LongLiveMaroth

3rd HR in as many days

He has TJ about year or two ago but doesn't mean he couldn't have it a second time obviously.

Also I'll just drop this here.

If Zach McKinstry can be an All-Star, anyone has a chance.

That is also only off of 76 plate appearances so that's a pretty small sample size of a guy who is coming off of wrist surgery. I for one was not expecting him to be a .300 hitter in the majors. Heck there are only 9 players in the majors with a .300+ average right now that being said I would say OPS matters way more than average for a 1B. If we get at least a .830 OPS out of him he is a top 10 1B in the league but also he is 21, still lots of time to work on things etc.

I am guessing part of it was the dip in velo along with his penchant of getting hurt was part of the reason they were comfortable with letting him go for a 45+ FV prospect.

Tigers New Top 10 Prospects according to MLB Pipeline: 1. OF Max Clark (#13) 2. OF Zyhir Hope (#28) 3. SS Bryce Rainer (#48) 4. RHP River Ryan (#66) 5. 1B/C Josue Briceño (#69) 6. RHP Cameron Flukey 7. LHP Ben Jacobs 8. LHP Kash Mayfield 9. SS Jordan Yost 10. RHP Brady Smith https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/tigers

Ankeney just moved up to WM a few weeks ago so he probably won't see Erie until next year. Win Scott was an UDFA.

Flukey is a little wild in his first appearance, which I am guessing is part nerves and his mechanics are interesting at least from my very amateur viewpoint but the ride on that fastball is easy to dream on.

08/11/26 1B Brady Ballinger assigned to Lakeland Flying Tigers from FCL Tigers. 08/11/26 RHP Jan Caraballo assigned to FCL Tigers from Lakeland Flying Tigers. 08/11/26 SS Maddox Molony assigned to Lakeland Flying Tigers from FCL Tigers. 08/11/26 RHP Yendy Gomez assigned to FCL Tigers from Lakeland Flying Tigers. 08/11/26 RHP Cameron Flukey assigned to Lakeland Flying Tigers from FCL Tigers. 08/11/26 Toledo Mud Hens sent SS John Peck on a rehab assignment to Lakeland Flying Tigers. 08/11/26 1B Brady Ballinger assigned to Lakeland Flying Tigers from FCL Tigers. 08/11/26 3B Carson Rucker assigned to West Michigan Whitecaps from Lakeland Flying Tigers. Looks like we might get some draftees playing and maybe a Flukey sighting. Also Rucker getting the push up to WM after putting up some solid numbers these past few months. Still striking out too much.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47684227/2026-top-10-prospect-rankings-all-30-mlb-teams-kiley-mcdaniel#det ESPN Prospect update: Top 10 prospects Player Previous Trending 1. Max Clark, CF 1 2. Bryce Rainer, SS 3 3. Zyhir Hope, RF Traded from LAD 4. Josue Briceno, C 2 5. River Ryan, RHP Traded from LAD 6. Kash Mayfield, LHP Traded from SD 7. Cameron Flukey, RHP 5 8. Max Anderson, 2B 6 9. Jordan Yost, SS 7 10. Malachi Witherspoon, RHP 9 One thing to know: Obviously, SS Kevin McGonigle graduating and the return from the Tarik Skubal trade are the big stories. Hope and Ryan join the list, while RHP Brady Smith is No. 11. Mayfield was added in a different deadline deal, and Flukey was the first-round pick.

Lots of offense last night.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7498194/2026/08/07/tarik-skubal-brewers-braves/?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.7AtB.k-0BXVQJy_Db&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta •And finally, I wrote in June that, “the griping from rival executives about dealing with Scott Harris, the Tigers’ notoriously exacting president of baseball operations, would be as entertaining as the Skubal sweepstakes themselves.” I heard no such griping. “They handled it great. Zero issues,” an exec from one of the involved teams said. Hopefully this puts to bed the "Harris doesn't play well with others line we have been hearing.