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On 10/21/2024 at 9:47 PM, Tenacious D said:

Spoiler alert (you’ve been warned)

Tigers free agent signings will be:

1B/DH Paul Goldschmidt ($14M/1 yr)

OF Tyler O’Neill ($34M/2 yr)

SP Jack Flaherty ($88M/4 yrs)

RP Pierce Johnson ($14M/2yrs)

If you ask nicely, I’ll tell you what the trades will be.

And Skubal's extension?

On 10/13/2024 at 1:29 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Torkelson was 348 OBP/781 OPS after his return and played solid D, improving his Rdrs from -10 last season to +3 this season.  I don't think the Tigers are as down on him as many fans who only see his season stats that include his terrible early trouble.

Well, that terrible early trouble counts and can the team afford to wait on him to figure it out?  No.

11 hours ago, chasfh said:

It’s so hard to project because Colt’s only 23 and he’s in a teaching system, so I think there was wide variance of outcomes at play here. McAuliffe is a pretty good baseline, in that if he’s worse than that, I think I’d be disappointed. Colt’s reasonable upside might be Jeff Kent, which is borderline Hall of Famer.

The $64 question to me is whether Colt sticks at second base. I would think if we come across a plus defender with at least an average stick there, Colt moves somewhere else, but I think that would take a pretty good find for that to happen any time soon.

May already have that in the system.  Lee to second, Keith to first.

Tork needs to start the season at least average instead of poor if he wants to make through 2025.  Last two years slow starts killed him and with the higher expectations will kill the team.   I think he is on a short leash, at least with the parent club, yet, not even sure more AAA time helps him.

If you have the mlb tv(or mlb not sure which one at the moment) app you can utilize it on your tv, provided it's a smart tv of some type and watch via the app can do the same on your laptop, phone, tablet etc.

Fun part is the MLB.tv subscription gives you access to all the minor league team games as well.  Typical night here is Tigers on one monitor and one or two Tiger minor league games on the others.

Ok, interesting comments.

The community, specifically the subdivision, we live in is predominantly black and hispanic with most of them attending this school.  To say that they, the brown and black feel displaced by SRO in the school, is stereotyping that I can tell you firsthand is not accurate for this school. But carry on...no pun intended.

School four miles from where we live.

SRO did his job!

1 minute ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

se guys are throwing so much harder these days that it really is a different game or are younger players being protected too much which end up getting them hurt by not building up enough arm stamina.... I think that is part of the larger picture to understand. 

We are getting back into the impact of spin rates and all the changes that analytics have brought to pitching and what if any impact it has on durability.  

Another trade acquisition pitching for the WhiteCaps today, J Montalvo, looking decent so far.

12 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

QUESTION: Is Lakeland an interesting team to follow right now? Yes or No?

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yes, but not as interesting as they were in April.

I was hoping to see a few more pitchers get promoted from FCL but will watch to see how Fana, Montilla, and a couple of pitchers perform.   I was hoping for Wilson and the the other pitcher they got, can't recall his name, who was a former teammate with Clark and McGonigle, get promoted.

 

 

18 hours ago, Rob Miller said:

Too bad, that could have been a win for the  Tigers.  But hey,Tiger  management really does  not want to win.  They just want to continue rebuilding for the future  ( which  seems like that is what they have been saying for the  past 40 years.  Owners and management, just  a bunch of losers.  Tiger fans should boycott the games.  Maybe that would produce some positive results.

You could always lead by example?

Harris works for us?

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL - The Hoover Institution has pretty close to zero cred on anything related to these issues. They are big time, big industry apologists. His first paragraphs are laughable in the face the increased deaths by simple heat prostration occurring across the planet as places where people have lived through all of recorded history become objectively unfit for human habitation. I'm sure all the construction workers in Iraq who now have to knock off their projects at dawn or face the likelihood of death think his dismissals of climate catastrophe amusing at the least.

So you didn't read it fully, that's fine and obvious at some point expand your horizons. 

I don't need to ask the construction workers in Iraq but the emotional response was fantastic, well done. And, expected was just curious who would be the one but love the construction example offered.

My two oldest boys have been working on roofs in FLorida for several years now and surprisingly, to you obviously, there are numerous ways to deal with working in high heat climates.  Even if you are a construction worker in Iraq.  My 23yr old spent two weeks on the roof of the  Orlando Airport earlier this year when temperatures were spiking in the region.  It was hard work, but they have policies in place on how to work in extreme temperatures that work, proven to work.

I have spent over 35yrs in construction and worked on some of the largest overhead glazing projects in the US over the last few decades.   Heat is an issue, yet, there are ways to deal with and work successfully in these type climates and companies have been doing for a long time.  The article spends time on adaption policies and their impacts.

Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157

6 minutes ago, KL2 said:

Prospects have how much ML time? Skubal has how much? I think skubal has proven he is a major league pitcher.

TBF, he is more talking about injury questions on Skubal not if he pans out as a major league pitcher.

In this day of high spin and everything else going on for pitchers I think you can say every pitcher has risk of injury.

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I saw *Local blackout restrictions apply* 3 or 4 times.......

I think the link is for MLB Network and their shows being available via the MLB site for a fee.

Any games shown on MLB Network will still be under local blackout rules as they were when I had it on Directv from what I recall anyways.

31 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/owen-hall-tigers-draft-pick-explains-pitch-arsenal

Sounds like they really wanted Hall and the feeling was mutual.

Interesting to see the connections, brief as they may be, to Michael Fulmer and Jobe.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10091442/

On 7/21/2024 at 12:00 PM, Cruzer1 said:

I think most teams would prefer HS to college, so they can take their time and train how they want to train, and have more games to play, etc. Financially, it makes more sense at times to draft college players.

In looking at how pitchers have been used in college I think I may prefer having pitchers come straight from high school.  You can put together a stronger/better plan on how to implement growth and manage the workload vs college teams which don't always do that.

11 hours ago, casimir said:

And Andy Ibanez.

Harris hasn’t been perfect.  But no GM has been perfect over the last two seasons.

Justin Henry Malloy and Jake H??? for Joe Jiminez as well.

Not a bad first trade for Harris, I think that was his first trade.

It's henning.

Henning: Time is here for Tigers to make a mega-trade — if the price is right

The stadium is a step closer to finalized but not done yet, it has one more vote to pass.

The Trop is one of the worst stadiums in  MLB imo, I've been to 75% of them.

Even with a new stadium not sure how well a team in St Pete, even Tampa for that matter will draw. I've worked with two consultants on the new stadium lots of VE'ing to do in regards to the renderings above.