Tiger337

16-12 and not many (if anybody) are playing over their heads. They can contend and I can see them making deals geared toward this year and next year at the trade deadline if things go well.

They should all be batting second

In order for an analyst to work for me, they have to add some knowledge about the game that I don't already have. Since I have never playerd the game at an advanced level, that is certainly possible, but they rarely do that. They also have to have a good rapport with the play by play man and know when to shut up. Not many check off all those boxes.

Tigers need some instant runs.

How about they have simultaneous tv/radio broadcasts with Dickerson and Benetti? No ex-jocks.

I'd be very happy with 2023 Corbin Carroll. Not this year's version...at least not yet.

Any attention he can get benefits him. It's been that way his whole life. It's all he's got.

He can't be right either!

Saying that Biden has a 99% chance of winning would be really optimistic at this point!

Probability is not about wins and losses. It's not binary.

Not really understanding that analogy.

That is how statisticians talk. Never wrong and never right! I don't think he has the personality to be a pundit. He probably should have further developed in the field and stayed in the background rather than trying to be a pundit.

80% is not a particularly high number. If a .200 hitter comes up in the 9th inning and needs a hit to win the game, it's probably not going to happen, but there is a decent chance it will. The people who were wrong were the many who said Trump had no chance to win based on that 80%. I'm not making excuses for Silver. I think his time has passed. He was a very influential man in the field for a number of years, but isn't so relevant anymore.

They did eject Youppi.

Another red flag. 😃

And the 3000 hit, 500 hrs, 600 doubles thing was just a set of arbitrary categories and cutoffs to make him look better than players like Ted Williams and Willie Mays who were clearly superior to him.

This is a good summary. It might not matter to most fans whether advanced stats consider Cabrera to be Hank Aaron or Frank Thomas. Tigers fans might just consider him to be an all-time great and one of their boys and leave it at that. However, if you are somebody that likes to rank players throughout history and construct Hall of Fame tiers, it does matter.

Fenway is a park every fan should visit once because of its history and uniqueness, but it's actually a terrible place to watch a game. I rarely go anymore.

Surprisingly, it was a great city too. I wasn't really expecting that. I loved the river walk.

Have you been to a game in Lakeland? If not, I recommend it. I also don't have a desire to go to ALL the MLB parks. I had to see Tiger Stadium and Comerica. I went to Pittsburgh, because it's a great park and I wanted to do a road trip. I used to go to Montreal because it's a unique environment even though the park itself was bad. However, I am not going to make a point of visiting a crappy park just to experience every park.

How did Baez get into the top three Tigers of all time thread???

Who gives a **** what Steve Bannon thinks? He has never been in any position of relevance, but he always talks like he is king of the world.

Through age 33, which is when Cabrera stopped hitting, he had an OPS+ of 155 with 70 WAR. Pujols had a 165 OPS+ and 93 WAR through age 33. Pujols was one of the best defensive first basemen during his prime. Statistically, Cabrera was a below average defender most of his career. Fans used to make excuses for him because they loved his hitting, but he was not a good defender especially when he was trying to play 3B. He was adequate as a 1B. Pujols was better than Cabrera. Not staying fit is a poor excuse!

Cabrera was a great hitter, but not a "generational talent". A generational talent is someone who dominates the game for a decade or more. Pujols was a generational talent. Trout was a generational talent. Cabrera was Hall of Fame caliber, but not in their class. You keep saying opinion versus stats and then your opinion about Cabrera is all stats! He didn't get 600 home runs by the way. He got 500. Pujols got 700!

I Top 3 is easy. If he said top 5, it gets more interesting.