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Some strange reversals in this series

Got Gaddis Good!

Crowd is not as quiet as you'd expect. Must be some Tigers fans there.

We signed Wenceel in 2016 and dragged him through the minors for just this moment

Save Hinch's job Wenceel

If they don't score.....

I thought for a moment we might have the perfect platoon in Greene and Carpenter, and then I realized they are both left-handed. Not sure what to do with Greene. Pinch hitting for him made all the sense in the world.

Same as last year except we ran over Houston in two. First scheduled home game is game 3 of the ALDS.

I'm listening to more commercials than game. And they are painful, the commercials that is.

Wow! When does Ramirez end up on 3rd and not score?!?

If he can start game 1 of the ALWCS he could reasonably be available for games 1 and 5 of the division series. Hold him back and likely only 1 ALDS game.

We are standing pretty good health-wise with our position players. Only Vierling and Keith out.

Nope, that wasn't him. Wrong number.

But pitching him Sunday would make him available for the WC round game 3 on 3 days rest and just game 3 of the ALDS on 4 days rest. Not pitching Sunday would give him plenty of rest for game 1 of the WC, and for the ALDS games 2, with 4 days rest, and game 5 if needed also with 4 days rest. If no game 5 is needed, he could start games 1 & 5 of the ALCS on 6 days and 4 days rest, respectively. If ALDS game 5 is needed, he could start game 4 of the ALCS with 4 days off, and for game 7 he'd get 3 days rest. So it seems that resting him on Sunday would make sure he pitches in the WC series, and makes him available and rested twice for each of the subsequent series including the last game of ALCS and ALDS series. If he is used on Sunday for home field advantage, he might not even get a chance to pitch in the post season at all if the WC ends in a two game sweep of the Tigers. If the Tigers advance, he would get one game in the ALCS, and 2 in the ALDS. I'm sure Hinch would agree with me. In fact, that may be him on the phone right now.

Seems like most games were decided this year by the 7th inning, even when they were hot. The tenacious, pull out a win, not until the last strike spirit of the club is gone. Maybe they need a shock this year to mature and advance next year. They have reinforcements coming through the system. They have a number 1 pitching prospect in Jobe. Trade Skubal. Possibly back to back Cy Young but he only has 13 wins. If you look at it as replacing 13 wins it seems simple. There are 10 pitchers with more wins and four more with 13. There are 14 pitchers who contributed to his teams record as well or better than Skubal. It's easier to pull the trigger when you consider what the lost to the team would be versus what it would gain. Green is 25. He needs a talking to. Maybe someone should put together a video of how many games he could have won. Let him listen to the fans and the announcer's disappointment as he kills another rally. Also, I still think we should break his legs and let him learn to run all over. I could give on Parker too. Dynamite player when all is working for him, but as a pro minor and majors, too much time has been given to him to work it out. Too many miserable returns from the IL. Ask what would Tampa Bay do with him.

Parker is starting to win me over again, damit

You really should look at the most similar comparable. How many minor PAs did Rogers Hornsby have?

I saw more than a few bats dragged out in the brawl WTF were they thinking back then. I came on line because I was looking at the Tigers boxscore and noted how all the players OPS were similar. Tigers went from 1 through 8 with just a 90-point range in OPS (Dingler 751 to Greene 841). Baez was an outlier adding 55 points to the total range. I looked around at other box scores and no other team came close to the consistency of the Tigers in OPS. Most of their ranges were in two to three hundred, even more points. Sometimes the OPS would vary by hundreds within the first three hitters. I would venture that that consistency batter to batter is a big factor in the Tigers winning. Baseball is a team that relies on multiple players doing well before three outs are made and having an even leveled team gives good results more often. For example, a team that leads off with a .922 OPS followed by a 680 may have a higher combined OPS than a 767 (Keith) and 767 (Torres) but does the Tiger pair lead to more scoring? I didn't look at every team but of the ones I did, only Milwaukee approached the Tigers in this measure. I think their range was 50 points more and like the Tigers the top of the range was below 850. No MVP like superstar but solid batters throughout. Toronto also had a relatively limited range aside from Springer. So total OPS is important but how that OPS is distributed may also be very important.

All things no one predicted in March

Egads, that is depressing. That's like 3/4 a staff.

"A legacy for me is to win a championship in the city I'm playing and that's the most important thing. I think when you talk about legacy, that's the legacy that you want, is bringing a championship to the city." Tony Paul quoting Tarik in today's Detroit News. He's like the opposite of Eduardo Rodriguez who gushed about his employer and how wonderful the Midwest was for his family. Tarik never once said Detroit or the Tigers in the discussion. It's clear he sees himself elsewhere just like Eduardo did. The best way to get the team into the playoffs over each of the next 5 years would be either signing Tarik or trading him this winter. I hate the window of opportunity mindset and love Harris for his position on it. Going through a playoffs with a shutdown starter is desirable but championships come many different ways and getting into the playoffs regularly is the best way to get one. The churn on this team is just beginning and the 2026 team will be more different from the 2025 team than the 2025 team was from the 2024. We will be losing Gleyber, but probably picking up a good compensation pick. Couldn't ask for a better FA outcome. Keith OPS is very similar to Torres and may be a better player in 2026 than Torres will be. Parker remains a big question mark in 2026 and Jobe will be recovering. I worry about the aging of Greene. He's still so damn young but he seems so old I love his home runs, I hate his strikeouts. I love his all out defensive drive. I hate his overall defensive play. Will he continue to improve. Break his legs and start over or get him a running coach! Someone among Hao, Jung and Anderson will step up next year. Wenceel will keep popping up in the highlight reels. I hope Carpenter will be more than a great part-time, part-time player. Tork will be Tork and Dingler will start to get the recognition he deserves. In 2027, the golden boys in Erie and Jacob's return for a full season will generate a lot of eager anticipation. I doubt Tarik will be a part of that.

Just catching up here. The announcer for WM's Patrick Lee's fabulous diving catch and assist at first called it a walk-off double play. I don't think I've ever heard walk-off used for a defensive play, at least not in a positive way.

I tried to catch some of the Erie game and it was the Guardians team's broadcast. They spent an entire inning - not half inning - but full inning with a promotion of a stadium food dish. Camera spent half the time on the announcers eating. Don't know how many times I heard a phrase "The Guardian's way of doing it." Between the homerism and the waffles I couldn't watch another inning.

Awww, that made my day, especially the 2 blown saves in 2 innings.

I'm sure they do it clandestinely but they need to report the effect bad calls have on games ie, how much the likelihood of an outcome changes because of a bad call.