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I also believe it’s already been said that no coaches are getting fired during the season, since there’s nobody else waiting in the wings who’s any better anyway.

It might also be that when a high-profile business unit is still turning a profit regardless of how terrible they’re performing, it does not create much of an incentive to clean house.

I do wonder whether Tigers coaching has anything to do with his step back on fielding. As with pitching and hitting, I would bet that the defensive coaching varies from team and team, and that while some teams may have coaches that can effectively detect issues in someone’s approach to fielding and correct them, other teams may be well behind on that. I don’t know whether that’s the Tigers’ case, but it does make me wonder.

Which is why ...

I don’t agree. Bet you a toonie.

Assuming the Tigers remain hard on this approach, seeing as how Soto is the best reliever on the team basically only in the scaled eyes of the top of the front office, and is no better than fourth-best in just about everyone else’s eyes, Soto ain’t going nowhere.

They will—after August 2.

Three more years.

Because pitchers makes errors while they are fielding, not while they are pitching.

Fun fact: Rodney never did this, but widening out one of the qualifiers from pitcher’s own error to giving up at least one unearned run, Law accomplished what had been done only 81 other times since 1901. The only other Tigers pitcher to accomplish this was Bill Sherrer in 1986. The most recent 31 are screenshot below. Click the link for the rest. https://stathead.com/tiny/lXIH0 More fun facts: Four guys did it twice. One of them was Roger Craig, who in 1984 was Bill Scherrer’s pitching coach. Derek was not even the first Law to do this. Vern Law did it first.

Boom

Cody Stavenhagen said on the radio that Law was about to sign with an independent team before the Tigers came calling. That’s the sandbox the Tigers are playing in.

Or maybe the strategy is not so fine. It’s at least up for debate.

This organization traded away stars in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019, at the expense of helping ourselves right away, for talent that was supposed to upgrade the system and help us in the future. It is 2022. We are in that future right now. How’s that worked out?

Bunker’s “defense” is always the one out of the red hat playbook: attack Democrats for things they’re not even doing. Or better yet, attack Democrats for what Republicans are doing.

Zach McKinstry? That’s the benchmark Al has to beat? Jesus, talk about low bar.

This is what sad loser syndrome looks like.

Blue Jay Killer Syndrome?

They’ve been stocking up on bullpen arms and he was freely available is all I was saying. As long as we were going for devils we know …

Here will go! Will this thread do for monkeypox?

Maybe. Although Norris hasn’t been a starter since 2019 and we’re about to dump a bunch of relievers.

“Manning’s got a great body. He's got a plus arm. There's just a lot of things to like about him. And we'll just see how he develops."

Wait a minute—how did a freely available Shane Greene get by us after we were all over Daniel Norris??

I don’t want Andujar nearly as much as the Yankees want something anything for Andujar.