RandyMarsh

Castros, Goodrum, Reyes, Short and perhaps Hill. There's 6 right there.

Im on the trade Decker train but I would have to atleast get one 1st at a minimum. Not gonna take a Slay like return. If that's all thats out there then we "settle" with having two All Pro caliber tackles book end our line. And for the record I think Sewell will be just fine at RT, I think his struggles in preseason had more to do with the time off than anything. Lance, Parsons and Chase all looked bad in the preseason too and they all took last year off as well.

Im pretty sure I made some prediction in that thread but I can't remember what it was(surely it was that the Tigers would be a .500 team from May on). Seriously though I think it had something positive to do with Cabrera that didnt happen.

I definitely would like for us to add one more of bat who is more of a sure thing than what we have. I brought up Castellanos before but I concede that is highly unlikely. Another former Tiger could be a more likely option and that's Avisail Garcia. Hes a free agent and is sporting a nice .850 OPS this season and still only 30 years old. Kyle Schwarber is another FA possibility, he could definitely bring the HR power that we desperately need, same with Adam Duvall. If we were to add one of those guys, upgrade at SS and call up Greene and Tork our lineup would look a helluva lot better than it did this year.

Aaron Glenn deserves all the credit in the world for holding Baltimore to what he did considering the cast of characters he has. By talent alone the Lions should have the very worst defense in the league perhaps by a large margin even. If they manage to just be merely bad and finish say around 25th than that is a real feather in the cap for the coaches.

Until Manning shows he is where he was pre shoulder injury Im not counting on him for anything. Im not sure if that is the cause but he simply hasn't been the same pitcher since 2019 and has struggled wherever he pitched. Whether it was for the intra squad stuff last summer, spring training, AAA or the majors he simply hasnt looked like the guy we thought he was going to be. The good news is the velo is still there but unfortunately that's about all that is there.

Looking at Kipers big board(just using that Cause Im a subscriber and have access to it) he now doesnt have any qbs in his top 10 but several defensive players, all of whom would look good for the Lions. Of course though with the Lions luck they will end up 3rd or 4th and the teams picking ahead of them will be set at QB so they'll take the top defensive guys and the Lions will be left picking between a bunch of similarly graded players to which they will inevitably pick the wrong one cause they are the Lions. Some good news though is that he also has a bunch if WRs ranked from 10-30 so a good one should be able to be had with the Rams pick.

The winner gets home field for the whole playoffs, the loser gets an anything can happen 1 game matchup against the hottest team in the league. Definitely some stakes there.

I wonder what it would take to get JP Crawford from the Ms? Id obviously much prefer one of the top FAs but if they end up going elsewhere I don't think Crawford would be a bad consolation. He's league average with the bat which might as well be Ted Williams compared to what we been throwing out there and has a plus glove. Still young enough where he has some room to grow, also doesnt hit FA till 2025. For all those reasons he probably won't come real cheap but the Ms have some promising SS prospects so they be willing to deal him.

Our old pal Castellanos is likely to be a free agent this year. Short term he can be the bat we need, long term he can take over for Cabrera in 2 years as the full time DH.

Sounds like Mize may get to pitch the 4th since he only got a fist bump and not a handshake from AJ. That would have him finish with an even 150 innings for the season.

Perhaps Fetter's magic wears off the more times an opponent gets a look at us. Of course that wouldn't explain us sucking against the division from the start but its the best explanation I can come up with.

Granderson was also due for an extension shortly and there were question marks namely his struggles against lefties as to whether the Tigers should give him a big extension and if they did if it would come back to haunt them so I think that was the biggest reason why they cut bait. They also sold high on Edwin Jackson in the process.

This seems like something that would happen to the Lions.(well assuming they ever were actually good enough to win a division.) Right before the playoffs starts you lose one of your most important players due to his stupidity.

