Tiger337

I was a fan for life long before 1984, but 1984 is the year I'll never forget. That team was near perfect and had no weakness. They had starting pitching, bullpen, hitting, fielding and depth. It was also a mostly home grown team which stayed together for several years. The Leyland era Tigers was great too, but didn't quite have the same feeling for me. Even if they won the World Series, it probably wouldn't have been quite the same because I was older and more cynical!

True, not much has been made of the decrease in offense in MLB to this point. It will likely get better in the summer months, but it probably won't catch up to 2023 overall

Last they they couldn't even do that, so that would be an improvement!

I think the answer is both. They have improved offensively this year, but they are not the 13th best team offensively. Their OPS and other rate stats don't show that, but they have somehow upped their run total by bunching their hits together.

No, the Media (including lineral outlets) want him around for as long as possible because he helps them make a profit. He is an absolute lunatic who has been normalized for 8 years because they want him stay in the news.

I remember it well. That was probably one of the five worst Tigers games of my life right up there with game 163, the Ortiz homer in the playoffs, etc.

That's a Little League mistake.

The only things a pitcher controls consistently from year to year are strikeouts and walk rate and those things stabilize pretty quickly, so if something changes you'll notice it fairly quickly. A pitcher has some control over hits and home runs, but there is a lot of variation. Things like barrel rate and hard hit rate are not nearly as predictive for pitchers as they are for batters. It's hard to reliably evaluate pitchers beyond BB and K rate. It's not impossible, but there is a lot of guess work involved. WHIP is better than ERA for relievers, but neither is very predictive of future performance.

So, we can wait three years for their core to be promoted and watch them not hit for another year. That brings us out to at least 2027.

He has apparently hidden the ball for over 40 years. People are just stupid.

Is anyone more pathetic than Ted Cruz...well, maybe Rudy Giuliani.

They hadn't figured that out already? How could anybody be surprised to learn that Trump is an idiot?

I never really have an opinion on who they draft. I love reading about them and speculating, but I don't think we can really project these guys especially after the first two picks.

Eduardo is sure getting a lot of hate for a guy who led the team in WAR last year. 😃

I don't doubt that the incident affected his decision. It just seems unlikely to me that not wanting to be in a pennant race was the reason.

And he is drawing walks which is important because the concern was that he wouldn't be able to do that in the Majors.

It was a great contract. I just wonder if they may have rushed him to the majors because of it. I know he doesn't look as bad at the plate as some others, but his performance has been awful.

He has already won a championship in Boston where the media and fans criticize every move you make, so I doubt he was worried about the pressure of a pennant race. It sucks that the Tigers couldn't make the deal, but it's difficult for me to blame an employee for making a personal choice when an employer is trying to move him across the county. I don't really blame Harris either, but he is really the only one I can hold responsible.

OK, we'll call it a troll then. 😀 You did criticize the Candelario move!

He also hates himself.

Why did he accept responsibility for it if he was not at all responsible? It was a difficult situation, but I think it's impossible for us to know all the details. It's possible that Harris did not know Rodriguez and his agent well enough to understand that something like that might happen. I mean Rodriguez was always an odd duck. Perhaps if he understood him better, he could have anticipated it and worked something out. Or maybe he did everything he could. I don't know. I question it because, while he seems bright, he doesn't doesn't strike me as a great communicator. But I could be wrong about that too! As a dumb fan, I just see it as the GMs job to get transactons worked out. I am not so interested in the details as to why he can or can not get deals done.

I think the season is going as expected overall and I am encouraged by apparent player development improvements throughout the organization. The difference between you and me is that I don't have undying faith in Harris to turn the franchise into a winner. I don't know that he won't either.

Here it is by median instead of average: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-first-round-pick-worth-baseball-rivka-boord/ The title is wrong, but the chart shows the median by draft position. 1st pick is 12.5 2nd pick is 7.5 After that, the typical pick is replacement level or barely above that.

Everybody knows that top draft picks have a better chance to succeed. A lot of them don't succeed though. Average WAR is not really the best thing to look at because there are probably a few superstars bringing up the average. If you get one of those guys then great, but chances are you'll get Torkelson or Mize. I'd like to see this chart by median or maybe percent who reached a certain threshold.

Did you forget 2017-2022? 🙂