kdog

Matt Manning is pitching for Toledo tonight. He would have been lined up again for this start if the Tigers thought he was making any progress.

You're talking in the abstract. The Tigers need people to watch their games and buy tickets. The other thing I would ask, have they actually fixed hitting development? Or would we see a repeat of 2024 where every single young hitter is failing?

This is a check in the Scott Harris column.

Flaherty's second back injection certainly hurts the cause. The rest of the guys they have are spare parts and throw ins.

Tigers blurb on Kiley McDaniel ESPN column($$)

That's what I'm waiting for...Plan A hasn't worked out; What is the pivot? Re-rebuild or see if you can make moves that will get this team reasonably competitive for next year in the Skubal window.

Canha is probably playing through a debilitating hip injury.

The Detroit Tigers are purportedly a major league baseball franchise. I want to know how they could possibly sell tickets with another year of tryout camp. They already have a fanbase that despises ownership and the front office(to a lesser extent). You put together a list including guys who aren't even prospects. This would drive people away for years. We can't build teams in the abstract or in theory. There are financial realities to being this bad for almost 10 years.

Harris didn't want to block young players with washed up veterans or bad contracts. Good thing we don't have any of those guys hitting 3 and 4 in our lineup.

That was a get me over slider and Correa launched it.

Canha and Urshela are basically corpses at this point...unfortunate.

Vest can't even finish the inning...brutal.

Quick and to the point...Tigers bullpen collapses.

Time for bullpen roulette.

well given the choices we have, I'm not sure it's definitive either way.

Items 2 and 3 are bad news:

The Mize injury underscores another issue with this season. How much will we know about the 'core' by the end of the season. Guys are either hurt or have been exiled to Toledo.

Mize headed to the DL with a hamstring strain. That’s the reason that Montero was scratched in Toledo. Matt manning is a distant memory.

The options at Toledo are Englert, Wingenter, et al...so yeah. Another problem is that every other guy in the bullpen has had a disastrous outing within the past few weeks(aside from maybe Foley). So it's a bunch of bad choices.

That guy can't pitch another inning for this team. I know we have no answers for hitting but DFA him tonight...he has nothing.

Get Miller off this team.

If Harris, Greenberg, and Garko had an answer, we wouldn't be in this situation.

The tigers pivoted into a hitting developmental org specifically at the time when hitting is way down in mlb overall and no young hitters are doing anything. But if this exposes flaws in their minor league development and pro coaching staff, that’s good. It’s not just about throwing young hitters to the wolves. If you aren’t giving these guys solutions to their problems, it’s a pointless exercise.

The game results don’t sting as much for me. This team still needs a ton of work to be competitive in the long term. We should learn a lesson if they have a fake September win streak.