HeyAbbott

There is no one we have in the org we cannot trade for a replacement level SS?

I don't expect everything to be fixed, but there has to be something that can be done to make the offense at least appear to be semi-marginal. The lineup is too short by one hitter.

It sounds to me like a maturity thing. On the other hand, a fly ball that is a home rum in 15 out of 30 ball parks seems like a 50-50 proposition to me.

I think Rob Deer is too generous for Tork. I think where his career WAR is right now, Ray Oyler would be a better comparison.

On some days, being 70 reminds one that a) growing older is not for sissies and b) growing older is a privilege reserved for the fortunate few.

And like that toddler, there will be moments of sheer amazement, punctuated by uncontrollable laughter.

Bally runs just fine on my Samsung Smart TV I purchased in November.

Looks like Olson will be the pitcher that never gets adequate run support this year.

Perez has created a very hard choice for the Tigers . I'd find a way to keep him on the team. It's not like we don't have a number of under performers that couldn't use some additional time in the minors.

BTW, Rob Deer played for 11 seasons. His cumulative WAR after his third year was roughly 4. TOrk has a cumulative minus .7 as of the start of tonight's game. Tork aspires to be a third of the player Deer was at this point in his career.

Nice base running by Keith.

We are watching a Royals team that knows how to put the ball in play. 3 to zero. Almost too big of a hill for the Tigers

Buzz Deer does it again. Another K.

I see that "Buzz" Deer, AKA TORK! is the DH.

Harris has been very careful about what he says publicly about t he current sate of the Tigers roster and the potentially available position players in the system he has going forward. The more I watch this season and view video from minor league games, the more I am convinced the fan base has way over estimated how strong the current batch of position players the Tigers have under control, and especially on the active roster

This is the best summary of the current situation of the Tigers I have seen or heard anywhere.

I love watching batting practice.

Well, that didn't take long.

I will try this again. Don't overload hitters with too much to think about. Keep it simple. Keep it short. Condense information to a very brief indication what is likely. To me, it has looked like sometimes our hitters have been given too much to think about. " In this count, look for Y from pitcher X" as say opposed to " In this count, pitcher X throws a sweeper 46.75 percent of the time", and then go further to break down all possibilities totaling 100 percent in an extreme case. In short, it seems to me the hitters are being coached to the point that the coaching is negatively impacting the ability to respond what the pitcher is throwing throughout the entire at bat.

the latter.

I talking figuratively about calculus. If a hitter is at the plate not ready to relax and hit and tries to keep all of the information being stuffed in their had at the ready, that seems to me to likely have and undue negative impact on results. I think we are generally in agreement. I also think it is increasingly clear why Harris struggled to keep from bursting out laughing at his introduction to the Deroit press, with the core reason being that behind closed doors, MLB GMS do not think highly of Deroit's so called positional prospects.

I am kind of in the all of the above category considering the persistent offensive problems we are having. 1. We are lacking in talent and we have way over estimated the talent that we have. 2. I get the feeling that there are too many folks in the ears of our hitters. A batter cannot think about hitting as if it is a calculus problem after all. That is a coaching problem. 3. It is logical to assume that MLB has decided to exploit the control the strike zone model of the Tigers with throwing sure fire strikes on the first pitch as we are giving away the first strike. There needs to be some first pitch swinging to provide enough contraion behavior to keep everyone honest. 4. The lineup is too short. It needs one more experienced bat.

You know, this team is starting to remind me of the 1968 Tigers with all of their come from behind wins.

Between "Buzz" Oyler (AKA TORK!) and the marvelous batting instructor, Javy Baez, I'm bored. I think I will go watch something exciting, like watching white paint dry on a wall.

5-1. In the third on a ground ball barrage , most of them up the middle.