3/4/25 1:05PM Tigers @ Rays

[Tigeraholic1]

Charlotte Sports Park - Port Charlotte, FL

Game Time Forecast: 82  Partly Cloudy

Listen: Rays MLB Radio

Watch: NA

Starters:

RHP Kenta Maeda

RHP Connor Seabold

[IdahoBert]

Maeda w/3.2 innings, 1H, 5K. On the face of it this looks good.

[IdahoBert]

Tork got a single and stole a base. He’s like Ricky Henderson.

[papalawrence]

49 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Maeda w/3.2 innings, 1H, 5K. On the face of it this looks good.

I recall toward the end of last season, with Maeda being used for long relief, Johnny K interviewed him and he was almost apologetic about his season. You could tell he felt bad about his overall performance. He seems to be a very humble guy. I have no doubt that he put in a lot of work this off-season to prepare. He still might be done. But right now he looks like their #5 starter

[romad1]

50 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Tork got a single and stole a base. He’s like Ricky Henderson.

Did he forget his teammates' names? 

[IdahoBert]

Although it’s only spring training, I wish the offense showed a little more pep. 

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Although it’s only spring training, I wish the offense showed a little more pep. 

Concur

[casimir]

6 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Tork got a single and stole a base. He’s like Ricky Henderson.

If Torkleson goes 3rd person, maybe that’ll unlock his potential?

[casimir]

5 hours ago, papalawrence said:

I recall toward the end of last season, with Maeda being used for long relief, Johnny K interviewed him and he was almost apologetic about his season. You could tell he felt bad about his overall performance. He seems to be a very humble guy. I have no doubt that he put in a lot of work this off-season to prepare. He still might be done. But right now he looks like their #5 starter

I think Stavenhagen mentioned on the Tiger Territory podcast that Maeda did indeed change up his off-season routine and included more bullpen sessions in response to his 2024 season.  So, yeah, like you say, maybe he is simply at the end.  But to his credit, he saw a need to change something and he made that change.

[Tiger337]

7 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Although it’s only spring training, I wish the offense showed a little more pep. 

If Meadows and Vierling miss significant time, I don't think we'll be seeing much offensive pep when they head north.  

[Jim Cowan]

10 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Tork got a single and stole a base. He’s like Ricky Henderson.

I know that Rickey has passed away now, and may he rest in peace.  And so with that in mind may I, just one more time, tell my Rickey Henderson story?

A friend and his wife were on vacation in Bermuda one year in the early 1990's, they went to a restaurant one night, and my friend saw Rickey sitting with a lady a few tables away.  He was wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a sort of black and gray pattern, but he was too far away for my friend to discern what the pattern was.

So, having ordered his dinner, my friend got up ostensibly to use the men's room but really he just wanted to walk past Rickey's table to get a closer look at his shirt.

And this is what he saw:  he saw Rickey Henderson sitting at a table wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a black and gray pattern, and the black and gray pattern was a collage of newspaper articles about Rickey Henderson. 

RIP Rickey, everyone loves you.