Tiger Cubs (notes on the minors)

[gehringer_2]

8 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Agree. Our arms will be very average but we should catch everything. 

Carpenter throws pretty well, probably the best of the bunch with Perez in Toledo. Vierlings arm may still be good  but we'll have to see.

OTOH, calling Riley's arm average is a stretch. He's firmly in the noodle category.

[Cruzer1]

Oh, I came by because Harris reported Briceno has a wrist injury and might be out the first half.

[Tigermojo]

7 minutes ago, Cruzer1 said:

Oh, I came by because Harris reported Briceno has a wrist injury and might be out the first half.

He had surgery March 4th for a torn tendon in his right wrist. 

[Cruzer1]

Imo, I think Meadows would be better in RF, and leave Clark in CF. Clark is the long play.

[LongLiveMaroth]

 Toledo Mud Hens 5, Syracuse Mets 1

#2  Max Clark	1-for-3 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K
#5  Max Anderson	1-for-3 | 1 H, 0 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K
#26  Eduardo Valencia	0-for-3 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K

[NorthWoods]

5 hours ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

 Toledo Mud Hens 5, Syracuse Mets 1

#2  Max Clark	1-for-3 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K
#5  Max Anderson	1-for-3 | 1 H, 0 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K
#26  Eduardo Valencia	0-for-3 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K

And a beautiful throw into 2nd for Clark.

https://x.com/tigersMLreport/status/2039405219507736892?s=20

[LongLiveMaroth]

 Toledo Mud Hens 2, Syracuse Mets 4

#2  Max Clark	2-for-5 | 2 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K (2 2B)
#26  Eduardo Valencia	0-for-4 | 0 H, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K
#27  Trei Cruz	1-for-3 | 1 H, 1 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K (1 2B)

 

 

[Edman85]

Bits and pieces from the transactions logs and roster pages... Josue Briceno, Jack Penney, Marco Jimenez, and Michael Oliveto are among those minor leaguers on the 60-Day IL.

[RatkoVarda]

WMI opens tonight, coming off a championship and regular season where they won over 70% of their games.

Pacheco appears to still be on WMI roster; this would be his 5th year there; seems cruel to not promote him 

[Tiger337]

On 3/30/2026 at 5:31 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Carpenter throws pretty well, probably the best of the bunch with Perez in Toledo. Vierlings arm may still be good  but we'll have to see.

OTOH, calling Riley's arm average is a stretch. He's firmly in the noodle category.

I have long noticed that fans who watched baseball in the 60s talk a lot about outfield arms.  More recent fans talk more about range and fans of some eras don't look at defense much at all.  I am not being critical.  Arms are important, but it's just something I'm curious about.  Is that something that was emphasized more in the 60s?  

[tiger2022]

Arms are like guys who are long drivers in golf.  It's nice but isn't necessary.  A lot of guys don't run on the big arms.

Johnny Damon played a long time in the league and could barely get the ball to the infield.  It's always funny to watch the play where Manny Ramirez cut his throw off.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I have long noticed that fans who watched baseball in the 60s talk a lot about outfield arms.  More recent fans talk more about range and fans of some eras don't look at defense much at all.  I am not being critical.  Arms are important, but it's just something I'm curious about.  Is that something that was emphasized more in the 60s?  

Back in the day you still had some huge ball parks, Cleveland, Polo grounds in center, Tigers in CF, the original LF at Yankee stadium,  Fenway in RC, There was a lot more opportunity to hit balls a long way that were going to stay in play, and for those teams in those parks big OF arms were more important. And I think it's also true that guys did a lot less power training. I think the rise of cookie cutter short OF ballparks and the change in training toward pure power lifting for HR hitting just eliminated throwing as skill for most OFs for a long period.  I think today with much more sophisticated training, we again see more guys who train for HR strength but maintain the elasticity needed to keep their throwing  arms. And my very casual impression is that there has almost been a renaissance in the number of guys out there today who do throw well from the OF. The Tigers just don't have any of them - beyond maybe Kerry or when we put a regular SS/3B out there, and even then its not quite the same kind of throw.

Edited 4 minutes ago by gehringer_2