2026 Exhibition Spring Games

[IdahoBert]

A full strength Tigers team goes against a Phillies split squad in Lakeland tomorrow February 27 with Flaherty pitching. Now, if I were a bettin’ man which I am not, I would think that the Tigers have a good chance of winning that game. Allegedly there will be a radio broadcast for the Tigers. 

[Tenacious D]

Someday in late Fall, we will have a good laugh about our spring training record.

I say get the losses out of our system right now.

[Motor City Sonics]

People actually bet on spring training games.    See, to me that is an absolute indication that you have a gambling addiction.    Betting on games where the teams don't even care if they win or lose.  

[gehringer_2]

This is the new Tiger 'rope-a-dope' strategy to fix their terrible April starts. Make sure none of the teams they play early in the season take them seriously.

they've got some work to do on their challenges. They lost 2 of 3 today, only Liranzo got one right.

[IdahoBert]

Right now, I’m watching the White Sox play the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch in Glendale - a facility the two teams share - and the place seats 13,000 but there’s lots and lots and lots of empty seats and the berm is sparsely populated.

But in the Dodgers defense, like they need to be defended, they are playing the White Sox. I guess if they were playing another NL West team there might be more people there.

[4hzglory]

33 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

This is the new Tiger 'rope-a-dope' strategy to fix their terrible April starts. Make sure none of the teams they play early in the season take them seriously.

they've got some work to do on their challenges. They lost 2 of 3 today, only Liranzo got one right.

To be fair, Keith’s had a very small fraction of the ball clip the zone.  And the Orioles badly missed their 1 challenge 

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

People actually bet on spring training games.    See, to me that is an absolute indication that you have a gambling addiction.    Betting on games where the teams don't even care if they win or lose.  

I was in line at a drive thru recently and I could clearly see the dash mounted phone of the car in front of me. Dude was playing online slots at 7:30 am. 
 

Degenerate. 

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

Right now, I’m watching the White Sox play the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch in Glendale - a facility the two teams share - and the place seats 13,000 but there’s lots and lots and lots of empty seats and the berm is sparsely populated.

But in the Dodgers defense, like they need to be defended, they are playing the White Sox. I guess if they were playing another NL West team there might be more people there.

With a 90 degree real-feel temp, most folks aren't venturing out in the afternoon, even if they are snowbirds from Berwyn, IL.

We did a Spring Training Trip to AZ several years ago. Went to a game at HOHoCam (??) when the Cubs played there. Metal seats under a partial awning. It was brutal. 

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

With a 90 degree real-feel temp, most folks aren't venturing out in the afternoon, even if they are snowbirds from Berwyn, IL.

We did a Spring Training Trip to AZ several years ago. Went to a game at HOHoCam (??) when the Cubs played there. Metal seats under a partial awning. It was brutal. 

I lived in Tucson for 13 years from 1974 to 1987 but Tucson is characteristically 10° cooler than the Phoenix Metro area and in Tucson at least, February and March were exquisite.  

And when I went to spring training baseball games in Tucson, it was never a hot day. But we in Tucson always lived by the motto “Phoenix sucks!” So this might still be the case and even more so now. 

[1984Echoes]

6 hours ago, 4hzglory said:

My view from the office this afternoon 

Are you down here in Lakeland 4hz?

For how long?

(OR: Do you live down here?)

[1984Echoes]

Or are you in Dunedin?

[casimir]

6 hours ago, 4hzglory said:

My view from the office this afternoon 

Nice area.

[1984Echoes]

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I agree they are not an F (the writer probably just looked at stolen bases), but I also think their baserunning achievements were overrated last year.  They led MLB in extra bases taken on hits which is great, but they also led the league in OOB (runner put out making a baserunning play)...

 

Is XBT% extra base success rate?

The Tigers look like they led in this too. At 53%. The next was Colorado at 47%. So they are both more prolific as well as more efficient than any other team in MLB...

But should we look at this like base-stealing? 75% or higher is good... less than that is not so good? And not recommended?

I think I would defer to the highest success rate in MLB but also... I just wish Cora could recognize futile or stupid efforts a little more and hold back the runner (from certain outs) once in a while. 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by 1984Echoes

[Tigermojo]

5 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

 

Is XBT% extra base success rate?

The Tigers look like they led in this too. At 53%. The next was Colorado at 47%. So they are both more prolific as well as more efficient than any other team in MLB...

But should we look at this like base-stealing? 75% or higher is good... less than that is not so good? And not recommended?

I think I would defer to the highest success rate in MLB but also... I just wish Cora could recognize futile or stupid efforts a little more and hold back the runner (from certain outs) once in a while. 

 

 

I don't know about the stats but it's certainly been entertaining to watch. 

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

Are you down here in Lakeland 4hz?

For how long?

(OR: Do you live down here?)

I live in Sarasota, so it was a chance to take the afternoon off.

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

 

Is XBT% extra base success rate?

The Tigers look like they led in this too. At 53%. The next was Colorado at 47%. So they are both more prolific as well as more efficient than any other team in MLB...

But should we look at this like base-stealing? 75% or higher is good... less than that is not so good? And not recommended?

I think I would defer to the highest success rate in MLB but also... I just wish Cora could recognize futile or stupid efforts a little more and hold back the runner (from certain outs) once in a while. 

 

 

XBT% is the percentage of times they took at extra base on a single or two extra bases on a double.  That's the stat that they were raving about all last year.  That's good but they also made a lot of outs on the bases.  Overall, they were successful running the bases, but it wasn't historic.  

[chasfh]

Watching my first Tigers game of the season, at the Orioles, on MLBN. They’re wearing those new blue alternates. They are ugly and cheap-looking. They look like the kind of uniform you get playing for a team in amateur men’s hardball.

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Watching my first Tigers game of the season, at the Orioles, on MLBN. They’re wearing those new blue alternates. They are ugly and cheap-looking. They look like the kind of uniform you get playing for a team in amateur men’s hardball.

when they played Atlanta you virtually couldn't tell the teams apart. I assume they won't do anything that dumb in the regular season but who can be sure anymore?

[Tiger337]

You can't expect them to pay all that money for Valdez and Verlander and give us nice uniforms too.