SeattleMike

Keith 3-4 with HR. 888 OPS.

The International League this year is ridiculous. You look at those Toledo numbers and assume they would be at the top of the IL . Instead they are middle of the pack. Juiced ball? Robo umps? Lousy pitching?

In hindsight what an incredibly ill-fated move. I was agnostic about dumping Candelario and you probably can't assume it would have played out exactly this way, but 5 more wins puts the Tigers just a game or two out of first place.

I agree with many that the Tigers desperately need to add two starting pitchers this off-season, one if they extend Erod.

If Baez could just get back to being a 95-100 OPS+ hitter he would be a 2-3 WAR player, assuming his defense stays strong. Maybe they can figure something out with him during the off-season.

Or...once Miggy retires none of this will matter.

Check Tork's splits.

A game over .500 since the All-Star break, almost entirely on the backs of Greene, Tork, and Carpenter, and to a lesser extent Badoo (at least on offense). Easy upgrade to offense next year will be to get some power from the DH position (Malloy?).

I think the Carpenter is bad at defense stuff is overblown. Many defensive metrics rank him as decent. Yes, he's a had a few muffs at the wall, although today it was the sun more than anything.

Last month he has a 791 OPS, granted in only 34 PA.

112 wRC+ since May 1. BTW, both Greene and Carpenter in top 20 in MLB since then. I believe both were injured during the 9-game losing streak.

Greene with two hits, Carpenter with a HR, and Tork 3-3 with HR. A win would be gravy.

I agree on the pitching. They need to extend Erod or replace him with an equivalent talent and add another starting pitcher. The 2024 free agent class of pitchers is much better than position players and the Tigers payroll will be near the bottom of the league. No reason not to be aggressive in roster upgrades this offseason.

They have basically been a .500 team since starting 2-9 so playing .500 ball next year, with the right roster moves, seems within reach.

Yes I was emphasizing his youth by listing his age

He’s only 22 and has had some success at the plate in the minors. Considering he was acquired for cash not a bad flyer.

I was just about to post the same thing. Weird

And yet there were many on message boards and in the media (Lynn Henning) who complained that the Tigers had mortgaged their future with this trade. I guess the fear was that Miggy wouldn't sign a long term deal.

Wasn't that a Jim Leyland saying?

Every rotation needs a Porcello. Let's hope Manning can be at least as good as Porcello was.

Time to give him his shot. He’s 23 not 21. Been raking for 2 plus months. Is this decision being determined entirely by MLB housekeeping rules?

Who knows if Bigbie will pan out, but is this further evidence that the complete overhaul of the developmental staff is yielding positive results? Carpenter last year. Bigbie this year. Meadows huge strides. Perez to a lesser extent. Plenty of busts but that is the nature of the business. I just don’t remember over a two-year period so many guys in the Tigers system making significant strides. Probably just brings us to the middle of the pack in terms of development successes but that’s progress.

If that is how it plays out, a big if, that would be a very young starting lineup. Assuming Carpenter, Baez, Tork, and Rogers round out the starting 9 that is an average age of 25.6. More growing pains.

Thank god the mlb app allows you to switch to the radio feed. And this year it's synched up pretty well. Apple TV offers the same, which I discovered yesterday thanks to a tip on here. Too bad you guys in blackout zone don't have that option.

Thanks for heads up. Been listening to Dickerson on mlb app but difficult to synch.