tiger2022

Start reading 1984, that has a happy ending.

As Gordon Lightfoot would say, Sundown, you better take care if I find you creeping round my back stairs.

Messick has 34.2 IP and he has a 1.3 WAR. Pretty good so far. Paddack and Morton got the starts instead because they wanted to go with the really ineffective vets.

Nope. Law of large numbers would be over thousands and thousands of games. Baseball isn't a coin flip either. Some teams are better than others.

I think the fact that a guy who has 42 IP in his career is who this team turns to in the most important game of the year says all you need to know about the way this organization has been run.

I could see them going 0-4 and still getting in because Houston can't win games either.

They have a great chance. More because Houston can't win a game than anything the Tigers will do. They have a 1 game lead over Houston and own the tie- breaker. Houston has lost 6 in a row and Brown just pitched. Houston will need to win 2 more games than Detroit in the final 4. Detroit will likely back in to the playoffs and play Cleveland in the first round. If Detroit can win just one more game, Houston would need to go 3-1.

Only if they were facing Morton and Paddack over the next two days.

Once again, I can throw out trades or FA signings but I have no idea how much money I would need to throw at a player or what I would need to give up to get a player. But you are right if you were implying that I don't know exactly what Harris tried to do, but I do know what he did accomplish was underwhelming and didn't help the current mlb roster. I could have tried to trade for Devers when he was upset. The guy is a great hitter and he can't be any worse defensively than Jung or Keith, the two guys that were the serious 3rd baseman candidates. I would have traded some good prospects for him. Probably not Clark or McGongle, but everyone else would have been available. But Boston mat not have wanted to trade him to Detroit. Devers may not have wanted to come to Detroit. I would have made a serious effort. I doubt if Harris even considered it. Before the season, I would have stocked Toledo with depth at starting pitcher instead of signing guys that were injured. Guys that may have been career minor leaguers who can come up and give you innings and start a few games if needed. These guys wouldn't be studs but the Tigers had no one. No way would Ihave started the season with Sweeney as my shortstop. Harris did so because he traded for him and wanted to show how he fleeced the Dodgers in the trade. At the deadline the A's were willing to deal pretty much any if their pitchers. Those guys were all better options than Morton and Paddack. I have no idea if Harris inquired about them. But it probably would have taken a mid level prospect package to get any of them or several of them. I think the team also lacks leadership, and that is showing right now. There doesn't seem to be any players stepping up and Hinch fancies himself as a leader but he was fired in both his previous jobs because he had no control or authority in the clubhouse. I would have looked into adding Andrew McCutchen at the break. He's a leader and a solid if not great bat.

It doesn't look like the Astros want to make the playoffs either. The Tigers will probably back into the playoffs and get to play Cleveland again.

We'll get 'em next year... We'll always get 'em next year.

I don't think people are upset that calls are overturned, but why do you have to challenge something if they can just correct a bad call without going through the challenge crap. And most of the leagues have rules where you get a limited # of challenges or if you lose a challenge, you don't get any others, which sucks because unless the call has a huge impact, you might want to save the challenge for later

Paul Skenes continues to embarrass mlb hitters.

Flaherty has pitched a really good game other than the one pitch that ended up in the seats.

Sure because I am in a position to actually make trades for the Tigers. I can throw out silly trades just like anyone but I have no idea what another team would accept in a trade So because I don't come out with some far-fetched fantasy baseball type of trade, Harris must be amazing? I'm not a mlb GM. It's not my job to sit and study other team's rosters and call other teams up to find out about their players. I have no idea what it would have taken to get some players via trade. But Harris ended up with a guy who had been washed up for 3 years and a guy who had basically a 5.00 era for the last 6 years. I have no idea how even the most devoted Harris slappies could even defend those deals All I know the Tigers went into the season with Trey Sweeney and Jace Jung as the SS-3rd base combo. Two guys that were obviously not mlb caliber players. It almost seems like Harris doesn't care about the mlb team because his guys are all in A ball and AA and if the Tigers fail, he'll just say it wasn't his fault because those aren't his guys.

Hinch really loves him some Sweeney and McKinstry for whatever reason.

And the circus is back in town.

Earl Weaver had an amazing staff in Baltimore. Have you ever heard the Earl Weaver rants? You can find some on YouTube. They are pretty funny. There's one on a show called the manager's corner that is the best ever

It was actually Earl Weaver who said that. Leyland just plagiarized And besides Scherzer and Verlander, who were the other hall of fame pitchers?

Ilitch bought a house in the off season in the Bahamas, so he put that money to good use I suppose.

Your comment seemed to imply that Avila was worthless as a GM. I wasn't a huge fan, but it was his guy's that took the team to the playoffs last year and had the best record in baseball until a month ago. Other than Torres, Flaherty, and the bullpen (which has a high turnover rate), every player that has positively contributed anything over the last 2 years has been an Avila player. Harris has virtually done nothing to help the mlb roster at all over the last 2 years. Other than Torres, his FA signings have been awful if they even saw the field at all, sold at last year's deadline (which was fine), got Trey Sweeney, and got 2 of the worst starters in mlb at the deadline this year. I am pretty sure he could have did virtually anything else and it would have turned out better. He talks a great game for sure.

The players should know how to hit. A hitting coach can only do so much with guys like Jace Jung and Trey Sweeney. They can't teach them talent. And besides maybe they have helped some of the guys with their mechanics, etc. We really don't know, and just changing for the sake of change doesn't seem like the best idea Besides, Detroit is 12th in the majors for OPS and 16th in BA. And it's not like their lineup is killer's row.

Thankfully, the Tigers have the amazing Harris who made all the big moves like signing Alex Cobb and trading for game changers like Charlie Morton and Chris Paddack to put the team over the top. Genius moves.

Their pitching has been very good the last month.