5/13/24 6:40PM Marlins @ Tigers

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

Game Time Forecast: Partly Sunny 80

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: Bally Sports Det

Starters:

RHP Sixto Sanchez

RHP Matt Manning

[oblong]

Sixto Sanchez...

in HS we had a team party before the playoffs and the Tigers were playing the White Sox.  This was spring 1990.  The starter for the Sox was Melido Perez.  A coach says to me as we're eating pizza... "You tell me a guy named Melido Perez doesn't smoke cocaine"

[Toddwert]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Sixto Sanchez...

in HS we had a team party before the playoffs and the Tigers were playing the White Sox.  This was spring 1990.  The starter for the Sox was Melido Perez.  A coach says to me as we're eating pizza... "You tell me a guy named Melido Perez doesn't smoke cocaine"

did you say " I dont know a guy named Keith Hernandez does"

[kdog]

 

[lordstanley]

At the 1/4 mark of the season, the Tigers are 20-20 with a +3 run differential. That's "mid" in teen speak, "meh" to a 30 year old, "mediocre" to a 50-something, and "gee whiz, time to pull up your socks" to a 70 year old.

[Hongbit]

What’s Mario Impemba up to these days?

I wonder if he’ll swing by Comerica Park the next few days and pull up a chair to catch up with old friends.  

[chasfh]

As much as it appears our relief corps has let us down, in terms of what we can control—walks, strikeouts, homers to a degree—we have actually improved lately. The problem has been the outcomes.

Through end of April, our relievers' FIP-minus was 102, which is ever-so-slightly worse than the average of 100, but our ERA-minus was 73 (6th-best). For May, though, our FIP-minus has been 88, ranking 11th, but their ERA-minus has been 115, which ranks 19th.

As you may have guessed, the culprit has been balls starting to fall in. Our March/April BABIP was .232; so far in May, it's .340. That's a problem for a bullpen like the Tigers' that was already among baseball's worst in striking out the opposition in March/April (21.8%, 18th), but has gotten much worse in May (17.9%, 29th). You may or may not agree that strikeouts are fascist, but when a team doesn't get enough of them, they have to rely on some combination of their defense and dumb luck to get guys out.

Edited May 13, 2024 by chasfh

[casimir]

Is Matt Manning going to have problems pitching in a singleheader?

[kdog]

Vilade has been sent down for Manning...official

Urshela for Baddoo will likely be next.

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Vilade down Manning up

The Gio up and Baez out?    Please?    Gio can play short...........

[Tigeraholic1]

5 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Vilade down Manning up

The Gio up and Baez out?    Please?    Gio can play short...........

Not happening.

[Motor City Sonics]

4 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Not happening.

LET ME DREAM A LITTLE !!!!!!

[Motor City Sonics]

Who's batting 5th for Miami tonight? 

 

[1984Echoes]

Tigers are winning 3-0 BTW...

[Sports_Freak]

Build a big enough lead to prevent the BP from blowing another game 

[VegasTiger]

I don't really know basketball players but I never would have pegged Kevin Garnett as a funny guy. Go figure.

[Dtrain72]

Can we hire the Marlins hitting coach?

[Sports_Freak]

I like Benetti OK, I guess. But they have to team him with professional announcers and get these ex-jock bozos outta the booth.

[UCFKNIGHT]

Why are the Tigers playing the infield shift tonight? The shift cost the tigers at least two runs against Miami tonight.

[Sports_Freak]

3 minutes ago, UCFKNIGHT said:

Why are the Tigers playing the infield shift tonight? The shift cost the tigers at least two runs against Miami tonight.

Playing the odds. Modern day baseball predicts where a player "usually" hits it. Sometimes a team gets burned.

[kdog]

Manning is a mid to second level starter. If he was durable, he'd be a pretty decent asset.

[Sports_Freak]

Tie game and the Tiger BP coming in.....anything good on TV?

[Motor City Sonics]

Javy Baez - 3 LOB today.......

[SoCalTiger]

Manning is cementing his spot as a teams fifth or sixth starter. Not bad but nothing special. Not a future piece in my amateur evaluation. 

[kdog]

1 minute ago, SoCalTiger said:

Manning is cementing his spot as a teams fifth or sixth starter. Not bad but nothing special. Not a future piece in my amateur evaluation. 

Would like to see a healthy 150+ inning season...he's is going to get a lot of chances on the big club.