04/02/2023 1:10pm EDT Detroit Tigers vs Tampa Bay Rays

[Tigerbomb13]

Riley breaks it up!!!! Holy shit, a hit!!!! 

[Tenacious D]

C’mon, Javy.  Make me like you.

[chasfh]

He didn't exactly crush that grounder, but at least Riley has gotten us off the base hit schneid.

Riley has made a lot of good things happen by charging down the line toward first this year so far.

[ben9753]

Oh Harvey….

[Sports_Freak]

In years past, when somebody insulted the Tigers, there would be other posters defending them. Not so much any more. : (

 

[Tigerbomb13]

Hard hitting analysis from C-Mo: “Tigers have not made a lot of hard contact in this series”

Edited April 2, 2023 by Tigerbomb13

[Sports_Freak]

Just now, Tigerbomb13 said:

Hard hitting analysis from C-Mo: “Tigers have not made a lot do hard contact in this series”

But he loves their approach. Sounds like he approves.

[Tenacious D]

Where analytics have failed—people trying to distract by identifying a silver lining out of exit velo, hard hit rate, BABIP, etc…. All great, but at the end of the day it’s about results.

[MichiganCardinal]

Is it an overreaction to think this team may be historically bad? Like near 2003 territory? The only thing that kept people from going quite that far is that the offense couldn’t possibly be worse than 2022. Well……

[Sports_Freak]

Can Dan Campbell coach baseball? We need to chew on some kneecaps. 🤣🤣🤣

[Tigerbomb13]

5 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Is it an overreaction to think this team may be historically bad? Like near 2003 territory? The only thing that kept people from going quite that far is that the offense couldn’t possibly be worse than 2022. Well……

They won’t be that bad, but the offense looks catastrophically horrendous. I thought they could win 75 games a week ago, but now I think 100 losses is definitely a possibility. 

[Jim Cowan]

Hens game tied at 1.  They have 3 hits and 5 walks, lots of firepower!

[chasfh]

7 minutes ago, Tenacious D said:

Where analytics have failed—people trying to distract by identifying a silver lining out of exit velo, hard hit rate, BABIP, etc…. All great, but at the end of the day it’s about results.

Riley Greene proves that:

Give me 87.6 miles per hour going a distance of five feet all day, amirite?

[IdahoBert]

At least they avoided the ignominy of a No-hitter. 

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

They won’t be that bad, but the offense looks catastrophically horrendous. I thought they could win 75 games a week ago, but now I think 100 losses is definitely a possibility. 

Also remember the first 40 games is probably the toughest stretch any team in baseball has this year.

[Jim Cowan]

Just now, Jim Cowan said:

Hens game tied at 1.  They have 3 hits and 5 walks, lots of firepower!

Correction, 2 singles and an Ibanez double - can they get him to Tampa before the end of the game?

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Riley Greene proves that:

Give me 87.6 miles per hour going a distance of five feet all day, amirite?

Hey, check out the Gameday 3D motion-capture replay they have now:

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/718742/play/45

[mtutiger]

11 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Is it an overreaction to think this team may be historically bad? Like near 2003 territory? The only thing that kept people from going quite that far is that the offense couldn’t possibly be worse than 2022. Well……

This team is significantly more talented than 2003 or even 2019. 

[Toddwert]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Also remember the first 40 games is probably the toughest stretch any team in baseball has this year.

but if your 10-30 after the first 40 games its gonna be hard to dig out of that

[Tigerbomb13]

How bad is Schoop when you get pinch hit for McKinstry? Results are the same. 

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Toddwert said:

but if your 10-30 after the first 40 games its gonna be hard to dig out of that

You're right, it's going to be hard to dig out of it, although to be fair, no one was expecting us to contend, anyway. This is more of a character-building year for everyone involved.

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Is it an overreaction to think this team may be historically bad? Like near 2003 territory? The only thing that kept people from going quite that far is that the offense couldn’t possibly be worse than 2022. Well……

well, they do currently project to score 108 runs for the season. Would that be historicially bad?

[IdahoBert]

I haven’t been around here in quite a while because I don’t have much positive to say and I don’t want to be like the trolls I used to enjoy banning. But the negative comment I do have to share is that I was wondering how the Ilitch family cannot feel ashamed at what they’ve done to this team and I realize that as really really really rich kids they probably have a pretty thick skin about being disliked. I suppose that Mike as complicated and unsaint like as he most likely was, was at least capable of shame which made him care two shits instead of none. 

[MichiganCardinal]

3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

well, they do currently project to score 108 runs for the season. Would that be historicially bad?

Where’s my six runs —> where’s my six hits

[gehringer_2]

So far Foley is perfect through, 3/3 inherited runners scored. 

'Lineup flexibility' has netted us zero runs and non 3b Maton was just unable to make another play that led to a run.