RandyMarsh

I wonder what it would take to get JP Crawford from the Ms? Id obviously much prefer one of the top FAs but if they end up going elsewhere I don't think Crawford would be a bad consolation. He's league average with the bat which might as well be Ted Williams compared to what we been throwing out there and has a plus glove. Still young enough where he has some room to grow, also doesnt hit FA till 2025. For all those reasons he probably won't come real cheap but the Ms have some promising SS prospects so they be willing to deal him.

Our old pal Castellanos is likely to be a free agent this year. Short term he can be the bat we need, long term he can take over for Cabrera in 2 years as the full time DH.

Sounds like Mize may get to pitch the 4th since he only got a fist bump and not a handshake from AJ. That would have him finish with an even 150 innings for the season.

Perhaps Fetter's magic wears off the more times an opponent gets a look at us. Of course that wouldn't explain us sucking against the division from the start but its the best explanation I can come up with.

Granderson was also due for an extension shortly and there were question marks namely his struggles against lefties as to whether the Tigers should give him a big extension and if they did if it would come back to haunt them so I think that was the biggest reason why they cut bait. They also sold high on Edwin Jackson in the process.

This seems like something that would happen to the Lions.(well assuming they ever were actually good enough to win a division.) Right before the playoffs starts you lose one of your most important players due to his stupidity.

To me it sounds like speculation but he definitely could've worded it more clearly, I believe the verbiage he used originally was "dont be surprised if the Tigers trade one of their prize pitchers(probably Mize) for a bat or two." Edit: heres the original tweet, he does say Mize is just his guess.

I agree. I know we got burned with Fulmer so I can see Tigers fans being worried that something similar can happen to Mize but I think as an organization you can't operate like that. Just cause you got burned not trading one player before doesnt mean that you should trade every good pitcher you get from here on in.

Lynn now suggesting the Tigers trade Mize in the offseason for bats. Listen Im not opposed to trading him just cause we know how fragile pitching is but I dont see how that necessarily makes us any better. It feels like robbing Peter to pay Paul. The only way I think it makes sense is if you truly believe Fetter is some sorta pitcher whisperer and you feel you can find guys for cheap that he can help get Mize like production from.

Aside from the rare exceptions like Altuve and Judge virtually all the players are within 4 or 5 inches of each other. Then you factor in the strike zone only takes up a portion of the body and then factor in most players are crouched in their stance and you come to the conclusion that the strikezone should look the same to the naked eye no matter the player.

I bumped this thread cause after looking at our teams stats and what I think we need I'm starting to warm up to Baez for the right price. Yeah we know he is going to have a bad OBP but what he will bring is HR power and I think that is what we desperately need. Our team OBP isn't that far off from league average and with Tork, Greene and hopefully a full season of current Miggy that should only get better but what we need is that HR power. We are 21HRs behind even the league average at this point, which is about 15% less, yes Tork should improve on that himself but at the same time we have to expect some regression from Haase and not having Rogers. It's not a coincidence that when Haase and Schoop were going off in May and June in the power department that we were doing our best offensively, simply put that's how runs are scored in this day and age and we need more HR hitters to help us score those runs. So while Baez may only OBP .300-.320 you can bank on him for 25+ HRs and I think that would be a major help to the team. I'm not advocating paying him gigantic money but I'm softening on my "Correa, Seager or bust" stance if we can get him for the right price cause I think he could be a big boost to this lineup, more so than what his WAR and OBP would indicate.

I saw that the Cardinals won their 17th straight so I decided to look up longest win streaks in MLB history to see how it stacks up. Before doing so Oakland's from Moneyball obviously came to mind but I wanted to see besides that anyone has won this many and I saw that Cleveland won 22 in a row in 2017. I have no idea why I have absolutely no recollection of this. Perhaps cause most of it was in September of that year and I and most of us on here were too busy discussing the Verlander trade and us going in the tank to think about that but wow that caught me completely off guard when I saw that. Like I have ZERO memory of that.

I never went to a game there but I too always liked the look of that Texas park and not just cause of the Tigers Stadium thing. I always thought it looked unique and stood out from other parks. My understanding is that it was super hot there and that was the main reason why they "upgraded" but you think that was something they would've thought about when they built the park to begin with.

I get the open concourse and sightlines was all the craze at the time so you weren't going to just build a carbon copy of Tiger Stadium like the Yankees did but I wish they incorporated some aspects of the park, like maybe having one side of the outfield have the bleachers and overhang of Tiger Stadium like how Texas did with their old park.

I hope he doesn't do it in Oakland, for starters Oakland fans are the worst and don't deserve to see something like that, for another they will probably be too drunk to even realize what is happening and that's assuming there's actually any people in the park. If he hits it on the road I would prefer for it to be at a place with knowledgeable and respectful fans and where you're going to see atleast close to a full house.

