Kevin McGonigle is...

[Jason_R]

He won the game for them last night, despite having a 405 foot bomb robbed from him on a highlight reel catch. Amazing. 

[roarintiger1]

20 minutes ago, casimir said:

What do I know, I’m a hack.  But his plate appearances are so good so far.  Good balance at the plate.  Good eye for the strike zone.  Can get deep into counts (fouled off quite a few with 2 strikes) or get in and rip it early.

Yes, small sample size.  Teams probably don’t have enough of a book on him.  But very encouraging early on.

If he has a weakness, the rest of MLB will find it.  But in the meantime, enjoy the ride.................

[IdahoBert]

When you think of guys who got good for a while and you didn’t expect it, names like Chris Shelton and Brennan Bosch come to mind. Their short-lived flashes of brilliance didn’t last. 

But Kevin has been on the radar from the start and has been expected to excel and overall we can reasonably expect him to rise to the occasion even though there will have to be a learning curve factored in here. 

I think we have good reason to believe we have more than a diamond in the rough on our hands here. 
 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, roarintiger1 said:

If he has a weakness, the rest of MLB will find it.  But in the meantime, enjoy the ride.................

I don't know if Peralta was just trying to go away and cross him up after trying and failing to tie him up inside and left it too much over the plate, or if he was just giving in and throwing him a 'here it is hit it pitch',  but either way,  Peralta threw him exactly one decent pitch to hit in that AB,  and to McGonigle's credit, he didn't miss it.

Edited 3 hours ago by gehringer_2

[NorthWoods]

The only question left is if he goes in the HoF with a Tigers hat?

[Edman85]

On 3/20/2026 at 8:20 AM, Edman85 said:

... will post 5+ fWAR this year.

... Will be unanimous AL ROY

 

 

Did I say this year? I meant this March.

[monkeytargets39]

…is on pace for a 24 WAR season

[gehringer_2]

51 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

When you think of guys who got good for a while and you didn’t expect it, names like Chris Shelton and Brennan Bosch come to mind. Their short-lived flashes of brilliance didn’t last. 

But Kevin has been on the radar from the start and has been expected to excel and overall we can reasonably expect him to rise to the occasion even though there will have to be a learning curve factored in here. 

I think we have good reason to believe we have more than a diamond in the rough on our hands here. 
 

 

It's two days, he may be playing on unsustainable adrenalin - in fact he is certainly playing on unsustainable adrenalin. So he's going to come down off the cloud, but right now he is high enough he can come down quite a way from the last two days and still be pretty good.

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[casimir]

13 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

The only question left is if he goes in the HoF with a Tigers hat?

Nope, not if, when.