2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Reading up on ABS and I didn’t realize they are incorporating a plane in the middle of the plate where the ball must pass.   A pitch that just catches the front corner of the plate is not a strike.   The ball has to be in the strike zone when 8.5 inches back of the front of the plate.   That will be very interesting especially with some of the nasty sweepers and other breaking balls out there . 

Thanks for pointing this out. We had noted this last year but it was easy to get past people. There was no way they could use a 3-D representation of the plate area where not only your example of catching just the front corner would be a strike, but also a floater that comes in and passes you up around your eyes clips the back of the plate area for a strike.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

Miggy's in camp.

Now we know he's in for the win.

[Tiger337]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don't hate Avila, either. What I do hate is when people insist that Avila deserves as much as or more credit than Harris for the recent run of Tigers' success, and there were plenty of people here insisting as much.

I think it's impossible to measure how much each one deserves for 2024-2025.  You seemed to want to give Harris 100% credit which I don't agree with.  For 2026, His impact is going up substantially in my mind.  

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2 hours ago, alex said:

All IMHO and perhaps another thread for another day. MLB really needs to look at having less games played (ex 150), bye-weekends for each team (ex 2 per team per season), maybe scheduled DHs 1-2 a year so more off days. Maybe 27-28 man rosters (at least). All of this for more actual rest and recovery time as the players of today are so fine tuned physically they actually, from that standpoint, are more readily over taxed/trained and their bodies are simply breaking down faster (the travel days and time zone changes are hard as well).

The increased IL times that teams are all using this day and age, again IMHO, are proof of this. Maybe the next CBA will consider some of these mentioned things.

 

I will reject this idea up to the very moment they announce it's going to be implemented.