Tenacious D

Some promising individual performances in the minors so far—Clemens,Wenceel, Sequeira, Keith, Pacheco, Carpenter, Wilmer, Dylan Smith, Madden, and even Jobe has been good for a young guy that the Tigers seem to be bringing along slowly.

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

Javy hitting .205/.244/.308 across 30 games does not mean he is broken, any more than when he inevitably hits .300/.350/.550 over a future 30-game stretch that will mean he is fixed. Both Javys are the fully-functioning Javy. It is technically possible that at age 29, Javy is done done, but that is super unlikely.

We don’t know how long this terrible stretch will last—maybe another 10 games, maybe another 30 … we’ll see—but all we can do is wait it out and enjoy his otherworldly defense and base running as consolation prizes in the meantime.

I agree—he’ll be fine.

4 hours ago, BBFCFM said:

 Never understood this argument.  Not my money, who cares?

It was a joke, son.

1 hour ago, gkelly said:

Yup.  He isn't hitting well.  But do you really to make a point of that?  Anyone who has watched him bat could tell you that.

Well, it is a fan board to discuss all things Tigers.  What are the things that are off limits that we should avoid here?

58 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

The utility guy they signed off of waivers from the Angels?

Edit; yes, he did put up 30 home runs. But he also put up monster strike out numbers. I wonder how his defense is?

Monster K rates?  28% last year, 23% so far this year.  Not bad, especially for someone with power.

You’re missing the silver lining—we’ll save on having to pay him any performance bonuses.

I like the SS they signed—was only 23 last year and put up monster numbers in the minors.  Not so much this year, but solid—definitely worth a look.

5 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Not sure what more he needs to do to earn a callup.

Have a spot to play.

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

So Henning writes the other day that they won't call up Clemens because he can't hit lefthanders, while our O's biggest problem is that our supposed switch hitters are not hitting as LEFT handers (i.e. against RHP) . Go figure.

Your fault for reading anything  from Lynn.

Playoffs?  We’re 11 games under .500 with 5 starting pitchers injured before mid-May.

The season now is about the young players getting reps and hopefully some players emerge/surprise.

Buckle up for a bumpy season, folks

Anyone see Faedo’s fiancé on the tV broadcast?  She looks like a cross between these two.  Well done, Alex!

3 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Even with them, there's a good argument to adding in the outfield this upcoming offseason (particularly if Grossman walks), but as far as a trade, that seems like it would be a waste.

Yes—agree that we will likely need to replace Grossman.  I’ll assume Meadows and Greene have the other two spots.  Internal candidates would be Hill, Daz and Baddoo, so this season is critical for them.

10 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Why do I get the feeling we'll be trading for Tommy Pham or Chad Pinder.  

I don’t see it.  We still have Daz, Baddoo and Greene in the wings.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Losing Pineda is going to stress everything because he was going eat a lot of innings - more than Mize probably. Manning looks like he's back after one more pass through the rotation. Alexander - who knows if he could have held down his spot if he had stayed healthy. I don't really expect Brieske to hang on but either he or Faedo is going to have to. Still seems the logical thing to do is stretch out Peralta - or you have to give Elvin Rodriguez a shot maybe?

Really long shot would be to work Fulmer back into starting if Vest, Soto and Chafin are holding down the backend, but that just doesn't seem to me like a move they would make.

I think we’ll see Reese Olsen or Garrett Hill before Fulmer moves into the rotation.

TJ surgery has become a rite of passage for many pitchers these days.  And many come back fine from it.  Would suck to lose him for 18 months, but I’d like his chances to come back.

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

the thing with Kody is that sure, he probably has a low/utility IF ceiling, but he is 25, your MLB offense and utility defense in the toilet, why and the heck would you not bring him up and see if he can generate a little spark, even if it's only for the 20-30 AB it takes for teams to scout him thoroughly. While it may or may not be true that riding slumping players will get them back as quickly as sitting them, you can't just let a whole team wallow in it's lethargy and ineptitude, go grab some energy from anybody anywhere, and a called up player is usually going to show up with some energy.

Willi’s bat is heating up a bit, but would we send down Harold to make room?

This is good. Only 20

4 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Unfortunately, I don't think we are guaranteed a top pick anymore. Isn't there a lottery now with the worst teams? Avila's strategy has backfired, can't suck and get a #1 pick anymore.

Is there an exception if you’re not trying to tank, but are just incredibly inept?

I think I may have the solution.

He’s pitching like a guy who was drafted in the 28th round.

Beau Brieske not fooling many.  Hope the decision to play Willi in LF doesn’t backfire

Where do you play Clemens?  I don’t think he’s an upgrade to either Schoop and Candy, who have replicated their early season slump from last year.  I do think they’ll start to hit soon.  He might be an upgrade to Cabrera at DH, but that isn’t happening.

At try this point, I think Clemens is an injury replacement at 2B or 3B, or trade bait.  

10 hours ago, bobrob2004 said:

There's also the possibility that Grossman has to go on the IL, so they'll only have to send one down.

If Grossman goes on the DL, I’d prefer they promote Cameron and give him a bunch of AB’s.  Time to step up.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Semi-related to this, I tried this new hack and despite the additional moving parts, it worked out really well.

I typically watch the Tigers broadcast through MLB app on Apple TV so I can implement the audio overlay. I simply cannot bear it hear Shep and rotating cast of grizzled old players for even a single second if I can avoid it.

The issue for me is, I also dislike the Tigers video, or more exactly, Bally RSN’s video. They take up a ton of real estate at the bottom with not only the score box, but the 24/7 crawl underneath it, which features a distressingly high percentage of non-baseball and even promotional items. TBF, this is true for a lot of Tiger opponents, too (e.g., Guardians, Twins, Royals, etc.)

But now that I’ve discovered how to easily implement the Bluetooth mode on my TV’s soundbar, I’ve figured out an effective way to overlay Tiger audio over the opponent’s video when we play a team with a cleaner screen, like the Dodgers. SNLA shows only a score box in the lower right corner and a logo in the upper right, with a crawl only maybe once an hour for a couple of minutes. The rest of the screen is clear of such obstructions.

What I do is, I put the Dodger’s video on the TV, call up Dan Dickerson on my MLB app on my phone, and cast the audio to the soundbar’s BT mode. From that point, it’s only a matter of pausing the one source to let the other catch up to it, and voila: Dickerson and Petry calling the game over a clean opponent’s video.

It worked great last night except for the one inning where the video was delayed and not matching up to the audio, and then I had to change it back with the next inning. I assume the Dodgers TV director paused the telecast a few seconds to allow some promotional spot to finish, then made the telecast “live” again for the next inning.

But yeah, once I got there, it was like a dream telecast. No more annoying constant live crawls; in fact, no more big chunk of real estate given over to junk at the bottom of the screen leading to a compressed picture above it. It was great.

And bonus: there were none of the constant cutaways to the booth or to the stands for any of those distracting interviews the Tigers telecasters like to do, I guess to take the pressure off Shep and Whoever having to pay too close attention to the game, which, I don’t know, maybe hurts their heads or something. The Dodgers TV people don’t go in for that nonsense.

Gonna do it again today!

Have you considered a career with NASA?

Are there any free agents remaining at a position of need, ie. Linebacker, and do we have any cap room to get one?