5/1/25 9:38PM Tigers @ Angels

[RandyMarsh]

Tork bomb! 

[holygoat]

TORK!

+4 RAB

[Sports_Freak]

Remember last inning when the Angels were winning 4-2? I was getting nervous.

[gehringer_2]

Well, the FO sure missed the chance to get one more inning out of Maeda....

[Tiger337]

31 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

When Vierling is back do you sit Sweeney most nights and put Javy at SS?

Vierling, Greene and McKinstry in the outfield, Carpenter DH, Baez 3B, Sweeney SS.  

[Tigermojo]

We should just score eight runs in the last two innings all the time.

[holygoat]

When did we sign Jesus?

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

Vierling, Greene and McKinstry in the outfield, Carpenter DH, Baez 3B, Sweeney SS.  

Seriously, Javy might be a better CF than Vierling. Play Vierling at 3B against a heavy LH hitting team with Javy in CF, swap them against LHP with Ibanez getting some AB in there also.

[Sports_Freak]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

Vierling, Greene and McKinstry in the outfield, Carpenter DH, Baez 3B, Sweeney SS.  

Hinch has so many pieces he can move around the field. And they're quality players that can play a good defense at multiple positions. Meadows needs to get back and re-claim CF. Zach may just have to go back filling in where needed and giving Hinch the choice of multiple moves.

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, holygoat said:

When did we sign Jesus?

It's a mountain man...

[gehringer_2]

When did we sign Grizzly Adams?

[Tiger337]

Tork has been scuffling, but if he keeps hitting home runs and drawing walks, he'll be valuable.  Midway between 2023 and the first month of this year would be good.  

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Seriously, Javy might be a better CF than Vierling

might Vierling be a better 3B than Javy, too? I don't really trust Javy throwing in the infield all that much.

[holygoat]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

It's a mountain man...

He should get along great with Kerry Carpenter.

[Tigermojo]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

When did we sign Grizzly Adams?

 

[RandyMarsh]

Kinda hard to believe but this is our first game with double digit runs scored. 

[Tigermojo]

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

WOOP WOOP!

that got pretty fun toward then end!

[Tiger337]

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Seriously, Javy might be a better CF than Vierling. Play Vierling at 3B against a heavy LH hitting team with Javy in CF, swap them against LHP with Ibanez getting some AB in there also.

Either way is fine with me.  Hinch is going to move them around anyway.  But don't bench Sweeney and don't let Jung get in the way of anyone until he shows he can hit.  

[guy incognito]

Nice start to the month. 👍

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

2 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Kinda hard to believe but this is our first game with double digit runs scored. 

maybe the Tigers are getting better at "saving some for the next game".

[Tiger337]

4 minutes ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

might Vierling be a better 3B than Javy, too? I don't really trust Javy throwing in the infield all that much.

Possibly.  I feel like Baez is athletic enough to play either position if he keeps his head in the game, but I don't really have a preference.  

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Possibly.  I feel like Baez is athletic enough to play either position if he keeps his head in the game, but I don't really have a preference.  

so much of this season hangs on whether Torkelson and Baez can keep doing what they are doing. They've been a huge boost. You could say the same for McKinstry but I have no doubt that in his case he will cool down - it may still be a career year for him just from the boost off this start, but he's the one player I'll bank on coming at least most of the way back to earth.

Edited yesterday at 04:29 AM by gehringer_2

[RandyMarsh]

This is the Tigers 11th win by 4 or more runs and 7th by 5+ runs. 

[RandyMarsh]

14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

so much of this season hangs on whether Torkelson and Baez can keep doing what they are doing. They've been a huge boost. You could say the same for McKinstry but I have no doubt that in his case he will cool down - it may still be a career year for him just from the boost off this start, but he's the one player I'll bank on coming at least most of the way back to earth.

We've also got about a 110 OPS+ collectively from our catching trio of Dingler, Rogers and Nido which probably isn't sustainable so they are due for a regression as well. On the flip side we have Vierling and hopefully Meadows coming back and I think we can expect more from Keith, Sweeney and Greene so that could help offset that. But like you said the key for the offense is Tork and Baez, if both can continue to hit at the levels they are then this can be a top 10ish offense which is more than enough if our pitching holds up like we expect it to.