bobrob2004

I think they are making Saturdays the easiest day of the week, which is alright with me. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 132 9/9: Rarity: 140 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com @immaculategrid x @baseball_ref Multiple players could fit in multiple slots. And I didn't use Nolan Ryan at all.

I started following the Tigers in 1999, so he's literally been in the broadcast booth the whole time I've been a fan. It's not going to be the same without him.

Brad Ausmus also wore #12.

Quite the opposite. There's probably a lot of bandwagon Phillies fans and that is giving Lorenzen a false perception.

The Phillies are in the middle of a playoff race. The Tigers are in their 7th straight losing season. There's a difference in attendance.

I kinda like to follow the players that the Tigers drafted, even if it's with multiple teams.

Mike Lorezen pitched a no-hitter in his 2nd start with the Phillies. Nick Castellanos hit 2 home runs and now has 200 for his career.

Most prospects don't reach their full potential. So when you trade prospects for proven talent, you are going to win most of the time. Maybin and Miller were top 10 prospects in all of baseball. While both had decent careers, neither one became a superstar. Take Torkelson for another example. 2 years ago we could've gotten a better return for him than what we could get now. Most people would be opposed to trading him, back then and right now. But hindsight might tell a different story. Of course, we will never know who we could get because he was never on the tading block. But what if the Tigers were ready to compete in 2021 like they were in 2008? (Sorry, just fantasizing about being buyers instead of sellers).

There were a few obvious ones here, but I don't try to get a low rarity score, I just want to get it correct. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 129 9/9: Rarity: 222 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com @immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

I went with Kenny Rogers, who only won 18 games.

Jim Price after reaching heaven: "Nice Area"

Hopefully they can get someone better than Veirling to play 3B everyday. I like Veirling, but only as a bench player.

I could have done this one with almost all Tigers: Edwin Jackson | Matt Joyce | Austin Meadows Avisail Garcia | Prince Fielder | Andrew McCutchen* Magglio Ordonez | Brad Ausmus | Phil Garner* I didn't actually fill it out this way as I thought of some players after the fact. I was still immaculate, though. *I'm sure someone can think of someone here. Does Garner count as he was a Tigers manager?

My sweet spot is around 1999-2009 because I was younger and had more time to pay attention (and playing a lot of MVP Baseball 2005). As I got older, I stopped paying attention to the average players, which is bad for this game as they play for more teams.

My struggle is always that I don't know a ton of pre-1990s players and I don't pay that close attention to award winners. My mistake in this one was that I picked a player that only had a .295 batting average.

Pretty unusual one today: ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 125 8/9: Rarity: 181 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜️🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com @immaculategrid x @baseball_ref I would say who I missed but I don't know how to make it a spoiler.

Ok, let's split the difference and use his career OPS+ of 102 and say he is just merely average.

Here are Candelario's wRC+ seasons with the Tigers: 2018 - 93 2019 - 73 2020 - 140 2021 - 120 2022 - 80 In 3 of the 5 years he was below average and 2020 could very well be thrown out because of how messed up that season was. History suggested that he was a below average hitter and that's the reason they let him go.

Is it too early for Ohtani's countdown to 60 home runs?

I'm still kinda worried about Torkelson's defense. Although he's not at the bottom anymore, he's still in the lower half. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=1b&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=y&type=1&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31 His overall WAR is 0.1, which is 10th among Tigers hitters, mostly due to his poor defense (although Marisnick is no longer with us). https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&month=0&ind=0&team=6&rost=0&age=0&filter=&player=&startdate=&enddate=&season=2023&season1=2023 I think he'll have to be regulated to the DH sometime in the near future and so far his hitting hasn't justified him to be a fulltime DH. I don't think I've fully written him off yet. He is still young enough to turn it around. Since May 1st, he has hit .238/.320/.431 with 10 HR and a 110 wRC+ in 279 PA. Not great, but it is above average. But that also includes the month of June where he hit .196/.274/.441 with a below average 96 wRC+ (but he did hit 7 of his home runs in that month). Like @Shinzaki mentioned, the most frustrating thing is his inconsistency.

Try saying **** Van Dyke.

Manny Ramirez was busted twice for using roids. He retired before he could get suspended a third time and thus have a lifetime ban (although he was then reinstated, he only played in the minor leagues). Players that have been suspended under the new drug policy since 2006 have next to a 0 percent chance of making it in the Hall of Fame. The guys you mentioned never got suspended like Manny.

If that were true, I think his defense would be better ranked than 20 out of 21. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=1b&stats=fld&lg=all&qual=y&type=1&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31

He likely gets more chances at getting scoops because of Baez' weak arm, though. It's similar to how a poor outfielder can get a lot of runners thrown out because everyone runs on him.

Wow, that's a lot. I only subscribed when I had a discount code. I never paid more than $20 for a year.