Tiger337

Political parties are always on campaigns of disinformatilon. That is what they do! The right is taking it to a whole other scary level. The problem is when the left does it now (like all the Catholic persecution stuff) the right is going to point to them and use it to justify all the lies of the right.

Right, Fielder was a good home run hitter, but he got more credit than he should have for all his RBI. Whitaker and Phillips were on base all the time.

The Phillips/Tettleton/Fielder era was when I was really starting to get into sabermetrics and I saw how underrated Phillips and Tettleton were compared to Fielder. Nobody cared about Phillps's on base skills or defensive versatilty. He should have been playing today.

Phillips was overshadowed by Fielder, but Phillips was a better player. After Fielder's first year with the Tigers, Bill James said he was overrated - just a big fat guy that hit homers and struck out a lot and he'd never repeat his 1990 season. That made me angry at the time, but it turned out to be right. Tettleton was better too (although not a free agent)

I honestly don't know how it all works, but it's been pretty clear to me for a long time that the wealthiest people on the planet control everything. All the money goes to them eventually and they control with their wealth. I know they don't give a **** about the rest of us, but I also figure that their lives will be a lot less satisfying and safe if the world goes to hell. They will do what they can to make sure that doesn't happen. That's not a nice thing to be banking on (pun intended) but it helps keep me sane.

I was at school living in a dorm with no tv and very poor radio reception. I was talking to my father on the phone and he told me what Gammons had said about Phillips. They also signed Moseby that same week. I knew they would both starting for the Tigers, but I had no idea how good Phillips would be. They also signed Fielder later in the off-season. The next year they traded for Tettleton. That was an amazing group of acquisitions in a short time. Too bad they had no pitching.

The Tigers offense is not great, but they are a lot closer to performing at their expectation as a group than their pitching. Their pitching was supposed to be a top five staff in baseball and it's been crap, yet all I see is people complaning about the bats. Wenceel Perez is not going to fix their staff.

Phillips and Zimmermann.

You growed up.

Nobody is saying it's on the same scale.

7 days, but he is appealing. I acquired him for my fantasy team shortly before he charged the mound.

I was joking. Partially!

That is probably partially true. He didn't say it publicly, but I am confident that he has thought about it!

I knew you were going to say that! 😀 That's what they are though and we knew that coming in. The homers will come with the weather warms and the run totals will increase. I am not worried about the offense any more than I was at the beginning of the season. The pitching was supposed to be top 5 in the league and it's been terrible. We knew the fielding wouldn't be great, but I think it's been worse than expectred.

Why is everybody blaming the offense? They are not hitting home runs, but they are 8th in MLB in OBP and 10th in wRC+ The home runs will come when the weather warms up. The real culprit is run prevention: They are 20th in xFIP 21st in fielding This team is built on run prevention. That is where they need to excel. It's been terrible so far.

Or maybe Hinch was only using him in the 9th when he was throwing well or when there was a good match up. So, maybe he did do slightly better in the 9th, but was it the chicken or the egg?

Why would a pitcher only be able to pitch the 9th? That makes no sense. I could see when he had the closer role, he might let up in a non-save situation. But he's not the closer now, so what is your explanation?

Sanders has often talked about tariffs, so those are his fault too.

I don't think that is Harris's or Hinch's style. They seem to prepare for the long-term and don't make moves to send messages. They will try to put the best baseball team on the field every night for baseball reasons.

He didn't say the misinformation has the same impact as the right. It does exist and I can't believe you have not seen it. I see it all the time and it's frustrating. I frequently have to block accounts on social media.

This has been going on for years and it does not help our cause.

Didn't somebody lose their podcast gig for saying something like that? 😉

I have seen a lot of Valdez the last few years because I often have him on my fantasy team. He is a good pitcher, but when things go wrong, he doesn't react well and has games like this.

Thanks Bert. I am very happy to hear that he is doing well.

According to FanGraphs, Witt has saved 3 runs defensively whereas Henderson has given up -1 run. That's 0.4 WAR right there. The offensive numbers are going to accumulate over the course of the season even someone is not a great hitter and WAR is also going accumulate over the season. Fielding doesn't accumulate the same way. Replacement level for defense is average, so an average shortstop will always add 0 WAR with his fielding whether he plays 1 game or 162 games. The result is that a really good or bad fielder is going to have his WAR distorted in a really small sample size.