Tenacious D

Somewhere, Senor Smoke is smiling

Wonder if Todd Jones makes it to the 9th inning or will they pull him for Carlos Peña?

Half-way there. Tigers need to get him a lead this inning, though.

His announcing is as uneven as his pitching was.

This Tigers lineup has no business winning tonight. So, of course they will.

I had forgotten that he managed a lot of the ‘84 guys as they were coming up.

A bit of a gamble, but only if another team claims him. Which isn’t very likely. However, your point is well taken—I’d rather have Buddy on the team right now.

LLM bringing the goods, as always. Thanks, man!

Here are the top 10 picks in both Mize and Tork’s draft. I purposely didn’t go beyond 10 picks, because anyone drafted after nine other teams passed on those players, in addition to the Tigers. With the exception of a couple of guys (Bohm, India), we really didn’t pass on anyone much better than our selections (so far). Also, it’s too early to give on Mize and Tork—perhaps they won’t live up to 1-1 expectations, they could still end up contributing more than others we might have picked.

He won’t be the first 1-1 that didn’t work out (if he doesn’t). We now have two #1 picks (Tork and Manning) that have been demoted to Toledo, along with a #2 pick (Meadows) and two other #1’s (Mize and Faedo) that have underperformed. Lets hope that Harris’ development team can help Jung, Jobe and Clark, among others, pan out. (Ironically our best pitcher was a 9th rounder and hitter was a 19th).

Why can’t we get to the starting pitcher?

Had it all the way

He’ll be fine. In the interim, Harris needs to bring Malloy up or make a move outside the organization. Baddoo is at best a placeholder.

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Baseball is hard

Would still like to know who we would have received in return, though it doesn’t matter much now.

Flaherty needs to stay. He’s our Milt Wilcox plus.

I’d flip them. Tork needs a reset and Hiura might be an upgrade.

We don’t have to cut him. I’m assuming he has options left—let him spend next season in Toledo to work on things. He could always work his way back in as a DH if we invest long term in finding his replacement at 1B.

McGonigle looks legit—can’t wait to see how he does as he moves up through the system.

Took him long enough

I think Harris wants to evaluate how our young guys play in the bigs before cutting bait on any of them and replacing via free agency. Based on a career of a sub-.700 OPS for Tork, I could see them looking at 1B this offseason. He didn’t draft him, so there isn’t the typical loyalty or optics around one of your own guys.

Wasn’t BP or one of the analytical sites bullish on Vierling’s potential? Would be nice to see him make some strides this year.

I’m OK with getting a split tomorrow. I’m assuming we won’t touch Skenes, so I’d hate to waste a Skubal start in that game.

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