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He played in 20 spring games for the Tigers and two games against the Dominican Republic national team and played generally crisp defense. They didn’t send him to play in the spring breakout games for minor league prospects. I wouldn’t be surprised if he played more games than a lot of the regulars. The fan base is profoundly excited about him and he is only going to get better by facing major league competition not minor league competition. Not putting him on the 26-man roster at this point would be pretty much an admission that the club really doesn’t believe in its philosophy. If he doesn’t make the team, I will be so pissed I’ll go on a six-state crime spree a robbin’ and a shootin’ and dying in a hail of bullets as a way of expressing my dissatisfaction.

Finnegan replaces Jack Flaherty.

Flaherty pulled after 81 pitches and starting to look like he was getting in the groove. “He’s working on things…” Got in 4.2 innings.

Gleyber Torres hits a ground-rule double (2) on a fly ball down the right-field line. Parker Meadows scores. 4-4.

Dingler doubles then Meadows doubles him in. At least our guys are putting some wood on the ball.

Karros triples in a run. They are hitting Jack hard.

Flaherty gives up a long ball to centerfield.

Flaherty does a Flaherty and gives up a two run home run

Meadows ran fast enough down the line to avoid a double play and then he stole second base. And he ends up scoring.

Gleyber Torres singles on a ground ball to center fielder Brenton Doyle. Parker Meadows scores. Javier Báez scores.

For the first two innings, Tigers hitters have been pretty underwhelming.

I really hate the intrusive in-game interviews of players when they’re in the field. I think it’s done for people who think baseball is boring and they need to be entertained. Bah humbug.

I’m watching the Rockies Tigers game on TV and there’s a whole raft of Detroit fans in the front row directly behind home plate and it feels good.

Run it up the flag pole and see if anybody salutes. Hey it could work I guess.

Just a reminder that the March 23 and 24 games played in Scottsdale against the Rockies will feature respectively, Flaherty and Verlander as starting pitchers and there will be no Detroit sponsored media coverage although the Flaherty game will have Rockies TV and radio coverage, but the Verlander game will have no coverage by any media outlet so far identified.

So we still don’t know if McGonigle is “good enough“ for the Tigers this year? It’ll be a real shame if the 2027 season doesn’t even happen and he will have never been on the big club and learned by doing which is the way it always happens.

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Maybe it’s just spring training issues, but I’ve watched numerous mlb.tv games where the feed is disrupted and the screen goes black then it comes back highly pixelated and I seriously doubt it has anything to do with my 800 MB download speed. And this is happening on everybody’s feeds.

I have two jerseys, a Cabrera road jersey with his name and number on it and an incredibly sturdy, beautiful, fully authentic Mud Hens road jersey that I got for $2 at a St. Vincent’s thrift store and it’s even got real embroidery. It’s so thick I could wear it in a snowstorm. Unfortunately, hardly anyone out here in Idaho knows who the Mud Hens are unless they remember Klinger from M*A*S*H.

Maybe you were just thinking of those shaky Sunday games where Skubal served up lead off homers in the first. A couple of those come to mind for me. He definitely ain’t perfect but he’s pretty close regardless of a few hiccups.

Stop <blanking with us> Jason. I know you’re a hireling and all, but this is becoming disingenuous.

W. Not a tie for a change and Holton closes out the ninth with a clean inning and a K. Nice.

Javy doubles and Matty hits a ground rule double to make it 3-1 in the 7th.

Gave up a lead off triple, strikes out the next guy, and he gets the handshake from AJ.

Wow Framber is out there for the seventh inning.