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There are reports out there that Hinch has lost the locker room, just like he did in Arizona and Houston. Who would have thought a smug, smartest guy in the room, blames the players when they lose and when they win claims they did so because the players bought into HIS system wouldn't sit well with actual baseball players?

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2026 Detroit Tigers brought to you by Scott Harris.

So if Babe Ruth played today he wouldn't be eating 5 or 6 hot dogs a day and banging a dozen hookers a week?

I pointed out that Barry Bonds hit .218 amd .225 against lefties in his first 2 seasons and would have been a platoon player in Hinch's eyes.

I don't understand why Hinch pigeon holed him as a platoon player at 23 years of age. That's when the front office needed to step in and tell Hinch to play him. Hinch is an easy guy to dislike and this is another reason to dislike him.

Hinch just can't take it to see Keith hit against a LH pitcher. Gotta overmanage. Isn't he signed for the 7 or 8 years? That's a long time to sign a platoon player.

I'm sure he has no interest of staying in Detroit.

So he can add blown saves to his resume? Finnegan needs to close.

After Greene the lineup sure takes a huge nosedive. You could actually probably let Mize hit and it wouldn't seem much different. But after 2 abs, you know Jones will pinch hit for Keith, so another sub .200 average in the lineup.

Will Kyle Schwarber be the first guy to hit 500 home runs not associated with roids and not make the hall of fame? He's got 361 and is on a nice pace to get to 500. Stanton has 456 but I can't see him playing enough to get 44 more. Better yet, who gets to 500 among active players Stanton 456, trout 417, Judge 385. Machado 378, goldschmidt 377, Harper 376, Freeman 373, schwarber 361, arenado 360, Santana 335, McCutchen 333, Suarez 328, Perez 312, olson 303, ozuna 301. Judge should make it easily and I think Schwarber gets there. I don't think any if the other ones do. Judge and trout are the same age but I feel like trout is on his last legs. Machado has a big contract for the next 6 or 7 years but he is Spencer torkelson level of awful right now. Harper is interesting. He'll have to hit 25 a year for the next 5 years. I just don't think he'll do it.

Another chance for Hinch to play 4-D chess against mere mortals. I'm guessing Mize comes out in the 4th after giving up an unearned run.

Would they though? I don't know if that's true. And there might be other reasons not to call minor leaguers up...40 man roster moves, guys definitely not ready to be in mlb and they don't want to ruin their confidence, maybe they want some of their better prospects to work on things in the minors against lesser competition so they won't be as stressed and they can have some success. Just calling up guys and expecting them to do the same against major league pitching as they do against AAA pitching is quite a leap. I think Torkelson could have used some more time in the minors. He wasn't particularly impressive in AA or AAA and they called up before he was ready because the Tigers wanted to appear that they were ready to compete. He could have spent another year (at least) in the minors. Some guys take longer to develop and throwing them into the top level too soon can be disastrous. I'm not saying that is why Tork failed, but it could be part of the reason. The Tigers did him a real disservice. I get it with older guys like Jace Jung, but he's been underwhelming at the plate his entire minor league career and has shown nothing when he was on the Tigers.

Harris constructed the team like it is. Whether you agree with it or not, there really isn't a lot he can do to change it. I think he's done an awful job since he started and things just kind of worked out for him the last few years with minimal effort on his part, but you can't just go out and find amazing players at the end of May. You have what you have. You can only call up so many minor leaguers. And honestly, most of those guys are going to fail at the mlb level. They have to ride it out until next season when Harris will hopefully try to do something to improve the team.

I'm gonna guess tanana wasn't on roids.

They haven't figured out to not let him home runs yet so we'll see. The rules aren't fair but those are the rules. It's a strong rookie class. Parker Messick hasn't had any really bad outings. One where he gave up 4 runs, but it's tough for a pitcher to win the ROY when there are valid position players. Basallo is improving. Bazzana got a late start but he's kind of playing similarly to McGonigle. He's going to be a high quality player. DeLauter seems to go in stretches. Who knows what will happen. It's still crazy to think that guys like Trout, Soto, Harper and Machado were really good or even stars at the age of 19 and 20.