Tenacious D

Latest Keith Law mock…

11 minutes ago, kdog said:

One guy is getting a fully paid retirement tour, one guy makes $7 mill, and the last guy makes league minmum.

Not that Miggy was going anywhere, but he’s the focus of the Tigers marketing efforts throughout the season.

Tigers trade Jonathan Davis for Miami’s OF Brady Allen.  A few positives—5th rounder, only 23 and takes a few walks.

https://twitter.com/detroittigerspr/status/1660755025503698944?s=46&t=3s7o7paxNgAr2rBy91RdPA

25% of the season over, and Schoop still doesn’t have an RBI.  That’s insane.

This team should not be carrying both Miggy and Schoop on the roster, and Cabrera isn’t going anywhere.

43 years old, and still owns us.

2 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Wonder if they'll start Langford off in A+

Or Skenes.  

Nice day for the kids, though Lakeland seems like a prospect black hole.

I think Peacock is free, with commercials.

7 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

Hey guess which hitter leads the entire Tigers' minor league organization in strikeouts.  Give up?  It's JHC Malloy!  He has 40!  Of course, he leads in just about everything else too.

Dingler's rehab is going well.  Project his current pace for 620 AB's and he would have 70 homers, 250 hits, 190 RBI, 50 stolen bases.  Here's the problem...none of the catchers at Toledo are particularly awful, they are all sort of decent although none has the prospect pedigree of Dingler.  So, what to do?  Leave him at Erie for now I guess.  If Rogers or Haase gets hurt, Donny Sands gets the call and Dingler goes to Toledo.

Dingler is a prospect—you can easily flip him with Papierski or Knapp when it’s time. Those two are organizational depth.

Malloy (7) and Pacheco (4) with dingers so far today.

Jonathan Schoop RBI watch:

May 14th: 0 RBI

9 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

Malloy, batting leadoff, was 3 for 4 with a home run.  He's on an 8 for 20 run now with a double and 2 home runs, so maybe he has emerged from that recent funk.  Wouldn't it be great if he could prove, over a full season at Toledo, that he could learn to make those adjustments.  And at the same get better at playing third base.

I want him to stay there all year, under no circumstances do I want to see him as a chess piece in Detroit.  I want him to play 150 games at third base in Detroit in 2024, and for the next 7 years after that, and it won't happen if he gets promoted this year.

If he’s deemed ready, shouldn’t he be called up? He played a brief spell in AAA last year, plus in the AFL.  Regardless of how much time he has in Toledo, he’s going to struggle at times in the majors.  I think that’s inevitable.  If you believe your best coaching talent is in Detroit, he might benefit most from a call-up.

We have to trust the new front office to know what’s in his best interest (and the teams).

10 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

There's a blast from the past lol

He’s a realtor in the area.  I’ve seen his yard signs

2 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

It sounds a bit like faux excitement, not a normal speaking voice or delivery. A common ailment in ex jocks who do a bit of Sports TV commentary. It's a nit pick and is completely curable unlike Jack Morris Disease 

I didn’t notice that.  I liked him better than C-Mo. 

Clearly Turnbull was not on board with the demotion to work things out. Nor will he be able to now with his “injury.”

Lions video was horrible.  Let’s hope it’s the last egg they lay.

4 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Is that batting average in metric or something? 🤣

Ha—I think he hit 3 of his 4 HR in one game, amirite?

The recent performance has been surprising, but it shouldn’t be.  The offense is starting to hit like it should.

Imagine if we can get contributions from Turnbull, Skubal, Meadows and Carpenter?

Is there anything worse than Kyle Schwarber in the Cure Insurance commercials?  Horribly written + stiff athlete spokesperson.  A commercial director’s nightmare, through they are complicit, too.

Singuel!

Impossible to defend Baez’ throws.  Tork has been bailing him out for over a season now.

18 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Lakeland has had a poor start team-wide, including Graham (bad) and Santana (yikes level bad)

Luke Gold underwhelming, too.

7 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

4 errors by the left side of the infield sheesh!

Tork probably should have had one, too, dropping the foul ball hit over his head.