Tiger337

That is depressing to think about. I am looking for the Tigers to get healthy and get hot. It seems like teams usually don't get great prospects for rentals at the deadline. Teams like the Dodgers just give up their flawed prospects. Looking forward to another Thayron Liranzo and Trey Sweeney haul.

I always disliked Will Clark for some reason. At the time, I thought he was overrated, maybe because he peaked at age 25. Looking back at his numbers today though, he was really good and really consistent his whole career.

I use to be blissfully ignorant of politics (and my life was better then!), but what I most remember about Barney Frank was him coming out as gay and everybody talking about it like it was a horrible crime that would destroy him.

I think fans can't relate to the level of physical talent than professional players have, so they try to relate to them on a mental level. If they don't succeed, it's because they are mentally weak or don't care. I think players sometimes go in the other direction when they explain their success. It's not because they are more physically gifted than the rest of the population. It is because they work hard or are resilient or something else that doesn't relate to their natural physical ability

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?

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.

They are being delayed due to the Iran War and you should be thankful for that.

And the Pirates have won more games than the Mets this year. 😀 And Tampa Bay has won more than the Dodgers!

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

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.

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.

I thought home runs were what mattered.

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.

He is better than Jung though.

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.

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.

Their plan is to "control the strike zone"

So, what's it going to be - Dictatorship or Chinese colony?

They are going to borrow a pitcher from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays

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.

OBP - defense - pitching. I do think that is the long term Tigers plan, but they are obviously not there yet.

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.

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.

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.

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.