SeattleMike

No sugarcoating how wretchedly bad this year's offense is. But the 2019 offense rivals this year for ineptitude. The 2022 offense is 1.13 runs worse than league average. The 2019 offense was 1.22 runs worse. If you look at the numbers by percentage this year's offense is 26% worse than league average and 2019 was 25% worse so one could argue this year is actually worse. Any way you slice it the Tigers have featured two historically bad offenses in two of the last four years.

Decades of failure to develop much positional talent has clouded the strides made by a number of Tigers positional players this year. May be a coincidence but certainly seems as though the new staff has made an immediate difference. I hope the new GM let's this play out.

I can't remember any time over the last few decades when the Tigers had at least two position players at every level doing interesting stuff with the bat. Will it yield any fruit? Who knows? But at least there are some intriguing performances up and down the system.

I guess he's no Christin Stewart.

If you need a guy who hits lefties Grossman might be worth a gamble. His OPS against lefties (in 79PA) is .988. Don't know how many contenders are in dire need of such a player, but if you covet a lefty masher (without much power mind you) Grossman would seem to fit the bill, especially when it will only cost you your 25th rated prospect (or to put it another way a fringy pitcher).

Santana OPS by month since May: May: 711 June: 780 July: 859 For season 686 (shows you how awful his April was). How an 18-year-old playing at A ball (where he is the youngest position player in the league) with his profile is not listed on every Tigers top 10 prospect is mystifying.

This season has left me perplexed. The record is not a surprise at all, given the injuries to the pitching staff. What is a surprise is the central reason for the lousy record. I figured the offense, which was slightly below average last year, could move into the average range. When Avila traded for Meadows I thought the offense would be fairly tough, top to bottom. No superstars but no duds. That most of the offense is 20-40 percent worse than league average is head scratcher. Anyway, before the season I expected 75-80 wins. That could still happen. Candy and Schoop could still get hot. Baddoo could as well. Tork could come back have a strong August and September. As could Greene. None of this is pie in the sky stuff. Usually there are a couple of guys overachieving whose regression oversets a few others who get hot. There is no one who screams regression at this point, at least on offense. The pitching is anyone's guess. Lots of regression possibilities there. But also some hope. Rodriguez? Manning? Bounceback from Skubal. Over the last 50 games the Tigers are 4 games under. Could play .505 baseball over the next 70 games? I think so.

The Tigers have so few rallies that the LOB failures are magnified.

The offense is garbage. The pitching/run prevention is MLB average." Every facet" is hyperbole.

He has never been close to this bad as a hitter. And he is still only 30. Maybe he's done, but I would bet he has a season next year closer to his norm. If he does he's worth keeping.

Very apt analogy.

I'd put Olsen ahead of everyone above except maybe Flores.

Santana kind of holding his own at low A as an 18-year old. Encouraging.

Mayer with a 137 RC+ at low A. Pacheco with a 131 RC+ at same level. Pacheco is a month younger. Understand Pacheco will not stick at SS but, as you suggest, there are worries that Mayer may not either. Who knows? Maybe Tigers picked up a Mayer's clone in the second round and will hit with Jobe as well. We can dream.

They only had three extra base hits that day (one HR). Lots of seeing eye singles. Today was HRs and line drives galore.

Who could ever forget the all-college-relievers draft?

All they will need is a couple of average MLB quality arms available tomorrow and it should be smooth sailing for them.

The number of 90 loss seasons under Illitch ownership has been staggering. More than a third of the seasons under the Illitchs have ended in 90 losses or more.

Wily Peralta is third, with a 0.8 BR WAR. The guy has pitched 22 innings with a walk rate of 5.2 BB/9 and he has the third highest WAR on the team? Bizarre.

Torkelson has the fourth highest OPS+ on the team. He's not raking at all but odd to single him out as a problem.

Is it possible to play three games in Yankee stadium and not hit a HR? You know your offense is historically inept when that happens.

Baez can carry a team for a month or so.

What if Olson really has tamed the walk monster? Does he have top of rotation stuff?

Saw stat during broadcast: The Tigers are now 4-28 against the A's since 2017.

What do you see in Daniel Cabrera?