on who to draft or go after, they are the ones telling him who to chase, acquire and draft and so far they have been wrong.

Assuming no Jabari drop right now I'm at 1A Murray and 1B Mathurin. Daniels, Sharpe and Ivey are all pretty much even in my eyes in terms of my want for them. I won't be disappointed if they draft any of them but they would all be my 3rd choice. To me it's fun to dream about upside and ceiling but you have to factor in the likelihood that a player will hit that ceiling. I think the likelihood Daniels, Sharpe and Ivey hit it is too low for me to take over guys like Murray or Mathurin. I think Murray and Mathurin can come in and contribute from day 1 and while they may not offer superstar upside(not saying it's impossible for either to get there though) I think they offer very real All Star upside so I don't think we're talking about just a run of mill guys you can easily get in FA. Really though barring Weaver doing something crazy I don't think I will walk away from this draft disappointed like say the Stanley Johnson draft. Even the 3 players I mentioned that I don't necessarily prefer I still see the potential value in their upside and wouldn't be kicking and screaming if they do end up with them.

Perhaps Hinch is going all April/May 2006 JIm Leyland on the team and tearing everybody a new one?

In our latest run of pathetic play we are in the midst of getting outscored 69-22 in our last 12 games. So even though the offense continues to to hit at a sub 2 runs per game pace the pitching staff is starting to show some chinks in their armor as well giving up roughly 6 runs a game. Can't fault them though, it's gotta be maddening to know that one mistake likely means you aren't going to win the game. Talk about pitching on egg shells every time you go out. I could maybe MAYBE be ok with this pathetic play if we had a bunch of promising players down the on the farm tearing it up but that isn't the case either. When you factor in the organization from top to bottom there very well may be none that are in worse shape than ours going forward at this point. It's a shame that after all these years of rebuilding this may be the low point for me in terms of my faith of getting back to relevance.

These guys had 78 HRs this time last year, this year they are at 21. Granted the season started a few weeks late but even factoring that in you're talking about a huge drop. If they were even close to last year's power numbers we'd probably be right in the thick of the division or WC chase.

On a similar note I just came across this tidbit.

They have to either fire Coolbaugh or at the very least move him to a bench coach or something and bring in somebody else to take over the hitting duties. Do I believe that will make them do a 180 and become a competent hitting team? No very likely not but you can't just continue to stay the course when your team is quite literally putting up numbers that haven't been seen in like 100 years. Yeah it's not like he has a ton of great hitters on this team to work with but virtually every non Castro is performing way under their career norms, particularly the power department. If one or two guys were performing bad then you could understand but when 10+ are performing 20% or more under their career numbers than something is wrong. At first I may chalk it up to offense being down and the new ball but in the past month or so offense is starting to tick up and HR numbers are going up meanwhile we are getting worse. Again I realize that ultimately it comes down to the players but it's also these coaches jobs to identify the problems the players are having and trying to correct them, whether that is mechanically or in their approach and it seems like they aren't doing that. G2 has been beating it to death all year the horrible approach these guys have and how they take way too many hittable pitches, that is something the coaching staff and scouting department should pick up on. Other teams pick up on patterns of pitchers yet we seemingly don't. That's a problem that needs to be corrected.

Can't wait for it, probably will be my go to guide when it gets published.