4/15/25 7:40PM Tigers @ Brewers

[Tigeraholic1]

American Family Field - Milwaukee, WI 

Listen: 97.1 The Ticket

Watch: FanDuel Det

Game Time Forecast: NA

Starters:

RHP Jack Flaherty

RHP Quinn Priester

 

[chasfh]

Two fun facts:

Per Fangraphs, released yesterday, Tigers are #8 in their MLB Power Rankings.

The Tigers are actually the top American League team ranked, as the top seven are all National League teams.

[IdahoBert]

37 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Two fun facts:

Per Fangraphs, released yesterday, Tigers are #8 in their MLB Power Rankings.

The Tigers are actually the top American League team ranked, as the top seven are all National League teams.

How has this NL dominance come about?

[chasfh]

46 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

How has this NL dominance come about?

Good question! Four of the Big Six teams are there, and top players want to play for them because winning and/or personal brands, so that might be part of it. Also, Arizona is an attractive location because so many players live there—Corbin Burnes famously just took a hometown discount to go there. San Diego, too, very sexy place for players to want to play. Phillies have been killing it the last few years, and the Braves are always a contender even despite the slow start. And Baseball finally got rid of the barrier to parity with the AL that was pitchers hitting. Probably a bit of all of that.

[Tiger337]

Another possibility is teams are spending more money to keep up with the Dodgers.  I think that used to happen in the AL because of the Yankees.  

[RandyMarsh]

16 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Another possibility is teams are spending more money to keep up with the Dodgers.  I think that used to happen in the AL because of the Yankees.  

Yeah was gonna say the same thing. I think the most likely answer is just randomness but if it's not that then I'd side with keeping up with the Dodgers and the playing field becoming equal by adding the DH as the most likely reasons. 

[RatkoVarda]

trying not to get too amped about this team, but it's not working!

if they ever get healthy, they have a chance to be even better, when they replace Nido, Kreidler, Margot with Jake, Vierling, Meadows

that even leaves Malloy, Perez, Jung at Toledo

they aren't top heavy like the DD teams, which is both good and bad

not having room for all these solid/legit players is a nice problem to have

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Good question! Four of the Big Six teams are there, and top players want to play for them because winning and/or personal brands, so that might be part of it. Also, Arizona is an attractive location because so many players live there—Corbin Burnes famously just took a hometown discount to go there. San Diego, too, very sexy place for players to want to play. Phillies have been killing it the last few years, and the Braves are always a contender even despite the slow start. And Baseball finally got rid of the barrier to parity with the AL that was pitchers hitting. Probably a bit of all of that.

Thx

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

Another possibility is teams are spending more money to keep up with the Dodgers.  I think that used to happen in the AL because of the Yankees.  

Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. 

[Tiger337]

46 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. 

I am not sure, but I don't hink their payroll is as far ahead of the rest of the league as it used to be.  They are certainly not spending like the Dodgers.  

Edited Tuesday at 05:46 PM by Tiger337

[Toddwert]

22 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. 

George died and the boys dont have the same must win drive

[KL2]

25 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. 

George died and the yankees stopped paying the tax

Edited Tuesday at 05:26 PM by KL2

[RatkoVarda]

Yankees have paid CB tax 9 of past 11 years, and will do so again in 2025. they purposefully tried to reset tax in 2018 and 2021 and that worked, but now they are tax payers for the foreseeable future.

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, Toddwert said:

George died and the boys dont have the same must win drive

This somehow sounds familiar. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Can't be erased. 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

[IdahoBert]

Torres2B

Carpenter, KLF

Greene, RCF

Torkelson1B

Keith, CDH

DinglerC

McKinstryRF

Báez, J3B

SweeneySS

[VegasTiger]

Pretty nutty how this team has gone from pitching chaos to a solid 6 man rotation.

[Sports_Freak]

3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Can't be erased. 

 

I saw today is the anniversary of his debut. Good catch!

[IdahoBert]

So is half of everybody in the Detroit area getting in an accident and suing people or is this just the ads on the radio?

[VegasTiger]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

So is half of everybody in the Detroit area getting in an accident and suing people or is this just the ads on the radio?

Why can't it be both.

[monkeytargets39]

Cool intro from JHM

[gehringer_2]

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

So is half of everybody in the Detroit area getting in an accident and suing people or is this just the ads on the radio?

Seems no matter what team's feed you watch you get a lot of ambulance chaser adds. Not sure what that tells us about baseball fans - probably that they are old and get into a lot accidents that they think are someone else's fault.....

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[monkeytargets39]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Seems no matter what team's feed you watch you get a lot of ambulance chaser adds. Not sure what that tells us about baseball fans - probably that they are old and get into a lot accidents that they think are someone else's fault.....

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Better than watching NASCAR races and being bombarded with Peyronies disease ads

[IdahoBert]

Riley 1-24 as of late.