Tigermojo

Can't really do a fair comparison because most of his leadoff plate appearances were during his rookie season and most of his batting second plate appearances were last year. Of course, his career stats look better batting second right now. He's one of the three best hitters on the team so he should be batting 1, 2 or 3.

Tork dud.

Now would be a great time for the first Tork bomb of the season.

They had the #1 defense a few days ago. 🥺

Bad case of homeritis.

The home run was on a hanging splitter so now every pitch is trash.

Runs!

Maeda's well give up.

No Pena today. It's CMo day.

Free game of the day on MLB.tv.

Leiter has allowed a lot of walks and homers in the minors so he'll probably toss six shutout innings today.

BOOM!

Each team gets 27 outs in a game. Laying all the blame on Canha is quite a stretch. He has the best plate discipline on the team. Cherry picking a couple instances doesn't seem fair.

What kind of shoes is he wearing?

The talent just isn't there. They do not punish mistake pitches. They cannot make adjustments for their weaknesses and even mediocre pitchers are able to exploit that.

Brutal

A walk off would be nice.

Now would be a great time to score RUNS!

Lorenzen threw Baez a two strike fastball lol

Riley guns him down!

Rally murdered.

Based on stats so far, this is their best lineup and defense.

Pitcher skill and defense are part of it but so is luck. Detroit was fifth in BABIP last year, but middle of the pack overall for pitching and fielding. Now their fielding looks much improved, so far, but if the hitting and pitching continue as they have, their luck might run out.

Small sample size but I was looking at the team stats on the Tigers site and the hitting has been bad. Ranking around 25 in most categories. The pitching ranks high. 5th in ERA, 1st in WHIP and AVG but then I checked Fangraphs and the pitching looks much worse according to advanced stats. The pitchers have the lowest BABIP in baseball. This team would be significantly worse if those stats even out over time. They have been elite on defense. Best in the Majors. The defense has probably bailed out the pitching quite a few times already this season.