tiger2022

I think whip is a much better stat to evaluate a pitcher.

Thanks for adding your input to the stupidity.

If a reliever has a bad outing and gives up 4 runs, it takes him 10 or 11 more outings to get his era respectable.

I want them to keep him as long as they can. You normally don't get better trading a candidate for CY Young to get a bunch of prospects. I would like to see the Tigers fire Hinch, actually try to put a competent team on the field, and keep their best players. The last year the Tigers were competitive was 2016. It seriously should not take 3 presidential cycles for a team to stop sucking in modern baseball. This ownership is unable or unwilling to put a decent product on the field, so I don't see any other option than for the Tigers to trade Skubal, probably at the all star break next season. They are really trying hard to get normal people to not care about the team.

Are you talking about Casey Mize? No one will trade anything of value for him. It doesn't matter where he was drafted. The guy doesn't have a swing and miss pitch. His ceiling was last game where he had a bunch of weak contact. He is going to get hammered tonight by a poor Nationals team.

Mize is just a bottom of the rotation guy. He's a dime a dozen. He doesn't have a swing and miss pitch...average to below average stuff.

Should be a pitchers duel. Haha.

I just have this feeling that Flaherty is gone by the all star break and Skubal is a Yankee or Dodger at next year's trade deadline. I think Harris believes this group of players, led by Mize and Torkelson, have proven to be busts and it's another lost 3 or 4 years. Skubal will be gone.

Exactly. You don't badmouth others because that cuts down on future employment opportunities after you get fired.

Methinks his management skill had more to do with garbage cans than anything else.

Colt Keith got his hit for the week. Well done, son.

Here's to Riley Greene getting better so this organization can trade him in a few years at the trade deadline.

It'll cut payroll even if it isn't that much. I think that is important to ilitch because a million saved is a million earned.

He also isn't going to throw Bumbling Al Avila under the bus because that is really saying Ilitch sucks as an owner.

Imagine of Judge actually started the season hitting like he is now. Even the year he hit 62, he started off really slow. He was Javy Baez and most of the rest of the gang bad.

I would guess Flaherty is the only one that would return anything at all worth trading for. Next year, the Tigers are going to be asking a king's ransom for Skubal. Wonder when they will start shopping him.

Probably the same people just changing why they harass a player.

I don't believe that someone followed a player home after a game to threaten him. Beforehand, that guy would need to know where the players park, what type of vehicle the particular player drives, and be able recognize that player out of uniform. That's a tough sell for me. The guy just followed him? .I would assume these players probably have garages that they drive in. How did the perpetrator get to talk to this player? Yet, the player somehow got threatened by this person and then didn't bother to call the police or beat the hell out of the guy? That's a tough scenario to believe.

Please, if there are major league players reading this. I am truly sorry I called you drama queens because I suspect most of these threats are made up or embellished. No one ever lies about anything that has ever happened to them. It was incredibly rude and inconsiderate.

Does it happen to football or basketball players? There are a certain number of psychopaths on the planet. Some of them gamble, some of them do other stuff. A guy shot Ronald reagan to impress Jodi Foster....there are always going to be people that are crazy.

It was documented to one guy. When the Lions got beat by the saints a guy from Detroit called up the superdome and threatened to blow up the stadium. That doesn't mean threatening to blow up stadiums was widespread.

I am left with the impression that you didn't understand my comments. A player saying someone threatened them doesn't mean it actually happened.

I think a lor of the players are drama queens when it comes to the "stories" about people threatening them. Not saying it hasn't happened but I am guessing they embellish it. Kind of like when LeBron James claimed someone just happened to get into his high security gated community with armed guards not allowing anyone in, and spray painting derogatory words on his home, you know the one that has cameras that cover every inch of his property even though those cameras somehow missed filming the culprit. And he just happened to have people paint over the words that were spray painted before the police could get there to document it.

And they wonder why most people don't care about this franchise.

You seriously think Baltimore would trade Holliday for Flaherty or Olson?