4/1/25 9:40PM Tigers @ Mariners

[Tigeraholic1]

T-Mobile Park - Seattle, WA

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Starters:

RHP Casey Mize

RHP Logan Gilbert

 

[Tenacious D]

Revenge of the 1-1, part deux?  Does Casey follow in Tork’s footsteps?

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Revenge of the 1-1, part deux?  Does Casey follow in Tork’s footsteps?

Cautiously optimistic about that.

[RatkoVarda]

jury's still out, but this might end up being a pretty good draft.

[Sports_Freak]

This Tiger team is loaded with Avila acquisitions. Yeah, developed under Harris but we need to give Al Avila some credit....<ducks>

[Motor City Sonics]

1. Justyn-Henry Malloy (R) RF
2. Riley Green (L) LF
3. Spencer Torkelson (R) 1B
4. Kerry Carpenter (L) DH
5. Max Clark (L) CF
6. Kevin McGonigle (L) SS
7. Tharyon Liranzo (S) C
8. Javier Baez (R) 3B
9. Zach McKinstry (L) 2B

[monkeytargets39]

4 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

1. Justyn-Henry Malloy (R) RF
2. Riley Green (L) LF
3. Spencer Torkelson (R) 1B
4. Kerry Carpenter (L) DH
5. Max Clark (L) CF
6. Kevin McGonigle (L) SS
7. Tharyon Liranzo (S) C
8. Javier Baez (R) 3B
9. Zach McKinstry (L) 2B

I believed you until you had Baez batting 8th

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

This Tiger team is loaded with Avila acquisitions. Yeah, developed under Harris but we need to give Al Avila some credit....<ducks>

That's not allowed here,  

[Motor City Sonics]

40 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

That's not allowed here,  

Hey, I think a lot of us now realize that Avila had an eye for talent, but no idea about the right way or staff to develop the talent.   If Al had the current method/coaches, some of the guys that missed, might not have missed.  

 

I worried that it was both not recognizing AND not developing because the track record for position players going all the way back to Randy Smith was dismal.   That includes Dombrowski who painted over his failures with fat contracts and a desperate-to-win owner.    We all bemoan Chris Illitch as cheap, but hold on - he is spending, but not really on the payroll side of it.  They are taking a bit of the Rays approach, but they can't go full Rays because Tiger fans would not tolerate it the way the limited Tampa fanbase does.          If they get close, I mean 1 or 2 players away, he may spend the money to go for it.   We're just nowhere near that right now.    I know we have Max, Kevin, Thayron and Bryce on the way, but we need to be honest with ourselves - if we go 2 for 4 there, we're doing better than most teams would.    Best case is probably 1 player is a star and 2 of those other 3 are serviceable major leaguers.    Wish it wasn't like that, but it pretty much is. 

Edited April 1, 2025 by Motor City Sonics

[Tigermojo]

McKinstry 3B

Greene DH

Tork 1B

Carp LF

Keith 2B

Margot RF

Sweeney SS

Rogers C

Kreidler CF

 

[Sports_Freak]

Will Mize avoid giving up a gopher ball? Inquiring minds wanna know.

[monkeytargets39]

Skubal with long hair looks odd

[Tenacious D]

Let’s send Gilbert to the minors

[monkeytargets39]

Couple of good swings so far

[monkeytargets39]

Carp!  1-0

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

and Keith picks up Carp, 2-0

[monkeytargets39]

Mariners defense is atrocious 

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

This Tiger team is loaded with Avila acquisitions. Yeah, developed under Harris but we need to give Al Avila some credit....<ducks>

Fire Scott Harris. 

[chasfh]

They might have to consider changing the curly fries promotion to four or five runs.

[IdahoBert]

I’m glad I didn’t make the idiot observation about “saving some runs for this game“ because we scored so many in the last. Even Colt Keith is getting into it. 

[monkeytargets39]

I thought that hit him for sure

[chasfh]

I don’t know, Zach might have been able to get the guy at second if he were seamless about it.

[IdahoBert]

I can never watch these games the Tigers play against the Mariners because they are blacked out for me because I’m in their viewing area and I don’t have cable and I’m not willing to give Root sports $19.99 a month without Cable to watch the Tigers play the Mariners six times a year.

The Mariners viewing era area is very huge and includes Washington, Oregon, Montana, Alaska and much of of Idaho except the eastern part of the state that falls within the Rockies viewing area. 

[chasfh]

Only one inning, but Casey Mize looks born again hard like he did in spring.

[Dan Gilmore]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

I can never watch these games the Tigers play against the Mariners because they are blacked out for me because I’m in their viewing area and I don’t have cable and I’m not willing to give Root sports $19.99 a month without Cable to watch the Tigers play the Mariners six times a year.

The Mariners viewing era area is very huge and includes Washington, Oregon, Montana, Alaska and much of of Idaho except the eastern part of the state that falls within the Rockies viewing area. 

My story as well.