holygoat

Dang, was hoping the Tigers could open a can there.

Shoulda placed the bet.

Riley did a thing!

Harris would've essentially had to replace every pitcher not named Skubal at the deadline to make the sort of impact you're talking about, and that's not realistic -- nor is it wise, IMO. I would've liked one higher-end RP and another bat, but I don't think even that would be worth the extra five wins to improve them to .500 over this 7-17 slump. And short of receiving an impact player with multiple years of control in return, I don't want Harris trading any of our top three prospects. (4 and 5 are redundant, so I'm way more open to moving one of them, but without knowing what they could fetch at the deadline, I'd rather he wait for the off-season to make that sort of move.) Harris's deadline moves didn't help the team much (other than Finnegan), but there was no way to know how bad the pitching was gonna be post-deadline. It's been bad enough to argue that whatever Harris could've received for Clark, McGonigal and Rainer still wouldn't have pulled the Tigers out of this slump -- Suarez's pathetic performance certainly wouldn't have helped -- and we'd still have Cleveland climbing up our ass, only with no future assets in the minors.

The question isn't will Cleveland cool off, it's will they cool off enough to matter? Because even if they cool off to, say, .500 to close out the season, that's more than enough to pass the Tigers based on the last month of play. Our pitching, which was our strength when we were cruising, is now a loaded diaper after injuries and regression. Other than Skubal, who can we confidently project to be reliable going forward? I'm not giving up, because baseball, but my faith in the team has diminished to the point where I kind of go into each game expecting them to lose now.

Ump called a pretty good game until that pitch to Zach. Wow.

Tigers really let this dude off the hook today.

FFS...

Gleyber has been such a great addition.

WTF? I walked away for like 2 minutes.

They've push Kikuchi's pitch count up the last two innings.

Seven K's in a row for Morton.

Wait, did they announce Lou going into the HoF, or is Dan just talking stuff?

There we go!

Benching Riley has already cost them a run.

Finnegan? More like Finna-win-again.

Mets don't want to win this game...

Mets load the bases with one out and can't score in the bottom of the 9th.

I read this in Ernie Harwell's voice.

I think Buxton is hurt.

DING DONG!

Could we not find a single lefty RP better than Hurter to trade for?

"Hurter"

3rd Tigers twin killing.

What a throw. I thought that was an easy double.