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May be also the quality of the opponent, but I watched a decent amount of the Texas Rangers game last night and it seemed like foreshadowing for the rest of their season: much improved offense that will win them some more games, almost the same trainwreck of a pitching staff as last year that will lose a lot of games. Toronto's comeback was the third largest comeback for a season opener in history.

I dont know if it's the relative quality of the product on the field compared to previous years or what, but Shep didn't bother me as much yesterday. Agreed on color commentary tho.

Javy is obviously the big shiny addition to this lineup (with reason), but adding Meadows adds a lot of credibility as well. There's a lot of question marks as to whether he's more the '19 or '21 variety, but he's a pro and handles the bat well. Saw that today big time

Tony L working his magic again haha

The beat the Jerk Sox and the Umps today lol

Thats game right?????

Meadows!

YESSSS!

Figures that the strongest reliever turned out to be the weak spot today. Ugh

Lange looked good

That's the joke! (For all his troubles, he still managed a 2.11 ERA last year)

Classic Drew Hutchison inning right there...

Not even Chris McCoskey can say that with a straight face lol

Eddie starting to turn it around some.... that'll help the bullpen

At least Giolito looks wild today lol

Guess we get to see Drew Hutchison today lol

Gonna keep it abbreviated, similar to Lee: AL East: Toronto 99 wins AL Central: Chicago 90 wins AL West: Houston 94 Wins WC1: New York 95 Wins WC2: Tampa 90 Wins WC3: Seattle 87 Wins Detroit 82 Wins NL East: Atlanta 93 Wins NL Central: Milwaukee 95 Wins NL West: Los Angeles 100 Wins WC1: San Francisco 93 Wins WC2: New York 92 Wins WC3: Saint Louis 90 Wins WORLD Series: Toronto over Atlanta in 7 MVP: Ohtani, T. Turner CY: Bieber, Burnes ROY: Witt Jr., Suzuki

First reliever of the year in MLB? Van Man himself, Daniel Norris

2-2, with 2 homers for Mr. Kreidler!

Evan Petzold did an AMA this afternoon, some of the responses are interesting. His responses on Mize / Skubal suggest the Tigers have very high expectations for them this year.

You're right, there's always a possibility. I just think that particular 'possibility' is treated more like a 'probability' by way too many people.

I'd love for them to make another deal, but one imagines that the pitching market is pretty tight right now... as much as this sucks for the Tigers, almost every team is worried about pitching depth at the moment

One way to look at it is that when Chafin/Funk return, two of these four will be gone. And the other two could potentially be gone when the roster size reduces down to 26. But potentially a rocky couple of weeks in the bullpen, but it will be interesting to see if any of them take advantage and push some of the others that are more established in the bullpen (ie. Big Joe, Foley)