2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[papalawrence]

2 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Looks good to me!

[theroundsquare]

Framber looks short compared to all those guys

[Tiger337]

13 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Looks good to me!

Valdez looks like a midget next to those guys.  No wonder he has anger issues.  

[Tigermojo]

2 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Valdez looks like a midget next to those guys.  No wonder he has anger issues.  

It's those pompous catchers thinking they are so smart. Like they could be managers or something. 

[Biff Mayhem]

5 minutes ago, theroundsquare said:

Framber looks short compared to all those guys

Cabrera is going to visit the team just so he can pick him up. 

[Motor City Sonics]

1 hour ago, papalawrence said:

Looks good to me!

But JV and Framber are not standing together.   They must have hated each other in Houston.  This is a problem.  Fractured locker room.  Fist fights, dirty looks.    Man, and I was so excited yesterday. 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

52 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

But JV and Framber are not standing together.   They must have hated each other in Houston.  This is a problem.  Fractured locker room.  Fist fights, dirty looks.    Man, and I was so excited yesterday. 

And Casey not in any Tigers gear. Trade confirmed.

[Stormin]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Valdez looks like a midget next to those guys.  No wonder he has anger issues.  

Greenberg said short people are not angry.  He also said Tiger337 is a #$@&%*!

 

[oblong]

Quarter zips.  

[IdahoBert]

I haven’t been this excited in years. Having JV back is like something out of a storybook. I just never thought there was any chance of him wearing a Tigers uniform again. I just hope our position players remember how to hit the ball this year.

[theroundsquare]

To remember, they'd have to have known in the first place . . . 

[IdahoBert]

Framber is 5‘11“ and JV is 6‘5“. At 5‘9“ I would look short compared to Framber although I weigh 30 pounds less.

[chasfh]

6 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Framber is 5‘11“ and JV is 6‘5“. At 5‘9“ I would look short compared to Framber although I weigh 30 pounds less.

Betcha Framber is also 5'9". Baseball is notorious to adding inches to a player's height. 

[IdahoBert]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Betcha Framber is also 5'9". Baseball is notorious to adding inches to a player's height. 

So I guess that 230 pounds is muscle mass…

[tiger2022]

Framber looks like he is on the Miggy workout routine 

[Edman85]

8 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Betcha Framber is also 5'9". Baseball is notorious to adding inches to a player's height. 

Not since the auto zone came in...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-get-small-hundreds-of-minor-leaguers-have-shrunk/

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Edman85 said:

Not since the auto zone came in...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-get-small-hundreds-of-minor-leaguers-have-shrunk/

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Does this mean that all heights reported for all major leaguers are now dead balls accurate?

[tiger2022]

I was 5-11 and 175 lbs as a junior in high school and met Whitaker and Trammell.  Trammell is listed at 6-0, 165 lbs and Whitaker at 5-11, 160 lbs.  The weights might have been correct but I was at least 2 inches taller than Whitaker and a good inch taller than Trammell.  They were more like 5-9 or 5-10.

[theroundsquare]

it's not just mlb.  a couple years ago -- maybe a few years ago -- i was walking the streets of birmingham and i ended up next to kyrie irving at a crosswalk.  i am 5'10" on my best day.  i was eye to eye with that dude 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Quarter zips.  

A smedium, too.

[casimir]

4 hours ago, Tenacious D said:

Do you think Verlander had to have the shower shoes talk with either Mize or Skubal?

[casimir]

I’ve heard on a few podcasts that Valdez can be a bit …… what’s the best way to put it, …. He’s got some personality traits, shall we say.  But I suppose Hinch had him before, so he probably knows what to expect, how to deal with him.

But this appears to be a solid rotation, one that could rival 2013’s Verlander, Scherzer, Sanchez, Fister, and Porcello?  It’s tough to imagine quite the same thing since pitching has evolved so much since then.  But could this group stay healthy enough to start 140+ games?  Before you look it up, the previous quintet tossed 156 starts with Jose Alvarez starting the other 6.

[Tenacious D]

I’m very excited for Verlander to be back, but if we’re being honest, Reese is probably a better pitcher at this point in their careers.

[lordstanley]

38 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

I’m very excited for Verlander to be back, but if we’re being honest, Reese is probably a better pitcher at this point in their careers.

Probably, but I know that Olson is DEFINITELY better than Charlie Morton. So a great what if is what if the Tigers had acquired JV not Morton at least year’s deadline. I get why they didn’t, JV looked done at the All Star break, but the division race and the playoff series were close enough to imagine JV possibly having made a difference. 

[Sports_Freak]

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Valdez looks like a midget next to those guys.  No wonder he has anger issues.  

I dont think midget is politically correct. Go with the Rod Allen description of Jose Altuve...."Itty Bitty Fella"