tiger2022

Trying to be realistic, if Delauter keeps playing close to how he is doing now, he'll not only win ROY but be in the running for MVP.

He's 20 years old so projecting him to be amazing in the future is really tough. Not saying he won't be but lots of 20 year old top prospects (he'll be 21 in July) in A ball never make it to the majors. Over the years the Tigers have had so many can't miss prospects like Tyler Collins, Cale Iorg and guys like that.

ROY stats Messick, 2-0 0.51 era, 0.906 WHIP 8.21 K/9 17.2 IP DeLauter .300 BA, 5 HR, 1.059 OPS, 50 ABs McGonigle .322 BA, 1 HR, .920 OPS, 59 ABs

Rainier is really struggling at A ball this season. It's early but .120 avg/.521 OPS, 13 K's in 25 AB's.

Remember the time when the wrong guy went up to at bat out of order for the Tigers. I believe Luis Pujols was the manager.

I actually watched something on this last night. They had interviews from Joyce, Galarraga, Donald, Leyland, Inge, Avila Alomar, Jr (first base coach). Donald said he felt bad about it and you could see from his reaction after the call was made. It was also huge for Avila. To catch a perfect game is pretty special too.

Armando Galarraga's perfect game stolen by Jim Joyce's arrogance, the only guy in the world who thought Donald was safe.

RIP Mike Trout's career. You were amazing for a decade but alas, it's time to ride off into the sunset.

Rodriguez was the best FA signing ever by the Tigers.

When your 3 big hitters are hitting .184 .200 & .184 with .631, .578, .591 OPS and 2 HR between them, you're going to be toast.

The staff is a bit overrated. Skubal is amazing, but Valdez is slightly overrated. He's solid, but people make him out like he is a top 10 in the league pitcher, he's not and never has been. Mize and Flaherty are crap shoots. They can be good but they can be Paddack-esque too. And Verlander was a pointless signing. I assumed he would suck and then they would just stick him on the IL whether he was injured or not. I assume they saw enough after one start to put that plan into action.

Alex Cobb and Verlander? Those two should be on the list. At least Cobb didn't suck, he just cashed his checks.

It wouldn't be the first time the offense faced one of the worst starting pitchers and looked like trash.

You'd have to have a massive hand to wrap completely around the baseball for it to be used as a weapon ala roll of quarters.

Would have been awesome to see Paadack vs Verlander. Vegas would have had to set the over at about 16.5 for runs scored. But if he shuts the Tigers down, they should just disband the team.