mtutiger

Nice game overall for Matt V

This, but unironically

Rillley!

Never good when one of your best bullpen pieces is the Rule 5 guy lol

Yeah. Cisnero got the vet treatment... he was always breaking camp with this team

Another meltdown lol

The Astros announcers are livid, and they probably should be

Better job controlling the strike zone so far lol

Omg a lead

Lol, seems like McKinstry is always up when there are multiple guys on

Good AB by TORK

The Rays lucked out, Tigers and Nats back 2 back lol

I've seen enough of LaGuardia from the inside... not sure why I'd want to see overhead shots of it for hours on end haha

I do think the author is correct though in that fans act like this hell that we are living through is something novel in the history of this franchise though. I wasn't around for any of the good that happened in the 1980s.... for some of us, the introduction to this ballclub was the mid to late 1990s. Basically all I knew until 2006 was **** baseball. Mike ended up getting the right guy and we got to see a very successful run, but if we are being completely honest with ourselves, he was a pretty lousy owner during those earlier years. That's not really an excuse for Chris I, if anything he should learned from the mistakes of his father. But I do think the full bio of the father isn't complete without acknowledging how piss poor they were prior finding success in 2006. It shouldn't have taken that long. And while I wouldn't say there's a "moratorium" on talking about the bad times under Mike I, they sure do get glossed over a lot.

Brian's long lost brother?

So Tyler Nevin (who raked in his three games in Toledo this weekend) comes off of the injured list this week.... Do they really send Ryan Kreidler down instead of firing Zach McKinstry into the sun?

This may be the point that you are trying to make, but with the exception of Miguel who is way past his sell-by date, each of these guys *are* those sorts of vet players that are supposed to be taking the heat off of the young players. Adding another Wil Myers isn't gonna magically take the pressure off Riley Greene or Tork if these guys aren't doing their job.

This is why I don't get the comments in other settings on the internet (shoutout to MTS, there may be disagreements, but it's more grounded here) about how Hinch is preparing to take the express out of town. Literally nothing about his comments after games this weekend or body language really showed that, but people tend to read whatever they want onto anything he says or does. No different than last year when people were saying the same stuff before Lynn Henning was outed for having misreported (invented?) AJ Hinch's optout. My position hasn't changed on him, he's not above criticism even if the talent isn't where it needs to be. But realistically, no, I don't think he's on the hot seat, and I don't think he's leaving and am pretty sure he had an idea of how 2023 would go entering this season.

Just in general, the focus on tanking for draft picks that Avila pursued just papered over the need for an org to just produce players from the more rank and file prospects as well Think Cleveland or St. Louis.... sure, they've had some high draft picks come in (Jordan Walker this year for St. Louis), but they also are good because they are able to develop guys who aren't Top 100 guys and have them come onto their team and produce. At the moment, we are kinda left hoping that some of the reclamation projects and hangers on from the Avila days (ie. Meadows, Lipcius, Wenceel Perez) can fill that role. And there's plenty of reason to be cynical about that until we see them produce in the big leagues and until the new regime can insert more pieces into the system.

I don't know how much Hinch was involved in the search process in finding Harris or not, I suspect that it was somewhat independent because the team wouldn't have wanted the appearance of Hinch getting one of his guys / tail wagging the dog, nor should they have tbh. (EDIT: Chas' post kinda confirms this, forgot Cody's reporting above) Having said that, while I know that both Hinch/Harris are likely both circumspect people and know how to talk to the press, there hasn't been even an inkling of suggestion of dissent between the two of them. They appear to be more of a partnership to me that Hinch/Avila ever were, which is probably a good thing in the grand scheme of things. The issue that we are dealing with here is that the foundation of this franchise is shaky, and it will take time to fix that. It wasn't going to be fixed in one offseason. One imagines that both Hinch and Harris are clear eyed on that; I don't think Hinch came into 2023 thinking this would be an easy job.

Yeah, I'm with you in that I don't think AJ is leaving or that he'll be fired. I don't see any indication of friction between him or Harris.

Pitching is definitely the exception.... I guess I'm talking more about the hitting.

My comment really wasn't meant to say that AJ should be on the hot seat or anything but rather that the Tigers problems, as a whole, have as much or more to do with deep-seated cultural and organizational issues than they do purely on talent imo. And that's where the new regime needs to be given more time, signing free agents cannot fix flaws in the culture of an organization.

Don't know whether the Tigers were in on Brandon Drury, but he said after he signed that he signed for less with the Angels because he's from the West Coast and wanted to stay out there. It's not like going to the store and buying a loaf of bread, for sure.

Incidentally, Chafin was also the only player they added last offseason that I didn't see our fanbase complain about not living up to their contract. Which, again, demonstrates how much free agency isn't a sure thing and how it tends to be utilized more by teams trying to make up those last 5-10 games in the standings over teams on the bottom who don't have a good foundation to build on.