04/20/2026 11:10a EDT Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox

[Motor City Sonics]

Just now, Graterol said:

Anderson needs to go to Toledo when Verlander is back. 

He'd have to go through waivers first.   No way he'd make it.  No Friggin' Way. 

 

I don't think Verlander is coming back until it's consistently 80 degrees out. 

[Hongbit]

3 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

He'd have to go through waivers first.   No way he'd make it.  No Friggin' Way. 

 

The Doosan Bears would claim him in a heartbeat. 

[IdahoBert]

40 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

tour de france riders close, though mostly artificially enhanced

I don’t think that’s true anymore. It used to be, but all the secret secrets have been revealed and they test for them. That doesn’t make up, however, for the studied conceit that the teams, their physicians and the UCI itself all okayed. 

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

McGonigle isn't allowed to buy dinner anymore...

I heard he didnt, Skubal picked up the check. Keven to buy dinner...date TBD.

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I've thought of that but Flaherty is useless in the pen. Not even for long relief, if he can't throw strikes.

DD was talking about Jack usually losing it after 10 more batters - if that were true you might able to use him in long relief in place of the way Hinch wants to use Anderson, but the 10 batters in thing certainly wasn't true tonight - 3 walks in the 1st 7 batters.

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I don’t think that’s true anymore. It used to be, but all the secret secrets have been revealed and they test for them. That doesn’t make up, however, for the studied conceit that the teams, their physicians and the UCI itself all okayed. 

Possibly for now, but in general sport only tends to be clean temporarily in the aftermath of each crackdown, then in pretty short order the miscreants regain their lead over the gendarmes. 

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

The winner of the marathon ran an average time of 4:39 per mile.  Elite marathon runners might be the most amazing athletes in all of sports.  

I can do a 35s 200m, barely. I would have to be full out to even approach a 70s 400m and likely would fail. No way I can do a 2:20 800m. So if I sprinted I might have a chance of keeping up with the leaders for the first 1 minute out of a 121 minute race, lol. 

Edited 7 hours ago by lordstanley

[monkeytargets39]

Do we have an estimated time table on Melton?

[Tiger337]

6 minutes ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Do we have an estimated time table on Melton?

Injured pitchers do not have time tables.  They are back when they are back.  

[chasfh]

So we move Flaherty to the pen and he's replaced in the rotation by ... whom, again?

[Tiger337]

Just now, chasfh said:

So we move Flaherty to the pen and he's replaced in the rotation by ... whom, again?

Drew Anderson.  He was lights out in Korea last year.  

[Sports_Freak]

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

DD was talking about Jack usually losing it after 10 more batters - if that were true you might able to use him in long relief in place of the way Hinch wants to use Anderson, but the 10 batters in thing certainly wasn't true tonight - 3 walks in the 1st 7 batters.

Pitchers like that are useless, especially with the 3 hitter rule for relief pitchers. There's nothing worse than a guy coming in wild and walking hitters.

[Tiger337]

Flaherty is not typically this wild.  Unless he has some kind of injury, he should settle down.  He'll probably always be inconsistent, but he won't issue 6+ bb/9 IP.   

[Screwball]

You can never have too much pitching. <ducks>

[casimir]

6 hours ago, Hongbit said:

I wonder how things would’ve ended up had AJ not insisted on continuing to send out a non major league pitcher into a major league game.

7 appearances - 6 with earned runs allowed.   This can not continue.   I don’t care how much Harris gave him.  He must be DFA. 

I blame Avila.

[Screwball]

7 minutes ago, Screwball said:

You can never have too much pitching. <ducks>

And they know this, and have since Moby **** was a minnow. I guess you can't find them, don't know how to find them, or develop them.

I always thought Roger Craig was a good teacher. YMMV.

[Tiger337]

Just now, Screwball said:

And they know this, and have since Moby **** was a minnow. I guess you can't find them, don't know how to find them, or develop them.

I always thought Roger Craig was a good teacher. YMMV.

Nobody can develop enough of them.  There are 30 teams and 13 pitchers per staff.  That's 390 pitchers and a third of them will get injured during the year.  That's a lot of elite arms.  

 

[monkeytargets39]

I’d be a lot more Gung-ho about dumping Anderson if we actually had someone knocking on the door to replace him.

Aside from Burch Smith who is 36, there’s not much impressive pitching going on down in Toledo.  Maybe once SGL finds a groove, or if they want to bring up Mattison just to have him be the 13th pitcher.

 

[Screwball]

10 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Nobody can develop enough of them.  There are 30 teams and 13 pitchers per staff.  That's 390 pitchers and a third of them will get injured during the year.  That's a lot of elite arms.  

 

Agree. We don't have enough kids playing ball anymore IMO.

Shallow pond.

[monkeytargets39]

35 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Agree. We don't have enough kids playing ball anymore IMO.

Shallow pond.

Surely we can’t be far away from being able to perform Tommy John surgery on fetuses so they can come out of the womb ready to throw yellow hammers.

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

Agree. We don't have enough kids playing ball anymore IMO.

Shallow pond.

The other problem is they have created an environment where the best pitchers pitch 5-6 innings and that forces them to carry 13 pitchers.

[diaspora04]

1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

Surely we can’t be far away from being able to perform Tommy John surgery on fetuses so they can come out of the womb ready to throw yellow hammers.

The elite local high school kids have gone from throwing 92-93 to 99 over the past ten or so years.

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Flaherty is not typically this wild.  Unless he has some kind of injury, he should settle down.  He'll probably always be inconsistent, but he won't issue 6+ bb/9 IP.   

But the problem with him is his game to game consistently. He may have a couple decent starts but then he has one like this one. Typical 5th starter stuff, on a bad team.