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I don't know if he would have totally flamed out since he was still good in 1977 before the injury, but he might never have lived up to the expectations set in 1976. He was a finesse pitcher rather than a dominating pitcher, so I would guess that he would have had a hard time sustaining the success he had in 1976 for very long.

Fidrych was cruising along until this game right here: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL197707040.shtml All of the sudden, he gave up 6 runs in the 6th inning and was never the same after that. I don't know whether it was wear and tear that finally gave out, but the career ending injury seems to have happened in the 6th inning of that game. He tried to work through it in the next game versus the White Sox and was terrible.

He can't engineer anything. He may have great instincts, but anything that takes intelligence is beyond him. Getting some thugs to help him limit access is more his thing. More fun for him too.

He was fooling around in the outfield catching flyballs. Rusty Staub warned him, but he did not listen.

The story is that Fidrych injured his shoulder compensating for a knee injury suffered in Spring training. My suspicion is that his arm was abused during his rookie year and that ultimately led to an injury.

June 5, 1976 Tigers 3 Rangers 2. Fidrych pitched an 11 inning complete game versus the Rangers. Blyleven also pitched a complete game. No relievers or extra inning ghost runners needed. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TEX/TEX197606050.shtml

It is interesting that agnostic is allowed but atheist is not. In the past, I have often seen Christians regard the two as equally "bad". I have always thought that every person with any curiosity at all must have experienced some agnostic thoughts in their lifetimes.

You can never ever have too many starters.

The dirt on him might be that he had a competing rape factory. The hints are there - his modeling agency for girls and girls working at his Maralago spa. He got mad because Epstein was stealing his women.

I never saw that one before. Thank you. I love his interviews - so genuine and unscripted and of course the Massachusetts accent!

yes, this site is the best place to get news, facts, opinions about the Tigers. It's why I come here so frequently.

Mize could have a short DL stint. Of course, that assumes no setbacks which is not a very safe assumption for him. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/tigers-casey-mize-trending-toward-short-il-stint/ "Mize (adductor) tossed a bullpen session Tuesday, Chris McCosky of The Detroit News reports."

That reminds me how Jeff Leonard was called "penitentiary face", even on national broadcasts. This was widely viewed as funny at the time. Even though I don't think it was mean spirited, it was surely racist and wouldn't be allowed today (at least not on national TV). Just now, I was reading that Dave Bergman was the one who came up with that nickname. He was previously called "prison face", but when he told everybody, he wanted to be called Jeffrey instead Jeff, Bergman changed in to "penitentiary face"

Or sometimes it's just fans stuffing the ballot box for players on their favorite team. yeah, this is worse than the Hall of Fame!

I do like evaluating current players, but the period of time leading up to the allstar game is arbitrary. It's basically what a player does from April through June. So, when you later call someone an allstar, it just means that he had a good first half of the season one year. Allstar Zach McKinstry! I also no longer care about the game itself so evaluating what a player does from April to June has to particular significance to me.

I was not aware of that at the time, but I probably sensed it. I suspect the game is filled with people like that. They are good entertainers though.

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The premise that the Tigers might could become the Orioles is plausible, but there is nothing in the article to back it up. It's just lazy writing.

Is there any independent Tigers writer worth reading on a regular basis? I haven't paid much attention the last few years.

while I think both voting systems are very problematic, I am more interested in discussing merits of players for the Hall of Fame than for the allstar game. One is for an entire career whereas the other is for a half-season.

I saw it too, but I didn't say anything.

Dingler and Langeliers are the top catchers. Langeliers is the better hitter, so fans might vote for him.

That is a good question. I don't know if they really said that. I was speaking hypothetically. If he is difficult to deal with, I would not necessarily view that as a positive.

This is exactly it. When is America going to get tired of this clown show.

I'd rather have neither. I want a GM that is reasonble to deal with but has boundaries. If a GM makes unreasonable demands and has no flexibility then he will have limited opportunity to make deals because other teams don't want to work with him. I don't know if that applies to Harris, but if multiple teams are complaining about him, I don't necessarily view it as a positive.