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I don't know that the alternative world is one where Garneau would be starting catcher for a full season - stands to reason that Haase would be starting most games without Barnhart. Offensively at least, hard not seeing Haase as less of a black hole. Of course, there is a tradeoff defensively with Haase starting... I know part of the enthusiasm about bringing Barnhart in was his ability to frame pitches, play defense behind the plate and to call a game. But at the end of the day, I'm not sure the Tigers wouldn't have been better off trying to acquire more of a depth option (ie. Luke Maile, Steven Vogt, etc.) versus Barnhart with the idea that he would be everyday starter. Or just live with the situation as it was (ie. Haase, Garneau, Lavarnway, Dingler). It's early though and maybe Barnhart starts progressing toward his mean.... but still can't help the feeling that he's been underwhelming, particularly for a guy for which there was a lot of praise for acquiring and for a guy where extension rumors have been swirling.

And this will be held up as evidence that they aren't enforcing the border

The way the Tigers started this game, they were lucky it wasn't one of those games where Harold Castro would be lobbing ephus pitches at the end. Trying to decide whether that would have been preferable... at least then I would have turned it off instead of having false hope. Lol

Yeah, he's less problematic than others in the lineup at the moment...

Another zero for the bullpen. Where's my 4 runs?

Ardolis Chapman may be involved, so who knows... assuming the bp can keep it where its at

Oof

Candy gets a knock!

Another zero in the scorebook for the bullpen... Can we please pick these guys up?

They are incredibly frustrating to watch as well...

Can't ask for much more out of the bullpen... would be nice to see the offense not hang them out to dry again lol

At what point does AJ have to do something about Candy and Schoop in succession?

It would suck for Garneau to lose his job when the roster cuts come if Barnhart is still this bad at the plate. That's all I gotta say

This is right

I like that he gets a lot of swing and miss...

It feels like a loss, how that ended, but the approaches do give me some hope that this won't be April 2021 2.0 offensively

68 pitches in less than two innings. Thats f**ked up

It'd be nice to see it actually rewarded!

Wow... fantastic AB for Castro

No kidding... that second to last pitch from Vest was a full ball width inside the zone lol

Good God, what a clusterf...

Hope the bullpen enjoy their two days off...

Of the four guys they have on rotation in that color analyst role, C-Mo is probably the best of the bunch (he's improved a lot over the past year IMO), but it sounds like he'll be doing a lot of road work with DD this season. If Bally were interested in the quality of the product, maybe they'd go out and kick the tires on a few former Tigers with some color experience like Sean Casey or Austin Jackson and see if they'd be interested in doing color, but aside from that, we're probably stuck with with Jack....

Not out of the woods yet, but Macron has seen his numbers rise anywhere from 3-5% in the polls since the First Round concluded.

Definitely good news on both counts.... and in terms of managing expectations, I don't know that the club would be issuing statements like this if they didn't feel like things are trending in the right direction with either one of them.