RandyMarsh

Yeah when the day it first came out Trevor Thompson mentioned during the telecast that he will still be getting paid during the whole ordeal.

Yeah hard to imagine another team picking up Hutch and even if they do its not like it will be a major loss.

It was always a little joke with me and my friends during the Lewin and Gibby days about how they would routinely just go off topic and talk about the most random things while the game was going on. I was in HS at the time so during our baseball games when we'd be sitting in the dugout we would often mock them by calling the game we were playing like they did. We'd be talking about the game score or something that was going on at the plate then immediately say something like "so any idea who you plan on taking to Prom this year(then proceed to talk about girls before returning to game action). lol looking back it was a little childish but a HS kid it kept us entertained in the dugout and we thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Yeah it's only 2 games and it was against a couple mediocre pitchers albeit one in Dunning that has had success against them in the past but still nonetheless it has been nice seeing them actually hit the ball hard and score runs. I still think they dug themselves too big of hole to come back and play any sorta meaningful baseball this year but if they can have more games like the last two the rest of the way atleast they will be more exciting to watch and give us a little more hope for the future.

Barnhart thrown out by a country mile, in his defense he hasn't been on the bases much this season so his base running is a little rusty.

The one benefit of drafting a HS pitcher vs. one that went to college for 3 years is that college coaches can sometimes be notoriously hard on the pitchers, after all their main concern is how they perform for them and their team, how they perform down the road in the majors doesn't really matter to them. Where as if you draft them and control them for those 3 years he would otherwise be in college you get to monitor his workload give him access to professional coaches,trainers, facilities, medical staff and can just better dictate his development. Of course considering the Tigers history at doing so that may not be the best thing for a player.

Some NSFW language at the end but for those that have seen Breaking Bad you will a kick out of this! Great work by whoever did it!

The Tigers city connect jerseys should consist of an Orange hat and jersey, white belt, orange pants, white socks and orange cleats this way they resemble a construction barrel cause Lord knows nothing represents this city and state more than those.

Kinda crazy when you think about all the things that have happened in baseball in that time frame, between the expansion of the leagues, all the new ballparks, steroids, juiced ball etc. yet atleast in the AL the top HR marks remain unchanged in all that time. If you remove Maris' season then the top 4 would have been the same for 85 years now. BTW Judge is on pace to change this as last I looked I believe he's over a 60HR pace.

I didn't see the early part of the game but that's nice to hear. I wonder if it's a new strategy or if it's just the fact that the starting pitcher was terrible even before the game so they thought there was no need to make him work to try to get him out of the game early. I'm hoping for the former and that we will start to see this going forward. Even if it's not all the time atleast try to mix your approaches up sometime.

I like the city connect uniforms but I'm not a baseball traditionalist per se. Like I don't care if teams even with classic uniforms like the Tigers, Yankees and Dodgers mix it up for a few games a year with something different. I don't like how the NBA does it though where it seems like the teams where their city connect jerseys nearly as much as they do their regular ones including still in the playoffs. Also changing the court to match the unis every time they wear them makes the franchise lose their identity even further. Basically If teams just wear them a few times a year for a special occasion I'm cool with it.

Last summer I looked in depth of all the High School players drafted in the top 10ish(I didn't have a firm cut off but tried to keep it at 10 but if I saw a guy at 11 or 12 I'd include them) from 08-18(I cut it off there cause I figured 2019 and 2020 was too soon to really get an idea of them) and I found that the hit rate was virtually the same whether it was a pitcher or hitter when it came to players coming out of High School. They both hit at a relatively low rate so really picking any player out of HS is a great risk.

This 14 run performance really throws a wrench in my daily pathetic Tiger offensive stats post(s) I've been starting to enjoy doing recently. It was kinda my coping mechanism for their suckiness I guess.

Olsen has been impressive since we got him, atleast statistically. It appears that getting him for a half season of Norris could be one of the rare Al trades that turns out good.

Wow in the last 2 weeks our position players have been worth -2.1 WAR. That pro rates out to roughly -24 WAR for the season. Just brutal!

Definitely the best offensive performance of the season. Even in that route of Colorado it was mostly done with BABIP singles, this game we atleast hit 3 HRs and had a few other extra base hits.

Not sure how he would be ranked but to me I think it's between him and Keith. I think them 2 along with the 2 recent big international signings in Campos and Santana are probably the 4 position players in the system that have the best chance to take major leaps in the coming years. Maybe Dingler as well.

I should have bothered to click on the link and read the article but I didn't care enough to do so,lol anyway I guess according to the headline that Kenny Atchinson spurned the Hornets for their HC job to return to the Warriors as an assistant.

This is true but with my experience from seeing fans in other message boards or social media nobody is more guilty of this than Yankees fans. I remember in the late 00s before I came here I was still a poster on the ESPN MLB boards and you'd often get laughable takes but none as bad as the Yankees fans on there. Chamberlain,Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes we're basically already crowned the next Glavine, Maddux and Smoltz accept with "better stuff". Jesus Montero was "Albert Pujols with the bat but the ability to play catcher, at worst he will be Miguel Cabrera like,". I put that in quotes cause that was a paraphrased quote by one of the more active Yankees posters at the time who claimed to be a scout as well. I still remember it cause I remember the huge debates it sparked from non Yankees fans like myself. Granted this was around 08 or 09 before Miggy really hit his stride so the at worst comment about him isn't quite as bad as if it was said a few years later but still completely laughable. Austin Jackson was another one, there were legit posters saying he was going to be the next great Yankees CFer and will be a Bernie Williams at worst. These are just some recounts that I remember from Yankees fans, yeah like you said all fans do it but usually when the fans that do you will atleast get more rational fans to correct them or put out a precautions, I never got that with Yankees fans. If one said it they all went with it.

I seem to remember Miggy's 3000 hit game where the Tigers exploded for 13 runs being played at 4PM. If that is correct maybe there is a correlation with how the Tigers see the ball at Comerica later in the afternoon vs. early evening. Either that or the 4PM start hits the sweet spot in regards to them getting a little more rest than a 1PM start after an exhausting night of ping pong while at the same time starting early enough where the troops feel confident that they can score a bunch of runs which in turn extends the game time knowing that with the earlier start there will still be plenty of ping pong time after the game. If they do that for the 7pm games they risk cutting into valuable ping pong and air hockey time.

If these Warriors aren't a dynasty winning 4 championships and going to 6 finals in 8 years I don't know what constitutes one.

haha I swear I was going to make a post with something like "It's not like our hitters are bad, they just pitch to us like we're Ted Williams." in reference to Inge.

lol I know some of us on here may joke about you being a negative Nancy but you call it like you see it and 9 times out 10 you have been right and the Tigers lack of producing home grown talent is proof of that.

Even though I'm starting to lean towards the get guys that already have great command regardless of stuff(to a certain degree of course) I can totally understand the approach of taking the guys with great raw stuff cause if you can fine tune them you get a Justin Verlander but if you can't you get a Riley Pint. You see it in football with QBs, teams will draft QBs with great physical tools with sketchy accuracy in hopes of the same thing, could develop a Josh Allen or it could be a Jamarcus Russell. Ditto for basketball with elite athletes with shaky jump shots.