2023 Detroit Tigers Regular Season Discussion Thread

[oblong]

 

[chasfh]

41 minutes ago, oblong said:

 

The thing that leaps out immediately to me is that seven teams have a player who wears number 0.

[casimir]

Benito Sanitago wore 09 for two teams.  His baseball reference page is unprepared for such a display.

Is 00 considered the same as 0?

Is anyone else surprised that the holier than thou Yankees allow 0 to be used as a jersey number?

[oblong]

15 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The thing that leaps out immediately to me is that seven teams have a player who wears number 0.

I would guess they are coaches?

[mtutiger]

FWIW, I believe that Tyler Holton's 87 is the first time in team history that number has been utilized. 

EDIT: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teams/baseball_uniform_numbers.php?t=DET

Apparently only second instance of a number above 80 (along with Jose Mesa in 2007, who wore 94 and played like a number 94 lol)

Edited May 5, 2023 by mtutiger

[Tiger337]

The Tigers have the highest minimum by far (7).  

[RandyMarsh]

Judge wears 99 why does it say 97 for the Yanks? Also can't believe that 6 other teams have a 99 on their team as well. 

[RandyMarsh]

7 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

The Tigers have the highest minimum by far (7).  

Yep, of course 4 and 0 are the only numbers before 7 that aren't retired.

[mtutiger]

5 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Judge wears 99 why does it say 97 for the Yanks? Also can't believe that 6 other teams have a 99 on their team as well. 

Judge is on the IL

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

I would guess they are coaches?

Marcus Stroman, Adam Ottavino, Billy Hamilton, Andres Gimenez, Sam Haggerty, Brice Turang, and Domingo German. So, nope.

Of those seven, only Turang has never worn another number in the bigs. So, number 0 is a fad, if not a trend. Looks for a number 0 on the Tigers before long. Maybe J-Hen.

How do I know it's a fad? There have been 36 players in big league history who have worn number 0. Ten years ago today, there were only 11 in big league history.

Fourteen of the players in history who wore zero did not do so before the pandemic.

So, yeah, it's definitely a fad.

Don't look it up now, but: can you name the first player in history ever to wear number 0 in the big leagues?

 

[LongLiveMaroth]

I was not a fan of this pickup and honestly it could all go south after I post this but McKinstry's Savant page is pretty nice.
 

[Tiger337]

25 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Yep, of course 4 and 0 are the only numbers before 7 that aren't retired.

and 4 is semi-retired in honor of Bobby Higginson.  

[RandyMarsh]

42 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

I was not a fan of this pickup and honestly it could all go south after I post this but McKinstry's Savant page is pretty nice.
 

If Grit was on there you'd see the darkest color of red imaginable.

[mtutiger]

Credit where credit is due.... HARVY takes a lot of crap at times, but his fingerprints have been all over the relatively good play since 2-9

[Tiger337]

54 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

I was not a fan of this pickup and honestly it could all go south after I post this but McKinstry's Savant page is pretty nice.
 

I was neutral on McKinstry when they got him.  I didn't think he'd do much, but they didn't give up anything to get him.  His first month was good.  Vierling, Rogers and McKinstry have been solid additions so far.  

[Jim Cowan]

First guy to wear 0 was probably Al Oliver.  You remember Al Oliver.  One year the Veterans Committee, led by Henry Aaron and Al Kaline, gave more votes to Al Oliver than they did to Dic* Allen.

Edited May 5, 2023 by Jim Cowan

[chasfh]

What a minute—are they really filtering that word?

**** McAuliffe.

EDIT: Goddammit!

Edited May 5, 2023 by chasfh

[chasfh]

Anyway, yes it was Al Oliver.

[Tiger337]

**** Allen is getting disrespected again.  You can't even type his name now.  

[Tiger337]

Allen's career OPS+ was 156 which is 19th all-time.  His career up to age 33 was basically the same as Miguel Cabrera, but all you hear about is how much of a problem he was.  

[theroundsquare]

His rep is that he was a real ****

[casimir]

Richard Anthony Allen led the NL in SOs twice, once with 150 and once with 138.  Those figures would place tied for 26th and 42th in MLB last season well, behind the MLB leading 200.  His career high was actually 161 which would tie for 17th with some pitcher / designated hitter.

Things have changed a bit since then.

[LongLiveMaroth]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

What a minute—are they really filtering that word?

**** McAuliffe.

EDIT: Goddammit!

Can't say **** but a poster named Fat Bastard is alright 😅

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

Can't say **** but a poster named Fat Bastard is alright 😅

At least his name isn't **** Bastard.

Edited May 5, 2023 by chasfh

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

Allen's career OPS+ was 156 which is 19th all-time.  His career up to age 33 was basically the same as Miguel Cabrera, but all you hear about is how much of a problem he was.  

Black man in the 1960s with a mind of his own and a penchant to tell us all about it? Check.