6/4 1:05 Tigers @ Yankees

[RandyMarsh]

Unless Baez lost his eyesight over the offseason or he has some other injury that nobody knows about I suspect eventually he will start hitting. Maybe not to what we hoped but atleast start looking respectable cause guys generally don't just fall off a cliff like this at the age of 29 without some sorta injury.  

[gehringer_2]

Joke of a throw by Hill.

[chasfh]

2 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Unless Baez lost his eyesight over the offseason or he has some other injury that nobody knows about I suspect eventually he will start hitting. Maybe not to what we hoped but atleast start looking respectable cause guys generally don't just fall off a cliff like this at the age of 29 without some sorta injury.  

Javier Baez very much gets into his own head, for worse and for better. It’s just the guy he is.

[Dave Christian]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Javier Baez very much gets into his own head, for worse and for better. It’s just the guy he is.

Get him a shrink!!

[RandyMarsh]

Just now, chasfh said:

Javier Baez very much gets into his own head, for worse and for better. It’s just the guy he is.

I don't watch as much Cubs games as you do but spending many weekends at my family's place in Grand Haven where the places often play their games I've gotten to watch quite a bit of him over his career so I have a decent idea of what he is but I just don't ever remember him looking this bad for this long of stretch. Maybe I just didn't pay as close attention since I didn't have a rooting interest though. 

[IdahoBert]

Following this team is so hard. Maybe I need another hobby like an ant farm or needlepoint. 

[BBFCFM]

Nice play Javy!

[chasfh]

Baez might not be getting us any runs at the plate, but he just saved us a couple of runs right there.

[chasfh]

3 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

I don't watch as much Cubs games as you do but spending many weekends at my family's place in Grand Haven where the places often play their games I've gotten to watch quite a bit of him over his career so I have a decent idea of what he is but I just don't ever remember him looking this bad for this long of stretch. Maybe I just didn't pay as close attention since I didn't have a rooting interest though. 

He was this bad or worse in 2020, but yeah, this is as bad a 50-game stretch as he has ever had.

 

[gehringer_2]

if you wonder why the Tigers don't score runs, Barnhart's last AB is a good example. Took a middle-middle 'hit me' fastball, then swung at a pitch 4 inches off the plate.

[Dave Christian]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Baez might not be getting us any runs at the plate, but he just saved us a couple of runs right there.

I love watching him play defense.

Maybe we could have the pitcher DH for him.😂

[chasfh]

By the end of tomorrow’s game that will be 16 games in 15 days, plus two rainouts, which isn’t anything like a day off. It takes a psychic toll on you expecting to play that morning and amping up for it only to find the game’s been called off.

If any team in baseball could use a Monday and a Thursday off in the same week, it’s this Tiger ballclub.

[BBFCFM]

Cringeworthy:

 

 

[Tiger337]

18 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Unless Baez lost his eyesight over the offseason or he has some other injury that nobody knows about I suspect eventually he will start hitting. Maybe not to what we hoped but atleast start looking respectable cause guys generally don't just fall off a cliff like this at the age of 29 without some sorta injury.  

He was doing OK because he hurt his hand, but it could be just a coincidence.  

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

He was doing OK because he hurt his hand, but it could be just a coincidence.  

I heard he told an interviewer last week he was having trouble seeing the ball, but I have no idea if that means anything or is just generic hitter speak. He should have ditched his shades today though. Not many players thought they needed them today and less light just makes it harder to see spin.

[Dave Christian]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I heard he told an interviewer last week he was having trouble seeing the ball, but I have no idea if that means anything or is just generic hitter speak. He should have ditched his shades today though. Not many players thought they needed them today and less light just makes it harder to see spin.

Get him an optometrist!!!

[mtutiger]

24 minutes ago, BBFCFM said:

Cringeworthy:

 

 

Major kudos to Brieske for this start... not an easy place to play and not an easy lineup to face. And pitched his best game of the year.

Too bad he wasn't backed by competent offense

[mtutiger]

With respect, eat it Suzyn

Edited June 4, 2022 by mtutiger

[romad1]

Oh, we already played like shit in New York Shitty today? 

[RandyMarsh]

18 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

With respect, eat it Suzyn

I remember last year when Tarik Skubal shut down the Yankees Michael Kay went to twitter and said something like "How can the Yankees get shutout by some nobody named Tarik Skubal?" Granted Skubal's season numbers weren't the best at the time but he was in the middle of a bit of a roll at that point after the disastrous April. Not to mention being  one of the 2 or 3 best LHP prospects just the summer before. When the Yankees have a prospect like that all of them treat them like the second coming of Koufax but for other teams they are nobodies in their eyes. 

[Tiger337]

32 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

With respect, eat it Suzyn

She is terrible.  

[Dave Christian]

Well, at least I don't have to torture myself tomorrow.

Peacock doesn't work for me so I get the day off.

[Tiger337]

31 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

I remember last year when Tarik Skubal shut down the Yankees Michael Kay went to twitter and said something like "How can the Yankees get shutout by some nobody named Tarik Skubal?" Granted Skubal's season numbers weren't the best at the time but he was in the middle of a bit of a roll at that point after the disastrous April. Not to mention being  one of the 2 or 3 best LHP prospects just the summer before. When the Yankees have a prospect like that all of them treat them like the second coming of Koufax but for other teams they are nobodies in their eyes. 

Always remember that the Yankees have never beaten the Tigers in post-season.  

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, BBFCFM said:

Cringeworthy:

 

 

It would have been a no-hitter had Kiner-Falefa caught that Miggy line drive.

[RandyMarsh]

Looking at the statcast numbers it's not like the Tigers got robbed by at em balls or stuff like that, Cabrera's hit had an xba of .780(though I do agree it very easily could've been caught) but aside from that there was only one ball with an xBA over .290 and that was Jeimer with a lineout in the 8th which was a .340 xBA.