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Just now, gehringer_2 said:

yeah - it's basically Greene and Carpenter who making too many outs. Torkelson a more mixed bag - His OBP is OK because he is walking and he has been a bit BABip'd. He's already got a handful of warning track shots over 100 EV.

I am not sure those guys will stop making too many outs, but I am confident that all three with start hitting for more power.  

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Beyond that, it doesn’t matter whether Trump types out the words himself, whether he dictates it to somebody, or whether somebody posts it on his behalf without his even knowing it. As long as it comes out under his name, they are his words and his ideas. He is responsible for the post. He owns it, lock stock.

 

Correct.  

12 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yup. We just dont know if Trump dictates what to write or approves of whatever has been written but I just dont think he would allow somebody to write something and post it without his approval. But I dont see him typing those words out, just too concise.

I just can't imagine he has the time or desire to even bother with it other than reading it and smirking about it.  I think that he selected a person who is loyal to him and can write controversial stuff that sounds like it could be him.  Regardless of whether or not it's actually him though, he has to own whatever is said in those posts.  

1 minute ago, NorthWoods said:

I don't know the answer.   I'm an oddball and can't stand anything like that on me.   Never worn a necklace, ring (with the exception of a wedding band for a few hours), watch, bracelet, nothing.....I just can't stand anything on me.

I wear a watch because I am very time conscious and I find it useful. I get why you wouldn't want to wear one. I would never wear any jewely.  I think it would be really annoying to wear anything like that and it is has no useful purpose for me personally. 

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Given that lying is the political tool de jure now-a-days, I try not jump to conclusions about any of this stuff. I believe two things are both true: 1) men have gotten away with this stuff in the main for a long time, 2) there is no XX chromosome linked truth gene either.

When has lying not been the political tool of the day?  

I strongly agree that men get away with lying much more easily.  When they do it, it is considered crafty and slick.  When a woman does it, she is a bad person.  

36 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'm not sure I follow the difference, when you say a guy can't stay at short, aren't you bascially saying he's a less than average quality SS - either his range or his arm is going to cost you enough there that you are willing to play a worse bat in his place and move him somewhere else?

Just looked back at the MLB scouting lists back to 2024, McGonigle was consistently 50/50 arm/glove. Just for comparison, Sweeney was 55/50 as a prospect for the Dodgers.

OTOH, I think for left side IFs, sometime throwing velo gets over emphasized and total time to 1b may be harder to quanitfy. For instance on the great play last night, a guy with a cannon might have set his feet and made a harder throw, McG looped the throw a bit but got if off very fast. All that matters is total time to the 1B's glove.

I didn't personally say he couldn't stay at short.  I was repeating what I have seen from scouting reports regarding "questions about his defense".  I think it is his range that is in question more than his arm though.  In my very amateur view, He is not Mark Belanger, but I have not seen any glaring weaknesses in his game which should force him to move off the position right now. 

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Were there questions about his defense?

 

I have never heard anyone say he was a bad fielder, just that his skills might be more suited to 2b oe 3b long-term rather than shortstop.  

56 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

And the Tigers are like junk food.   Empty calories.    Yeah, they may rank well in offensive categories, but they are meaningless because they can't score runs.    I mean, 2 runs off of Chris ****ing Paddock?     That's disgraceful.   Don't care how many hits they had last night - they didn't string many together and they won the game on a "how the hell did he pull that pitch?" home run.  

 

 

They aren't scoring runs because they are not hitting home runs and all teams are very dependent on home runs today.  I am encouraged that they are getting on base consistently.  The home runs will come.  There are a lot of positives in the offense - Dingler and McGonigle are fantastic.  Keith is showing a lot.  Baez will always be an enigma, but he looks more like the 2025 version than the 2024 version so far.  They don't look like the August-September, 2025 Tigers to me.  I think they'll be OK.      

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

No way Trump wrote that.

I think most of the stuff coming out of his account was written by somebody else.  

I guess I was wrong about Wenceel Perez.  He did help the Tigers pitch better.  

7 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

She got the second most votes ever for a Dem. 

That's a pretty silly stat considering that she lost.   The recent high vote totals don't indicate popularity.  A lot of people have voted in the last two elections because of mail-in voting.  

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't know if unserious is the best description for Newsome - he's taken on major problems in CA has been willing to take his share or flack over them. But I agree it is easy to get a sense of something vaguely off about him. Not sure what I would call it. It's not necessarily 'Slick' like Clinton but something.

I just think the imitation up Trump thing is kind of lame.  That isn't going to work.  Clinton actually was slick whereas I think Newsome tries too hard.   

