LongLiveMaroth

You tee'd it up better than I did 😅

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/for-colt-keith-confidence-is-the-key-to-future-success/

Is this too early to be talking about this? Probably but I figured I would get this started after reading through The Athletic's piece around it. Pulling out the Tigers-related updates they are ; "The best starting pitchers expected to be traded at the deadline are Jesús Luzardo of the Marlins, Luis Severino of the Mets, Tyler Anderson of the Angels, Erick Fedde and Garrett Crochet of the White Sox, Jack Flaherty of the Tigers and Trevor Williams of the Nationals if he’s healthy and pitching well. (Williams is on the injured list with a flexor muscle strain after posting a 2.22 ERA over 11 starts.) However, asking prices are exorbitant for most of them and rightfully so because the market for difference-making starters is so thin." "The Tigers won’t trade Tarik Skubal but they’ll listen on Jack Flaherty, who is having a strong season with Detroit. Flaherty (3.22 ERA, 11.64 strikeouts per nine innings) could bring back a haul." Extrapolating all of that here are the teams looking for starting pitching. Padres, St. Louis, Guardians, Milwaukee, Arizona. Cubs are looking for offensive help at catcher and lots of teams are looking for relief help and corner bats. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5553919/2024/06/11/mlb-trade-deadline-rumors-50-days-out/ All of this should probably be taken with a grain of salt with Bowden as the writer.

Yeah, I'll be honest I have had to block some people on here because the constant negativity of it does nothing but annoy me and make me not want to hop on to talk Tigers. You know it is bad when you know when consistently if they are doing well posts on GDT's are less than when they are doing poorly.

FCL had a late game and seems like they prefer that. W 16-3 Montilla 3/4 4RBI GS HR Fana 1/5 2RBI 2BB Sequera 1/4 K Jimenez 2/5 RBI BB 2K Hernandez 3/6 RBI K Salas 1/4 RBI 2BB K HR Perez 2/5 2RBI BB HR Wilson 4IP 2H 4BB 6K 0ER

Small things from Henning this weekend: Notable is that Lee no longer is a second baseman-only. Befitting the Tigers’ preferences, he now will play one game a week at third base. It’s a decision made jointly by Tigers front-office chief Scott Harris and assistant general manager Ryan Garko, who heads development. Still no word on when Jackson Jobe might be headed back to Erie for rotation work following his May 1 hamstring strain. He also has a write-up on FRANYERBER but not much to pull from it other than the fact he has been playing well which I mean we know.

Toledo W 6-3 Meadows 0/4 BB 2K Tork 1/3 2BB K 2B Jung 3/5 K 2B Dingler 1/4 3RBI BB HR SB Leonard 1/4 2K Bigbie 0/4 Kreidler 1/1 RBI BB Lockhart 4IP 3H BB 3ER 2K Lange 1IP 2H 3K Erie W 4-1 Holton 1/4 Workman 0/3 BB 3K Melton 5IP 4H ER BB 6K WM L 4-3 11In Jarvis 1/5 K 2SB Anderson 2/5 2K Gold 0/5 3K Campos 3/5 RBI 2B HR Graham 1/3 RBI K Hamm 4IP 4H 3ER 6K Lakeland W 7-6 McGonigle 1/5 RBI Clark 3/4 RBI HR Bastidas 0/3 RBI Castillo 5IP 3H ER 3BB 2K

Marcano is only 20 years old in A+ and seems to be holding his own.

Not a bad pickup for 2.5 months of Lorenzan

Also Franyerber is 2/2 with a HR

Torks homerun last night. Off an 88mph cutter so not off anything high velocity.

Yeah, they are pretty slow to promote people which that's fine I just think both Clark and McGonigle need to be tested by better pitching. Clark may not have the high BA but both his and McGonigle's average EV is high especially for the FSL. That being said when they are promoted it will be on a Monday or Tuesday as they probably wouldn't push them up mid series. Selfishly I want them up to WM before July so I can catch a game in Midland.

McCosky wishing he was the Mudhens beat writer today

Update Pipeline Mock has us taking Griffin which I would be thrilled with. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pipeline-2024-mock-draft-june-6?t=mlb-draft-coverage I won't post it here because I have heard some accusations about him and plagiarism but one of the more prominent draft guys did a podcast with Jim Callis around the Tigers and expectations around 11 and I will save you all from having to listen to it and let you know what kind of came out of it. Depending on how the board falls do not be surprised if Cam Caminiti gets picked by us, Mark Conner and Rob Meltzer have been seen at many of his games along with a handful of cross-checkers so there is certainly smoke there, I doubt it would happen but I would love to float him to 49 if we can sign someone else below slot at 11. They have also seemed pretty interested in Chase Harlan out of Pennslyvania.

Toledo W 8-4 Meadows 1/5 SB Tork 3/5 2RBI 2 2B Jung 1/4 2RBI BB HR Dingler 2/3 2BB K SB Leonard 1/4 BB 2B Bigbie 2/4 2RBI BB HR 2B Hurter 5IP 5H 3ER BB 4K Lange 1IP 0H 0BB 0K Erie L 4-3 Workman 0/4 K Lee 0/3 BB K Cruz 1/3 RBI BB HR WM W 5-3 Anderson 1/2 2BB Campos 1/4 K Graham 1/4 K Lakeland W 1-0 Clark 0/4 2K Campbell 1/4 Gil 1/2 2BB Bastidas 0/3 K Minton 4IP 5H 0ER 2BB 7K FCL W 11-10 11 Innings Montilla 1/5 RBI 2BB K (GW RBI) SB Fana 1/5 BB K Jimenez 0/4 BB 3K Hernandez 3/6 4RBI GSHR in the bottom of the 9th to tie it up Perez 1/3 RBI 3BB K SB

Pitchers realized he just hits all the balls to the opposite field so they aren't giving him balls to hit that way.

Those BAbips are really high.

Toledo GM 1 L 10-2 Meadows 0/5 Tork 0/3 BB Jung 0/3 BB Dingler 1/2 BB 2B Leonard 1/2 K Bigbie 0/2 RBI K Kreidler 0/4 3K Montero 3IP 6ER 4BB 2K Lange 1IP K Toledo GM 2 W 10-8 Meadows 3/4 3RBI BB K 2HR CS Tork 2/4 RBI BB 2K Jung 2/2 2BB 2B Bigbie 0/3 RBI Madden 3IP 3H ER 3BB 8K Erie W 9-1 Workman 1/3 RBI 2BB Lee 1/5 3RBI HR Cruz 1/3 RBI BB 2B Bergner 6IP 2H 5K BB WM W 3-2 Jarvis 1/4 2RBI HR Anderson 0/4 RBI K Campos 1/4 Pacheco 1/4 2B Smith 3IP 2H 3K Lakeland W 4-3 McGonigle 0/6 Clark 1/3 2BB SB Gil 1/5 RBI BB Campbell 1/4 BB 2K SB

Riley Greene was picked a couple picks after Witt. It's also not like the Royals have had a bunch of luck at the top of the draft either besides him. Looking at you Asa Lacy.

I see they are wearing the Oat Milker uniforms too 😅

Englert back, Faedo to IL for hip issues

I think you underestimate the state of catchers in the league.