TigerNation

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Yeah we didn't have him pitch the year he was drafted because Florida had an extended run the tournament. And he performed so well that it looked like he was a steal, probably would have been a top 10 pick if the draft was the CWS. Then as soon as he pitched for the Tigers his stuff was just not there. I remember Microcline making a comment on his weight after his first season in the minors on the Tigstown podcast.

That's not exactly right. He showed mid 90s fastball and had a dominant run in the CWS. His first year was not good, he was overweight, didn't have the sharp slider or velocity on his fastball.

Been on an absolute tear the last two weeks as well. Hitting .400/.440/.733 in 11 games in May. Gotta imagine he'll be promoted to Erie soon.

Way too early to say for the 2023 draft.

The first six picks will be determined by the lottery, but every non playoff team will be in the lottery. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/guide-to-the-new-cba-draft-lottery-expanded-playoffs-and-more/

It just means we only need to have the third worst record to have the best odds for the #1 pick!

I think the league wide numbers show it's true for a large majority of players. Did they use these balls during ST, and did teams know ahead of time that MLB was going to use the deadened ball?

Shohei Ohtani has a higher career OPS than any single player in our lineup has this season.

It's true for the guys you'd expect to be impact players. But for a guy who could be an OK big leaguer for a few years in his prime it's normal.

Good pitchers have a tendency to not get hit at any point in the game.

It was posted earlier in this thread he got hit by a pitch in one of their recent games, assume it's because of that.

He was also injured in 2013. Through August 26th (123 games) Cabrera was hitting .359/.450/.688 with 43 HRs and 130 RBIs. He reaggravated an abdominal injury that game. From then until the end of the season (25 games) he hit .284/.396/.333 with 1 HR and 7 RBI. And in the playoffs he only hit .262/.311/.405. He went from challenging for the greatest RHH season in MLB history to a replacement level player.

My bally sports app does something really cool where when I try to stream it on my TV through the fire stick it puts me on the national network and says Detroit isn't part of my TV package for some reason, so I can't watch Tigers games. When I use the same cable login on the same wifi on my laptop it lets me watch Detroit games though.

Robo umps can't come soon enough.

Is he the guy the Atlantic wrote a profile on during ST?

Yes, so much of the fangraphs trade analysis is just which team maximized the salary/WAR ratio. How'd that work out for the Cubs when they traded for Quintana instead of Verlander?

Yeah we did a pick swap with the Marlins as part of the trade. It was the first trade of draft picks.

That was Mize who threw the no-hitter in his first start in AA. Faedo basically came in overweight and his stuff and declined in his first season. He survived a in A+ but with concerns about his K rate and velocity, and he got rocked as soon as he got to AA. He was dropped way down on most top Tigers prospects lists after his first season. His Velo actually bounced back a bit in his second season and he performed solidly in AA.

Past history is not really a way of knowing either.

Im saying it's unlikely he's striking out so much because he's too aggressive at the plate. Players who have plus walk rates are almost never over aggressive chasing pitches out of the strike zone.

His walk is 11%, so his strikeout rate being high isn't because he's being too aggressive. He's either not aggressive enough and takes too many strikes, or he is swinging and missing a bit much, or some combo of the both.