2025 Detroit Tigers: We sure do love bargain bin pitchers! - Page 60

CONN CHRIS · 05-02-2025, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Westheim

The thing with Javier Baez is partially also: how long does he fancy being a centerfielder?

Or: when does Javy get it (back?) into his thick head that the shortstop job is his and his alone?

Thankfully, none of that matters when Parker Meadows comes off the IL. Hoping Javy can stay motivated a bit longer. :-)

Hrycaj · 05-03-2025, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Westheim

The thing with Javier Baez is partially also: how long does he fancy being a centerfielder?

Or: when does Javy get it (back?) into his thick head that the shortstop job is his and his alone?

If I never see Javy back at SS I would be happy. Let him roam the outfield where he is actually providing value for this team. I have never had an issue with his glove its his arm that is the problem.

Hrycaj · 05-04-2025, 06:53 PM

Way to put up 13 runs on get away day and take 3 of 4. On to Colorado!

CONN CHRIS · 05-04-2025, 09:21 PM

Well, that was a fun game.
Jobe, Mize, and Skubal are set to have their ERAs blow up in Denver. With rain possible for Tuesday, may be a double-header on Wednesday which means a Montero start so only two starters will have to pitch there.

CONN CHRIS · 05-08-2025, 07:32 AM

Barely able to get up this morning after staying up for that wild game. Double header at Coors today - should be crazy.

CONN CHRIS · 05-08-2025, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Who is this guy masquerading as Javy Baez?

He is playing an amazing CF.

4 RBI last night. Hitting .313. See it while it lasts folks!

CONN CHRIS · 05-08-2025, 10:01 AM

Ten games over .500 on May eighth. I am unfamiliar with this odd sensation.

David Watts · 05-08-2025, 04:44 PM

Chet Lemon passed away. Another of my favorites.

Amazin69 · 05-08-2025, 05:13 PM

Yeah. RIP, Chet. Do you want to start the memorial thread, or shall I?

As for today, I'm watching the MLBN game (Rangers at Red Sox, Sox telecast) and I hear this:

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SOX PBP: Detroit at Colorado today. Tigers got two in the top of the 1st.
SOX Color (quietly): Game's over, right?

Now that's mostly a knock on the Rocks, but a certain amount of respect for your Tigres, as well, I'd think. Bask in it.

(Respect merited. Next update was 7-0 in the 3rd.)

David Watts · 05-08-2025, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Amazin69

Yeah. RIP, Chet. Do you want to start the memorial thread, or shall I?

As for today, I'm watching the MLBN game (Rangers at Red Sox, Sox telecast) and I hear this:

Now that's mostly a knock on the Rocks, but a certain amount of respect for your Tigres, as well, I'd think. Bask in it.

(Respect merited. Next update was 7-0 in the 3rd.)

You can do so. Last one I started was for Tim McCarver and it got shut down after a few posts.

Amazin69 · 05-08-2025, 05:41 PM

Huh.

MLBN has switched to the Tigers game, now 9-0. Alas, they have given us the Rockies-cast. Boy, do they sound depressed.

(On merit, but still. If the Rockies continue on their current pace [6-30, .167], they will finish 27-135. Ouch. 14 games worse than last year's White Sux??)

I see the Tigers have said "Sayonara" to Maeda, and apparently you have Tomás Nido now? Take care of him, okay?

(Granted, you're playing well enough that he's probably not casting envious glances Queens-ward, but still. 13 seasons in Mets colors [counting minors], I still feel a certain attachment.)

CONN CHRIS · 05-08-2025, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by David Watts

Chet Lemon passed away. Another of my favorites.

I may have never gotten over the loss of Ron LeFlore without Chet. RIP

David Watts · 05-08-2025, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

I may have never gotten over the loss of Ron LeFlore without Chet. RIP

Kind of like when Aurelio Rodriguez left. Thankfully Alan Trammell and Jack Morris came along.

Westheim · 05-09-2025, 07:15 AM

Watched the second game of the double header from the archives while playing a week of Raccoons, and while it's only the Rockies, barely a major league team, the Tigers look like they are playing some really good baseball right now.

Now they just have to hold everything together for another five months

Amazin69 · 05-10-2025, 04:04 PM

An unlikely parlay at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull tonight (especially as the new park isn't actually there, but I don't know the new address), a first-place Tigers team faces…a healthy Jacob deGrom!

I mean, cynics may say that it's only May (in either case), but still worth noting, IMO.

CONN CHRIS · 05-10-2025, 06:54 PM

Mize is having the best season of his career so of course, he is going to the IL.

DamPenguin · 05-11-2025, 01:11 PM

Baez has the highest batting average on the team… scares the crap out of me

Amazin69 · 05-11-2025, 01:17 PM

Hey, it's only taken four seasons for that contract to pay off! Give it up for long-term planning, lol.

Hrycaj · 05-12-2025, 06:07 AM

Currently the Tigers sit at 26-15. I'll be honest and say that I did not expect this start at all. I thought Harris did not address the right handed power issue in the offseason and on the whole did not do much to improve the team from a year before. I thought the run last year was more magic than ability and it would be hard for them to repeat such a thing. This has been such a pleasant surprise and I'm wondering how much credit does Scott Harris get for all of this?

