casimir Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 Detroit Tigers vs Tampa Bay Rays Watch: Tigers - Bally Sports Detroit Listen: Rays - WDAE 620 AM/95.3 FM, Tigers - 97.1 The Ticket, WXYT 1270 1 Quote
ben9753 Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 I haven’t seen any spring games so I’m looking forward to seeing the new rules and how they impact the game. Will be interesting. Quote
Hongbit Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 I predict a 1-9 start that ends in 56 win season. 1 Quote
Toddwert Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Hongbit said: I predict a 1-9 start that ends in 56 win season. but we have depth now!!! Quote
Tenacious D Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 Our new scrubs are better than our old scrubs. Quote
ben9753 Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 2 hours ago, Hongbit said: I predict a 1-9 start that ends in 56 win season. I’ll take the under Quote
KL2 Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 1 hour ago, ben9753 said: I’ll take the under Really they are gonna be 10 games worse than last year where the entire team was hurt and so dramatically underperformed their career norms? That seems unlikely 1 Quote
chasfh Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 I said in another thread that we’ll be north of 75 wins, and I’m gonna stick with that. 1 1 Quote
Tigermojo Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 We survivors of 2003 have nothing but hope for this 2023 roster. It could be worse. 1 Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) 74-88. They can't have that incredible run of bad luck from 2022, can they? It's like all the misfortune that struck Mr. Burns' softball team, forcing Homer Simpson to play. Who is our Homer? Kerry Carpenter? Edited March 30, 2023 by Motor City Sonics Quote
Jim Cowan Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 Oh gee...somewhere between 72 and 78? Pick one? OK 77. Quote
casimir Posted March 30, 2023 Author Posted March 30, 2023 14 hours ago, Hongbit said: I predict a 1-9 start that ends in 56 win season. At Tampa for 3, at Houston for 3, vs Boston for 3, at Toronto for 3, vs San Francisco for 3, vs Cleveland for 3. That's not exactly a way to ease into the season. And when a team is bottom third of the league, most matchups look tough anyway. 1 1 Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 Who is all going to the home opener? This will be my 15th straight (minus COVID). 1 Quote
Hongbit Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, KL2 said: Really they are gonna be 10 games worse than last year where the entire team was hurt and so dramatically underperformed their career norms? That seems unlikely I want to be wrong but my gut says that through a combination of bad luck and bad players, the pitching is much worse than ever imagined. I also don’t envision Vierling, Maton, and Meadows being impactful over the course of a long season. Big drop offs from Schoop and Haase aren’t made up by small improvements from Baez and Tork. Greene gets injured again and misses significant time. That’s how I got to 56. Edited March 30, 2023 by Hongbit Quote
casimir Posted March 30, 2023 Author Posted March 30, 2023 12 hours ago, KL2 said: Really they are gonna be 10 games worse than last year where the entire team was hurt and so dramatically underperformed their career norms? That seems unlikely I can see a better team in June/July yield a similar year end record. A couple of variables to consider are the schedule and more games outside of a weak division (hence a tougher overall schedule) and possible trades of Rodriguez/Baez/Boyd among others. But I think it should be a better team for the first 2/3 of the season with expectations of improvements from Greene/Torkleson, rebounds from MeadowsA/Baez, better positional depth, and hopefully not using 57 different pitchers. Quote
mtutiger Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 I can see the argument for a similar record to 2022. I dont see it for 58 wins Quote
casimir Posted March 30, 2023 Author Posted March 30, 2023 36 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said: Who is all going to the home opener? This will be my 15th straight (minus COVID). Doing the Mud Hens’ opener with fingers crossed. 3 rounds of precipitation are expected, and hopefully the projected window between the first and second holds true. 1 Quote
casimir Posted March 30, 2023 Author Posted March 30, 2023 29 minutes ago, Hongbit said: I want to be wrong but my gut says that through a combination of bad luck and bad players, the pitching is much worse than ever imagined. I also don’t envision Vierling, Maton, and Meadows being impactful over the course of a long season. Big drop offs from Schoop and Haase aren’t made up by small improvements from Baez and Tork. Greene gets injured again and misses significant time. That’s how I got to 56. Don’t worry, you’ll be wrong. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 Why do they need tomorrow off. They're playing in a dome ! 2 Quote
Hongbit Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 5 minutes ago, mtutiger said: I can see the argument for a similar record to 2022. I dont see it for 58 wins Not surprised. Logically it doesn’t make sense to you. We see illogical events happen all the time in the world and many smart people still can’t accept the possibility that something that shouldn’t happen does either through circumstance, luck, anomaly, or maybe something that can’t be explained. 1 Quote
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