2025 Detroit Tigers Spring Training

[Tigermojo]

Meadows tweaked his right bicep Saturday on a throw but they don't expect it to be serious.

[Motor City Sonics]

42 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Meadows tweaked his right bicep Saturday on a throw but they don't expect it to be serious.

I saw a post on facebook from "Tigers True Fans" about the injury being more serious than expected.   I am not clicking on it as many of these posts are click bait, but I hope it's not true.   He was the straw that stirred the offense down the stretch last year.  He wasn't their best player, but he was their offensive MVP last year.   He made the difference. 

[Tigermojo]

20 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I saw a post on facebook from "Tigers True Fans" about the injury being more serious than expected.   I am not clicking on it as many of these posts are click bait, but I hope it's not true.   He was the straw that stirred the offense down the stretch last year.  He wasn't their best player, but he was their offensive MVP last year.   He made the difference. 

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/parker-meadows-hopes-to-avoid-major-injury

 

[Motor City Sonics]

20 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/parker-meadows-hopes-to-avoid-major-injury

 

Welp,  the Ben Malgeri era begins !

This "don't have a timetable" stuff.   To me that means it's probably bad. 

[IdahoBert]

I’m not going to purchase doom and gloom about Meadows until I have to. So as far as I’m concerned, he’ll miss a week of spring training and be back in center field, chatting with the unicorns that typically hang on the berm and feeding them tangerine marshmallows. 

[Jim Cowan]

On 2/24/2025 at 11:46 AM, HeyAbbott said:

I second this sentiment. This year has the possibility to be one of the most engaging seasons we have experienced for some time. The battles for positions looks like they will be very intense.

Yes, the 1968 Tigers won with a home grown core, and so did the 1984 Tigers.  And this feels like the first time since 1987 - holy cow, 38 years - that the organization has once again stumbled across the formula for sustained success.

The Tigers will not win the World Series in 2025 but I am liking 2027 and I think Chris Ilitch will make us all shut the f up and keep Tarik Skubal here for the rest of his HOF career.

38 years, JHC.  Bert that is more than half of our lives, that is unacceptable. 

[Arlington]

4 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

Yes, the 1968 Tigers won with a home grown core, and so did the 1984 Tigers.  And this feels like the first time since 1987 - holy cow, 38 years - that the organization has once again stumbled across the formula for sustained success.

I look at the Dombrowski years as one of the longer periods of Tiger success.  True most of the talent was acquired and I was not a fan of depleting the farm system but the end result was as good as the 1980s run, 1984 aside.  Tiger teams seem to be highly competitive for a 4 to 6 year window and then drop off.  Avila took over with a lot of assets and could have brought the team back pretty quickly but his trades were terrible and he drafted as bad as Dombrowski did. But Harris seems to be pulling a group of youngsters comparable to the Tigers early 1960s and latter 1970s.  It would be great if he could manage to churn a talented roster long after the high draft picks disappear.  

[alex]

1 hour ago, Arlington said:

...Avila took over with a lot of assets and could have brought the team back pretty quickly but his trades were terrible and he drafted as bad as Dombrowski did. But Harris seems to be pulling a group of youngsters comparable to the Tigers early 1960s and latter 1970s.  It would be great if he could manage to churn a talented roster long after the high draft picks disappear.  

Yes Harris & co. are in the process of developing a farm system, maybe even more important - an ability to develop players.

With said, it was under the Avila watch that they drafted or acquired: Greene, Skubal, Meadows, Rogers, Olsen, Jung, Tork, Mize, etc. - now, would his regime have been able to take several of these players to the next level that most are trending towards? That is another question, and history may lean towards the 'maybe not' side of it.

[IdahoBert]

7 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

38 years, JHC.  Bert that is more than half of our lives, that is unacceptable. 

I don’t know if it’s necessarily unacceptable but since I pretty much despise the statement “it is what it is“ I do accept that it’s unacceptable. When you consider the fact that many other franchises that we not without some substance consider historically lesser than our own have won the ultimate prize it is something that it is indeed hard to accept. 

[romad1]

7 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

Yes, the 1968 Tigers won with a home grown core, and so did the 1984 Tigers.  And this feels like the first time since 1987 - holy cow, 38 years - that the organization has once again stumbled across the formula for sustained success.

The Tigers will not win the World Series in 2025 but I am liking 2027 and I think Chris Ilitch will make us all shut the f up and keep Tarik Skubal here for the rest of his HOF career.

38 years, JHC.  Bert that is more than half of our lives, that is unacceptable. 

What's more Tarik will invest that money in a machine that allows us to clone our favorite pets after they die. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Oh no,  Parker Meadows arm has to be  removed.      I knew we couldn't have nice things.          

[IdahoBert]

Back in the day when Ty Cobb and and I were chewing Laudanum gum and hunting pheasant in the off-season we never lifted weights, and I don’t remember baseball players getting injured and straining their biceps simply by throwing a ball during spring training. 

[romad1]

9 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Back in the day when Ty Cobb and and I were chewing Laudanum gum and hunting pheasant in the off-season we never lifted weights, and I don’t remember baseball players getting injured and straining their biceps simply by throwing a ball during spring training. 

was this during his Paris years after the War when he was trying to rehabilitate Sophie who lost her way after the death of her husband and children? 

Edited Wednesday at 02:08 PM by romad1

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m not going to purchase doom and gloom about Meadows until I have to. So as far as I’m concerned, he’ll miss a week of spring training and be back in center field, chatting with the unicorns that typically hang on the berm and feeding them tangerine marshmallows. 

Yes, this. I am already pessimistic about too many other things for me to sign on to being pessimistic about the Tigers as well.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

Yes, the 1968 Tigers won with a home grown core, and so did the 1984 Tigers.  And this feels like the first time since 1987 - holy cow, 38 years - that the organization has once again stumbled across the formula for sustained success.

The Tigers will not win the World Series in 2025 but I am liking 2027 and I think Chris Ilitch will make us all shut the f up and keep Tarik Skubal here for the rest of his HOF career.

38 years, JHC.  Bert that is more than half of our lives, that is unacceptable. 

I think how the organization has gotten to this point was the opposite of stumbling across it.

[IdahoBert]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

was this during his Paris years after the War when he was trying to rehabilitate Sophie who lost her way after the death of her husband and children? 

If that’s a literary allusion it’s over my head, but I’m willing to learn.