03/26/2026 4:10pm EDT Detroit Tigers at San Diego Padres

[tiger2022]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

They also led the majors in OOB (outs on the bases).  They were good overall, but they didn't have a historic baserunning season like a lot of people keep saying.  Aggressiveness is good, but it comes with a cost.  

I remember McKinstry getting thrown out at 3rd to make the final out a few times last year.  He looked like a little leaguer out there.  The saying "you never want to make the first or third out at third" exists for a reason.

[tiger2022]

7 hours ago, 4hzglory said:

Deleuter is interesting though, was that truly his debut as he had 22 at bats in the postseason last year.

He went deep his first at bat tonight

[casimir]

10 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Miggy...Gibby? Those are parts of their names and easy to say and spell. Any more that a 5 letter name for a great player deserves a nickname. Whether it's a part of their name or not.

Not great nicknames.

[casimir]

10 hours ago, tiger2022 said:

I remember McKinstry getting thrown out at 3rd to make the final out a few times last year.  He looked like a little leaguer out there.  The saying "you never want to make the first or third out at third" exists for a reason.

Would you prefer them run station to station?  Sometimes in a competition one side takes risks but the other side does better.  That’s the nature of it.

[TigerNation]

15 hours ago, casimir said:

I want to say the best nicknames aren’t derivatives of given names.  Cool Papa.  Big Unit.  Babe.  Catfish.  Pudge.  Three Finger.

But then some are so simplistic and the literal sound of the nickname is good.  Something like Yaz.  Or Teddy Ballgame.

A lot of fans on reddit are calling him the professor, in reference to the Harry Potter character.

[Tiger337]

3 hours ago, casimir said:

Not great nicknames.

Those are names that you use for your friends/teammates. These guys are not our friends.  Universal nicknames that fans use are different.  

[tiger2022]

6 hours ago, casimir said:

Would you prefer them run station to station?  Sometimes in a competition one side takes risks but the other side does better.  That’s the nature of it.

So the options are station to station or do dumbass stuff?  How about sound base running fundamentals?

I prefer them to not do dumbass things like get thrown out at 3rd to end the inning.  That is the absolute dumbest thing to do on the basepaths.

 

 

Edited Saturday at 05:53 PM by tiger2022

[casimir]

3 hours ago, tiger2022 said:

So the options are station to station or do dumbass stuff?  How about sound base running fundamentals?

I prefer them to not do dumbass things like get thrown out at 3rd to end the inning.  That is the absolute dumbest thing to do on the basepaths.

 

 

I don’t mind aggressive base running.  If it yields more outs than runs, then obviously they need to rethink things.  But they’re not there yet, so I’m not worried.