Another fond memory was walking around that outside concourse off Michigan Ave.(can't remember the name of it but it was added on towards the end of its existence) before a game and casually sitting in a folding chair dressed in full uniform smoking a cigarette was Ozzie Guillen back when he was a player. My brothers and I went up and got his autograph and chatted with him for a few, I don't know just thought it was surreal to just see a random player chilling out and about, so that moment sticks out to me.

The Tigers start next year with 6 on the road before the home opener, with the rate he is going I'm not sure he makes it to the home opener before hitting 3k.

I was too young to see any of the good Tigers teams there so my fondest memory was seeing my then favorite player and team Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners(as a teen they were the coolest team of that era) there. This was in the summer of I believe 99, Luis Gonzalez hit a would be HR only for Griffey to seemingly come out of nowhere to rob it. The buzz in the stadium was incredible and still the greatest defensive play I ever seen live.

So far things are going about how I expected and that's a good thing. I think the jury was always going to be out on Campbell as far as an in game tactician but any flaws there would be made up in how good of motivator he is and thus far that seems to be the case. There's been a few instances where I felt he made the wrong in game calls but hopefully he will get better as time goes on. You can't deny the effort the guys are playing with though which to me may be the most important thing when it comes to being a Head Coach.

Fwiw to me it seems the umps do a pretty damn good job of calling strikes North and South, atleast going by the zone they use on TV, where they struggle is East and West but even there I think they have gotten alot better. I remember routinely going to Brooks after games and seeing 20 wrong calls on any given game, now that number is way less than that... atleast in my experiences when I look.

Glad to see there is a college board now, this has nothing to do with the game but I saw this right when the old board went down and I wanted to post it there but couldn't. It probably deserves to be in the old Harbaugh thread but anyway a few of us speculated that Michigan isn't viewed as a top job anymore but a couple weeks ago The Athletic polled a bunch of coaches throughout the country on what the best job in the NCAA was and Michigan Head Coach came in at 11. So it may not be tippy top but it's still considered better than vast majority of other positions and with the exception of a couple all the ones higher likely aren't going to be coming up any time soon either so if/when we get rid of Harbaugh we should have our pick of the litter. https://theathletic.com/2827321/2021/09/15/what-are-the-top-5-jobs-in-college-football-we-polled-over-100-coaches-and-staffers-to-find-out/

I really haven't been paying that close attention to individual stats of late but boy did Schoop and Hasse's power numbers fall off a cliff the past couple months. It feels like they had 21 and 23 HRs back in late July and early August and they're still there now.

God I tried listening to the radio today and I just can't. For years these hosts and callers have plead for the Lions to tear it down and now that they do they bitch about how horrible the franchise and team is. When one caller smartly says "what did you expect?" They respond with "they are worse than expected." How so? They played 3 playoff teams thus far and 2 of them came down to the wire and the other they led at halftime. I also don't want to hear the narrativr that the 49er game doesn't count cause they weren't "trying", if that were the case you would see things like that every time teams got big leads but guess what you don't. If you're gonna throw that 3 minutes of great football by the Lions out then why not throw the 3 minutes of terrible football out against the Packers,if you do that then that game ends up being one possession too. Then you get the whole "well the Ravens game wasn't that close cause they dropped easy TDs", again that's not how things work, teams make mistakes every game including the Lions, yet when the Lions do those people don't say "well if they didnt do this they would've won", no they just chalk it up to football or the Lions being the Lions when in fact every team drops passes, has costly penalties, misses throws etc. it happens and is part of the game. The bottom line is they competed to the end against 3 playoff teams, I don't know how you can be disappointed in the team if you wanted them to tear it down. This is what you get when you do that. Ok End of Rant!

The Jags just traded CJ Henderson and a 5th to the Panthers for a 3rd round pick. Henderson was the second db taken last year after Okudah of course and by all accounts looked alot better than him(not that that is saying much). Anyway for that price I think I would've been in on that. I think the likelihood of getting a defensive player that has his kinda upside that fills a pressing need in the middle rounds is extremely slim, plus we'd be getting back an early 5th to help offset that.

I like the Bills blueprint, they built up the rest of the team before taking Josh Allen. He did struggle a bit early on but that was more due to him being Raw than anything. They also went out and almost immediately got him one of the best wrs in Diggs to help his development. They essentially had everything he needed to succeed by his 2nd season and now they look like one of the teams with the brightest futures in the league. Another example is the Chargers, Herbert was able to be a stud from day 1 cause the pieces were already in place. That's what I want when we draft a qb early.