Tiger337

The Rangers were as bad as the The Tigers and they were able to attract big time free agents. If a team wants to spend money, the players will come. Some of it worked out for the Rangers and some of it didn't, but they are doing really well this year. Back in 2004, 2005, the Tigers were able to sign Rodriguez and Ordonez and that worked out great. If a team doesn't want to spend money, that is their business. As a fan, I don't care about team finances. It's not my problem. Also, as a fan, I am not sure I even want a team with a core of free agents. I would rather see them build a home grown roster for the most part. If they want to do it that way, the players will be glad to take the money though.

I am not suggesting they should have signed any free agent last off-season or that they should sign anyone this off-season. I am just saying that I think the difficulty Detroit has in attracting free agents is over blown.

Bullpens are more important than they used to be, but you still can't rely on them long term. If you aren't a contender, you should always be marketing good relievers and in-season is when they are most valuable.

The unabomber was brilliant and was right about some things, but he was insane and a terrible human being. The world is a better place without him in it.

They will like it here if they are offered $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

If we are now going to see the bad side of bullpen volatility, this is going to get really ugly. The bullpen is the main reason the Tigers were respectable in 2021 and the first couple months of this year.

I don't think there is any drama or conflict between Harris and Hinch, but A.J. Hinch, the face of the franchise? That is pretty extreme. I thought Baez and Cabrera were the faces of the franchise!

It works every time!

I believe they some have pretty good prospects (including some who have already reached the majors) who may develop into good major leaguers. I do not think they have an exceptional group of prospects compared to other teams. I think Avila's plan failed overall, but some of his picks could still be part of a future playoff team along with players who were not his products. I am neither impressed nor disappointed with Hinch. Fetters appears to be skilled. I have no strong opinion of Harris so far, but I hope he does better than Avila.

Yeah, Dirks is probably my favorite Tigers analyst now.

Given all the other ststs we have now, you could completly drop batting average and not lose any important information about a player. However, I would take Von Joshua's 1975 season over anyone in the line-up right now.

One thing I've noticed lately is Dickerson talking more about things like veteran leadership and clubhouse presence. I wonder if he has been told to tone down the stats and talk about old school stuff more. Or maybe some of his partners don't respond well to stats, so he tries to get them engaged in other ways. If that is the case, it backfired with Andy Dirks a couple of weeks ago when Dickerson talked about the importance of shut down innings and Dirks told him that innings after the team took the lead were no different than other innings. You always want to keep the opponent scoreless.

Best young talent since the 70s...This is probably true, but the bar is low.

Positivity is better than negativity, but it seems like blind faith at this point to think that Avila's plan is still going to work out.

Well, there is nothing we can do about it, so we have no choice but to be patient. However, I also remember you practically guaranteeing that Avila's plan was going to work and you had our championship team all set up with Wentz and Faedo in the rotation and nine hot prospects in the starting line-up.

All of the small sample size numbers could be noise.

McKinstry hasn't hit this month. Just a slump or have they caught up to him? Maybe Maton or Vierling is the next one to get hot for a month.

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You said for six years that they only way to win in today's game was to tear everything down and re-build and where did that get them? Now, you want fans to be patient and hope for luck and magic?

LOL, have you noticed how much I can't stand Trump? He is possibly the worst human being in US history. I hope he spends the rest of his life in a max security prison (he's not going to any prison ever). But the Clintons still suck!

And if she never said it, she might have won too.

LOL, never said they were the same. Trump is an absolute psychopath piece of trash. Clinton is just a run of the mill corrupt opportunist politician, but I am not a Deomcrat and don't have to like everyone who is a Democrat. Somebody retweeted her tweet today about selling tee shirts. I thought that was cheap given the timing. It was cheap regardless - selling tee shirts based on something you did which was illegal.

Lorenzen actually pitched pretty well tonight, but didn't have a seventh inning in him. You can't really say he was left in too long though. He cruised through innings 3-6 and his pitch count count was low.

Hey, I am not giving up on Torkelson. I like him. I am just not particularly encouraged by his results to date.