Sports_Freak Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Just waiting for the 9th inning meltdown. Who's available in the BP today? Foley prolly needs another day off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports_Freak Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Hanifee did a good job. Gulp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 (edited) not much stresses me during a Tiger game as much as when they try to execute a rundown. seems like a perennial problem for them. Edited August 11 by Crazy Cat Gentleman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 ok, much better with the Canha rundown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeytargets39 Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 The Giants tv announcer is atrocious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermojo Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Thanks to the Giants for running themselves out of the inning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeytargets39 Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said: Just waiting for the 9th inning meltdown. Who's available in the BP today? Foley prolly needs another day off? Its Miller time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Vest, eh? this should be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermojo Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Cat Gentleman Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 WOOP WOOP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermojo Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Good riddance to this horrendous umpiring crew. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports_Freak Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 SF ran themselves into a loss. Give the Tigers credit, they capitalized on the Giants baserunning stupidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sports_Freak Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 2 minutes ago, Tigermojo said: Good riddance to this horrendous umpiring crew. Vest had the guy he walked in the 9th inning struck out but the ump was too afraid to call it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoBert Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 The integrity of the game is undermined when pitches two balls width out of the strike zone are called third strikes. Nobody likes this even if you sometimes benefit from it or are harmed by it. It’s not good. I don’t know what ABS would look like at the MLB level, but I wouldn’t mind a test run. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 A 3-3 road trip out west with this patchwork of a team? That's probably as good as we can expect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports_Freak Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 13 hours ago, IdahoBert said: The integrity of the game is undermined when pitches two balls width out of the strike zone are called third strikes. Nobody likes this even if you sometimes benefit from it or are harmed by it. It’s not good. I don’t know what ABS would look like at the MLB level, but I wouldn’t mind a test run. They need to expend the strike zone. Little ittby bitty fellas hitting 30 home runs a year is ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 21 hours ago, kdog said: Don't forget, this game is one week away lol: Never mid playing the Yankees, play the LLWS champs. It would be a closer contest. 😏 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 46 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said: They need to expend the strike zone. Little ittby bitty fellas hitting 30 home runs a year is ridiculous. It's going to be a problem with with an automated zone - scoring will absolutely go up and the question is whether it will be unacceptably too much. It's been my observation this season that when you get an umpire calling a tight zone 10-15 total runs is pretty common. You can't do much about the width of the zone the computer would call, but you could program for a little more vertical than the umpires call today to try to compensate for the fact that the computers will undoubtedly take away all the crazy wide off the plate calls that most umps regularly give away. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigeraholic1 Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 Not plus 2 but more terrible zone shenanigans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoBert Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: It's going to be a problem with with an automated zone - scoring will absolutely go up and the question is whether it will be unacceptably too much. It's been my observation this season that when you get an umpire calling a tight zone 10-15 total runs is pretty common. You can't do much about the width of the zone the computer would call, but you could program for a little more vertical than the umpires call today to try to compensate for the fact that the computers will undoubtedly take away all the crazy wide off the plate calls that most umps regularly give away. This is a really troubling aspect of ABS. I don’t want to destroy pitching staffs as they try to make up for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 just watched the rest of this one I missed. Malloy still pretty brutal in LF. Colt hitting the ball hard and playing some good 2B. Greene, Keith, Vierling, Carpenter are your solid major leaguers. Meadows looks like a pretty sure bet as well. So 5 guys. If Dingler hits that 6, if Tork makes it back 7, or you sign at least one real major league hitter and now you are in range of a lineup that can get you somewhere. That's closer than they have been in a while. So oddly enough for next season it looks like more pitching question marks than on the hitting side. Haven't been in that situation in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 I don’t know whether we can or should put up with Tork’s lack of glove for the long term. Doubles and triples down the first base line can turn an 88-win team into an 84-win team over the course of a season. If he can end up raking to the tune of .270/.350/.500+ on the regular, maybe we can long term him at DH as long as we can cover 1B with a good glove and halfway decent bat. Absent that, his career trajectory is second division slugger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 (edited) 15 minutes ago, chasfh said: I don’t know whether we can or should put up with Tork’s lack of glove for the long term. Doubles and triples down the first base line can turn an 88-win team into an 84-win team over the course of a season. If he can end up raking to the tune of .270/.350/.500+ on the regular, maybe we can long term him at DH as long as we can cover 1B with a good glove and halfway decent bat. Absent that, his career trajectory is second division slugger. FWIW, I just saw a story about Tork - I think in the Freep. Coach says he is +2 runs on defense in his time at Toledo so far. found it... Quote “He's been really good,” Federowicz said. “He's well over like two outs above average right now, I think, last week when I looked at the numbers. He's been doing really good down here. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/carlos-monarrez/2024/08/09/detroit-tigers-should-call-up-spencer-torkelson-triple-a-toledo/74720785007/ (While I generally don't consider Carlos as knowing anything about Det baseball, I assume he can get a quote right.) Edited August 13 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 10 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: FWIW, I just saw a story about Tork - I think in the Freep. Coach says he is +2 runs on defense in his time at Toledo so far. found it... https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/carlos-monarrez/2024/08/09/detroit-tigers-should-call-up-spencer-torkelson-triple-a-toledo/74720785007/ So is that what it is? He’s always been a great major league hitter and it never was a swing issue? It’s a confidence issue? Yeah? Oh my. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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