5/6/24 6:10PM Tigers @ Guardians

[kdog]

Jeez they have so many guys you can pinch hit for after Carpenter.

[Sports_Freak]

Just now, kdog said:

Jeez they have so many guys you can pinch hit for after Carpenter.

Lmao...a group of .125 hitters. 

[IdahoBert]

Javier Báez rally killer. 

[1776]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

Who else should they have taken?

My unsolicited take:

To this day I hate the way the Castellanos thing went down. I believe Nick could have been a decent enough first baseman. He’s a proven bat. Gardenhire was the placeholder manager which didn’t help the situation. Were I the GM, I would have extended Nick. Obviously they didn’t and as it stands the Tigers are stuck at first base. A Cabrera in decline is succeeded by what is appearing to be a blown draft pick. 
To be clear, I was saying the exact same thing back when this whole back and forth was going on prior to the trade.

Edited May 6, 2024 by 1776

[Tigermojo]

Ramirez spoils CMo's swag box.

[kdog]

Asking your starters to pitch with no margin for error is rough.

[Tigermojo]

Quality start by Flaherty and they are losing.

[IdahoBert]

Greene actually has a man on base for him. 

[IdahoBert]

Just now, IdahoBert said:

Greene actually has a man on base for him. 

And he grounds into a double play. 

[gehringer_2]

22 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

One of these days, Tork is going to hit a baseball 500 feet. Shut up all the naysayers.

He actually is having slightly better ABs, don't know if it's enough to start a turn around but he's managed a few 95s off the bat in the last few days.

[oblong]

15 minutes ago, 1776 said:

My unsolicited take:

To this day I hate the way the Castellanos thing went down. I believe Nick could have been a decent enough first baseman. He’s a proven bat. Gardenhire was the placeholder manager which didn’t help the situation. Were I the GM, I would have extended Nick. Obviously they didn’t and as it stands the Tigers are stuck at first base. A Cabrera in decline is succeeded by what is appearing to be a blown draft pick. 
To be clear, I was saying the exact same thing back when this whole back and forth was going on prior to the trade.

Would Nick have signed?  

[gehringer_2]

6 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

And he grounds into a double play. 

everybody trying to hard. This may be one area where it turns out Hinch is a fail as manager - the art of pulling up a team that is emotionally down en masse. I was never that big a fan of Leyland but he could keep his team loose. 

Edited May 7, 2024 by gehringer_2

[Edman85]

42 minutes ago, kdog said:

This hurts a team that has like 3 rallies a game:

 

7's a strike per that chart. The zone is also 3D, so it is possible 2 and 5 clipped the zone at some point across the plate. Neither is egregious.

[gehringer_2]

6 more outs to work with.

[UCFKNIGHT]

Am I understanding things correctly? AJ Hinch has three batting instructors on his coaching staff? What assignment is each of these instructors given? The hitting instructors are just stealing money. Hinch should fire two of them to get the attention of the entire coaching staff.

[Tigermojo]

Gaddis and Clase. Cakewalk.

[Edman85]

Not sure people are familiar with the challenge system, but I think it is the solution.

I also wonder if some of the recently promoted umpires got too dependent on it.

 

 

[Tigermojo]

So close!

[Tigermojo]

Tork bunt!

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Edman85 said:

7's a strike per that chart. The zone is also 3D, so it is possible 2 and 5 clipped the zone at some point across the plate. Neither is egregious.

The degree to which pitches move laterally while over the plate is greatly exaggerated by the center field camera view. Even if a pitch moves 2 feet laterally in 55' on its way to play, that's an Inch or two across the 17" of the plate - so some but not that much. A good slow curve can be dropping fast enough that it finishes at the catchers glove below the box line though - and umps miss a lot of those!

[oblong]

Why didn’t carpenter go to 3B on Tork’s squibbler once he threw to first?

[Motor City Sonics]

Nice job, Carpy 

[Tigermojo]

TTBDNS

[Motor City Sonics]

Just now, oblong said:

Why didn’t carpenter go to 3B on Tork’s squibbler once he threw to first?

Because he was planning on making Ramirez miss the tag. 

 

 

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, oblong said:

Why didn’t carpenter go to 3B on Tork’s squibbler once he threw to first?

Because the Tigers are in fail mode.