SoCalTiger

I couldn’t agree more. Time for a heart to heart talk. He is only eroding his legacy. Take a bow and call it a day. All the handicap parking spaces are full.

Does anyone know how the 3rd baseman we traded to Cincinnati for Barnhart is doing? I think we drafted him in the second round and he was bad. Curious if he is still bad or better in the Reds system.

What a mess. Maybe a good carpenter can fix it.

Wow its worse than I thought and the last team, Baltimore, is in the wild card hunt this year. We are the worse team in Baseball since 2017 so asking the fans for more time is just wrong.

Agree to go outside the organization for a new GM but if they do stay in house then Hinch is the only choice since he had the less time in Detroit and therefore closest to an external hire. Chadd should be swept out also. Anyone close to Al. Clean sweep.

1-800-call-Al

True but the Detroit Baseball Club has always had professional scouts also and how have they done lately ?

I do not have any skill as a talent evaluates apart from watching baseball for 55 years. Keeps me young 🙂. But I do see trends around the league and what I notice is many teams that draft lower than us continually produce MLB regular contributors and stars but since the Tram-Lou-etc era we do not. i hope 84 is right about this group. It’s why we watch and the optimism is needed at this juncture because the varsity team looks dreadful. At the same time Micros certified knowledge serves to minimize angst. Both of which combine to bring me to my aged old wish. Just give us a competitive team year in and year out so most of the summer we are “in the hunt”. Maybe no trophies but a pulse daily. A reason to watch. These past seven years have been inexcusable to me and I hope Chris Illitch and Al Avila are embarrassed and ashamed. They wouldn’t even dare mention their own names during yesterday’s Lou ceremony. What does that say? It says get the F out of town you bumbling fools and Disgenuous caretakers of our treasured institution. You are frauds and an insult to the spirit of the game.

It’s funny that Miggy represented Tiger Baseball excellence for so long and now he is associated with Tiger ineptness. It just “feels” that he needs to retire before we can truly have a fresh start. I will be disappointed if he tries to play in 2023. It’s embarrassing at this point.

Barnhart catching Garcia struggling swings at the first pitch to help Bryan rest.

It has been a frustrating start. I supported the signing and I still like and believe in Baez. His game is electric on the base baths and tagging runners he is supreme. He seems to be leveling out with the bat but he will have some little league at bats. The frustrating part this year is the throwing. I don’t know who that guy is sometimes. He still makes great throws in the hole and turns the double play perfectly but then there is the poor throw out of the blue. I think he will fix that and I have always felt he performs best when it counts and loses concentration when the team is struggling. Bottom line he is here for six years so I hope he returns to norm and you can start enjoying his game.

Sadly the Emporer has no clothes and we aren't fixing this train wreck in one season nor reaching .500 plus without some players returning to their career norms in 2023. If Baez , Meadows and Schoop revert to norms and Greene and Tork gain their footing that would be a real good start. With Miggy retiring Meadows can DH often. DFA Candy and cut bait with the Castros. Haas as one catcher. That leaves us with 3B, catcher, two outfielders and a starter to pick up in the off season. Maybe roll with Rogers at catcher. Then maybe by 2024 some minor league position players can emerge such as Kreidler and Dingler. Or they go big and try for Correa again and move Baez to 3rd in 2023 and to second in 2024 after Schoop is gone. it's a mess for sure but there are potentially some pieces to work with including a decent pitching staff that has proven to be resilient under Fetter.

He’s not playing next year. I have been saying that for some time now. He will get paid but won’t play. Why suffer physically and tarnish your reputation by sucking. Plus now it’s clear we will not contend in 2023.

I want a new GM making the selection

Jim Bowden FWIW Detroit Tigers Grade: D Trades: Traded OF Robbie Grossman to Braves for LHP Kris Anglin; traded RHP Michael Fulmer to Twins for RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long. The Tigers received two fringe prospects, at best, in the two deals they did make, and were asking too much for their closer, Gregory Soto, in the one they didn’t make. With relievers in demand, I was shocked the Tigers didn’t take advantage of the market by dealing Soto, their most tradable asset. According to several GMs, they just priced him too high. The Tigers could have dealt lefty Andrew Chafin and/or righty Joe Jiménez. They missed a golden opportunity to improve their organization’s pool of position players. Another disappointing deadline in the Motor City.

It's malpractice and just stupid. Sorry but I can't believe there aren't GM's out there thinking " why did you ask for my top ten talent if you were going to trade Fulmer for trash ? "

I think he would accept. Time to "clean some things up" as Al said yesterday but forgot to add himself to the cleaning....

Perfect

This is what stood out to me in the article : But this year’s deadline does seem like one more symptom of a disease Tigers fans know all too well. The Tigers and their current front office have failed to display creativity in navigating the market, executing trades and ultimately constructing a roster.

Yes this article is right on but too bad it falls short calling for Al's ouster. I know its hard to gain access by doing that but still needs to be said. Henning to his credit is and I think WoJo has also.

Is that the “sustainable “ system Al keeps talking about ?

True but hard to believe someone better somewhere could not be found ?

Good for pared,,,good for Fulmer..good for Grossman..to heck with that what about good for the Tiger fans. Yes I am happy for them and really liked Fulmer but not enough to hope the Twins win the World Series.

Why help the twins for Gods sake just on principal alone if you can't get anything better than a never will be player.

Hope Chris is working on his "Time to move on from Al talking points"