TigerNation

Just now, Tigermojo said:

I haven't read anything about the draft so I don't know if there are six guys considered top picks or not.

Way too early to say for the 2023 draft.

Just now, Tiger337 said:

I believe the first lottery will be six teams in 2023.  

The first six picks will be determined by the lottery, but every non playoff team will be in the lottery.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/guide-to-the-new-cba-draft-lottery-expanded-playoffs-and-more/

5 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Unfortunately, I don't think we are guaranteed a top pick anymore. Isn't there a lottery now with the worst teams? Avila's strategy has backfired, can't suck and get a #1 pick anymore.

It just means we only need to have the third worst record to have the best odds for the #1 pick!

15 hours ago, mtutiger said:

If this were true, there would have to be others for which this is the case as well one would think

I think the league wide numbers show it's true for a large majority of players.

Did they use these balls during ST, and did teams know ahead of time that MLB was going to use the deadened ball? 

12 hours ago, casimir said:

Adam Everett?  You couldn’t find a pitcher?

Shohei Ohtani has a higher career OPS than any single player in our lineup has this season.

1 hour ago, Dan Gilmore said:

As a 22 yr old, it seems he’s a little behind for advancement through the minors, but is that true? 

It's true for the guys you'd expect to be impact players.

But for a guy who could be an OK big leaguer for a few years in his prime it's normal.

59 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Good pitchers have a tendency to get hit early then settle in. Avoid the big inning good things might happen.

Good pitchers have a tendency to not get hit at any point in the game.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Missed that. Any report?

It was posted earlier in this thread he got hit by a pitch in one of their recent games, assume it's because of that.

25 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/33775433/miggy-3k-where-miguel-cabrera-ranks-mlb-3000-hit-500-home-run-club

Cool article by David Schoenfield breaking a bunch of numbers down between the 7 guys to do this. One thing that caught my attention was that Miggy's 3 year peak in terms of RC+ was 3rd behind only Pujols and Aaron(Miggy's was 180.3 them two were 182), as good as Miggy is I didn't realize that his 3 best years would be better than guys like ARod and Mays and basically with in shouting distance to Pujols and Aaron.  Also Miggy's 2013 season is better than any single season of any of those guys in terms of RC+. 

He was also injured in 2013.

Through August 26th (123 games) Cabrera was hitting .359/.450/.688 with 43 HRs and 130 RBIs. He reaggravated an abdominal injury that game.

From then until the end of the season (25 games) he hit .284/.396/.333 with 1 HR and 7 RBI.

And in the playoffs he only hit .262/.311/.405.

He went from challenging for the greatest RHH season in MLB history to a replacement level player.

4 hours ago, Useful Idiot said:

I'm getting Tigers games through Comcast in North East Indiana.   Regrettably the presentation is in "window box" (pillared AND letterboxed) format, but it's better than nothing.

One thing I've noticed is that none of the spring training games were actually shown, despite them being listed in the local guide channel.  Same goes for same day "replay" showings of games broadcast earlier in the day. They are listed in the guide...but instead we get tennis.

My question is, those of you receiving Bally Sports Detroit in the Detroit metro area, are you getting the same substitutions, or were you given the spring games and the rewind games as listed?

Bonus question, during Miguel Cabrera's at bats, the Bally camera work is sure to show clips of Cabrera's mother and two kids in the stands....and they also cut to a showing of two people up on a porch in the luxury boxes. Who are those people? I'd guess the woman is Rosangel....but the blonde guy I am at a total loss for. (?)

My bally sports app does something really cool where when I try to stream it on my TV through the fire stick it puts me on the national network and says Detroit isn't part of my TV package for some reason, so I can't watch Tigers games. When I use the same cable login on the same wifi on my laptop it lets me watch Detroit games though.

Robo umps can't come soon enough.

16 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Flores perfect, but just 3 IP; K'ed 7 of 9 dudes he faced

 

Is he the guy the Atlantic wrote a profile on during ST?

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

But the question is more valuable for who. Part of what makes trades work is that the player you receive is more valuable *to you* than the one you gave up. Unless the team you traded with is one potentially ahead of you in the standing, it doesn't much matter what the value of the player you traded is to his new team. Tigers need a bat like Meadows a lot more than they need a player with Paredes profile. Now if Meadows turns out to be damaged goods for some reason, then Al will have blown it, but it's way premature to make that kind of negative assumption just because it was Tampa that decided to move him.

Yes, so much of the fangraphs trade analysis is just which team maximized the salary/WAR ratio.

How'd that work out for the Cubs when they traded for Quintana instead of Verlander? 

12 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Iirc we either traded one or received one in the Sanchez deal with the Marlins way back when. I think that was the first year it started. 

Edit: thinking back Im pretty sure we traded it cause I remember in Keith Law's write up(hates the Tigers) of the trade he was complaining about us getting the pick in the first place cause of our then high payroll. 

Yeah we did a pick swap with the Marlins as part of the trade. It was the first trade of draft picks.

On 3/20/2022 at 11:18 PM, gehringer_2 said:

He had some pretty devastating stuff when he 1st got to pro ball - threw a no-hitter at AA IIRC, then there were velo issues then the TJ. There could still be some serious talent there, or the physical window may have closed for him. But he and Wentz and Brieske will be the arms to watch for the chance of a break-out this season.

That was Mize who threw the no-hitter in his first start in AA. Faedo basically came in overweight and his stuff and declined in his first season. He survived a in A+ but with concerns about his K rate and velocity, and he got rocked as soon as he got to AA. He was dropped way down on most top Tigers prospects lists after his first season. His Velo actually bounced back a bit in his second season and he performed solidly in AA.

1 hour ago, SoCalTiger said:

Stay Healthy Like Zimmerman ? Of course its expected but there is no way of knowing except past history.

Past history is not really a way of knowing either.

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

not following your argument here. You are positing he can't have a higher walk rate if he were less aggressive? Or something else?

Im saying it's unlikely he's striking out so much because he's too aggressive at the plate.

Players who have plus walk rates are almost never over aggressive chasing pitches out of the strike zone.

On 9/25/2021 at 5:17 PM, gehringer_2 said:

When we  saw Greene is ST he seemed to have great plate discipline. I still wonder if he is being to coached to stay on the overly aggressive side because they want him to learn what he can hit more than they care if he Ks more than he might at this point in his development.

His walk is 11%, so his strikeout rate being high isn't because he's being too aggressive.

He's either not aggressive enough and takes too many strikes, or he is swinging and missing a bit much, or some combo of the both.