4/30 DH Game 1 3:40 Game 2 TBD Cardinals @ Tigers

[RandyMarsh]

Start spreading the news, Parker Meadows average has hit .100! 

[1984Echoes]

Or have Faedo pitch 3+ innings. He can do it.

[1984Echoes]

Outs Faedo...

You need outs.

[Tigermojo]

1 minute ago, 1984Echoes said:

Or have Faedo pitch 3+ innings. He can do it.

The old time 3.1 inning save.

[VegasTiger]

Don't do it Lange!

[IdahoBert]

An oldie but a goodie. 

[Tigermojo]

[gehringer_2]

Lange getting back into the hunt as as alternate pseudo-closer

[Tigermojo]

Winning Aprils are fun.

[gehringer_2]

44 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Jake heating up 

a lot of guys complain they can only be their best playing everyday. Jake doesn't complain, but he seems like a guy it may be true for.

Edited May 1, 2024 by gehringer_2

[kdog]

Cardinals won a Tigers style game earlier...Tigers returned the favor and won with Cardinals sloppy softball.

[IdahoBert]

After the first game this win is sort of the way Keith Richards must feel when he has to settle for a trip to the methadone clinic but to me this is a good rush. 

[UCFKNIGHT]

The Tigers should make Matt Manning their closer. His pitches are good enough to get just about any MLB lineup out the first time through the batting order. From the fourth inning on, Manning fails miserably.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Faedo always looks scared. 

It's the eyebrows. He looks like he's really worried about something.

[kdog]

 

[UCFKNIGHT]

1 hour ago, RandyMarsh said:

Start spreading the news, Parker Meadows average has hit .100! 

Why is Scott Harris refusing to demote Meadows to AAA? Hopefully, Torkelson will begin to get his act together at the plate. Harris should trade Torkelson ASAP.

Edited May 1, 2024 by UCFKNIGHT

[Sports_Freak]

Maybe we won't see Riley leading off any more? He's more valuable with runners on base. And with our weak 6, 7, 8 and 9 hitters, the bases are usually empty when he's up. Move Tork down to 7, if he has to play. Better yet, use Canha at 1st base and sit Tork. It would be a case of addition by subtraction.

[IdahoBert]

Tork acts like he grew up one side or the other of the equator. When it’s 90° and 80% humidity, he’ll really be hitting. 

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, UCFKNIGHT said:

Why is Scott Harris refusing to demote Meadows to AAA? Hopefully, Torkelson will begin to get his act together at the plate. Harris should trade Torkelson ASAP.

How about Keith? That contract may be the only reason he's still on the team. If everyone was hitting, we could carry him. But with so many struggling, can we carry his weak offense? Scott Sizemore 2.0.

[holygoat]

Meadows, Keith and Tork all need to be sent down. Not sure who replaces them, but this team can't continue to basically gift opponents 9+ outs every game.

[Tenacious D]

Hiura, Malloy and Urshela

[Tigermojo]

9 minutes ago, holygoat said:

Meadows, Keith and Tork all need to be sent down. Not sure who replaces them, but this team can't continue to basically gift opponents 9+ outs every game.

Kennedy and Baddoo are both on the 40 man with over 800 OPS. Gipson-Long could be put on the 60 day IL so someone else could be added to the roster. Malloy and Hiura are hitting well.

[gehringer_2]

24 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Kennedy and Baddoo are both on the 40 man with over 800 OPS. Gipson-Long could be put on the 60 day IL so someone else could be added to the roster. Malloy and Hiura are hitting well.

I'm a little skeptical Malloy's profile is going to play in the majors. His value depends too much on his walk rate and MLB pitchers just are not going to walk him at those rates, regardless of how good his eye is. If he develops the power to get some of those walks back because pitchers are afraid of him, that can work.

[Tigermojo]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'm a little skeptical Malloy's profile is going to play in the majors. His value depends too much on his walk rate and MLB pitchers just are not going to walk him at those rates, regardless of how good his eye is. If he develops the power to get some of those walks back because pitchers are afraid of him, that can work.

Lack of position seems like a big problem too.

[casimir]

8 hours ago, UCFKNIGHT said:

The Tigers should make Matt Manning their closer. His pitches are good enough to get just about any MLB lineup out the first time through the batting order. From the fourth inning on, Manning fails miserably.

I agree, he might have a better future as a RP.  However, the Tigers do need reserves in the minors at SP to be called up as the 6th, 7th, 8th SP.  So with the option available, he's been able to serve as the 6th SP.  That was going to be one of Manning, Mize, and Olson, and Manning drew the short straw.

At some point, one of the 1-5 SPs will succumb to injury.  Manning will be the fill in this season.  Perhaps he establishes himself as a SP going forward.  Maybe they convert him to RP after this season.  He could also be traded if the Tigers build up enough depth in the minors and/or make some offseason moves.  But it seems doubtful that he'll be in the bullpen this season.