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10 hours ago, oblong said:

I just put the app on my smart TV and logged in. I have a Samsung. 

Bally runs just fine on my Samsung Smart TV I purchased in November.

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’d like it better if it were runs support. 

Looks like Olson will be the pitcher that never gets adequate run support this year.

31 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

It's a shame that when Ibanez comes off rehab they are probably going to send him back to Toledo. Parker is too big an asset in CF and has been hitting the ball better than his results this series, and I'm going to guess the commitment to Keith is strong enough he'll get more run. Or they could surprise me and decide to ride a hot hand....

Perez has created a very hard choice for the Tigers . I'd  find a way to keep him on the team. It's not like we don't have a number of under performers that couldn't use some additional time in the minors.

BTW, Rob Deer played for 11 seasons. His cumulative WAR after his third year was roughly 4. TOrk has a cumulative minus .7 as of the start of tonight's  game. Tork aspires to be a third of the player Deer was at this point in his career.

Nice base running by Keith.

We are watching a Royals team that knows how to put the ball in play. 3 to zero. Almost too big of a hill for the Tigers

Buzz Deer does it again. Another K.

I see that "Buzz" Deer, AKA TORK! is the DH.

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

Really? You need to read more. 😉

Harris has been very careful about what he says publicly about t he current sate of the Tigers roster and the potentially available position players in the system he has going forward.

 The more I watch this season and view video from minor league games, the more I am convinced the fan base has way over estimated how strong the current batch of position players the Tigers have under control, and especially on the active roster

46 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’m pretty sure Harris understands that a team can’t build a consistent winner off 13 utility players, so I really doubt that is his long-term smartest-guy-in-the-room plan to win rings.

I think we are still in the restructuring phase, and will be for another year or two, in which we are building toward a situation where we will have a team of stars, strong positional players, and versatile bench guys, along with ace, solid rotation, and solid bullpen. The rot was pretty deep when he came aboard, not just in players but in infrastructure, and there has to be equal amounts of investment on both sides to fashion a consistent winner. 

Based on players he inherited, out of which he has to determine who we can save and who we can dump, we seem to be closer on the pitching side than the positional side. If the hitting part is going to get fixed, it’s going to take another year or two, not another series or two. We simply don’t have all the horses we need to win with, and they will need to be acquired via draft, trade, or free agency. I think it’s becoming clearer, though, that this group of thirteen will not be the group we are going to ride or die with. 

This is the best summary of the current situation of the Tigers I have seen or heard anywhere.

I love watching batting practice.

Well, that didn't take long.

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

If hitters don't have information about pitchers and pitches, then how would they have any idea of what to do at the plate?

I will try this again. Don't  overload hitters with too much to think about. Keep it simple. Keep it short. Condense information to a very brief indication what is likely. To me, it has looked like sometimes our hitters have been given too much to think about. " In this count, look for Y from pitcher X" as say opposed to " In this count, pitcher X throws a sweeper 46.75 percent of the time", and then go further to break down all possibilities totaling 100 percent in an extreme case. In short, it seems to me the hitters are being coached to the point that the coaching is negatively impacting the ability to respond what the pitcher is throwing throughout the entire at bat.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

What head-stuffing information are you talking about here? Are you envisioning them trying to do math in their head while they are at the plate? Or are you talking about information such as "in this count from this guy, look for this particular pitch" being too much for them?

the latter.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

I'm in on three of your four. Re: point #2, I would be really, really surprised to learn that the coaches are firehosing the hitters with the math so they could understand the science behind the numbers. That would strike me as being deeply dumb. I would bet the coaches are instead sharing the tendencies the numbers show: in this count from this guy, look for this particular pitch. I think it's more likely we simply have hitters not remembering that, or following through with it, in the heat of the moment.

I talking figuratively about calculus. If a hitter is at the plate not ready to relax and hit and tries to keep all of the information being stuffed in their had at the ready, that seems to me to likely have and undue negative impact on results. I think we are generally in agreement.

I also think it is increasingly clear why Harris struggled to keep from bursting out laughing at his introduction to the Deroit press, with the core reason being that behind closed doors, MLB GMS do not think highly of Deroit's so called positional prospects.

I am kind of in the all of the above category considering the persistent offensive problems we are having.

1. We are lacking in talent and we have way over estimated the talent that we have.

2. I get the feeling that there are too many folks in the ears of our hitters. A batter cannot think about hitting as if it is a calculus problem after all. That is a coaching problem.

3. It is logical to assume that MLB has decided to exploit the control the strike zone model of the Tigers with throwing sure fire strikes on the first pitch as we are giving away the first strike. There needs to be some first pitch swinging to provide enough contraion behavior to keep everyone honest.

4. The lineup is too short. It needs one more experienced bat.

19 hours ago, casimir said:

Eat ‘em up, Tigers.  Eat ‘em up.

You know, this team is starting to remind me of the 1968 Tigers with all of their come from behind wins.

Between "Buzz" Oyler (AKA TORK!) and the marvelous batting instructor, Javy Baez, I'm bored. I think I will go watch something exciting, like watching white paint dry on a wall.

5-1. In the third on a ground ball barrage , most of them up the middle.

Keller played Tork like a fiddle. Can't  anyone on this team stay disciplined  enough to at least advance the runner.

With a solid team approach at the plate, 2 runs doesn't  make an insurmountable lead.

Just now, Tigermojo said:

That was the babip inning from hell.

Absolutely!!

Such much for a lead

Will Olson's first walk hurt him?

A run in the first inning. Keith gets a hit.