6/13 7:10 White Sox @ Tigers

[gehringer_2]

Somebody found Jose one of last year's baseballs.

[kdog]

White Sox have some power...that plays everywhere.

[gehringer_2]

3 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Goddamn... first shrub shot of the year

444 dead center, would have been at the flag pole of old Tiger Stadium before the renovation.

Edited June 14, 2022 by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

Prince is 38 and Cecil has a kid entering college?

[tiger2022]

If Abreu played every game against the Tigers, he would own every record in the book.  That guy just destroys Tiger pitching.

[gehringer_2]

When did curved numbers become 'crooked'? The only truly crooked number is "7"

[Tigermojo]

I have a hard time blaming coaching when these guys are missing fastballs down the middle. Last year, it was a mistake to throw Haase a fastball and now he can't make contact.

Tork's first AB was a full count and swung and missed a 94 mph fastball down the middle.

[Motor City Sonics]

14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

When did curved numbers become 'crooked'? The only truly crooked number is "7"

45 became a crooked number a few years ago. 

[kdog]

Jacob Barnes dfa, Derek Hill optioned to Toledo.

Hutchison and Alexander called up. Hutch will start tomorrow.

[Hongbit]

4 minutes ago, kdog said:

Jacob Barnes dfa, Derek Hill optioned to Toledo.

Hutchison and Alexander called up. Hutch will start tomorrow.

Hopefully this means that Hutch will be sent down after tomorrow’s game and Greene will be coming up.  

[gehringer_2]

Just now, kdog said:

Jacob Barnes dfa

well, that qualifies for a pumpkin.    

[mtutiger]

5 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Hopefully this means that Hutch will be sent down after tomorrow’s game and Greene will be coming up.  

Hutch would have to be DFA'd for that.

Edited June 14, 2022 by mtutiger

[Motor City Sonics]

7 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Hopefully this means that Hutch will be sent down after tomorrow’s game and Greene will be coming up.  

He needs 18 more months (per: Lynn) 

[Hongbit]

4 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Hutch would have to be DFA'd for that.

He was DFA a month ago and nobody wanted him. I don’t think anything has changed.    

[RandyMarsh]

The fact that we finally hit a HR and scored 5 runs almost feels like a win even if it wasn't one in the standings. 

[mtutiger]

8 hours ago, RandyMarsh said:

The fact that we finally hit a HR and scored 5 runs almost feels like a win even if it wasn't one in the standings. 

Get outta here with this kinda positivity 🤚

[romad1]

8 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

He needs 18 more months (per: Lynn) 

I think Tork did 

[mtutiger]

39 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I think Tork did 

I know you're being facetious, but of the two, Greene looked more ready than Tork did in Spring Training. 

Even then, Lynn seemed to be swimming against the current as (iirc) he felt the opposite 

[Archie]

9 hours ago, kdog said:

Jacob Barnes dfa, Derek Hill optioned to Toledo.

Hutchison and Alexander called up. Hutch will start tomorrow.

I agree with the Barnes move but sending down the one guy on the team that can actually play CF defense is not smart.  There has to be other options than Hutchinson too.  It makes me think they've decided to lose the game before it even started.  More and more I think the best move that could be made is a managerial change.  Maybe package a deal to trade both Hinch and Avila to another team for a part time hot dog vendor.  It would be better deal than a lot of the moves we've seen the last few years.

[romad1]

1 minute ago, mtutiger said:

I know you're being facetious, but of the two, Greene looked more ready than Tork did in Spring Training. 

Even then, Lynn seemed to be swimming against the current as (iirc) he felt the opposite 

I have to remember that Alan Trammell had sluggish start to his career.   Still, I was hoping for a more dynamic hitter already. 

[mtutiger]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

I have to remember that Alan Trammell had sluggish start to his career.   Still, I was hoping for a more dynamic hitter already. 

I don't think the team did him any favors by setting expectations really high. Nor does it help that you have Jeremy Pena and Julio Rodriguez (among others) out there performing pretty well as rookies. But at the end of the day, he's still a 22 year old in his 15th month of professional baseball. 

I expected better of course, but people should have always been open to the possibility that he would struggle or that there would be a learning curve adjusting to big league pitching. And not every kid hits the ground running out of the gate. Aaron Judge and MIke Trout are good examples.

[Sports_Freak]

20 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I don't think the team did him any favors by setting expectations really high. Nor does it help that you have Jeremy Pena and Julio Rodriguez (among others) out there performing pretty well as rookies. But at the end of the day, he's still a 22 year old in his 15th month of professional baseball. 

I expected better of course, but people should have always been open to the possibility that he would struggle or that there would be a learning curve adjusting to big league pitching. And not every kid hits the ground running out of the gate. Aaron Judge and MIke Trout are good examples.

So is Scott Sizemore.

[mtutiger]

17 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

So is Scott Sizemore.

OK, nvm, he's gonna be Scott Sizemore. Might as well just DFA him now.

Christ Almighty...

Edited June 14, 2022 by mtutiger

[kdog]

Quote

On the bunt, Chafin made a crucial throwing error.

"I zooed it, straight up zooed it," Chafin said. "Terrible throw. There ain't much more to be said about it than that."

.......

Torkelson, hitting .181 in 55 games, finished 0-for-4 with three strikeouts.

"We need to see him pick it up a little bit and keep himself a little bit more consistently in the at-bats," Hinch said. "It's easy to pile on a guy when he has a bad night, so I don't want to do that. But we're aware he's not performing quite to the level that he's going to or that he has, but we'd like to see him come out of it."

 

 

[Sports_Freak]

23 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

OK, nvm, he's gonna be Scott Sizemore. Might as well just DFA him now.

Christ Almighty...

Yeah, Sizemore was better. But our standards were higher back then. Now we keep these AA players around. Cheap labor.