Tiger337

That's pretty much the same goal as catching the leaders.

Would Manchin take votes away from Democrats or would it be R leaning independents voting for Manchin so they don't have to vote for Trump

The funny thing is that Baez has the best K rate of his career this year (22.9%). What's missing is his power. He may be the worst looking hitter I have ever seen, but he has always been that way and he has had some damn good stretches in the past. They can only hope that he has another one of those stretches now. He did it at the end of last year.

I don't necessarily want them to trade him, although everyone is tradeable in the right deal. I was responding to the idea that they could make a Jacob Turner type deal. They wouldn't be able to do that at this time.

I think Jobe needs several months of good health before he'll have much trade value.

Cabrera is pretty easy. I am confident he won't be good enough to affect the outcome. The young players are a little more difficult and they widen the confidence interval, but they probably (we are dealing with odds here) won't get them into the playoffs.

I am not too worried about Torkelson's defense. He has poor range, but can catch throws from infielders. Statistically, it seems he was close to average last year. This year he is below average, but has been trending better as of late. I don't think there is enough there to definitively say he's a bad fielder who needs to DH. I am more concerned about his hitting, although indications are that he'll improve.

Yes, they do factor that in, but 3% still seems too low. Still, I don't think their odds are high enough where they should think about winning this year when making deadline deals.

Another Royal Tiger

Ranking in the Tigers top 30 will always get you lots of attention in Tigers social media.

Lynn Jones?

I was surprised that he only played one game for two reasons. First, he was talked about so much on this board. Second, I get him confused with his father.

They have the population to support a team, but they don't have the stadium. Lowell, MA has the same problem.

Not a great team.

Looking back since 2017 when the Tigers started being terrible, I can not tell you which teams won the World Series each year, but I know which franchises were the most successful without looking - Astos, Dodgers, Yankees , Red Sox, Braves, Rays, Indians, Cardinals. Going back and looking I see that I only missed the Brewers (in terms of most wins during that period).

I have just gotten to the point where I don't really care about the playoffs that much. I am more interested iin them having a good team that can consistently win around 90 games like they had during the Dombrowski years. It would have been nice if they had won the crapshoot one of those years but not winning the post-season tournament didn't make them a failure in my eyes.

I am in the minority as I think most fans would agree with you. However, I just wouldn't see a team that played .500 ball for a 162 games as a real champion. Sure, I'd be entertained by the playoff run, but I would look back and know that they were a mediocre team that got lucky in the end. It would be a different feeling for me from 1984 when they were a great team from start to finish and unquestionably the best in baseball.

It would be a really weak division title and even if they somehow managed to win the World Series, that's not the way I want it to happen. When they win it all some day, I want it to be with a great memorable team.

It probably depends on your offense too, but it definitely makes sense in general.

Someone did a study of hockey goalies who were hot and cold and determined that inconsistency was preferable to consistency in the team's win total. Tango theorized that the same was true of pitchers. You figure a team is going to win most of the starts when a starting pitcher gives up 0 or 1 run, but giving up an average number of runs every game is not going to be as good especially if the team can't hit. Tango explained it as the difference between 1 run and 4 runs is bigger than the difference between 4 runs and 7 runs. You are going to lose most of the 4-7 run games, but your chances of winning goes up a lot when you go from 4 runs to 1 run. So, you want to get as many of those really low run games as you can even if you have games where you get pounded.

LOL, Baez. They set up the last two pitches about a foot outside.

True. I am thinking more of the organization's mantra of positional versatility in general. If your roster is set up so that you have multiple guys playing all over the place, it may help you with offensive platoons but you also might be sacrificing defense.

I believe it's hard to excel at multiple positions in the same season. It's nice to have positional versatility, but there may be such a thing as overusing it.

The 70s... Brian Downing.