2025-2026 Tigers Off Season Thread

[chasfh]

23 hours ago, Edman85 said:

I mean this in the nicest way possible.

People who criticize minor league free agent signings are tacitly admitting their limits of baseball roster management knowledge.

You are correct. It is also correct that you habituate a forum loaded with participants who grew up during the greatest period of year-to-year roster retention in big league history, and it can be hard to think beyond the principles of the game you committed to memory when you were eleven. 

[chasfh]

22 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I think a lot of time when people mock minor league or waiver acquisitions, they are just being humorous and not being critical.  

I think this is sometimes true and not always true. 

[Tiger337]

7 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think this is sometimes true and not always true. 

Just like everything else in the world.  

[Tiger337]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

You are correct. It is also correct that you habituate a forum loaded with participants who grew up during the greatest period of year-to-year roster retention in big league history, and it can be hard to think beyond the principles of the game you committed to memory when you were eleven. 

Edman will probably learn that lesson in 20 years! Hopefully, he will see another Tigers championship by then.  And hopefully, you and are still able to understand what's happening at that time.  

[chasfh]

19 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Only a few starters have been signed by any team. There are still several starters available.

I’m thinking the market is waiting for prices to come down, since they’ve been high so far. 

[Edman85]

31 minutes ago, chasfh said:

You are correct. It is also correct that you habituate a forum loaded with participants who grew up during the greatest period of year-to-year roster retention in big league history, and it can be hard to think beyond the principles of the game you committed to memory when you were eleven. 

I turned 11 Randy Smith's first season, so maybe that's why this doesn't include me? 😄

[Edman85]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I’m thinking the market is waiting for prices to come down, since they’ve been high so far. 

Also teams trying to maximize their depth and not DFA players may be waiting until they can 60-day some guys when pitchers and catchers report in a month.

[Tiger337]

11 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

I turned 11 Randy Smith's first season, so maybe that's why this doesn't include me? 😄

I turned 11 after the 1973 season, so I saw a 90 loss season at age 11 and 102 loss season at age 12.  My Tigers glory years were from age 13 (Mark Fidrych in 1976) to age 23 (1987, the best Tigers pennant race ever).  

[oblong]

I turned 11 during the break between the '84 ALCS and WS.  I literally grew up with the '84 team.  I remember going out to the airport to some parking lot to meet them after the '81 season when they had a chance to make the playoffs.  Got a bunch of autographs.  It seemed so easy to be a baseball fan.  You watch them get better then they'll win.  For '87 I had my first girlfriend and was kind of distracted so I didn't get into that team's run like I should have.  It's a big regret.  I was at game 5 but it was on a field trip with church (My school let us go since I went to a churchy school)  It was a day game.

So yeah.... piece of cake.  I'm 52 and still waiting. 

[kdog]

Tigers will appear on Peacock a bunch

[kdog]

Peacock will have the exclusive on July 5th

[kdog]

 

[Edman85]

58 minutes ago, kdog said:

Tigers will appear on Peacock a bunch

 

It tells you a bit where the Tigers stand in TV eyes that all their Sunday Night games are in the Peacock part of the season (i.e., when NBC has Sunday Night NBA) and not the NBC stretch that resembles the recent ESPN Sunday Night big market games.

 

[papalawrence]

37 minutes ago, kdog said:

 

He's going to hit the WS game 7, 12th inning, 3-run homer off of Holton.

[Sports_Freak]

6 hours ago, Edman85 said:

 

It tells you a bit where the Tigers stand in TV eyes that all their Sunday Night games are in the Peacock part of the season (i.e., when NBC has Sunday Night NBA) and not the NBC stretch that resembles the recent ESPN Sunday Night big market games.

 

Who had games on streaming last season? Wasn't it Amazon Prime? Apple TV? I hope these NBC and Peacock games are on local NBC channels in the Detroit market.