kdog

Yeah Harris doesn't care about this season....that's abundantly clear.

Uhhh

Hinch might be at fault on Wednesday. But tonight is about the roster he was given by Harris. There is a difference.

And the reason why Cubs fans loved Javy? He was the 6th best hitter in OPS+ in 2016. His highs were remembered and the lows were laughed off because they had Bryant, Rizzo, Fowler, and Zobrist.

I'll repeat my Baez take...he can't be the focal point of your team. He was perfect on the Cubs where he could operate behind a lot of other guys. The Tigers miscalculated that they were close to 'contention' and signed him as an alpha star. But he can still be a decent player with all of the flightiness and free swinging. This is why you sign the top free agent, not the 4th best. For some reason, Ilitch and Avila wanted to sign a guy before the lockout. This is the result.

Is our best course to getting rid of him to bully him into quitting baseball? That sounds realistic.

Maton and Vierling should be complementary/platoon players on a good team...like they were with the Phillies. The tigers need good players of course.

No he has to hit to extricate himself from Detroit. His biggest problem is not his non-chalant attitude. It's that he doesn't slug.

Wentz, Lorenzen(?), and Boyd over the weekend.

The K rate is alarming.

Has Riley Greene driven a ball to the pull side at all? Seems like he just hits the ball into the ground to the right side.

There are a lot of morons who have won world series as managers. They just had great teams. Talent and depth on the roster is 90% of the reason teams win and lose.

The Cabrera thing is about business. It's about getting some return on the terrible contract with ticket sales, etc. I don't see that he is getting benched unless he wants to go home. And he gets the money either way.

Bad tigers teams could hide when the Wings and Pistons were deep into the playoffs. Now both franchises are still mired in rebuilds; The Tigers ineptitude can't be ignored.

The tv broadcast crew is about saving money...that can't be denied. With the paradigm shifting for Bally's and the bankruptcy, I don't think that will change soon.

I'm talking about now and probably next year with what we have. The 100 people on this message board care about the team. But nobody else does. And if they turn around, it doesn't matter right? But they utter lack of aggression to even make the team better is infuriating. That is after they subjected us to the Avila rebuild.

The willingness to light a season on fire to either save money or 'evaluate your roster' is what we have. The damage that does to fan interest and belief in your product is bad news for ths franchise. So yes, signing a few presentable mlb players probably doesn't mean much in the long term. But if you are 5-8 and have a passable bullpen, people are more willing to buy the company line that a turnaround is near. It's cosmetic...but if that's alternative to anger and apathy towards this organization, I'll take it. Ilitch let this organization wither into where it is now. And he was perfectly willing to along with his new gm and allow this season to be another throwaway. And we really don't know how much losing does to damage player development.

Petulant is the word I would use to describe his attitude.

I won't argue about Lange. Hinch thinks he's playing for June 1st. The team needed a win.