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Why’d we not go with Foley to start the 9th? Was he supposed to be unavailable?

Tork with another HR

Who else is gonna be mad when AJ pulls Holton out before he gives up a baserunner?

Urshela and Ibanez can both play 1B/3B, Vierling can play 3B. Vilade or Madris can stay up and play 1B We have too many outfielders as is. All we truly need McKinstry for is to be a backup SS.

Trey Sweeney

Supposed to be starting at 5 on Bally

I’ll feel a lot better about the offense if Dingler, JHM and Meadows can have solid finishes to this season.

White Sox released Corey Knebel despite him having a successful rehab in AAA. Go get him Harris, that’s a low risk high reward move to try and help the bullpen.

This pitching staff needs a complete overhaul this offseason before we are going to compete. There is just no consistency with the pen and with the non Olson/Skubal starters

They’re doing this in front of Montell Jordan? Ouch…..

Relievers pitching like they know there’s no one in Toledo to threaten their roster spots…

Bullpen strategy: pump middle fastballs, hope for the best

Aside from Foley and Holton, we need a completely new pen next year

Not sure why they continue to cover up the whales. All fans love the whales and the Tigers haven’t been good since they have been doing it.

My #1 complaint about Hinch is how much he just refuses to pitch around the guys that absolutely kill us: Jose Ramirez, Buxton, Salvy…..

Welcome back Javy

McKinstry: “Can I play base-ball any more?” Doctor Zaius: “Well of course you can!” McKinstry: “Well I couldn’t before!”

We’ve at a minimum seen flashes of what a bunch of these guys could be- and a lot of them are plenty capable. Running McKinstry/Urshela/Baez/Canha-esque players out there constantly when we already know they aren’t part of a winning formula is what gets me. If we aren’t going to spend much in free agency until Harris’ guys get to Detroit, then at least let the roster be the guys who may actually contribute to the future and not placeholders.

He would’ve been the first player to be drafted higher than 1-1 but there were bone spur concerns

Remember when he challenged Biden to a homerun derby?

I’ve seen reports that he was hitting over .300 on fastballs in Toledo. I’ll have to find the source of that again, but there apparently has been improvement.

I feel pretty confident in saying that if Tork was both not producing results AND not putting in perceived effort to try and get better that he would’ve been demoted earlier in the season and they would’ve made an effort to deal him for something at the deadline. The reality is much more likely to be that we promoted him through the system quickly, he doesn’t have experience making a lot of adjustments as a result, struggled with timing and then pitch recognition trying to compensate, and lost confidence. He has since been trying to retool his approach in Toledo and there are obvious positives and some collateral negatives that still need to be ironed out. i wouldn’t give up on Tork at this point, but it would be responsible for the organization to both exercise some patience with him for the rest of this year and also come up with a contingency plan for 1B if he can’t recover to be what we need him to be.

Yeah he’s hall of very good at this point. Aside from his power he never was really one of the best players in the league for any stretch of time. Hes closer to Adam Dunn than HOF to me

Only thing that stands out is that he’s drawing a lot of walks. Apparently he’s hitting the fastball at a good clip now, so that’s promising. Still too many Ks.

One more mediocre year out of him gets him 400 HRs, 1000 RBIs and 1000 walks and a shot at 1.000 career ops. I think that gets him in considering a good amount of his prime was lost to injuries. 11 all stars, 3 mvps, led the league at least once in runs, rbis, sbs, bbs, average, obp, ops, ops+, war…. There are plenty of folks that got in easily that didn’t have that resume.