tiger2022

He was out. Sucks that he took a run off the board. You can score from 2nd on a base hit to the outfield almost as easily as you can from 3rd. Never want to make the 3rd out at 3rd.

Not so much You also have told me Hinch has a lot of integrity and Harris is an amazing gm too. I think we disagree a lot of things.

Vs lefties Greene .223 avg, .633 ops Keith .163 avg .403 ops Meadows .205 avg, .410 ops Carpenter .217 avg, .638 ops Maybe Hinch just dislikes Carpenter personally.

God forbid if Carpenter gets an at bat against a left handed pitcher. I honestly think Hinch would have had guys like Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, and Babe Ruth in platoon situations had he managed back in the day.

I think houston will take care of the problem today after they lose yet again. Nothing like backing into the playoffs by losing almost everyone of their last 15 games or so.

Not to turn it into a trash on Bobby Scales thread, but how does one get a premier mlb radio gig by being as bad as he is without being some player who was a legend or hall of famer, etc.? I could see if he was a great player and they gave him the gig but you mean to tell me there aren't other people out there who can actually articulate an actual thought?

I dont listen to the radio broadcast ever but am traveling and in the car. Not sure who the color analyst is but he sucks mightily.

Gotta pay that Alex Cobb signing somehow.

Pizza Boy probably would prefer to pitch Skubal on Sunday if it means they can win the division. Two home games with attendance, parking, and concession revenue. It'll help pay for the Alex Cobb terrible signing.

I would think you would want Skubal to pitch in the series. It's a best of 3 series and you have a huge advantage in one of the games with Skubal out there.

Hypothetical question. If Houston loses on Saturday and the Tigers win, they will clinch the playoffs. Would they pitch Skubal on Sunday trying to win the division? I wouldn't and would rather have him ready to go game 1, but the smartest man in the room might start him.

Harris signed Torres. That is the only positive thing he did in the last year for the major league club. He went into the season with the worst SS and 3B combo in the league, didn't address SP depth in AAA, and made the team worse at the trade deadline by bringing in a guy who had been washed up for 3 years, and a guy who was always one of the worst starters in the league for the last 6 years. Harris will be back though.

Regardless of how the game on Saturday turns out, the Tigers will still be alive on Sunday.

Start reading 1984, that has a happy ending.

As Gordon Lightfoot would say, Sundown, you better take care if I find you creeping round my back stairs.

Messick has 34.2 IP and he has a 1.3 WAR. Pretty good so far. Paddack and Morton got the starts instead because they wanted to go with the really ineffective vets.

Nope. Law of large numbers would be over thousands and thousands of games. Baseball isn't a coin flip either. Some teams are better than others.

I think the fact that a guy who has 42 IP in his career is who this team turns to in the most important game of the year says all you need to know about the way this organization has been run.

I could see them going 0-4 and still getting in because Houston can't win games either.

They have a great chance. More because Houston can't win a game than anything the Tigers will do. They have a 1 game lead over Houston and own the tie- breaker. Houston has lost 6 in a row and Brown just pitched. Houston will need to win 2 more games than Detroit in the final 4. Detroit will likely back in to the playoffs and play Cleveland in the first round. If Detroit can win just one more game, Houston would need to go 3-1.

Only if they were facing Morton and Paddack over the next two days.

Once again, I can throw out trades or FA signings but I have no idea how much money I would need to throw at a player or what I would need to give up to get a player. But you are right if you were implying that I don't know exactly what Harris tried to do, but I do know what he did accomplish was underwhelming and didn't help the current mlb roster. I could have tried to trade for Devers when he was upset. The guy is a great hitter and he can't be any worse defensively than Jung or Keith, the two guys that were the serious 3rd baseman candidates. I would have traded some good prospects for him. Probably not Clark or McGongle, but everyone else would have been available. But Boston mat not have wanted to trade him to Detroit. Devers may not have wanted to come to Detroit. I would have made a serious effort. I doubt if Harris even considered it. Before the season, I would have stocked Toledo with depth at starting pitcher instead of signing guys that were injured. Guys that may have been career minor leaguers who can come up and give you innings and start a few games if needed. These guys wouldn't be studs but the Tigers had no one. No way would Ihave started the season with Sweeney as my shortstop. Harris did so because he traded for him and wanted to show how he fleeced the Dodgers in the trade. At the deadline the A's were willing to deal pretty much any if their pitchers. Those guys were all better options than Morton and Paddack. I have no idea if Harris inquired about them. But it probably would have taken a mid level prospect package to get any of them or several of them. I think the team also lacks leadership, and that is showing right now. There doesn't seem to be any players stepping up and Hinch fancies himself as a leader but he was fired in both his previous jobs because he had no control or authority in the clubhouse. I would have looked into adding Andrew McCutchen at the break. He's a leader and a solid if not great bat.

It doesn't look like the Astros want to make the playoffs either. The Tigers will probably back into the playoffs and get to play Cleveland again.

We'll get 'em next year... We'll always get 'em next year.

I don't think people are upset that calls are overturned, but why do you have to challenge something if they can just correct a bad call without going through the challenge crap. And most of the leagues have rules where you get a limited # of challenges or if you lose a challenge, you don't get any others, which sucks because unless the call has a huge impact, you might want to save the challenge for later