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and nobody yet on rehab....

9 under 500. Well, on the bright side, if this keeps up through mid-season they'll have the chance to sell everyone and get enough talent back that they'll have a chance to be good again in my lifetime.

Tigers sent the following OPS hitters to the plate tonight: 278, 470, 480, 577, 592

Keith 1 for 9 as a PH this year. (616 OPS lifetime as a PH).

right now this offense is in a lot more trouble than Gleyber Torres and javy Baez can fix.

I'm sorry Dan, I don't care that Riley has reached in 8 AB in two losing games.

all of Hinch's pinch hit calls turning to dust this season.

score one, give up 2. Score 2, give up 3, score 3, give up 4........The Tiginacci series.

Jones swings at two balls, takes the called strike middle middle

but who wants to pay the prices at a boutique anymore, that's so 2025.

return via I-75 Southbound. 🤷‍♂️

can somebody please go sit on Fetterman? Or maybe break the arm he votes with?

sure - not everyone is going to hit 30 hr, but it's awfully nice if they can! Of the 'simple' stats, the best correlate for run scoring is OPS. To finish a season with a 900 OPS in 650 PA, with 50 BB, 30 x 2B, and 30 HR, you still need to hit 328! to do the same with 50 BB, 30 x 2B, but only 10 HR, you'd have to hit 377! HR are good, very good. ⚾ The interesting question is what is the optimum economic distribution of resources between the cost of power hitters and their limitations in other parts of the game (e.g. defense, speed, etc) vs run prevention (better pitchers etc). Different winning teams do get there different ways, but power hitting is one that often works. The other advantage is that when you get into the playoffs and face pitchers with generally low WHIP, moving runners around gets proportionally harder. All that said - McGonigle is fine.

A baseball team is all about building player/talent capital. If you are starting from a point where you don't have a lot, the resources available in a single off-season to collect more may not be enough for all you need. Likewise, until you can build up enough talent capital that you have more than you can put on the field at one time, trading is pretty much a zero sum game because it's hard not to end up giving up something you still need to get something you want. It's a long process, like building up your bank account, and the worst thing you can do for the long term is make some kind of splashy trade that actually moves you backwards by making your team older and shallower.

this of course is the crux, it's not what you know, it's how you use it, and whether in the end you are better on the field. The Tigers' analytics dept may be every bit as good as Cleveland's, and Hinch may be a more analytically well versed manager than whoever has sat in that chair in Cleveland, but for some reason they keep having as much or more success rotating in effective players over time. Or TL,DR version - just because you use analytics is no guarantee you are going to make the most optimal choices. I think in the main the failure in this org is still its lack of success finding players in Latin America. Something like 30-40 of all MLB talent originates outside the US and the Tigers seem to still be missing the boat there completely.That means the development end is playing with one hand tied behind its back.

maybe, but at the end of the day OBP trumps walk rate. If guy gets his OBP by hitting 320 I don't care if his walk rate is zero. Of course not suggesting Anderson can hit 320 in the majors but I would argue that a low walk rate is not as much of a single issue disqualifier that too high a K rate becomes.

exactly - there was a system of carrots and sticks that made it in their interest to just string the development along without actually going there. The incentives at that time made a half completed program more advantageous to them than a completed one as it brought the carrots. Take all that away and there is no advantage to not completing the program.

I just love how the public falls for these non-sequitor arguments. *if* you actually could prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon with all this noise, they you could argue about the value of that vs gas prices. But the premise is false. We couldn't prevent Pakistan from developing a weapon, we couldn't stop India from developing a weapon, we couldn't even stop N. Korea from developing a weapon. If a country as large and well educated and financial sound as Iran wants a weapon, they will get it. They could already have had one by now it they had really wanted a program that was more than a bargaining chip for them. The objective truth is the only real way to stop Iran from eventually developing a weapon is for them to decide they don't need one - that the costs aren't worth the payoff. You sure as heII don't accomplish that by attacking them constantly.

well we are due for some new craziness from Trump in the next day or two. The market has been sliding for several days and West Tx Intermediate is almost at $104.

I'd like a report on whether Max Anderson can play 1st base. I know Colt's glove isn't the greatest in general but I'd almost rather see him at 3rd than 1st - he's never looked comfortable to me playing 1st - I wonder if/how much practice time he is putting in at 1b currently.

It's been thrashed around a bit here already, but to me this this year Colt is going through what Riley went through last season. He made an off-season change in his approach and the result has gone right past the optimum point he needed to hit. He is now a much better contact hitter but he's lost his launch angle and is not able to get the ball in the air. In statcast parlance, more balls 'squared up' but fewer balls 'barreled'. I would guess that like Riley this year, there is a refinement he can make to get him closer to the best of both worlds - which would be a very productive hitter, but the question is whether it is something he will be able to do in season or like Riley last year, are we stuck with 'no-home-run-Keith' until he can fix it next off-season. Or maybe even (gasp!) take an option to work on it in Toledo for a month away from the pressure of the Tiger's losing streak. Of course even if he would, that can't happen until we get Baez and Torres back.

Wemby looks a little like a young Wilt. If he gets thicker and stronger like Wilt did…..

CNN is just feckless, Israel has been on BBC’s bad list going all the way back to Partition. Maybe it’s a still a shade of Euro anti-semitism, but I also think at some level, the history of Israel and the way the US more or less steamrolled England’s preferences for the region (Suez, etc etc), remains a subconscious wound about the loss of empire.

it’s the same question from last Sept, and the problem is you can’t prove the negative. Is there something in prep, or clubhouse management or the subtleties of Hinch’s approach to individual players that would make a difference? Should he opt for a different set of or approach by the Tiger’s hitting coaches? Who knows? on the flip side, besides Torkelson, who we know tends to be a head case about his approach, who is hitting badly that there is be a well founded expectation should be doing better? Mck? Perez? Rogers? Jones? We are playing a bunch of guys for whom the run from July of 24 to July of 25 was more likely the outlier of their career. The 3 guys out right now, Carp, Baez and Torres are the guys with track records in which you might have a level of confidence.

yeah- that is the thing. Not many guys with that body have survived the NBA for long careers.