2025 Detroit Tigers: We sure do love bargain bin pitchers! - Page 58

Déjà Bru · 04-09-2025, 04:11 PM

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Tough stretch against the Tigers. I am hoping for a 1-2 split.

Whew. We will take it and leave town now, thank you very much. See you in September at Yankee Stadium.

P.S.: Our turn with the Dodgers is coming in late May. At Dodger Stadium.

P.P.S.: Today's managers are bozos. Okay, Fried was done. Luke Weaver pitched a good eighth inning, so why not leave HIM in for the ninth? But no. We have to scientifically manage; bring in the closer in a non-close situation to "fine-tune" him or something because he hadn't pitched in a few days. And we saw the result. If I am the manager, I play to win the game each and every day. I don't abuse pitchers but I certainly don't baby and micro-manage them. They are young men, dedicated and highly-paid. They ought to be able to stretch and keep themselves ready. Okay, sorry to take up thread space with this, but it had to come out.

CONN CHRIS · 04-11-2025, 07:42 AM

Rogers, Perez, Meadows, Vierling. Torres, Margott, Lange, Cobb - we need someone, somewhere to get healthy!

CONN CHRIS · 04-11-2025, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Rogers, Perez, Meadows, Vierling. Torres, Margott, Lange, Cobb - we need someone, somewhere to get healthy!

Torres is in the lineup just posted. Have not seen who is going down yet.

CONN CHRIS · 04-12-2025, 04:40 PM

Another series win and more regulars due back to the lineup soon. Dare I allow myself to get hopeful?

Westheim · 04-12-2025, 04:44 PM

The Tigers are 5-0 this year when I'm watching.

This is your chance to put a plan together that allows me to reduce my office hours and increase my Tigers hours.

CONN CHRIS · 04-14-2025, 06:38 AM

Keep watching!

I can't do anything about your work hours but I can offer some motivation of sorts. In the eighties while I was in college, I worked at a furrier in Brewer, Maine as a skinner. I was paid 75 cents per raccoon pelt skinned. Take that as you will.

Westheim · 04-14-2025, 12:41 PM

Wow, that post took a turn!

(slides him a sheet with the stats of the Raccoons' relievers) I'll pay $2.50 a pelt.

CONN CHRIS · 04-15-2025, 07:09 AM

I think we may have a little something here when Meadows & veirling get back. First in the AL to 10 wins!

low · 04-16-2025, 11:16 PM

Skubal is amazing. The rest of the team, not so much.

Déjà Bru · 04-17-2025, 02:08 PM

Aaargh. I can NOT believe, after closely following that series between the Tigers and the Yankees last week, that I missed this question on Jeopardy last night:

BASEBALL ($1000): The carousel at Comerica Park features not horses but these animals.

I mean, it's not like they didn't show that a number of times on the telecasts.

CONN CHRIS · 04-17-2025, 05:14 PM

Royals are on a bit of a downturn. Detroit needs the bats to come back to life!

CONN CHRIS · 04-18-2025, 07:46 AM

Fun to watch a game where Carpenter, Greene, and Torkelson go 8-14.

CONN CHRIS · 04-18-2025, 10:30 PM

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It appears that Kenta Maeda may not even be an effective mop up guy any longer.

Man, he is brutal.

DamPenguin · 04-19-2025, 08:32 AM

He has absolutely no confidence... at this point I can't even imagine him being effective anymore.

DamPenguin · 04-20-2025, 12:58 PM

Skubal and the Sunday sweep!!! Lets go!!!!

