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Well, it was always going to do that, right? After all, the seasonal flu we get today is a direct descendant of the 1918 “Spanish” flu.

No vertigo on that play!

Not saying this is you, but a lot of fans ask what good a hitting coach is, since major league position players already know how to hit, duh, so what can a hitting coach teach them? There may be little new that a major league hitting coach can teach a major league hitter, but the coach should be able to get to know his players well enough to see when a guy is out of sync, and should be able to suggest tweaks to fix whatever the problem may be. As for this particular situation, I don’t know whether Scott Coolbaugh doesn’t know enough about Javy to fix his issue, or whether Javy is resistant to whatever input Coolbaugh is offering up to him, but either way, it doesn’t reflect well on Scott Coolbaugh. Add to this that there are multiple qualified batters on this team who are having terrible years, and that almost none of them have been doing well all season, or in the last month, or in the last two weeks, or during just about any period this season, and, coupled with the fact that the Tigers are having a historically terrible year scoring runs, it looks to me like Scott Coolbaugh is going to have to stand tall before the Man to answer for it. But wait—wasn’t Scott Coolbaugh the Tigers’ hitting coach last year? Sure he was. So why wasn’t I calling for his head last season? Because we were not this terrible last season. We were merely a slightly-below-average-hitting team. It is this season our hitting has completely collapsed. Just because the Tigers weren’t this bad hitting last year doesn’t mean Coolbaugh bears no responsibility for the hitting collapse of this season. We have no proof positive that this team’s relationship with Scott Coolbaugh is the same or different, whether players are listening to him more or less this season than last, whether there were broad coaching changes he implemented leading to the scoring outage or whether players are getting worse on their own and ignoring his input. What we see are the results, and the results show that the 2022 Tigers are in the 1st percentile in history for run-scoring through 57 games. Shouldn’t that be considered unacceptable? Unless there is dramatic improvement in run-scoring starting today, Scott Coolbaugh will be fired really soon, and I would agree with that.

There was a reason Baddoo was exposed to the Rule 5 draft and it took Haase four seasons to exceed his rookie limits.

disagree. Everybody doing terrible all the same time is not all on the batters. He can’t even get the batters to listen to him.

I said it before, I’ll say it again: the Ilitch ownership tenure has been, on balance, a disaster.

The Tigers have scored 159 in 57 games. That’s 2.79 runs per games. We are on track for 452 runs, the fewest runs per game in a full season since the 42-109 1942 Phillies. Before that, there were seven teams in the 1904-1909 deadball period that scored fewer per game. To avoid scoring less than 500 runs, we have to score 341 runs in our remaining 105 games. That comes to 3.24 runs per game. That would represent a 16.1% increase in run scoring from where we are now. That same 3.24 rate would tie us with Oakland for what would be the worst run-scoring rate in baseball as of today.

Try this one on your imagination: Out of 2,542 teams that have played in the major leagues since 1901, the Tigers rank 2,521st in runs scored through 56 games. Flipped around, that’s 22nd lowest in history to date. That is 1st percentile run-scoring in historical terms.

This is just through today—tomorrow it’s going to be ever worse: Since May 30, the Tigers as a team have hit three home runs. During this period, 12 different players have hit more, and another 26 players have matched us. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2022&month=1000&season1=2022&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2022-05-30&enddate=2022-06-10&sort=5,d&page=1_50

It sucks to see him go down like that, but in the final analysis, Robbie Grossman is a 32-year-old veteran of slight talents who had an outlier career period in 2020-21. He didn’t have any future with the team anyway. In a lost season, this is a meh loss.

Seeing an uptick in people outside alone in masks, a hundred yards or more from the nearest person. Saw a couple bike riders wearing them. I didn’t understand that two years ago today.

If it’s not for us now, then it’s for history.

Well, that’s it for Robbie Grossman for who knows how long.

Yep, it’s not good. Is it a TORK! Issue, is it a team issue, something else?

And this is now eight seasons after they decided to start selling off in preparation for the rebuild!

There were a lot of pixels spilled about his mechanics before he was drafted, but Pedro broke them down beautifully in this piece.

This tweet is not aging well.

I think the enthusiasm is fun.

Easiest prediction ever. This was called basically at the beginning of his career. just rip the bandaid off.

I could see that whole counter-investigation as being a cover for some real greaseball shit to drive McConnell out of the frontrunner spot for Senate leader when they win the majority this November so they can replace him with a fascist stooge like Mike Lee. Because they obviously are not so obtuse that they don’t know they won’t win the investigation itself.

One of my hypotheses—assuming he isn’t a Kremlin agent after all—is that Bunker has a customer-facing job where he has to be nice to people all day long, which pisses him off but he has to hold it in, and then he comes here and lets all his anger out