Tiger337

I don't like all the days off in the playoffs. I wish it was more like the regular season. I understand they have to have a day(s) off when a series season ends early, but there is no baseball reason for an off day on Sunday. It helps the Tigers because it allows Skubal to pitch in more games, but in general I dislike it.

Somebody might have mentioned it, but I don't believe it was a general feeling. Some didn't like Hinch because of the cheating scandal in Houston, but I don't people believed he would be let go.

More money!

I think the other options were Maeda and Montero. I don't think either of them would be any better.

I saw some criicism of both Hinch and Harris, but I don't remember anyone here saying that they would get fired. Not on this site anyway. Sportz isn't here anymore.

I think platoons have become pretty common again and I don't think they are that hard to figure out. Adding a 26th roster spot and limiting pitchers to 13 has made platooning easier to do. Hinch has done well in general, but his pitching staff management has been exceptional.

I agree. I think managers are overrated in general, but Hinch this year is an exception. The one thing I think managers can do to have an impact is bullpen management and Hinch is nailing it.

yeah, I think it can work with three above average starters and then the other two days can be bullpen games. I have suggested that in the past. I don't think what the Tigers are doing now is something that is likely to work consistenly well over the long term. You'd need to have a collection of top notch relievers and keep them all healthy over a full season which becomes more difficult as relievers get over used. And if every team tried to do the same thing, I don't think there would be enough MLB quality relievers to go around.

Right, what the Tigers are doing is unprecedented.

It wasn't really a strategy of choice, but rather a strategy of necessity caused by not having enough starters. Hinch/Fetter excuted it beautifully and they got some momentum going, but I don't think it's something that's going to work consistently. We might see more bullpen games from teams in the future. but I don't anticipate teams copying the strategy of basically having one regular starter for the last two months and into the playoffs.

There are undecided voters. I know some of them. They aren't looking for attention. They just don't care enough about politics to have any opinion.

Thanks for the confirmation that Rose was an awful human being.

Foley is going to be so upset at himself. I'm not sure they can use him again. 😀

He sounds like someone we constantly talk abut in another forum.

There is little doubt that the casual attitude professional sports have towards gambling is going to contribute to more addictions. How the leagues respond to it I am not sure. Gambling addictions are not like opioid addictions which lead to deaths. Gambling addictions tend to lead to destruction of individuals and familes without usually having a countable death outcome.

I did not like the Fosse incident either. Rose was a villain to me rather than a hero, but he was one of the most memorable figures in baseball history.

They would have to make it worth his while though. He's not coming to Detroit just for a hitting coach title and salary.

I still think he should be banned, but I feel less strongly about it now given MLB's hypocrisy around gambling.

I don't know. He still came across as an asshole in the Leerhsen book, just not as bad as previous books. He pushed an old woman down some stairs and beat up a crippled person.

Tigers new hitting coach?

I grew to dislike him too, but as a kid in the 70s, I though he was entertaining. He was mean, but I also think his hustle was very real if misguided.

I understand the sentiment, but he was a big part of my baseball memories growing up. He turned out to be an awful person, but I still remember Charlie Hustle.

I think they wanted to win, but didn't want to disrupt their playoff plans. I would guess Hinch is not happy that they gave up 9 runs to the White Sox.

Crap, I am teaching Wednesday afternoon.

Their emotional finish reminds me a little of 1987. Hopefully, their post-season is better this year. The difference though is that 1987 was the end of an era making it a bitter defeat. This year should be the beginning of an extended era of good baseball, so if they do bad in the playoffs it won't sting so much.