kdog

He does not miss bats...at all.

I looked at rental trades last year and didn’t see a lot of great prospects moving.

If they are going to lean into a pitching and defense model, that’s great. They don’t have the athletic profiles in the upper minors to accomplish that…aside from Meadows. They have a lot of dh types who might hit if they cleanup issues(Jung contact rate, Keith hitting development in the majors, tork miracle). Unless you get an elite guy in free agency(in his prime), you will invariably get stuck with a terrible contract. He has to figure out how to build a functional roster before the second wave of prospects are ready. They have more than enough money to make trades. The Lorenzen trade was probably a marginal win. We need to see them get a decent lotto ticket for Flaherty.

This is a strong post. I’m scarred by Avila’s rebuild and other failed ‘restores’ in recent Detroit history. But will Harris defer to giving young players time in Detroit because he has no other plan for the immediate future? Is a young player failing consistently good for their development. IMO, this is the abstract judgement that we don’t have answers for. The issue they have in the high minors is that most of these guys aren’t positionally versatile. Jung likely isn’t a 3rd baseman, Keith isn’t a 2B, and most of the hit tool guys they have profile as corner of or dh(Malloy types). I wish these guys could actually hit. But hitting development around the sport is bad right now. I generally understand Harris minor league dev process. I don’t really know how we are going to field a real major league offense unless he makes some baseball trades or has something else up his sleeve. So I need to see his roster building process yield results before I buy in.

All the close low scoring games they were winning in March and April with low strand rates and clutch bullpen performance….that regresses to a point where we are now. If we could score more runs and have a three or four run lead occasionally, it would reduce the leverage that bullpen is under constantly. The offense isn’t going to get fixed anytime in the near future, so we will have to deal with this.

1-3 on the road trip thus far...scored 2 runs total in the 3 losses...and there aren't any answers for that. Just have to hope that they have a random day where guy hits a bunch of singles.

Will Vest and Shelby Miller in high leverage....good stuff.

They invent new ways to not get a hit with runners on base.

If Vest is your first option in a one run game, you are not serious.

Is this season was about seeing young players fail, that has been accomplished.

No offense, I can't take you seriously until you a wear a pink polo like Dombrowski.

This lineup against Fried is unfair lol.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/06/16/henning-estimating-a-return-debut-detroit-tigers-at-toledo/74116713007/

I missed the news that Alex Lange suffered an 'upper body' injury in Toledo. Hinch and the Tigers are not optimistic about it.

They are 3-7 since winning on June 4th. In the 3 wins, they have scored 30 runs; In the seven losses, they have scored 15 runs. Carpenter injury and Tork failure are huge issues obviously.

If Tigers brass wasn't embarassed about the last 8 years, one ho-hum loss in June 2024 isn't going to do it lol.

Today and Friday's game are about the same...non competitive offense and the games will barely last two hours...Saturday was nice.

No hitter over...now it's a just normal shutout.

I don't think it would matter even if had a 1.000 OPS. They're probably looking for real mechanical fixes. But with the difference between AAA and MLB, it's hard to know if he's fixed until he comes back up.

Maeda gave them 5 mediocre innings...which is about the best outcome.

Two shutouts sandwiched around 13 runs is so fitting for this team lol. That's why the offense is improved in the aggregate. They have more explosive games but the baseline is about the same.

Once again, this tweet is our existence:

Pacheco is still young…but the contact skills just have not developed.

When Dickerson is the backup for Benetti, you have it good. Of course, it would help if half of Detroit could see the games.