Look across the roster, the majority of players are from the Al Avila era. Who I always though could identify talent. Al drafted well, in fact the only issue any person ever had with his draft picks was when he took Jobe (HS R handed pitcher)over Mayer (SS/Boston). Even that pick has panned out thus far. My issue with Al was that he didn't have people in places that could develop the talent. That was always my issue with Avila. So is that where the credit starts with Harris? Has his signature move been to reform the coaching staff and development culture? For me that has been the difference. We have had two trade deadlines with Harris and I am really underwhelmed with him on that front. He sold last year and it felt like the team decided to show him how "smart" he was and went and won a playoff series. This last offseason was Bregman or bust, and it was a bust but Javy playing CF like he is Willie May's grandson, McKinstry coming in out of nowhere and the reclamation of both Mize and Tork have this team humming. Am I downplaying the Gleyber deal? Perhaps a bit and maybe he deserves some credit there but I don't see how Gleyber by himself moves the needle as much as having all the above players I mentioned have seasons so far that nobody would have predicted.

So Tigers fans, where do you sit with Harris at this point? Is he more lucky than good or do you think I'm too critical when I think he may be more lucky than good?

CONN CHRIS · 05-12-2025, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Hrycaj

So Tigers fans, where do you sit with Harris at this point? Is he more lucky than good or do you think I'm too critical when I think he may be more lucky than good?

More lucky than good I think. The big turning points for this season so far have been Mize and Torkleson performing as 1/1 talents. I very much doubt that Harris saw that coming in the case of Mize and it absolutely was not the case with Tork given the Gleyber signing and move of Kieth to 1B.

Whatever it may be, I am enjoying this season, and feel free to credit anyone at all, nothing will hurt my feelings!

05-04-2025, 06:53 PM	#1183
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05-04-2025, 09:21 PM	#1184
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,912	Well, that was a fun game. Jobe, Mize, and Skubal are set to have their ERAs blow up in Denver. With rain possible for Tuesday, may be a double-header on Wednesday which means a Montero start so only two starters will have to pitch there. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

05-08-2025, 07:32 AM	#1185
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,912	Barely able to get up this morning after staying up for that wild game. Double header at Coors today - should be crazy. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

05-08-2025, 10:01 AM	#1187
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,912	Ten games over .500 on May eighth. I am unfamiliar with this odd sensation. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

05-09-2025, 07:15 AM	#1194
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05-08-2025, 04:44 PM	#1188
David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 9,694 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Chet Lemon passed away. Another of my favorites.

05-08-2025, 05:41 PM	#1191
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 3,862 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	Huh. MLBN has switched to the Tigers game, now 9-0. Alas, they have given us the Rockies-cast. Boy, do they sound depressed. (On merit, but still. If the Rockies continue on their current pace [6-30, .167], they will finish 27-135. Ouch. 14 games worse than last year's White Sux??) I see the Tigers have said "Sayonara" to Maeda, and apparently you have Tomás Nido now? Take care of him, okay? (Granted, you're playing well enough that he's probably not casting envious glances Queens-ward, but still. 13 seasons in Mets colors [counting minors], I still feel a certain attachment.)

05-10-2025, 04:04 PM	#1195
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 3,862 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	An unlikely parlay at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull tonight (especially as the new park isn't actually there, but I don't know the new address), a first-place Tigers team faces…a healthy Jacob deGrom! I mean, cynics may say that it's only May (in either case), but still worth noting, IMO.

05-10-2025, 06:54 PM	#1196
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,912	Mize is having the best season of his career so of course, he is going to the IL. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

05-11-2025, 01:11 PM	#1197
DamPenguin All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 588	Baez has the highest batting average on the team… scares the crap out of me

05-11-2025, 01:17 PM	#1198
Amazin69 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Palmetto Pride! Posts: 3,862 Infractions: 0/2 (2)	Hey, it's only taken four seasons for that contract to pay off! Give it up for long-term planning, lol.

05-12-2025, 06:07 AM	#1199
Hrycaj All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,604	Currently the Tigers sit at 26-15. I'll be honest and say that I did not expect this start at all. I thought Harris did not address the right handed power issue in the offseason and on the whole did not do much to improve the team from a year before. I thought the run last year was more magic than ability and it would be hard for them to repeat such a thing. This has been such a pleasant surprise and I'm wondering how much credit does Scott Harris get for all of this? Look across the roster, the majority of players are from the Al Avila era. Who I always though could identify talent. Al drafted well, in fact the only issue any person ever had with his draft picks was when he took Jobe (HS R handed pitcher)over Mayer (SS/Boston). Even that pick has panned out thus far. My issue with Al was that he didn't have people in places that could develop the talent. That was always my issue with Avila. So is that where the credit starts with Harris? Has his signature move been to reform the coaching staff and development culture? For me that has been the difference. We have had two trade deadlines with Harris and I am really underwhelmed with him on that front. He sold last year and it felt like the team decided to show him how "smart" he was and went and won a playoff series. This last offseason was Bregman or bust, and it was a bust but Javy playing CF like he is Willie May's grandson, McKinstry coming in out of nowhere and the reclamation of both Mize and Tork have this team humming. Am I downplaying the Gleyber deal? Perhaps a bit and maybe he deserves some credit there but I don't see how Gleyber by himself moves the needle as much as having all the above players I mentioned have seasons so far that nobody would have predicted. So Tigers fans, where do you sit with Harris at this point? Is he more lucky than good or do you think I'm too critical when I think he may be more lucky than good? __________________ Click on my signature to read about the great game of baseball in Normington.