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God forbid the smartest man in the room allow a left handed hitter get an at bat against a left handed pitcher. Our manager would have been pinch hitting for Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, and Ted Williams back in the day.

I have a feeling this Montgomery guy is going to be a thorn in the side of the Tigers for years to come.

White Sox have been playing good ball. Five in a row. I have a feeling this Montgomery guy is going to be a thorn in the side of the Tigers for years to come.

Not ruling anything out. But to expect a rookie to come in and achieve instant success is not super realistic. Skenes is Skenes, and to find someone similar would take you back to Dwight Gooden in the mid 80s. 40 years ago. Even guys like Skubal take several years to become what they become. Verlander had one of the best rookie seasons for a pitcher in recent memory, but he didn't become the real dominant Verlander until he was 26. As far as the original poster saying he could come in as a rookie and provide 85% of Skubal provides is kind of overly optimistic.

That is my point. Very few players are mlb ready by 23 or 24. These guys aren't. Let them get experience where they should be at...AA and next year maybe AA or AAA again before even thinking about bringing them up. Baseball is hard. And shining in high school and the low minors is a lot different than hitting even average major league pitchers. When they do come up and struggle their first few seasons, many of the same posters who claim they would step in and be better than a guy like Torres will say they suck and were overrated. For every Mike Trout or Manny Machado...guys that were stars by 20, there are hundreds of Jared Kelenics.

The point was someone basically said he would be a top 10 pitcher next year in mlb. Rookies struggle and Painter will be no different. And based on his AAA experience, he isn't suddenly going to be a CY Young candidate next season.

I would never say a player with a .246 BA is dominating anything. But at least you got to feel dismissive towards someone else by typing lol in your response.

I wonder if the vets respect Hinch? His lack of integrity and scruples with the cheating scandal and how he denied it and then apologized only because he got caught might paint him in a bad light with the veterans. That might hurt his authority with vets wondering why they should have to follow rules, etc if their manager didn't and doesn't have to.

Paul Skenes has nothing on Old Hoss Radbourn. 25 wins, 2.43 era in his rookie season. His next 4 seasons were even better.

Painter 2025 AAA stats, 4-5 5.62 ERA/1.567 WHIP.

These guys aren't exactly dominating in AA, yet they are supposed to come up and be better than All Star performers? These guys aren't ready for mlb. Give them a chance to develop in AA for God's sake.

I have Carpenter, Torkelson, Lindor, Nimmo, and Baty with home runs today.

I have no clue. I could see Hinch doing either of them.

I wonder if Hinch knew about the death in Paddock's family and still trotted him out to the mound?

How many runs will Mize give up before the 5th inning? It's almost like the other teams are cheating and banging on garbage cans to let their teammates know what pitch is coming or the starters just suck.

Did Hinch know about the death in the family and still send him out to pitch?

Chris Paddack seriously has no business pitching in organized baseball. His rookie year was by far his best.

Verlander doesn't seem like the one day contract kind of guy. One day contracts are kind of silly anyway.

Alec Bohm 2018 would have been the guy I would have selected. His size and power potential seemed better than a guy with average to below average velocity. Bohm is a solid guy but hasn't lived up to his potential either. Turang and Pena are on nice trajectories from that draft.

The good news: Tigers up 8 in the loss column to KC with 24 games to go. A 12-12 record would mean KC would need to go 22-4 for the rest of the season to tie the Tigers.

The bullpen was the only reason they nearly made it to the ALCS last season. They could start Skubal, throw the other starters in the bullpen and have 3 bullpen days. Paddack might be okay of you only use him for an inning, Flaherty for 2 or 3, and Morton can go multiple. Mize...never thought much of him. He's okay as a back end starter during the regular season, but I don't trust him in the playoffs. Picked #1 with a below average fastball who relied on a trick pitch to get college guys out.

The other thing is there really isn't anything a GM can do about the roster at this point. There aren't all star pitcher sitting on the couch watching games and eating cheeses waiting for a phone call. Help from the minors? Probably not a whole lot.

They'll probably add 2 more teamsters the league and make the playoffs a 32 team affair. I remember when hockey had 21 teams and 16 made the playoffs. Kind of a pointless regular season.

Morton, Mize, Flaherty, Paddack. Which 3 of these are you refering to? Because I count 4 here .

Espn was on the verge of folding since no one watches 90% of the garbage shows they put on there