2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[Edman85]

29 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Well in his defense, the subject of his ire is someone I have spent time with and he really did need to have his nose flattened. Dude was just a jerk. Haven’t seen him in years but is can’t imagine much changed. 

He's a good dude, and I know he lurks here even if he doesn't post. Maybe this will drive him out of the shadows!

[ewsieg]

40 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Tucker is not an elite talent, but he is very good and is significantly better than higginson especially when you put defense into the equation.  And if Tucker can finally stay healthy, he might still become elite.  

Agreed, plus Higgy is ~55 now.  Even if he has kept in shape, no way are we're getting a full season out of him. 

[TigerNation]

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

We had Ryan Raburn to pick up the slack.   You know,  while the team still was in striking distance Ryan couldn't hit a beach ball, but once they were way out of the race - He's an All Star

I am worried about that a bit with Colt Keith.    Dude, you need to hit in April and May at some point if you want to be an every day player.   

Keith had an .881 OPS in May 2024 and an .838 OPS in May 2025.

[tiger2022]

Keith's defense is going to be a huge problem.  And as a DH, I don't think his offense is enough 

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

I bet I'm not the only one who was drawn back to the Tigers and specifically onto the old board by the fast start to 2006. I signed up in June of that year I believe. 20 years now!

I joined in February of 2005. Got tired of all the trolls in newsgroups.

[Shelton]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yeah, some good times on the old forums. It was the father of a player who was on here and said..."dont make me come to Royal Oak to kick your ass." It was a part time outfielder....hazy memory...

It was ferndale

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

How many rotations of the   Skubal-Flaherty-Valdez-Mize-Olson rotation will we get this year

 

What's the over/under that we get all five healthy for five consecutive games

 

I'll say   4.5    

 

 

[casimir]

18 minutes ago, Shelton said:

It was ferndale

Location scold.

[casimir]

6 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Look at the numbers.    He's not much better.      

Tucker's better, but is he that much better?  

Yes, he is.

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, lordstanley said:

 

 

It didn't take long for the "pitching surplus" to work itself out!

[casimir]

3 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

 

 

Bassitt.

[Edman85]

No surprise on Olson... The latest injury report said he was rehabbing... as in not ramping up his throwing at all.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Oh yeah. 

And we also had Grapes who would post a long post with no punctuation and mis-spellings that caused his words to make no sense and I would spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what he was saying that usually made no sense anyway and was sometimes racist or sexist when he did get a thought across from his rambling brain to his keyboard while many people argued with him so I always wondered if he was for real or just a troll. Whew...that's exhausting. 😅😅

I believe his given name was grapestastebasted. 

[chasfh]

58 minutes ago, casimir said:

Bassitt.

Melton.

[theroundsquare]

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Melton.

I bet Anderson gets first crack at it.  Melton may be the up and down guy

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, theroundsquare said:

I bet Anderson gets first crack at it.  Melton may be the up and down guy

We could do worse than that.

[Dan Gilmore]

Banda for the pen?

[Edman85]

16 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Banda for the pen?

40 man crunch is real, unless Olson's injury is going to keep him out into June.

Also, taking on $1.625M might not be wise with the potential cap situation...

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Oh yeah. 

And we also had Grapes who would post a long post with no punctuation and mis-spellings that caused his words to make no sense and I would spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what he was saying that usually made no sense anyway and was sometimes racist or sexist when he did get a thought across from his rambling brain to his keyboard while many people argued with him so I always wondered if he was for real or just a troll. Whew...that's exhausting. 😅😅

Eric Coe wanabes

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[CMU97]

2 hours ago, Shelton said:

It was ferndale

Nice Area.

[Tiger337]

I am pretty sure Grapesbastard was Tyrus/Duane B Sims.  He pretty much admitted it once.  

[NorthWoods]

4 hours ago, lordstanley said:

I bet I'm not the only one who was drawn back to the Tigers and specifically onto the old board by the fast start to 2006. I signed up in June of that year I believe. 20 years now!

After barely paying attention to the late 90's era I was drawn back to the Tigers by the valiant 2003 rally to avoid 120 losses.   Been a full time again ever since.

[IdahoBert]

35 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Eric Coe wanabes

Eric is a good guy. When he was in Missoula, he had part with some of his books and he sent me his best philosophy books.

[IdahoBert]

I jumped on board after the fast start in 2004. I was familiar with Mlive, which was generally awful, and when I found this place, I’ve never looked back. Living 2000 miles from Detroit area media it was easy not to care. Thankfully, the aliens from Kepler-22b sent plans for the Internet to the Very Large Array and now I was re-connected. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

Eric is a good guy. When he was in Missoula, he had part with some of his books and he sent me his best philosophy books.

Giving someone philosophy books is not necessarily a favor.....

Edited 9 minutes ago by gehringer_2