LongLiveMaroth

For May he has a .307 average with .950+OPS but he is K'ing 35% of the time for that time frame which needs to be reeled in.

Honestly, I am really just hoping he makes it so I can yell it at games. Also he is 2/2 with a HR and a SB today.

Lynn must have heard you 😅 https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/05/26/around-detroit-tigers-farm-franyerber-montilla-starts-strong-in-fcl/73859709007/ That’s the Florida Complex League, and it’s where Franyerber (Frankie) Montilla, who a month ago turned 19, is becoming one of the Tigers’ hottest and most fascinating farmhands. Montilla is a shortstop, primarily, and a switch-batter who after a dozen FCL games Sunday was batting .317/.517/.463/.981, with six doubles. As impressive were his 15 walks against eight strikeouts. Also — 11 stolen bases. Also in that article ▶ Still no return date revealed for right-handed prize Jackson Jobe, who has missed the past four weeks with a strained hamstring. He is rehabbing at Lakeland and could return to Double-A Erie’s rotation later in June, at the earliest.

Not of Lange's meltdown but here is Hinch's reaction and the Royals announcers talking about it.

Toledo W 9-8 /11 Inn. Meadows 1/6 RBI 2K HR Malloy 1/4 BB K Jung 1/5 2B Dingler 2//5 2RBI K 2HR Bigbie 0/3 2BB 2K SB Hurter 3IP 5H ER 5K Erie L 11-5 Workman 1/5 Lee 0/2 2BB Allen 1/3 4RBI HR Melton 1.1IP 4H BB 4ER 2K Petit 2IP 2H 4K WM W 4-1 Gold 0/3 Campos 2/4 Graham 0/4 2K Pacheco 1/3 3RBI 2 K HR Hamm 1IP 2H BB Lakeland W 6-3 Clark 2/3 2RBI BB 2SB Leonard 0/4 Gil 0/3 BB K Campbell 2/4 RBI K 2B Minton 5IP 6H 3ER BB 7K FCL L 5-4 Perez 0/4 BB 3K 2SB Salas 1/2 2BB SB Montilla 0/4 K Jimenez 2/3 RBI BB 2 2B Bastidas 1/3 BB

I can't find anything on Twitter but he did have 30+ pitches in that first inning and I know there is an org mandate around the amount of pitches in an inning can't remember if it's 30 or 40 though.

Dominican Summer League

I think it's all about expectations for this year. My personal expectations were 81-81 and maybe fighting for a wildcard spot in August/September.

The amount of negativity here you would think we were the 03 Tigers not 1.5 games back from a wildcard spot 🙄.

I know this is a joke but that was a show of speed to make that hit into a double. The throw was a rope and Clark still got there with time. I did notice it looks like the red and blue cleats though 😅.

Toledo SUSP 4th Erie L 2-0 Workman 1/4 1K Lee 1/4 WM L 12-3 Anderson 0/3 Gold 1/4 Campos 2/3 2RBI BB 2B 3B Graham 0/4 RBI Pacheco 0/4 Marcano 5IP 10H 6ER 3K Lakeland L 4-3 McGonigle 1/5 RBI 3K Clark 3/5 RBI K SB 2B Kreidler 0/3 BB 2K Gil 1/4 BB 3K Campbell 0/1 3BB K

No because he basically had his pick of teams and there was no way he was coming to Detroit when he could play in California.

This is what bothers me and honestly it probably shouldn't because let people be fans the way they want but it's this idea that there were these superstars out here that Detroit definitely could have signed but didn't because "the owners cheap" rather than face the reality of the situation that the past off-season didn't really have any difference makers and people would be all up in arms had they actually signed some of the players people were clamoring for (looking at you Matt Chapman) rather than the Urshela. I understand the frustration but there was no silver bullet this off-season besides Ohtani who was never coming here.

Who should they have realistically signed this off-season?

Keith will find his power. I'm not worried about that. I know people are tired of being patient but we still have over 100 games to play.

I'll have to disagree with this at least for Urshela but people want to act like they did nothing to improve the team over the off season which is not true.

I'll be honest I never followed that logic because if that was actually a thing all those years with Miggy we would have had a murderers row every year.

What if I told you Keith has an OPS of almost .900 the last 15 games and he is 74th percentile in range for a 2B. He is still learning the position but let's not act like he's been terrible out there.

Note to self: Canha and Urshela are not big league hitters 🙄

OK I'll bite, outside of Seth Lugo the rest of their signings have been lackluster. Wacha 4.45 ERA Smith 7.63 ERA Renfroe .160 AVG .518 OPS Frazier .189 AVG .547 OPS Lugo 1.79 ERA So the signings outside of Lugo have been Baez and Maeda level in terms of performance. The Royals have benefited from Witt playing like an MVP, Salvador Perez finding the fountain of youth and Ragans, Marsh pitching well. They are not doing well because they "improved the team through FA".

No lack of offense on the farm Toledo L 7-5 Meadows 0/5 K SB Malloy 1/3 2RBI 2BB K HR Jung 1/5 K Dingler 1/3 RBI BB SB (Hitting .269 with .740 OPS on the year) Montero 4.1 IP 3ER 3H 3BB 6K Erie W 11-1 Workman 0/4 BB Lee 1/5 RBI K HR Cruz 3/4 2RBI 2 2B WM W 11-7 Anderson 1/6 Gold 1/4 BB Campos 4/5 4RBI 2 2B Graham 1/5 Lakeland W 11-1 McGonigle 3/4 5RBI BB 2B 3B SB Clark 2/5 3RBI HR 2B Leonard 0/3 2K Campbell 1/4 K Gil 1/3 BB 2B FCL L 6-4 Montilla 1/3 2BB 3SB Salas 0/3 BB K Jimenez 0/3 BB K Perez 0/3 BB 3K Hernandez 0/4 2K Diaz 2IP 3H BB K Rogers 4.1IP 2H ER 4BB 2K

Lakeland is the MiLB game of the day also on not-as-good news FCL Tigers placed RHP Andrew Dunford on the full-season injured list.