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Gallen against Keith, Tork, and Baez isn't fair lol.

Scoreless no more...20 innings of futility.

Tyler Alexander has thrown 7 perfect innings vs Toronto.

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

There's a shortstop out there somewhere who could hit .200 with a .250 OBP and could hit at least 2 HRs in 43 games.  Somewhere,  someone's backup,  a guy in the minors who's blocked.........and it probably wouldn't cost you that much, maybe a backup outfielder or minor league outfielder (we have a glut of those).     This Javy thing must end.     Just eat the money Chris.   You can't tell me that there is no possible shortstop anywhere that can't be an improvement.   Javy is like the the ketchup clinging to the side of an almost-empty bottle.  Can't use it.  Time for a new bottle.  Even a dollar store brand.    

Shorty!

They need to figure out if Tork is worth investing more time in as a cornerstone player. If not, his position is easy to replace on the market.

Keith is a developmental play and the contract gives him a lot of time.

The Baez decision has to come within this calendar year. The money is gone and they have to decide when to cut bait and find another solution at short.

Third base is a black hole. Vierling's performance diminishes if he gets too many plate appearances. Urshels is barely playable and not a long term solution; Ibanez is a decent upgrade over Harold Castro types but if you play him too much, bad stuff starts happening.

Going forward, you can't just wait for development or time to fix your issues with this. If you can't sign a free agent, take some risks and make baseball trades to raise the floor. You're wasting a very good run prevention year becuase they are waiting for something to happen.

They also only have 4 guys with a slugging percentage comfortably over .400...Vierling is at .403 but he's probably going to sink even further as he plays too much.

The rest of the guys are either going to hit singles or have unproductive outs. So if Greene and Canha have an off 15 days, the offense has no chance.

SSS theater...but Greene and Canha can't have a bad 15 days. Baez, Keith, Tork, and catchers have been so feeble that you need your best hitters to be great all year..but it's unrealistic. The real solution is to have more depth.

12 minutes ago, casimir said:

I don't know that this is true.  I was looking over OPS+ on bbref this morning and 87 last year compares quite similar to 88 so far this season.  Bottom 5 in both cases.  Granted, its only one cheap simple metric, but it is disappointing to see it.

Ok perhaps there a lot more bad offenses this year? They are 21st in runs for whatever that's worth.

Urshela's been hurt...but another hitting doing anything.

11 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

The starting rotation is second best in baseball. The rest of the team is mediocre.

The bullpen is decent(not great). The offense is abymsal again..although it's improved incrementally over last year.

Just now, AZTigersfan said:

When will they be fired?

Not anytime in the near future.

16 straight scoreless innings.

In the moment, it feels terrible that we are throwing away the run prevention in the name of sustainability, long term, flexibility, low risk contracts. 

It's mind numbingly boring and a bad product. Hopefully a few hitters can do something.

day off for the best player on the team:

"Bad results, good process."

The bar is so low for this offense...yet they continue to not meet it.

MLB signed a deal for the early Sunday games on Roku:

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Wenceel's contribution to the 8th inning shouldn't get understated. Maybe he becomes something and Meadows never does?...that's the way it goes.

Foley's velo and location was back in form.

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Bad contracts don't mean much if the money won't be spent when they come off the books. For several years people were speculating who the Tigers would sign when Miggys contract came off the books. They must have lowered ticket prices, right?

This past offseason was a bad free agent class. Guessing the Baez deal made them de-risk everything. Sign guys on the fringes and wait out/develop the hitting over the long term.

Pitching and 'defense' to prevent runs..hope and a prayer for offense until things are settled with various young players.

This season is the four corners offense...waiting out young players, waiting out bad contracts...just waiting for something to happen.

1 minute ago, SoCalTiger said:

Manning is cementing his spot as a teams fifth or sixth starter. Not bad but nothing special. Not a future piece in my amateur evaluation. 

Would like to see a healthy 150+ inning season...he's is going to get a lot of chances on the big club.