Tiger337

28 minutes ago, chasfh said:

He is so ****ing unhinged and so many people are just eating it all up. I’ll never understand it.

That's not your role.  Your role is to tell us that he is not unhinged and that he knows exactly what he's doing.  

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

let's hope he doesn't leave the rake there.

He's needs a blower in the Majors.  

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Tigers week-by-week* team wRC+:

• Week 1: 99
• Week 2: 96
• Week 3: 102
• Week 4: 146
• Week 5: 97
• Week 6 (thru Sat): 44

Skubal injury: Day one of Week 6.

Coincidence? 🤷🏼‍♂️

I report. You decide.

* - Weeks runs Monday to Sunday except Week 1 (March 26 through April 5, 11 days total),

Coincidence.  They went through the shame **** at the end of last year without an injury to Skubal.  

1 hour ago, roarintiger1 said:

........and he's losing his stripes.    

Who said he's betting ON the Tigers?  

Ted Turner was the God father of cable TV.  I loved watching the Braves on TBS.  

How about Jack Morris? He can pitch to the score.  

18 hours ago, chasfh said:

Talk about top flight dumpster diving: 

There are simply no good options a quarter of the way into the season.

I was surprised to see that he has been playing in the majors for 12 years.  I didn't think it had been that long.  He actually has a decent track record, but has not done anything for a couple of years.

47 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Two players I love to watch play: Kwan and Witt. I also despise how good they are against the Tigers. 

Kwan has a lifetime OPS of .701 vs the Tigers, .734 overall 

Witt .778 vs Tigers, .843 overall.

44 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yes, right now, in his third year, at age 24, he is pretty far from that class of player. There is also a chance he will never be in that class of player. I hope he will become that. But even if he doesn't, we are almost certain to get him at a bargain. or, at least, if he ends up not being a bargain, then something has gone horribly wrong, because even as a 1 WAR player each season from now through 2029, he is a bargain, and the team totally controls whether he sticks around after that. He would have to collapse to below replacement level or have a career-ending injury for this to be a net loss for the team.

I have wondered whether he ever experiences seller's remorse for signing that contract for such a low amount of money for so long. Seeing what he will be giving up in arb pay starting next year, I don't see how he could never have.

I agree that's a great contract for the Tigers.  McGonigle's contract probably will be too.  

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Come back to the power stats his peripherals suggest he should be at.

We have him on a long-term contract, but it's a super cheap contract so he is not the guy we are building around, either. If everything shakes out as hoped, he's going to be the fifth or sixth guy in importance by the time he's on the last few years of his deal.

(I acknowledge it is unlikely everything will shake out as it is hoped.)

I don't think he has ever been regarded as the main player.  When I say "build around", I am thinking about a core of several players (like Whitaker, Trammell, Parrish, Lemon, Gibson, Morris).   So far, he is petty far from that class of player. It's still possible he could reach that level, but progress has been slow and he doesn't really have a position.  He seems more like Johnny Grubb than a building block.  And that's not a knock against Grubb.  Grubb had a pretty good career as a role player.  I am talking about his entire career, not just his years with the Tigers.

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

But they are not in a contract negotiation right now, so what's the hoped-for gain here? Whether Skubal comes back in late June, late July, late August, or whenever this season, he still will have to perform at a Cy Young-level to get that max contract. And if he comes out and pitches meh, will teams go back to Heyman's tweet and say, well, this here says the surgery was more than successful, so let's go ahead and give him the extra three years and $150MM? I don't see that happening. And if he were not to make it back at all this season, then Heyman's tweet will be exposed as a lie. So I'm struggling to see where the money in this tweet is for Skubal and Boras?

 I don't think it's a strategic move, but rather a psychological thing where he wants to keep news about Skubal as positive as possible at all times.  I don't know who he's trying to fool, but isn't that how marketing works? 

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I do believe that Gen Z kids are more polite to their elders than certainly my Generation Jones cohort, and certainly more than Xers, and probably more than Millennials. I believe that's because that kind of behavior was reinforced through publicly-supported policies in schools such as anti-bullying initiatives, diversity and inclusion policies, focus on mental health wellness, and probably some others I'm not thinking of. They were taught to be more empathetic than we were when we were growing up, and I think it shows in their encounters with us grownups.

I'm more concerned about the tail-end of Gen Alpha (b. 2020+) and the following Gen Betas (or whatever the next generation will be called), who may end up being educated within a Trumpian dog-eat-dog tough-guy regime that respects only people of means and power, and disregards everyone else as expendable.

