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I would love to be 50 years old again.

I totally agree that we need more good young players alongside Riley and Skubal, but I don't think we should be trading 2024-25 in exchange for 2027-29. I think need players for 2025, at the very least, if not 2024. And even guys like Jack Flaherty, let alone Mark Canha, are not going to unlock big-league-ready Top 100 prospects. Maybe Jack could return a hot 18- or 19-year-old ticket, but why would we do that? Beyond that, trading Tarik Skubal for prospects would be waving the white flag for this and the next two seasons. I don't think we're going to do that, but if we did, then what are we doing here?

Here’s another somewhat surprising non-fan.

The one thing I do like is the olde English D-1 patch, an homage to the M-1 sign on Woodward, but even that is practically offset by the gaudy Meijer patch on the other side.

Here’s what Eminem thinks of the cap.

It won't mean a thing until they actually do it.

I agree this is not the worst city connect jerseys in the game, but it's at least in the bottom half.

We're supposed to be past the trading-for-prospects stage. In fact, think we're getting pretty close to the trading-prospects stage.

They're not targeting you old people. 😁

They are still mean, by which I mean, bullies as long as someone weak is nearby to push around.

He’s been my prediction for Trump’s VP for some time now, and it’ll go as well as McCain picking Sarah Palin.

You’re right, this definitely will not be good enough.

I don’t have any sense that the organization is moving towards a two starters/six swing men system, although if that were magically made a requirement, the Tigers might be better off cobbling one together than most other teams.

Well, he tried to hit into a double play but he didn't hit it hard enough, and now we are tied! 😜

Nice at bat by Keith! Please, Javy, strike out rather than hit into an inning-ending double play ...

Who are you and what have you done with Spencer Torkelson?

I mean, it makes some sense on paper. I'm just wondering whether there are enough quality pitchers who can fulfill the swing man/110-inning role to make it actually work. If you have two regular starter roles that can bring you on average 190 innings, and, say, five short relief roles that can average 75 innings, that would mean you'd need six swing roles averaging 115 innings to split the remaining starts and do long and the occasional middle relief outing. That would get you the 1,450 innings you need to compete for a whole season. I think the trick here is to find more than six pitchers in your system who can effectively fulfill the swing man role, because you're not going to have the same six guys all year. So you might need maybe ten or twelve, in addition to four or five or so who can do the starter roles, and the ten to twelve or so you'll need for your short guys. I do think a sticking point will be finding guys who will be comfortable in a swing role, in which they start on an infrequent and nonscheduled basis but also might relieve anywhere from three hitters to several innings on others, and pitchers, being creature of habit, might chafe. They'd have to buy in.

Do you know of any team going in this direction? I'm not even sure who's doing openers anymore.

This is my exact thought any time anyone suggests a team should run a six-man rotation out there. That’s a semi-fashionable thing to suggest these days, and many teams are talking about it if not actually doing it. But why would I want to take ten or twelve starts away from Tarik Skubal and Jack Flaherty just to give more starts to their fifth- and sixth-best starters? Six-man rotations make sense only if you your six best starters are similarly talented and it doesn’t really matter who loses starts so the extra guy can get some.

Fire Jim Leyland!

Hopefully Skubal is ready for prime time tomorrow.

It's almost as though Tork is now trying to make as many outs in his at bats as he can manage. Fairly calm going back into the dugout, too.

It's also entirely possible that the combination of Riley batting 1st and Perez batting 3rd would yield more runs over the course of a season than Perez batting 1st and Riley batting 3rd.

C-Mo sounded awful thrilled and excited there describing how Rizzo jacked a bomb off us earlier in the day.

Some here get their wish as Tork finally swings at a first pitch in the zone.