05/24/2026 6:05p EDT Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles

[casimir]

[kdog]

 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

More Zack Short...WHY?

[tiger2022]

Hinch surely hates Colt Keith.  Playing Zach Short just to show how much smarter he is than anyone else

They are pretty much out of the playoff race...how about letting some of the 24 year old left handed hitters try hitting against left handed pitchers?  Can it really be that much worse than letting Short or Jones get at bats?  

Edited 1 hour ago by tiger2022

[gehringer_2]

28 minutes ago, tiger2022 said:

Hinch surely hates Colt Keith.  Playing Zach Short just to show how much smarter he is than anyone else

They are pretty much out of the playoff race...how about letting some of the 24 year old left handed hitters try hitting against left handed pitchers?  Can it really be that much worse than letting Short or Jones get at bats?  

the platoon thing has gone off the deep end - it's like they aren't even thinking about what they are doing. You want to go by the numbers, fine: Lets say Colt's OPS split is 250 - (and I'd wager it would be less than that if he playing everyday), and he is 800 against RHP - he's still a better option against a LHP than Short by 200 OPS points! Any strategy is only as good as the players you have to implement it. The guy on the team that may have the best contact skill right now on a team literally dying for it, and he can't stay in the lineup.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2

[NorthWoods]

Dingler sets up a possible save to be blown.

[monkeytargets39]

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

the platoon thing has gone off the deep end - it's like they aren't even thinking about what they are doing. You want to go by the numbers, fine: Lets say Colt's OPS split is 250 - (and I'd wager it would be less than that if he playing everyday), and he is 800 against RHP - he's still a better option against a LHP than Short by 200 OPS points! Any strategy is only as good as the players you have to implement it. The guy on the team that may have the best contact skill right now on a team literally dying for it, and he can't stay in the lineup.

Perhaps they believe the difference in defense is so big that they don't care about the offensive difference.  

[SoCalTiger]

58 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

the platoon thing has gone off the deep end - it's like they aren't even thinking about what they are doing. You want to go by the numbers, fine: Lets say Colt's OPS split is 250 - (and I'd wager it would be less than that if he playing everyday), and he is 800 against RHP - he's still a better option against a LHP than Short by 200 OPS points! Any strategy is only as good as the players you have to implement it. The guy on the team that may have the best contact skill right now on a team literally dying for it, and he can't stay in the lineup.

100 %..if you are losing then you should want to play the players who could benefit from playing and improve for the future. What happened to "we're going to develop at the major league level " ? 

Although I do not think Colt can play third base and Hinch seems to agree that doesn't men he couldn't maybe become passable there. Just put him there everyday and find out ( as you have said) because there is nothing to lose and nothing to gain playing Short.

Remember Hinch is the same manager who chose not to play Issac Parades .  He chose to play Goodrum all the time. 

[gehringer_2]

11 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Perhaps they believe the difference in defense is so big that they don't care about the offensive difference.  

Because the probabilities multiply with adjacent batters, offense gets bad by a higher order when you put really bad hitters in the lineup. If you send 3 guys to the plate in an inning with less than 300 OBP, you're chances of scoring are poor. If it's 3 guys with 250 OBPs it got worse by more than just 16.7%. You can't play good enough defense to make up for that. If it were one guy you were putting in a team what could score that would be on thing, but that 7-8-9-1 last game had no chance to do anything, they were just giving away half the innings in the game.

Edited 19 minutes ago by gehringer_2

[monkeytargets39]

I really like Melton.  He will end up as my new favorite pitcher after Skubal is gone

[gehringer_2]

23 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Remember Hinch is the same manager who chose not to play Issac Parades .  He chose to play Goodrum all the time. 

You can't play every possible edge to win every game, and do player development at the same time. Hinch should be managing a rich team that buys fully finished product players. I love how he manages pitchers but I've come to question whether he is the manager you want on team that will have to always have a lot of young players coming up that need to play through their troubles and development. Hinch won't manage that way. He's too proud of his ability to push all the buttons.

Edited 6 minutes ago by gehringer_2