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  1. Tiger337
    A batter could guess that the first pitch is going to be the one he wants and then swing at it and it's not. The same goes for any pitch in the sequence. Are Tigers down in the count more often than hitters on other teams?
  2. Tiger337
    That works for gifted hitters, but for average hitters the pitch that looks like a great pitch might actually be the worst pitch to hit. The pitcher knows batter strengths and weaknesses and he tries to fool batters all the time. With only a split second to react, it is easy for a batter to be deceived.
  3. Tiger337
    They are being delayed due to the Iran War and you should be thankful for that.
  4. Tiger337
    And the Pirates have won more games than the Mets this year. 😀 And Tampa Bay has won more than the Dodgers!
  5. Tiger337
    Baseball is all about gambling now and it's going to get worse. Maybe that's even worse than a lockout? That is where they make their money and they'll figure out how to get more of it into the sport and split up the money. I think there won't be a long work stoppage
  6. Tiger337
    There is always some big issue at stake, they make compomises and both sides always come out just fine! I am not convinced this time is any different. Multi-millionaires fighting with billionaires. Yawn.
  7. Tiger337
    Why are people talking about a lockout next year like it's a foregone conclusion? Every time the labor contract ends, there is lots of negativity and acrimony, but there hasn't been a season destroying work stoppage in 32 years.
  8. Tiger337
    I thought home runs were what mattered.
  9. Tiger337
    I don't even know if it did work, but I get why it might work for Gibson. I agree with you about it probably not working for this team.
  10. Tiger337
    He is better than Jung though.
  11. Tiger337
    It works in football and Gibson was a football player, so maybe it carried over. I don't think it works so well in baseball for most players. Baseball is game of skill and precision and it is played 6 time per week. It seems like fire and brimstone would be unsustainable. One example of a player it doesn't work for is Valdez.
  12. Tiger337
    I was mostly being sarcastic. I think it's one of these lines that management teams like to repeat over and over. I mean it's a line that sounds really good, but it's also pretty vague and probably not possible to have every player in the organization follow.
  13. Tiger337
    Their plan is to "control the strike zone"
  14. Tiger337
    So, what's it going to be - Dictatorship or Chinese colony?
  15. Tiger337
    They are going to borrow a pitcher from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
  16. Tiger337
    They had the pitching. The defense is lacking, healthy or not. I do think their long-term plan is to get more complete ball players that can make contact and get on base and also play defense rather than one dimensional players.
  17. Tiger337
    OBP - defense - pitching. I do think that is the long term Tigers plan, but they are obviously not there yet.
  18. Tiger337
    His statcast chart this year is very similar to 2023-2024, so I think he'll slug similarly to those years. If he can keep some of his batting average improvement, that will be a great year.
  19. Tiger337
    I don't envision him batting .335 all year, so I hope the power increases and I believe it will. Everybody is going to hit more home runs in the summer. Home runs always go up when the weather gets hot.
  20. Tiger337
    The only thing that will make people mad is an economic crisis. A third of the country doesn't even care. They don't even vote.
  21. Tiger337
    Greene's slugging average is the same as last year and is OBP is 120 points higher. I will take that trade off! I do think he'll end up somewhere in the middle with lower batting average and more power than he has right now.
  22. Tiger337
    Greene and Torkelson will hit 20 home runs. Carpeneter will make it if he is healthy. Dingler will make it if he doesn't wear down.
  23. Tiger337
    I am kind of tuning out at this point - just listening on the radio as I do other stuff.
  24. Tiger337
    OPS of players who could be in line-up if not injured: .750 .716 .678 .641
  25. Tiger337
    They didn't ignore the hitting problem. They added McGonigle. Their offense was not great, but it was fine in April. Then the injuries started. You still haven't said who else you think they should have added. You could make a case that they should have added some hitting instead of Verlander and Anderson, but what great hitter would they get for that money?
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