Tiger337

No need to extend a starting pitcher beyond the first 6 years. They all get hurt.

Maddoxesque performance by Melton.

Again in the 8th. He's cruising along, no stress.

All the Harris slappys are among my favorite posters. It's not just you.

Not many outliers on the OPS plot.

I don't have any major specific complaints about Harris, although it's fun to poke his ardent supporters I liked the roster going into the season and liked their chances of making post-season. May was a disaster which I think was due primarily to a large number of injuries at the same time and then things just snowballed. I don't think there was much Harris could have done. I suppose rolling the dice on Clark was one thing, but I doubt it would have added many wins. If he did poorly, would it have slowed down his development? I don't really know.

You can't score a run without getting on base. SLG is slightly more important, but they are both really important. Both of them together even more important.

The Twins are next.

The June boon.

I am going to run a race tonight. I'll be done in time for McGonigle's clutch pinch hit home run.

never giving up.

That's how real fans talk.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET198705250.shtml

As long as it doesn't interfere with his progress, I am fine either way.

Given the recent callups, I wouldn't want to test it out.

I am think maxing out at the deadline pretty much guarantees that. I am not saying this isn't an option. Maybe that's what they need to do, but trading away everybody that's good except for a few players would seem to lead to a long period of limited results unless they get a load of high level prospects in return and they develop quickly. Realistically, the prospects that they get will be at different levels of development and some of them won't pan out.

I agree with that. Another element is the ability to work with agents and to negotiate trades.

I was definitely all in for a Bregman signing at the beginning of last year. I think they tried. Maybe they needed to be more creative? The Morton and Paddack trades were not significant moves and ended up hurting them.

I don't think there were any Skubal type players available last year. Mason Miller was probably the most impactful player traded. He is not in the same class as Skubal in terms of going all-in for one year, but they would have been able to keep him for much longer. I still wouldn't trade an elite hitting prospect for a reliever.

WAR does take ballpark factors into consideration. All the statistics are adjusted for the average performance in the ballparks where players played. In other words, Walker gets penalized for playing in Colorado. Gwynn awas a great player, but he he is only "generational" if you consider batting average to be a good summary of player performance.

Which is what the Tigers did by signing Valdez. Some wanted them to sign a hitter instead, but I don't know who was realistically available. I doubt they had the budget to do everything people wanted.

I would assume they are doing that too. But that's something that fans can't see. We can't realistically critique a manager or gm for using a player who we think has a bad attitude or is "mentally weak" or doesn't work hard enough. We don't know.

Yes he would! However, it would probably better for him and the organization if he fully developed at AAA before promotion.

He's also not hitting too well the last few weeks. He is probably not ready yet offensively.