DamPenguin · 04-20-2025, 05:33 PM

I guess I jinxed it… tough loss today… now please correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t it seem that every time Skubal pitches he hast to go through an early crisis and only after that he settles down and goes into his rhythm?
Now I don’t understand why we don’t eat Báez’s contract and just cut him… I’d rather go through the growing pains with Jace Jung than watch this over paid piece of crap screw the team over… honestly the poor guy is in a no win situation and he just needs to be cut loose

CONN CHRIS · 04-21-2025, 09:31 AM

I've actually thought Baez looks acceptable at the plate this year. Certainly not worth even a fraction of what he is being paid but he has not simply been an open wound providing un-competative at bats one after another.

dsvitak · 04-21-2025, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DamPenguin

I guess I jinxed it… tough loss today… now please correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t it seem that every time Skubal pitches he hast to go through an early crisis and only after that he settles down and goes into his rhythm?
Now I don’t understand why we don’t eat Báez’s contract and just cut him… I’d rather go through the growing pains with Jace Jung than watch this over paid piece of crap screw the team over… honestly the poor guy is in a no win situation and he just needs to be cut loose

A lot of the very finest pitchers are like that. If you don't get to them early, they become unhittable later.

David Watts · 04-21-2025, 03:26 PM

Tigers send Kriedler down and recall Jace Jung.

CONN CHRIS · 04-21-2025, 06:54 PM

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Tigers send Kriedler down and recall Jace Jung.

Wonderful!

04-11-2025, 07:42 AM	#1142
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	Rogers, Perez, Meadows, Vierling. Torres, Margott, Lange, Cobb - we need someone, somewhere to get healthy! __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-12-2025, 04:40 PM	#1144
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	Another series win and more regulars due back to the lineup soon. Dare I allow myself to get hopeful? __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-12-2025, 04:44 PM	#1145
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,557	The Tigers are 5-0 this year when I'm watching. This is your chance to put a plan together that allows me to reduce my office hours and increase my Tigers hours. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 91 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

04-14-2025, 06:38 AM	#1146
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	Keep watching! I can't do anything about your work hours but I can offer some motivation of sorts. In the eighties while I was in college, I worked at a furrier in Brewer, Maine as a skinner. I was paid 75 cents per raccoon pelt skinned. Take that as you will. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-14-2025, 12:41 PM	#1147
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,557	Wow, that post took a turn! (slides him a sheet with the stats of the Raccoons' relievers) I'll pay $2.50 a pelt. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 91 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

04-15-2025, 07:09 AM	#1148
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	I think we may have a little something here when Meadows & veirling get back. First in the AL to 10 wins! __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-16-2025, 11:16 PM	#1149
low Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 6,054	Skubal is amazing. The rest of the team, not so much. __________________ My fictional team logos and uniforms

04-17-2025, 02:08 PM	#1150
Déjà Bru Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Long Island Posts: 11,537	Aaargh. I can NOT believe, after closely following that series between the Tigers and the Yankees last week, that I missed this question on Jeopardy last night: BASEBALL ($1000): The carousel at Comerica Park features not horses but these animals. I mean, it's not like they didn't show that a number of times on the telecasts. __________________ - Bru

04-17-2025, 05:14 PM	#1151
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	Royals are on a bit of a downturn. Detroit needs the bats to come back to life! __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-18-2025, 07:46 AM	#1152
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	Fun to watch a game where Carpenter, Greene, and Torkelson go 8-14. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-19-2025, 08:32 AM	#1154
DamPenguin All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 591	He has absolutely no confidence... at this point I can't even imagine him being effective anymore.

04-20-2025, 12:58 PM	#1155
DamPenguin All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 591	Skubal and the Sunday sweep!!! Lets go!!!!

04-20-2025, 05:33 PM	#1156
DamPenguin All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 591	I guess I jinxed it… tough loss today… now please correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t it seem that every time Skubal pitches he hast to go through an early crisis and only after that he settles down and goes into his rhythm? Now I don’t understand why we don’t eat Báez’s contract and just cut him… I’d rather go through the growing pains with Jace Jung than watch this over paid piece of crap screw the team over… honestly the poor guy is in a no win situation and he just needs to be cut loose

04-21-2025, 09:31 AM	#1157
CONN CHRIS Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 28,966	I've actually thought Baez looks acceptable at the plate this year. Certainly not worth even a fraction of what he is being paid but he has not simply been an open wound providing un-competative at bats one after another. __________________ Check Out My Cards!

04-21-2025, 03:26 PM	#1159
David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 9,757 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Tigers send Kriedler down and recall Jace Jung.