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Good hitting and baserunning by Ibanez. 0-2 count and hits an RBI double. Terrible pitching...waste a couple pitches at 0-2. Harris on the phone to trade for that guy...lmao <ducks> Finally...right thread!

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With a better than a 2.96 ERA?

Bally Sports no longer employs the announcers. They are employees of the Tigers. It's a huge difference, having honest announcers. Do not be critical of your employer.

How about trading foe Nuck Maton? Letting Candelario walk? Letting Spencer Turnbull walk?

Yup, it's all on the players. And Avila. And the fans for accepting a horribly built roster...hee-hee, suckers...

I dont know or even care anymore. And I think Harris should be given time, as I've said. But every mistake he makes shouldn't be blamed on past GMs or on players. What will people be saying in 5 years if the Tigers are still fighting to reach .500? Stupid Avila...greedy players...bad breaks. The buck stops at the top...

ERod wanted money to waive his no trade clause. It was way too easy for Harris to blame ERod and not accept the blame. But yeah, it's not the job of the GM to work out a trade. It's all the greedy players fault. 🤔

At the rate he's going, Harris won't offer him arbitration, making him a free agent.

He had a chance to sell last year and couldn't get an ERod deal done.

Enough....click.

Yeah, good one. And he looks like a 16 year old who shaves every 2 weeks. 😆

Lol...my niece is the same way. But she's cute...😅

Well score 4 or 5 more. The problem is the late inning BP and the shaky defense.

They just called up a top ML pitching prospect. Do you really want the Tigers to face him? The outcome is somewhat predictable.

I don't really agree. 2021 was 3 years ago and our payroll has dropped dramatically. You may be right and Chris is willing to spend but we really don't know that. And not to sound like a broken record but JD Martinez was out there when the Tigers knew their lineup was going to struggle offensively. A team that wanted to have a chance to make the playoffs would have gone after him. They may have for all we know but it seems we may have heard about it. What we did hear was Hinch didn't want a full-time DH. He wanted to give players a bit of a day off at DH. And then they called up a kid who is a defensive liability and put his at...full-time DH.

Yeah, I have to agree. Harris hasn't been here long enough to draft and develop players. His trades and free agent signings are very underwhelming though, I get that. Avila ended up getting very little for the established players he was forced to move on from. And all that losing didn't get us good drafts, I would say that was more bad luck than it was mistakes. It would have been nice to get a Bobby Witt Jr. but we got a Torkelson and Mize. They weren't draft mistakes, they were highly regarded as the best players available. If Harris ends up being successful, it may not be for a few more years. Other teams rebuild much quicker so I don't know if he's been instructed to keep payroll low or not.

I don't think using pinch hitters is the answer. Look at pinch hitting success rates and it looks like using a cold hitter off the bench isn't ideal. I agree with Ibanez against LH pitchers but that's about it. The rest of the bench is pathetic. Thank Harris for not supplying ML talent. Or Chris for not spending, take your pick.

Manager playing players out of position. McKinstry at SS? No thank you.

And we didn't sign JD Martinez because they didn't want to tie up the DH spot. At least, that was their excuse for not signing JD.

Throwing error all the way.

Riley is SO clutch!

His pitch count is good...for 5 innings. Not for 3 innings.

The lighting isn't the problem with him. Injuries are an issue. A sneeze is a 30 day back strain....