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  1. 30 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    I was watching St Louis and KC last night and St Louis is really good on defense and pitching. Win today and take the Skubal game in St Louis to come back on a 3-3 trip. Take the Tigers to score a lot of runs today, coming off a loss....

    Win today and take the series in St. Louis. They have a fringe top 10 pitching staff, they are far from a juggernaut.

  2. On 5/15/2025 at 3:09 PM, ben9753 said:

    Its mainly the difference between the 2 sports. In baseball you can have the best player in the world, and be terrible (Angels).

    In football, if you have the best qb in the game, you are going to have a chance to win the SB every year. Thats not going to change with a salary cap

    The biggest difference is equal revenue sharing. There is nothing you can do to overcome the fact that teams generate $300 mill+ more in revenue than others. 

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  3. 19 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    And Dickerson is speculating that the Mize spot in the rotation this time thru may be a chaos game. Montero would be on short rest. Who else do we have stretched out? Manning? Last I saw, his AAA ERA was quite high.

    Montero would not be on short rest, he is on the same schedule as Mize.

  4. Looking at some statcast data the Tigers have a team wOBA of .333 with an xwOBA of .340. Those rank 7th and 8th in MLB respectively.

    The next closest team in the Central in wOBA is Cleveland at .312 and in xwOBA is the Twins at .319.

    The Tigers are 5th in first swing% but 15th in swing%.

    The pitching has wOBA of .283 and an xwOBA of .301 which rank 2nd and 1st in MLB.

    The Royals are close behind ranking 3rd in both wOBA and xwOBA with .285 and .305.

    Tigers staff is second in baseball with a whiff rate of 27.8%.

    Overall, the statcast data is very good and reinforces that this isn't some flukey run. This team is legit. And we still haven't added back Vierling/Meadows.

  5. 51 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    I think theres a small chance of Skubal pitching the 2nd game for 2 reasons....Mize will go deep in game one. And...it'll be a Tiger blowout win and we'll only use mopup relievers. With the Tigers not officially naming Montero the game 2 SP, you just never know.

    There is literally a 0% chance Skubal pitches. They would have their position players throw 300 pitches before they have Skubal pitch.

    They cannot have Mize and Skubal on the same day pitching schedule, one of them would then have to pitch on short rest to reset that.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

    I don’t think so—he’s the better defender at SS than McGonigle.  I think Kevin ends up at 2B.

    It has nothing to do with McGonige. He may stick at SS, but he is not a slam dunk SS, and there is a good chance he may end up at 3rd long term as he fills out more.

  7. 10 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

    I have no issue if they leave McGonigle at SS for now, but seeing Rainer play, I think it is clear he is SS of the future (and maybe a better prospect than Max soon)

    Think there's a good chance Rainer ends up at 3B long term.

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