Tiger337

8 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Overrated chant for Trout?  lol really???

Tiger2022 is at the game.  

8 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Is he back up to -1 WAR now?

-0.9  He is now tied for last with Rob Refsnyder. 

8 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I feel more confident with him on the mound over Flaherty.

Is that supposed to be a vote of confidence? 

The news on Baez is not good.  His ankle is not healing and he is going to see a specialist according to McCosky.  

13 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Young left handed batter vs Rhp, .281 avg .858 ops, vs lhp .228 avg, .759 ops.  And the year before, .219 avg,  .719 ops.  Definitely a platoon player for Hinch, probably sharing time with Jahmai Jones.  To everyone else, he's right there with Ted Williams and Babe Ruth as the greatest hitter ever.  Barry Bonds.

Yes, I do think Hinch would have been smarter than Jim Leyland and put him in a platoon situation and pinch hit  for when left handed relievers came in the game.

You have to give young guys a chance instead of pigeon holing them as a platoon player when they are 23 or 24. 

That is ridiculous.  There is no way Hinch would have platooned Bonds.  Bonds was always regarded as a five tool with superstar potential.  

Right now, Keith needs to figure how to hit right handers.  He has hit for a .528 OPS over the past month.  

In case you didn't know, Perez has been the worst player in baseball this year.  

1 minute ago, NorthWoods said:

And today McK at SS....

 

Just as we expected... Hinch reads MotownForums.  

42 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Tell me more about this malgieri. Is there anything about his performance that suggests his AAA success will transition better than workman? I’m not opposed to it, but is this guy someone people expect to stick?

 

I’m with you in dumping Wenceel. I wouldn’t care if they dumped all of Wenceel, short, and McKinstry. Dump any two of them actually, and you can keep one as a treat. 

I was going to ask the same question.  I have never read anything about Malgeri being more than a marginal prospect.  I don't remember seeing him on any prospect lists.  They did invite him to Spring training for what it's worth.  

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

i like defense as much as the next guy, but the league average plays for a SS in 9 innings is 4.5 and probably 90% of those are routine. That’s works out to about a play every two games where a better defender is likely to matter. OTOH, in those two games that player had 7-9 PA, every one of which mattered. That’s an extreme view, but the numbers are what they are. 

But an average hitter will probably only get one more hit in three games than Zach Short would. 

And if the Tigers had an average hitter to add to the roster, he'd probably be batting cleanup already.  

Imagine what this season would be like if McGonigle were not ready yet

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Just hypothetically, if a relief has a 10 ERA in his first six innings and games, then has a 0 ERA in his next six innings and games, he has a 5 ERA in 12 innings/games and his numbers are terrible. But that's potentially meaningfully different than if he had 0 ERA first and 10 ERA after.

I don't understand your point or what it has to do with Jansen.  Jansen has spread out his bad games evenly over the course of the season so far.  He didn't start out terrible and then start doing better.  He blew one game early, then had some good ganes, then blew two more, then had some good ones and then blew another one.  

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

But he's delivering lately, yesterday excepted. So we'll see which guy shows up more going forward.

Except yesterday and the other three games he blew.  On the whole this year, he really hasn't been good.  Vest or Finnegan could do the same thing, maybe better.  Some of the others probably could too.  I hope he stops giving up walks and home runs going forward

56 minutes ago, chasfh said:

He was nearly flawless for his last six appearances before yesterday. He looks like he still has something left in the tank. Worst case, we have him for only a year at not much money, with a team option for '27.

I don't think he's doing anything that most of the relievers on the staff can't do.  He's just living off his reputation.  

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

You might be right about Jansen eventually, although I don't think we can write him off yet. 

No, I can't write him off yet, but I thought it was a lazy Avila-esque signing when it happened.  They have been burned by old man relievers so many times this century.  

24 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Nothing wrong with your eyes! 😉

 

It didn't take hindsight to figure out that Morton, Paddack and Jansen a number of other players would probably be a waste of money.  None of them were fatal because they've been short-term, but many were predictable.   

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I will root for the team to win whether we keep our front office and manager or we broom them instead, but anyone who thinks the Tigers will become perennial winners by dumping Harris/Hinch AND ****canning analytics to go back to the kind of eyeball-based scouting systems in force when we were eleven years old is hepped up on goofballs.

They can still be a good organization without Harris and Hinch, but canning analytics would be suicide in this era.  I don't see that Gehringer is suggesting that though. 

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I wish I were as old as he again!

Me too, but the slow recovery time starts early.

11 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Gaahh

Old people and injuries

2 minutes ago, Shelton said:

I think the positive part is that the team we root for was the clear probabilistic favorite a month ago so things can obviously change quickly. 
 

But I also wouldn’t ignore the possibility of a playoff appearance coming via the wildcard. It’s a substantial part of that 1 in 5 chance. The rest of the AL has been pretty poor relatively speaking. 
 

 

And I am pretty sure they were lower than 20% in 2024 with a similar but worse roster.    

56 minutes ago, chasfh said:

At least until he gives up 5 runs in one and a third next time he pitches. 😉 

He only had one game like that last year.  Other than that, he was very consistent. You may be remembering that game because it was in playoffs in relief.   

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

the platoon thing has gone off the deep end - it's like they aren't even thinking about what they are doing. You want to go by the numbers, fine: Lets say Colt's OPS split is 250 - (and I'd wager it would be less than that if he playing everyday), and he is 800 against RHP - he's still a better option against a LHP than Short by 200 OPS points! Any strategy is only as good as the players you have to implement it. The guy on the team that may have the best contact skill right now on a team literally dying for it, and he can't stay in the lineup.

Perhaps they believe the difference in defense is so big that they don't care about the offensive difference.  

6 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

The Dodgers probably, and rightfully so, think they can win # 3 without Tarik Skubal but if they do trade Skubs I hope you are right and the return is excellent. 

I hope those who think the Tigers will get a prospect haul are right, but I am skeptical.  I think teams value their top prospects more than they used to.  

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

That Trump was a serial abuser of children is already baked into the Epstein files equation, such that if that was all there was on Trump in those files, it could be dismissed with some form of "so what who didn't". So there has to be more than just that in the files implicating Trump, something worse than "merely" sexually abusing children on a serial basis, as though something worse than that is even possible. So I am now coming around to the idea that Trump was an executive principal in the operation. He ran the thing with Epstein from the top. Not the paperwork, of course—that would have been Epstein's job. Maybe more like procurement, dispatch, and disposal. 

There is also a possibility that he was not actually involved, but needs to protect those who were because they have other dirt on him.  

10 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

Is it legal to have 2 Josues on your team?

Not sure.  

I hate watching Jansen pitch.