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1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

I always thought his secondary stuff was weak.

 

maybe our view issn't so different - what makes secondary stuff good? Part if it is being able to throw it for strikes so batters can't spit on it.  In that sense, on a given night, better command == better secondary stuff

23 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

No way Trump wrote that.

1st dead giveaway was to leave out "Thank-you for your attention to this matter"

On 4/9/2026 at 7:57 AM, Motor City Sonics said:

.421 BA / .500 OBP   only 3 Ks in 28 ABs.    Wow.        

I think some outfielders on the Tigers should start paying attention to this.   Honestly, they could trade Greene right now and it wouldn't upset me one bit.    

Clark's sample is up to >50PA still small but getting significant, great BB/K ratio, great OBP. The only knock of any kind is 50 PA without a HR - which is also true of Torkelson and Greene right now....🤔

The short stroke is really working for Keith and he's even getting good EVs. Be nice to see him turn into the hitter he promised he might be in the minors.

2 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Was anybody watching this game? (These questions are obviously not directed at only you MT39...)

How did Montero do it?

He's always:......

 

Kieder's stuff is good enough when he has the command to stay ahead. He did that tonight.

57 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

It's Baez FT for now. Sprinkle in some Wenceel PH's or against nasty RH'ers... I don't think even Vierling will get much time there, close to nil... IMO.

Until Harris/ Hinch decide to call up Clark.

gameday preview shows Baez in CF, Perez in RF, Kerry DH.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

The betting markets are heavily favoring Newsome.  I hope not.  He seems very unserious.  They need somebody who will run on something other than anti-Trump.  That's the mistake Harris made.    

I don't know if unserious is the best description for Newsome - he's taken on major problems in CA has been willing to take his share or flack over them. But I agree it is easy to get a sense of something vaguely off about him. Not sure what I would call it. It's not necessarily 'Slick' like Clinton but something.

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Please tell me there is zero chance she will get the nomination!

She had her chance against the worst opponent of the century and didn't close it. Move on. Go back to the Senate or run for Gov of CA

Clark probably doesn't get called until they are ready to play him full time and I'd guess Wenceel is not going to play CF full-time.

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Of course the same people that want more teens to have babies would also be against welfare. 

The GOP doesn't even recognize what success against maybe the nation's most devastating social problem of the post WWII era looks like.

15 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

This is also why I want a silent platform policy for the dems to be, if they secure Congress, investigations will be the biggest priority.  If they say it now, I feel like that could turn off some independent voters, but unless people are held accountable for their actions when they have a government position, others will abuse it as well.  Put people in jail and then we still have a chance to continue with this democracy thing.

we need a full fledged "Truth and Reconciliation" a la South Africa. Sadly we have no Mandela or Tutu to guide/inspire it.

6 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

The Tigers have 3 other centerfielders. Javy, Vierling and Perez. I don't think Max will be here until maybe a September call up.

I like Javy in CF and that also gives McGonigle a clear runway at SS and Keith at 3b. Not sold on Wenceel defensively but he'll play if he hits.

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

There's always the possibility the concussion could take longer to heal than the broken arm. I feel bad for Parker.

since he got up and into the cart without his hand dangling or them having splinted it, we can guess it is a non-displaced fracture. But without surgery that's still 8 weeks before he thinks about swinging a bat. Maybe they can cut that down if they screw it together.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

but they'll miss his defense. 

so how good is Max Clarks glove supposed to be?

11 minutes ago, kdog said:

Concussion and broken arm..Meadows snakebit career continues:

 

 

that's gonna be 60 days. 

Meadows family seems to have a baseball curse.

8 minutes ago, chasfh said:

That’s totally fine. I absolutely get your desire to keep your feed free of the nonsense. Makes total sense. I would assume that folks who avoid political social media might lack a keen sense of the scale of left wing social media influence versus that from the right wing, and assume that the existence of both means they are equivalent. They are not.

