Tigeraholic1 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 American Family Field - Milwaukee, WI Listen: 97.1 The Ticket Watch: FanDuel Det Game Time Forecast: NA Starters: RHP Jack Flaherty RHP Quinn Priester Quote
chasfh Posted April 15 Posted April 15 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. Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 1:22 PM, 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. Expand How has this NL dominance come about? Quote
chasfh Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 2:01 PM, IdahoBert said: How has this NL dominance come about? Expand 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. Quote
Tiger337 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 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. Quote
RandyMarsh Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 3:08 PM, 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. Expand 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. Quote
RatkoVarda Posted April 15 Posted April 15 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 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 2:52 PM, 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. Expand Thx Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 3:08 PM, 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. Expand Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. Quote
Tiger337 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 (edited) On 4/15/2025 at 5:00 PM, IdahoBert said: Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. Expand 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 April 15 by Tiger337 1 Quote
Toddwert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 5:00 PM, IdahoBert said: Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. Expand George died and the boys dont have the same must win drive Quote
KL2 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 (edited) On 4/15/2025 at 5:00 PM, IdahoBert said: Did that stop happening because the Yankees became less monolithically dominant? Or because AL teams couldn’t keep up financially. Expand George died and the yankees stopped paying the tax Edited April 15 by KL2 Quote
RatkoVarda Posted April 15 Posted April 15 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. Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 5:23 PM, Toddwert said: George died and the boys dont have the same must win drive Expand This somehow sounds familiar. 1 Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Torres2B Carpenter, KLF Greene, RCF Torkelson1B Keith, CDH DinglerC McKinstryRF Báez, J3B SweeneySS Quote
VegasTiger Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Pretty nutty how this team has gone from pitching chaos to a solid 6 man rotation. 1 Quote
Sports_Freak Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 8:22 PM, Motor City Sonics said: Can't be erased. Expand I saw today is the anniversary of his debut. Good catch! Quote
IdahoBert Posted April 15 Posted April 15 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? 1 Quote
VegasTiger Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 11:36 PM, 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? Expand Why can't it be both. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 11:36 PM, 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? Expand 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..... 🤷♂️ Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 4/15/2025 at 11:41 PM, 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..... 🤷♂️ Expand Better than watching NASCAR races and being bombarded with Peyronies disease ads Quote
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