04/19/2023 1:10 pm EDT Cleveland Guardians vs Detroit Tigers

[gehringer_2]

He was trying to get to Naylor before bringing in Alexander, which would have been great if it worked. AJ just got a little greedy there. They've been on a role, I guess he hoped luck would hold.

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

ouch

[kdog]

Greene's 3 true outcomes:

grounder to pull side

line drive or homer to opposite field

strikeout

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

TORQUE

[gehringer_2]

As Dan might say, he's got a little pop in that bat.

[Tigerbomb13]

More of that please, Tork. 

[gehringer_2]

You can see what scouts loved about Torkelson's power. Tork's swing reminds me of Trout in the way he holds the bat with both hands all the way through - sort of old school. But Trout uses more leg kick to generate his power. Tork put that ball over the bullpen while hardly  picking up his left foot. He'll probably never hit like Trout overall - not many ever will - but the comparison of the power he generates with a similar swing but less motion shows you how strong he is compared to a very strong hitter.

Edited April 19, 2023 by gehringer_2

[RatkoVarda]

[kdog]

Greene is going to strike out a lot if he's good or bad; He needs to turn those ground balls into line drives and fly balls.

[Tigermojo]

Nevin let that ball eat him alive.

[Tigermojo]

Come on comeback kids!

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

bah

[gehringer_2]

Shoudda walked Ramirez!

[kdog]

Cleveland plays low event/low scoring games. We won two of them in this series.

[mtutiger]

Pretty sure Tork's OPS went up by close to .100 today

[Sports_Freak]

So...back to losing...

[SoCalTiger]

Series win. Tough loss but we’re at least back to standing on the edge of the season’s cliff instead of free falling. Greene Maton Tork Verling looking promising at times but need consistency which should come with AB’s. 
 

certainly worth watching which is good. 

[oblong]

Hard to get upset about today.  They battled and almost swept a good team. 

[mtutiger]

32 minutes ago, SoCalTiger said:

Series win. Tough loss but we’re at least back to standing on the edge of the season’s cliff instead of free falling. Greene Maton Tork Verling looking promising at times but need consistency which should come with AB’s. 
 

certainly worth watching which is good. 

With the idea that this is still at best a 70-75 win team, any day you can walk away with some positives about from those guys or other controllable players is a good one.

[chasfh]

18 hours ago, kdog said:

Greene's 3 true outcomes:

grounder to pull side

line drive or homer to opposite field

strikeout

That’s a .333/.333/1.333 slash line. I’ll take that from the kid all year. 😉

[RandyMarsh]

Orioles this weekend should be a good test. Baltimore's rebuild is what I hoped ours would look like, they have a young big league roster that should contend for the WC along with still having one of the stronger systems in baseball. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

That’s a .333/.333/1.333 slash line. I’ll take that from the kid all year. 😉

Green is a plus defensive CF, which means even at a 700 OPS you are probably happy to start him. He's putting that up now at age 22 and still has plenty of upside to improve over his next 3 yrs and 1000+ PA. Could he burn out? Sure, any player can at any time.

It's true Tork's situation is different. At 1b he has to produce more with the bat. BTW he shares the team lead in RBI.

I don't know if it's fans everywhere or just in Det, but sometimes there is a real tendency to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Riley isn't Mickey Mantle, he's a bust!, Jerod Goff isn't Mahomes, bench him! You can win a lot of championships with a good depth of good players and zero superstars.