The social media debates are all just sub-text to the more important question though, which is do the people asking for, vying for your support see any intrinsic value in truth over falsehood? The answer in many cases on both side is, sadly, no. However the big difference is that today, there is NO ONE on the right side in office or running for office who can possible have any remaining regard for truth, it's a logical impossibility to reconcile even a shred of regard for the intrinsic value of truth and still be within a 1000 miles of the today's national GOP. It's just not reconcilable - whether we are talking political truth, scientific truth, journalistic truth, any kind of truth. There are plenty of liars on the Democratic side, but there is still some basic nod to truth in the Democratic party, and that difference is all the difference in the world right now.

Ha - I heard Jansen talking this morning about an OT that was in play for the Lions and he said after watching him that even though he was big, he didn't believe he would ever be able to keep his pad level low enough to be successful in the NFL -- and gave some detail as to why, but of course I never heard who he was talking about before I got to where I was going!

42 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Hat trick for Larkin. 5 points for Seider. Wings lead 6-2. But Ottawa won so too little too late. 

the story writes itself.

12 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Here's that video;

 

he won't get that kind of suspension when it was Soler that charged him.

EDIt: He got seven and it was reduced to 5. Which for  a pitcher might not even be one start.

And TBH, the way Soler hangs over the plate, the pitch that hit him in the hands wasn't even that far inside.

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Newsweek and Daily Mail do seem to be peas in a pod these days. Remember when the former was up there with Time and U.S. News & World Report?

when they were part of the Washington Post they were doing better work than either of those two, but that didn't sell enough magazines. The US is no place to get rich doing quality journalism.

11 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I wasn’t watching the game when the collision between Parker and Riley occurred. Wow Parker’s in the hospital overnight? 

well, he was bleeding from the mouth, couldn't move his left arm, and appeared to be concussed - any one of those could rate a night of observation I suppose. He was not in a good way when he finally got up.

12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Why is everybody blaming the offense?  They are not hitting home runs, but they are 8th in MLB in OBP and 10th in wRC+

The home runs will come when the weather warms up.

The real culprit is run prevention:

They are 20th in xFIP

21st in fielding

This team is built on run prevention.  That is where they need to excel.  It's been terrible so far.  

Yes run prevention is the bigger issue, but while the offensive numbers are true in aggregate it's largely because of 2 lopsided wins,  also true they've scored 3 or less in 6 of 13 games.

19 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

When it comes to hitting, it feels like the Tigers strategy is to assume those who underachieved last season will be better next season and those who overachieved will continue to do so.  

i've said before that at some level there seems to be disconnect between Hinch and whole 'control the zone' concept. Hinch constantly re-iterates that he is always telling his hitters to "get a good pitch to hit". Well what if you don't? A major league pitcher can easily throw you 3 pitches in the zone and none of them are going to be 'good to hit'. So you just give up any AB when you don't get a cookie? How is that controlling the zone? You can win a lot of games waiting for mistakes when you are facing bad pitchers, but what about when you aren't?  If you make it 'defend the K zone until the pitcher makes a mistake' that means you have to have a real defensive two strike approach with a short stroke to keep fouling pitches off. Do we see a lot of Tigers with that? Riley does say he's trying it.

13 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Riley will be fine, but could be a deadline deal if we turn into sellers

the problem with Riley is that he seems to go overboard with everything. He was hitting too many ground balls in the 1st couple of years to he revised his approach - to the 2nd the most extreme upper cut in all of baseball. Last yr he struck out too much, so far this year his K rate is down a lot, his walk rate is up, but he's not getting any hits either.

23 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

https://prashanthiyer.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-detroit

Worth a read. One passage stood out to me: “At the team-level, this is a team that simply could not disrupt the opposition’s cycle, allowing a league-high 560 cycle chances against at 5v5 this year. They allowed the 7th most 5v5 high-danger chances against while generating the 3rd fewest.” 

I've beaten this point like a drum. They cannot pressure the puck in their own end. They lack the quickness to challenge and the strength to get a take away if they do get there. That is a skillset, and it's basically the same skillset needed to forecheck effectively, and Wings simply do not pay any attention to it in their roster construction for forwards and have not going back to before SY took over.