RandyMarsh

Good news in West Michigan is Colt Keith is 3-4 with 2 bombs, bad news is that Dylan Smith got roughed up a bit with 4 runs in 5 innings with just a couple of Ks.

Once we get closer to the draft I may get around to starting a thread about it if nobody else does but for now I figure I'd just post this in here. Kiley McDaniel of ESPN put out his 1st mock and he has us taking Jace Jung out of Texas Tech. Kiley has him listed as a 3B but MLB.com has him listed as a 2b, they also have him ranked 8th overall so getting him at 13 would be a slight steal. Kiley speculates that where we are in our rebuild we probably want somebody closer to the majors especially since he took a HS pitcher in the first round last year and that is a big reason why he has us taking Jung.

Dan's call of the Daz HR. Kinda sounds like he was surprised it carried out.

Yeah he clearly needs another 5 weeks of rehab.

Odubel Herrera seems kinda random. Did he do something major that I'm forgetting about?

I never cared one way or another about the score as long as the games are close. Same thing with other sports, a close competitive game is what attracts me whether th scoring is low or high doesn't matter to me. I will say though as just a causal hockey fan at best and watching a few of this year's playoff games I have enjoyed the steroid era baseball scores of some of the games.

We actually have a better run differential than the White Sox.

I mean how many 5 game series have they actually played in?

Damn he hit it to the big boy part of the field too!

Yes! Love hitting refresh on the gamecsst and seeing we took the lead! Didn't expect it to be Daz that did it though!

One of the things that attracted me about Baez is I thought he could be a guy like that when he went on one of his hot streaks but of course that has yet to happen. Like Baez, Upton was known to be a streaky hitter and iirc he struggled the first 3 or 4 months his first year here but then around August he blew up and damn near carried the offense to a WC berth that year. Hopefully Baez will eventually do something similar.

To me I like guys like Murray and Mathurin cause I think they offer the right combination of upside and floor. Its unlikely either is going to be an All NBAer but I think there is a relatively good chance they turn out to be a Middleton type. By that I mean not necessarily their skill or playset just how they are viewed as a player around the league and the Bucks have already shown you can win a ship with Middleton as your second best player.

I remember when the top SS's started going off the board I feared that if we didn't grab Baez we may end up with somebody like Jose Iglesias. Well he could've been had for 5 million and he is currently slashing .320/.370/.395. No power but Baez isn't hitting for any at the moment either so atleast we'd be getting a good BA and OBP.

Ha Bally's must have saw your post and wondered themselves cause they just showed the stat on the postgame show that in the last 40 seasons only JV in 2012 with a matching 2.15 and David Wells in 1993 with 1.85 have had a 2.15 or less through 10 starts.

Back to back shutout wins for the Tigers! The Twins with a Tigersesque 5 hits and zero runs over the course of those 2 games.

My first thought was maybe Anibal in 2013 but I went and looked and he got it to 2.38 after 10 starts but then got lit up in his 11th and never got it below that but still managed to finish with a 2.57 ERA.

Right now his biggest competition may be Verlander. There's a couple others like Cortes in NY and Gausman in Toronto but I think at this point JV would be number 1 followed by Skubal and those other guys. edit: Going by ESPN's WAR Martin Perez from Texas would or atleast should be in the clubhouse lead he has been worth 3 WAR, almost 1 more than anybody else in the AL at this point.

Wow that's impressive that this is already Skubal's 6th game of giving up no runs while going 5+ innings. That's over half the time he goes out he doesn't give up a run.

Hittin or should I say Hoppin Harold goes way up to make the catch and get Skubes through 7 shutout innings!

With all the positivity going on in this page I feel bad posting something bad but I just saw on the Bally's crawl that Manning has been shut down due to a "bicep tendinitis" diagnosis. Not sure what the time table is on something like that.

Schoop makes it 5-0 with a double of his own.

Hittin Harold with a 2 run double! 4-0 Tigers!

Ive read from a couple places that Houstan may have been promised a selection by one of the teams in the back end of the 1st. I see no other real explanation since I've seen him mocked as low as the end of the 2nd round.

Haha i forgot about that, well that explains the lack of check mark. He had like 5000 followers so even though there was no check mark I thought it may have been legit.