To me it sounds like speculation but he definitely could've worded it more clearly, I believe the verbiage he used originally was "dont be surprised if the Tigers trade one of their prize pitchers(probably Mize) for a bat or two." Edit: heres the original tweet, he does say Mize is just his guess.

I agree. I know we got burned with Fulmer so I can see Tigers fans being worried that something similar can happen to Mize but I think as an organization you can't operate like that. Just cause you got burned not trading one player before doesnt mean that you should trade every good pitcher you get from here on in.

Lynn now suggesting the Tigers trade Mize in the offseason for bats. Listen Im not opposed to trading him just cause we know how fragile pitching is but I dont see how that necessarily makes us any better. It feels like robbing Peter to pay Paul. The only way I think it makes sense is if you truly believe Fetter is some sorta pitcher whisperer and you feel you can find guys for cheap that he can help get Mize like production from.

Aside from the rare exceptions like Altuve and Judge virtually all the players are within 4 or 5 inches of each other. Then you factor in the strike zone only takes up a portion of the body and then factor in most players are crouched in their stance and you come to the conclusion that the strikezone should look the same to the naked eye no matter the player.

I bumped this thread cause after looking at our teams stats and what I think we need I'm starting to warm up to Baez for the right price. Yeah we know he is going to have a bad OBP but what he will bring is HR power and I think that is what we desperately need. Our team OBP isn't that far off from league average and with Tork, Greene and hopefully a full season of current Miggy that should only get better but what we need is that HR power. We are 21HRs behind even the league average at this point, which is about 15% less, yes Tork should improve on that himself but at the same time we have to expect some regression from Haase and not having Rogers. It's not a coincidence that when Haase and Schoop were going off in May and June in the power department that we were doing our best offensively, simply put that's how runs are scored in this day and age and we need more HR hitters to help us score those runs. So while Baez may only OBP .300-.320 you can bank on him for 25+ HRs and I think that would be a major help to the team. I'm not advocating paying him gigantic money but I'm softening on my "Correa, Seager or bust" stance if we can get him for the right price cause I think he could be a big boost to this lineup, more so than what his WAR and OBP would indicate.

I saw that the Cardinals won their 17th straight so I decided to look up longest win streaks in MLB history to see how it stacks up. Before doing so Oakland's from Moneyball obviously came to mind but I wanted to see besides that anyone has won this many and I saw that Cleveland won 22 in a row in 2017. I have no idea why I have absolutely no recollection of this. Perhaps cause most of it was in September of that year and I and most of us on here were too busy discussing the Verlander trade and us going in the tank to think about that but wow that caught me completely off guard when I saw that. Like I have ZERO memory of that.

I never went to a game there but I too always liked the look of that Texas park and not just cause of the Tigers Stadium thing. I always thought it looked unique and stood out from other parks. My understanding is that it was super hot there and that was the main reason why they "upgraded" but you think that was something they would've thought about when they built the park to begin with.

I get the open concourse and sightlines was all the craze at the time so you weren't going to just build a carbon copy of Tiger Stadium like the Yankees did but I wish they incorporated some aspects of the park, like maybe having one side of the outfield have the bleachers and overhang of Tiger Stadium like how Texas did with their old park.

I hope he doesn't do it in Oakland, for starters Oakland fans are the worst and don't deserve to see something like that, for another they will probably be too drunk to even realize what is happening and that's assuming there's actually any people in the park. If he hits it on the road I would prefer for it to be at a place with knowledgeable and respectful fans and where you're going to see atleast close to a full house.

Another fond memory was walking around that outside concourse off Michigan Ave.(can't remember the name of it but it was added on towards the end of its existence) before a game and casually sitting in a folding chair dressed in full uniform smoking a cigarette was Ozzie Guillen back when he was a player. My brothers and I went up and got his autograph and chatted with him for a few, I don't know just thought it was surreal to just see a random player chilling out and about, so that moment sticks out to me.

The Tigers start next year with 6 on the road before the home opener, with the rate he is going I'm not sure he makes it to the home opener before hitting 3k.