I agree with this.  Norms of behavior change over time and are often driven by public figures such as entertainers and politicians.  The president, as a representative of the United States, certainly has a role in shaping that behavior.  I hear a lot of Trump suuporters say that his personailty and bahevior don't matter as long as he "gets things done".  I have told Republican friends about the importance of the president as a role model and they say it doesn't matter and that children's morals and ethics come from the church.  That's right, the same church that supports everything Trump does! 

Don't worry, I also make it clear to them that his policies suck as much as his personality.   

2 hours ago, Shelton said:

I’m sure the data is there. Or there may be some other reason for walls being up and aka being level relative to last year. Could just be that the pitchers are worse. 

No doubt.  Just looking at performance to date isn't enough.  And you you can't really base it on what has happened long-term in AAA for a couple of reasons.  There is a very different level of talent between MLB and AAA.  Also, there is so much turnover in AAA that pitchers might not get a chance to adjust.   

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Everything about his individual and expected metrics screams inevitable comeback, but man, it sure is hard to watch while we’re waiting.

Come back to what?  He hits the same way every year.  He's a decent hitter, but not somebody you want to build around, especially since he can't field.   

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

That's why I blamed the voters but apparently they are all innocent in the decisions they make. 

So, everybody needs to vote for your candidate?  That doesn't sound like democracy,.  

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

When your choice is Hitler or democracy, this is 100% correct. Like, how is this even debatable? 

Not everyone sees it that way. There are people that believe we are screwed either way.  Nobody is entitled to their vote.  

56 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

You're the one saying you know the outcome to something that didn't happen and you're calling someone else a moron.  Bold move, Cotton. 

Every loss is always Hinch's fault.  

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

My kids are millennials, neither has ever done social media. One is a gamer and has a long-standing online connection to a stable community (not unlike this one I suppose).

I would question our stability.  😀

10 hours ago, chasfh said:

Oh god, please let this be true.

1 big thing: Gen Z leads social media exodus

Some Gen Zers — ages 14 to 29 — are ditching social media in pursuit of better mental health, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports.   It's part of a wider digital detox movement away from screens and toward analog options.   Research suggests that social media use is waning — and that more people are embracing app-blocking products and "dumbphones" that lack social media apps.   📵 Chris Wells, a self-described former "Twitter and Instagram junkie," tells Axios that he's "99% off" social media after doing a "Month Offline" challenge.   The 26-year-old says: "I didn't know who I was without my social media accounts, and when I quit, it was pretty miraculous."   "The one thing that really came back to me was a sense of privacy. I hadn't really felt that since I was a kid."   🗑️ 17-year-old Aditi Ediga deleted her phone's social media apps last fall.   Ediga says: "One reason why teenagers don't want to delete apps and stop using them is that they're scared they're going to miss out on stuff, and then I realized I wasn't really missing out on anything."   🤝 NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of a bestselling book on the effects of childhood tech use, tells Axios: "What you're seeing now, especially among Gen Z, is a self-correction back toward real-world connection."   "They've felt the costs of isolation and are rediscovering what actually leads to flourishing."   🤳 Yes, but: Plenty of young Americans are still spending countless hours on social media, with platforms facing calls to ban or restrict teen access.   Go deeper.

I like my Gen Z students.  They are smarter and more respectful than our generation was at their age.  Yes, I have a biased sample.  

6 hours ago, pfife said:

Never forget someone didnt support the same candidate as you 10 years ago!!!  Dont tread on you!!!!

You need to fall in line and vote for who the Democrat leaders tell you to vote for.  You have no choice.  

9 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Game 40 tomorrow. I don't think Sparky would be impressed. 

Didn't he say that in 1987 when they got off to a slow start?  I am not sure, but they were were 19-21 after 40 games that year.  However, they had begun to heat up by game 40 whereas this team appears to be going nowhere until they do a whole lot of healling. 

I am glad the Tigers focued on fudamentals in Spring training.  It is really paying off.  

7 minutes ago, Shelton said:

I would think that all else being equal, a increase in walks would increase scoring, of course. Are strikeouts down?

I’m surprised that batters would necessarily be the ones to use the challenge system to their advantage relative to pitchers. And I’m also surprised that umpires would call the zone differently to the batter’s benefit now that challenges are a threat. 
 

I guess we will see.
 

 

Strikeouts are about the same as last year so far.  They are down from 2018-2024.  

51 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

 

ah Crap, now Edman needs to update his CBT list again.