3/26 @ 1:05 Phillies @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Publix Field At Joker Marchant Stadium Lakeland, FL

Weather

TV: Tigers Det Radio: WXYT

RHP Zach Eflin vs RHP Matt Manning

 

 

Edited March 26, 2022 by Tigeraholic1

[Tigeraholic1]

[Tigeraholic1]

Snow on the ground, BUT Dan and Jim  doing the mlb TV game priceless…

[Tigeraholic1]

Manning….

[gehringer_2]

Manning getting banged around in the 2nd.

[gehringer_2]

The funny thing about errors. Schoop fields the ball, Manning's out of the inning and who know if those guys do the same thing leading off the 3rd or not.

[Tigeraholic1]

Two quick outs and then.

[gehringer_2]

Just now, Tigeraholic1 said:

Two quick outs and then.

then...a sinker that didn't.

[Tigeraholic1]

Love this lineup. 

[gehringer_2]

going to be a major pet peeve on the MLB audio casts. Commercials are running about 6 db louder than the programming.

[gehringer_2]

torkelson's plate discipline is tremendous in such a young hitter. 8 pitches in that at bat (walk), all pretty close. He took every pitch out of the zone, swung (and fouled off) every pitch in the zone.

Edited March 26, 2022 by gehringer_2

[Tigeraholic1]

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

torkelson's plate discipline is tremendous in such a young hitter. 8 pitches in that at bat (walk), all pretty close. He took every pitch out of the zone, swung (and fouled off) every pitch in the zone.

[gehringer_2]

RBI for Riley. Kid just might make the majors.

[Scottwood]

How long until Cabrera drops to 8th in the lineup?

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, Scottwood said:

How long until Cabrera drops to 8th in the lineup?

Miguel hasn't looked too bad he last couple of days - a couple line drives and a couple of walks. Truth is Miguel hit 280 over his last 450 PA last season, so if he does that again that will keep him out of the 8 spot. OTOH, another month like his previous April and the fans will be screaming for a buyout!

[gehringer_2]

Bad Phillies BP is bad. Tigers now with a dozen.

[Tiger337]

37 minutes ago, Scottwood said:

How long until Cabrera drops to 8th in the lineup?

Probably never.  You can't disrespect the veteran.  Pudge Rodriguez pouted all season when Trammell took him out of the third spot.  

[Sports_Freak]

20 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Miguel hasn't looked too bad he last couple of days - a couple line drives and a couple of walks. Truth is Miguel hit 280 over his last 450 PA last season, so if he does that again that will keep him out of the 8 spot. OTOH, another month like his previous April and the fans will be screaming for a buyout!

Will Hinch have the stones to drop him in the order? And Miggy isn't going anywhere until he gets hit # 3000.

[Tigeraholic1]

Dan and Jim talking about how bad Phillies are and ripping current pitcher for going so high in the draft. Then moved discussion to Baltimore (tomorrows game) and how bad they look to be. 

[Tiger337]

21 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Miguel hasn't looked too bad he last couple of days - a couple line drives and a couple of walks. Truth is Miguel hit 280 over his last 450 PA last season, so if he does that again that will keep him out of the 8 spot. OTOH, another month like his previous April and the fans will be screaming for a buyout!

We get excited whenever he goes on a little hot streak because we remember how great he was and we hope he makes a comeback, but it's not going to happen.  He had a great career, but now he's just hanging on way past his utility.  He's been a replacement level player the last five years.   I'd rather see guys like Reyes, Cameron, Hill and Paredes get more at bats.  

[gehringer_2]

18 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Will Hinch have the stones to drop him in the order? And Miggy isn't going anywhere until he gets hit # 3000.

It depends at least in part on whether there are guys hitting well to fill those upper spots as well, but assuming Baez and either Tork or Greene are hitting well, that would put Cabrera in the 6 or 7 spot and I don't think it will be an issue. It seems everyone whose talked to Cabrera this Spring says he's focused on the team getting back to the playoffs. He has enough baseball IQ to appreciate what his team's best lineup should be. 

Last season the Tigers top regular hitters were (with OPS) Jeimer (795), Grossman(772), Badddo(766), Schoop(755), Haase(745). Everyone else was below  700. As I noted, once Miguel pulled out of his initial funk, he OPS'd 747 the rest of the way so he wasn't blocking anyone who should have been higher in the lineup by any significant performance differential. If Baez/Greene/Tork can put up better numbers, I don't see Miguel making noise or Hinch being reluctant to move him down.

Edited March 26, 2022 by gehringer_2

[Scottwood]

Only bad part of spring training has been seeing Fulmer and Chafin lose 3+ MPHs on their pitches and a decline in their stuff. Otherwise, things have gone well for everyone else.

[mtutiger]

Chafin needs more work... he's lost some velocity

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Scottwood said:

Only bad part of spring training has been seeing Fulmer and Chafin lose 3+ MPHs on their pitches and a decline in their stuff. Otherwise, things have gone well for everyone else.

Not worried about Fulmer....yet. 😒

[gehringer_2]

two TDs for  Det, two FGs and a safety for  Philly.

Edited March 26, 2022 by gehringer_2