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07/22/2023 6:10 pm EDT San Diego Padres vs Detroit Tigers


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3 minutes ago, SeattleMike said:

Years away? That’s probably too negative. No one saw Baltimore’s 2022 resurgence. No one saw Texas’s this year. Two or three moves go the Tigers way and a couple of developmental successes and they could be competing in a year or two. 

Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season, a) will either of them pitch well? b) can the starting staff stay healthy? You have Faedo and Wentz but it's not clear either of them can hold down an MLB starting gig if pitchers start going down next season and beyond those two it's just off a cliff. Flores and Madden have been underwhelming, Jobe is too far away.

So you'd think they have to bring in at least one FA starting pitcher - can they find one as good as either of the two leaving? And another decent reliever.

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1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season, a) will either of them pitch well? b) can the starting staff stay healthy? You have Faedo and Wentz but it's not clear either of them can hold down an MLB starting gig if pitchers start going down next season and beyond those two it's just off a cliff. Flores and Madden have been underwhelming, Jobe is too far away.

So you'd think they have to bring in at least one FA starting pitcher - can they find one as good as either of the two leaving? And another decent reliever.

Maybe Jobe is the answer in a year or two? 

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2 minutes ago, kdog said:

There's a difference between AL Central good and actual good.

Correct. But nonetheless, the Tigers ticket into the playoffs is through their division. 

When statements are made about how far the team is out from the playoffs, the division they play in seems like an important consideration.

 

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2 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Rangers BP is so bad they would keep Mason in majors if Tigers returned him to Texas. The FB just isn’t there so unless they find an “injury” I think no loss in losing him

He's shown much better stuff than this, somethings up.

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2 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Rangers BP is so bad they would keep Mason in majors if Tigers returned him to Texas. The FB just isn’t there so unless they find an “injury” I think no loss in losing him

If he were throwing strikes when he wanted to with the breaking stuff he'd have a shot - that's been the difference between the good and bad outings. When guys can just wait for the FB you get --- today.

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3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season, a) will either of them pitch well? b) can the starting staff stay healthy? You have Faedo and Wentz but it's not clear either of them can hold down an MLB starting gig if pitchers start going down next season and beyond those two it's just off a cliff. Flores and Madden have been underwhelming, Jobe is too far away.

So you'd think they have to bring in at least one FA starting pitcher - can they find one as good as either of the two leaving? And another decent reliever.

I would expect them to bring in Boyd and Lorenzen types again this offseason… with the magic that Fetters and crew seem to have why not

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8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Pitching is still a large potential problem. If we assume Mize and Turnbull replace ERod and Lorenzen next season,

Free agency and trade returns in exchange for their services are the wildcard.

With trades, we always assume it's for hitters, but who knows... 

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1 minute ago, Toddwert said:

I would expect them to bring in Boyd and Lorenzen types again this offseason… with the magic that Fetters and crew seem to have why not

that's the hope, but that's not a particulary reliable strategy - not that any is when it comes to pitching. They brough in Boyd, he went down to injury, they signed ERod and prompty lost him for most of his 1st season. It's still nice to have a pipeline of MiLB guys and ours isn't much to write home about currently.

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18 minutes ago, Toddwert said:

Could just be wearing out how many innings has he pitched before

Supposedly he was a starter before we got him.   >-------checks BR--------->

He threw 120 last season - he was at 53 before tonight. So not innings per se - but sure - he could still be having trouble with how to prepare/condition for volume relieving vs starting.

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1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't Englert threw a breaking ball for called strike. Everything was too low and the Padre hitters just waited in the BP fastball.

Check that - as per statcast almost all the hits were given up on his slider. guess he should have thrown the FB more even if they didn't feel it was very good tonight.

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