RandyMarsh

MLBtraderumors says that we are indeed sending down Tork to make room for Malloy. As I said I'm skeptical that the move will do anything for Tork but the fact is when we are trying to win games we just can't afford his empty bat in the lineup so even if it doesn't help him from a team perspective it is the right call.

I'm of the belief that sending experienced guys to the minors to "figure things out" rarely ever works out in the end but considering we're semi competitive right now(4 back of the WC) it is better for the team to have Tork hack it out in the minors than see him go 0-4 every game up here.

Evan Petzold says the Tigers are calling up Malloy, no word on any corresponding moves.

Not hyperbole to suggest that Weaver may be the worst GM in Detroit sports history, Millen is the obvious answer but Millen atleast had some 6-10 and 7-9 seasons in him. Weaver was nothing but dead last every year.

This is game 7 against the Suns from a couple years ago all over again.

Yeah Bucknor never got the heat that Hernandez did but atleast in games I watched and followed he was equally as bad.

I blame Hinch.

Best news I've heard all weekend!

Watching the ball fly into the LF stands and hearing Dan say "Walk off 3 run home run!" immediately brought back memories to Magglio for me!

I haven't listened to him this year but in years past I always liked Petry, I thought he was the best out of the bunch(not saying much) but judging by your guys responses I guess he has gotten alot worse.

Keith with an .840 OPS in May coming into this one so he's starting to find his stride, unfortunately it coincides with Greene falling off a cliff offensively.

To me Burrow is overrated and shouldn't be put in the elite tier like people always seem to do. He had a great run a few years ago but otherwise if you look at his raw stats and most metrics they are negliglibly better than Goff's at best. Not to mention his injury history and the fact the Bengals offense didn't drop off much with Browning and I just don't think he is as great as people make him out to be.

Kiley Mcdaniel of ESPN put out his updated top 50 today and he has Jobe 7th, Clark 21st and McGonogle 50th. Jung is in the "just missed" category along with about 20 other guys.

Yeah I agree, it was only 1 season but it was so good that Id throw Stroud in there as well. Id certainly take him over Lawrence at this point.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-ranking-top-25-players-under-25-2024-nfl-season-sauce-gardner-cj-stroud Five Lions make the top 25 including Sewell at number 1!

To me the best case outcome for Manning is to have a poor man's Porcello like career aside from his fluke Cy Young season. Basically a back of the rotation starter who can give you strong outings here and there but will always be heavily BABIP dependent on that. The hope of him ever being a top of the rotation starter or number 2 went away awhile ago for me.

Its weird to be a fan of a team that have executives and coaches that other teams want.

With the Nuggets losing this guarantees the 7th consecutive season without a repeat champion. I believe this is the longest such streak since the 70s.

Another crazy Skubal stat, in his 24 starts since his return only 4 times has he given up more hits than innings pitched and only once has he done that in his last 15 starts. Just insane, most pitchers would be glad to only have that stat for runs let alone hits.

Lol that's exactly why I said atleast 50 yrs cause I knew Lolich had some great seasons as did Mclain but since they predated my time by a decade and a half I didn't exactly know off hand what their stretches were like. But just looking at stats wise it appears they were no where close to as dominant as Skubal has been when you factor in the respective scoring environments. Skubal's ERA+ in the past 10 months dwarfs their best seasons as does every other metric and stat except for innings of course which is why I specified on a rate basis.

In Skubal's 24 starts dating back to his return last July he has thrown 1 run or less in 14 of them and in 10 gave up 0 runs. He doesn't have the volume of innings that prime JV or Max had but on a rate basis I don't think any Tigers pitcher in atleast 50 years has had a run like he is on the last 10 months.

Just thinking out loud but I wonder too if the Lions and/or other teams know alot more about what the near future holds in terms of the cap going up and they have caught wind that its going to take a big jump in the coming years which is another reason they weren't concerned with having that big number then.

The Lions obviously know more about these things than I do but it feels like it would make more sense to front load the hit when you still got alot of guys on rookie deals and excess cap space.

Lions with 5 prime time games(2 MNF, 2SNF 1 Thursday Night) plus Thanksgiving. Also there were atleast another 2 or 3 4:25 starts that I saw which usually is the national "game of the week" and some weeks actually draws more viewers than prime time games so yeah they are definitely being showcased alot this year as you would expect coming off the season they had.

The NFL just released the week 1 league schedule and the Lions/Rams is indeed the SNF opener.