Tiger337

Thank you! Don't know why I missed it before. I guess my eyesight is going along with everything else!

Thank you!

I can't find the length of game in any of the box scores. That used to be a standard part of every box score.

That must have been one of the the longest games since they started using the pitch clock. It seemed that way anyway.

I agree, but don't you also have to draft guys that can be developed? It is my understanding that there is more focus on learning about player personality traits (work ethic, motivation, etc) than there used to be.

He was drafted in '85.

Last inning, he seemed to be saying that he played for the 1984 Tigers. That definitely is something interesting.

And nothing's illegal on player's weekend.

I don't really get the Kerry Bonds nickname. Is it just because his first name ends in rry?

The top 20 list according to perplexity is below. I asked them why Fryman was not on the list and it said he was solid but did not have the same elite status as players on the list. I stopped there. Trammell Whitaker Verlander Morris Parrish Fidrych Smoltz Granderson Porcello Castellanos Avila Maybin Manning Mize Greene Kapler Zumaya Higginson Max Clark Rainer

Why do they even need the rivalry thing? They play every team every year now anyway.

Motownbombers wants to know those phone numbers.

What are the odds that all four of them reach their potential? I think they'll do well if two of them become above average players. I am not being negative here. I think their system is in good hands now and they'll be competitive for several years. I just don't think we can point to any set of future players and say that's when they'll be read to spend. It might be many years before they are 7 1/2 games in first place on August 16 again.

It must suck getting steamrolled by your hero. Must be really humiliating.

I think he is risk averse, but being risk averse does not mean being scared. It's more of a carefully planned strategy where you think a cautious approach will bring more long-term success than taking risks.

I had a tick like that when I was a kid. It must have been right around the time McLain was suspended because I remember my father joking to a doctor that it came from that. I actually didn't know what was going on with McLain at the time. Anyway, the doctor asked if I was a lefty or a southpaw. I started to correct him, but my father stopped me since the doctor was either messing with me or was being stupid. I suspect the former. Wow, it's weird how that all just came back to me. The tick didn't last long.

my utility costs went sky high this year which has nothing to do with Trump, but I am happy to blame him.

Newsom doesn't type those posts, but it's still funny.

Fake baseball sucks...but a paper win is better than a paper loss.

I often turn it off when the ghost runner comes in to the game. That is something I can't get used to.

He had two games where he threw 13 innings. It would take about 7 or 8 pitchers to do that today! No ghost runners in those games either.

He has never "thanked" anyone in his life, but maybe, it's about White. Whatever it is, it's all about him. That's they only thing of which we can always be sure with him.

I don't think you can make definitive comparisons across eras with pitchers. When you compare guys with 200 IP with guys like Newhouser, Lolich and McLain who had close to 30 CG and over 300 IP, It's apples and oranges. I am not saying those guys were better, just that it was a very different set of circumstances. You can say that those pitchers couldn't do that in this era where every pitch is thrown with full effort and you'd be right, but if they were confined to 7 inning starts, they would have had much better rates than they did. The question is which pitcher dominated his own era the most? I think Skubal, McLain and Verlander and some others were all incredibly dominant in their best seasons.

I thought was bad things that come in threes.

I wanted them to keep Melton in the rotation, so this was good to see today. I am not sure where they need him most at this point as both their rotation and bullpen need help. Just make sure you get a lot of innings out of him down the stretch.