12 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Javy seemed to hit a lot better when he was playing centerfield. Now perhaps I’m just making all this up, but I think centerfield is probably a less stressful position and he seemed to be better with the bat with less stress to deal with.

He's hitting pretty well right now.  I just looked him up and was surprised by his numbers.   

The betting markets are heavily favoring Newsome.  I hope not.  He seems very unserious.  They need somebody who will run on something other than anti-Trump.  That's the mistake Harris made.    

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Clark probably doesn't get called until they are ready to play him full time and I'd guess Wenceel is not going to play CF full-time.

I think Hinch will do lot of rotating - Perez, Vierling, Baez.  Baez's numbers are surprisingly good this year.  He might be primed for another good half season like last year.   Or not. You never know what you'll get from him.  

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

so how good is Max Clarks glove supposed to be?

Very good and he might be able to hit as well as Meadows even he has rookie struggles.  I have no idea if they think he's ready.  I know he's off to a hot start, but he seemed to be struggling this Spring.  

34 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Lol...don't be mad.

I'll still be your friend!

Meadows gets a lot of criticism, but they'll miss his defense.  The Meadows brothers sure do have a lot of bad luck.  

38 minutes ago, oblong said:

it's obviously Fernando Vina

My friend went to Rodriguez's pizza place in PR a few weeks ago and was mad that there was nothing about the Tiger.  The Rangers and Marlins were represented.

 

That does not surprise.  He performed well for the first three years, but I never got the impression that he really liked playing for the Tigers.  He seemed to be disrespectful of Trammell which definitely turned me off.  I don't like to say this about players, but he appeared to quit on the team at times.

Valdez was 8th in the MLB in FanGraphs WAR and 10th in xFIP from 23-25.  He was a very significant signing by the Tigers

3 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Rodriguez was the best FA signing ever by the Tigers.

Not as good as Phillips.  

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

I didn't mean in the first couple of weeks in 2026. Use 2025 stats until the sample size is a bit bigger this year. We have some quality arms, both SP and in the BP. Our top 3 SP should be really good this summer, Valdez, Skubal and Mize. Jack and whomever is our #5 SP may be a weakness but just score 10 runs in those games...😅😅

Yes, I don't like small sample sizes.  The pitching should get better.    I just see everyone blaming the offense and I think the slow start from the pitching staff and sloppy defense is the bigger problem.  I think the hitting will a little better in terms of power but they aren't going to win the division with offense.  It is going to have to be pitching.  

21 minutes ago, Screwball said:

I was partially kidding. I don't have much faith in any of the useless ****s who run anything. I don't believe 10 percent of what I read from the MSM. Less than that from any political dip**** that holds office. They are all a bunch of lying sacks of **** who only care about themselves, or are getting blackmailed into destroying the entire world for a bunch of sick ****s who want to continue to rape and pillage it. Great theater for those with their head up their ass playing the blame game, while the media covers up for them.

The Big Club is kind of like the banksters, but worse. I think the banksters have a little more credibility than the scum in the Big Club. Not much, but a little. Not a good bunch to count on, but they might be all we have. They have the goods on the Big Club - they banked them, and laundered their money. They know and have the records. 

A global depression benefits nobody. The banksters, even if behind the scenes, may be able to stop or slow down the madness. The criminal CEO of JPM just recently had some things to say.

CEO of nation's largest bank says Iran war raises risk of 'bad economic outcomes'

 

I always assumed the bankers were part of the Big Club!  I don't really know though.  

13 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

When Perez came back from injury last year (or 2024?), he seemed to give our offense a boost. Maybe just a coincidence but, whatever, it's a necessary change with the injury to Meadows. Watch us score 10 runs tonight...lol

As for our pitching staff? Its still near top of the league. Boston's staff was supposed to be better and they're also struggling out of the gate. I still like our staff, the SP and the BP. We'll get it together, sooner rather than later...

What statistic are you using to say that the Tigers pitching staff is near the top of the league?  They are right around 20th on the major pitching metrics.  Yes, they should be better, but they are not so far.  They NEED to be near the top of the league and they are instead closer to the bottom.  

Perez has never boosted an offense by himself.  He's a fourth outfielder.  

23 minutes ago, chasfh said:

OK, then what are we talking about? The initial implication was that the left has started resorting to a campaign of disinformation, something everyone agrees the right routinely does. 

Political parties are always on campaigns of disinformatilon.  That is what they do!  The right is taking it to a whole other scary level.  The problem is when the left does it now (like all the Catholic persecution stuff) the right is going to point to them and use it to justify all the lies of the right.