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Wonder if the Tigers are approaching a record for overall win percentage for an organization.

Going by history, if they win 100, they have a 60% chance of getting into the World Series and a 40% chance of winning. The 1915 team had a legendary outfield with Cobb, Crawford and Veach, their 3, 4 and 5 hitters. Cobb had a monster year stealing 96 bases a record that stood until the 1960s. Cobb lead the league in hits, Veach in doubles, and Crawford in triples. No surprise, Cobb lead the league in runs and Crawford and Veach tied for first in RBIs. I guess it was if Crawford didn't get Cobb in , Veach would. I popped open the box score for June 27, 1915 and was surprised to see 4 starters hitting below 209 that late in the season. They would all improve but no one other than the outfielders had a good offensive year. Only one other with OPS+s below average. I wonder if they would have batted the outfielders 1 - 2 - 3 like they would today instead of 3 - 4 - 5 if they would have won a couple more games and taken the pennant.

Boston is 4.5 games out. If they slide further they might have a third baseman who essentially is in his contract year available.

That was my understanding, at least the parts were the Marlins initiating the trade. They went in with a pretty strong idea who they wanted and the Tigers pretty much just said "yea, ok". I once added up the WAR from the players the Tigers drafted through the 2000s and it was miserable. Matt Joyce may have been the 4th best draft pick during the decade with a 14.6 WAR. Dumbrowski traded much of that fodder and gained by some outrageous factor the WAR from the players obtained. One example is Galarraga (4.7 Tiger WAR) who was picked up for a Mike Hernandez who never made it to the majors. I don't remember much of the details but consider Guillen (18.4 Tiger WAR), Austin Jackson (~21 WAR) Scherzer (21.5), Peralta (~9 WAR). Even the Weaver trade yielded Bonderman and Pena, both of which were more productive than that Jackass Weaver.

I spent the 1970s, years 9 - 20 in Jamestown, the National Comedy Museum town mentioned in the article. We didn't have a lot to do but we never, ever thought of going to Erie to look for fun. Have very few memories of it. The fact that the authors had to look 50 miles to the east to tie into Jamestown is very telling. Still not much going on there. Jamestown btw has had teams in the Pony League, later the NY Penn League. Not sure why they changed the name. It was an A level team for the Tigers during much of the sixties. John Hiller broker his arm riding a motorbike down the hill we used to sled on though that happened long before we moved there. They were associated with the Expos while I was there. Sure John will do a great job with the rebranding. People will piss and moan about changing the name, but few will actually really care. I man, it's not like they are the Mudhens. That one in untouchable and if anyone submitted the Toledo team to Oliver for rebranding, they should be vanquished to Erie.

I think you're right. Second and third are now RH bats so he has fewer pinch hit and no platoon opportunities there. Carpenter is batting more against left-handers. I can see him hitting for Parker some late in games but Javy would more likely take over earlier. You hate to release a player who has done everything asked of him, but that what happens when you get good.

I's say yes if 75% of pitches thrown come from a RH pitcher. Not sure of the actual percentage. Chat says 75%/25%. I felt the imbalance gave them an edge last year.

It's a good habit

Howie had the glasses that gave him a little bit of the "Wild Thing" Ricky Vaughn look. Tigers seemed to have a lot of good arms in the 60s and 70s that had shortened careers.

Random thoughts. With everyone getting healthy, keeping Javy in the line-up will be a challenge but he needs to be there. Can he pitch? Parker can be so dynamic on both sides but I still am not confident in his bat. Have we become too right handed. Almost two months in and no starter is out for the season and reinforcements are on their way. I miss pitching chaos though. Wish we did that opener stuff or piggy backed some starters. Hinch is the master of matchups. Not sure though if we will ever see our $15 million starter, forget his name. Did he actually injure himself or did his hip just start going bad. Seems like losses are harder to take this year. It's like the world is ending.

It doesn't seem right somehow for the other team to be able to do that.

We might be better off trading Jake

I'm all in on Lou and Freehan. I consider Bill the position player MVP of 1968. Denny won but Bill had the most votes of the position players. Mickey brings up a lot of great memories for Tiger fans but he was an average pitcher who pitched a long time. His ERA+ was 104. Led the league in losses twice, wins once. Was consistently ignored in the Cy Young award earning votes in only 2 or 3 seasons. I can't name anyone in the hall who was more mediocre

Pardon my randomness, Both the Cubs and the Tigers have been in the World Series 11 times and they played each other 4 times. There is a decent possibility it could be 12 and 5 this year.

Too bad we won't be going back to Colorado. That high was much more even. The division has played 700 ball for 50 games - 35-15 and that includes the White Sox 5 - 5.

Imagine the look on his face tonight when his replacement threw the ball into center.

I am loving this. Riley's D, sending Ibanez, Torrez' grab to end the inning. Guardians losing. When will the Power Rankings show the Tigers as Number 1. What do they have to do aside from having the best record in baseball.

I have never seen a catcher show so much disgust so quickly as on the Baez homer. Love to see him isolated on video

The question is can he play tic-tac-toe.

Erie and Grand Rapids are winning their divisions both with .600+ percentages, Lakeland is competing and has the best record in the Florida State League over the last 10 games. Toledo is the black sheep in the organization playing about .500 ball. What a time to be a Tiger fan.

"Don Who?" as a Yankee fan once said, just before they were to lose a playoff series to the Tigers.

Now wasn't that a lot more interesting that those double digit wins? Tigers have the best record in baseball now. When The Athletic does their power rankings, Tigs should be #1. But... what a division. The top 4 teams in the division are on a winning streak. Over the last 5 games for each of the top 4, there was only 1 loss. That's a combined 19-1 record, a .950 winning percentage. The top 3 teams have been playing a combined .800 ball over the last 10 games, going 24 - 6. Here's the weirdest anomaly. Guardians have a -14 run differential and should have a 17-20 record. The Tigers have a +84 differential and per the theory should be 28-11. The Guardians should be 10 games behind but they are only 3.

Wonder if Hinch will use openers on occasion again. Evan an accomplished starter could benefit from going through the top of the order one less time.

I'm in Chicago. That would explain it. A lot of Trump praise in the PSA

Have these Kristi Noem self-deportation PSAs been coming up on everyone's feeds? Watching through MLB.com