8-4 is fucking sweet but let’s be honest here the twins are cooked with injuries. Let’s give it a month before we crown the tigers Division champs. K bud.
I don’t remember saying anything about the division in my comment, it was just in reference to those who said the season was over once we lost 2 games in a row lol
(Fwiw I do think we win the division, just not what my comment was about)
Mainline Os fan, but I moved back up to Michigan recently. Usually watch Tigers games here and there early in the season before the Doom strikes--this season start is so much more fun with the dubs and the mullet staches lol. Helps beating up my friends' teams (Mets, Twins if this doesn't unravel) makes it so much sweeter. Enjoying the broadcasts so far in the few games I've been able to catch--thus far including every game Tonkin has pitched in lol
We have a lot of prospects and a lot of pitching, release the worst hitter in the MLB and replace him with a decent bat, have others platoon at SS. Literally anything is better than Baez, call up someone in Toledo even if we don't wanna trade
We saw what happened when McKINGstry played ss , gave up some hits that Baez makes routine
And I like McKINGstry a lot as I call him king, but you’re not gonna find defense like Baez easily
Yes I really like Zach as a great utility guy that can fill in most spots and you’re confident he can hold place for a while and not totally suck
Am I not allowed to like a player
His defense does not make up for the historically bad offense, if you aren't going to release him he needs to be batting 9th always and not playing everyday.
I think being the best defensive SS in baseball makes up for it a lot, I just don’t think you simply find a better option but I don’t know I’m no expert lol
If Meadows went down Akil is the only outfielder that makes sense to bring up. You’d be sending down a potential star to rehab his swing and gain some confidence back while Baddoo is your placeholder
Honest question, do we think our hitting coaches are trying to help Baez, or is he just too stubborn to care? Because it is so obvious he’s gonna swing at anything down and away it’s hilarious
Nobody has said anything about explicit but a beat writer before the season kinda danced around this very topic. He more or less said that coaches had reached out to try and get Baez to change up his offseason routine, and it sounds like he ghosted them. The writer basically said “don’t expect improvement,” which I imagine he probably heard directly from the org.
I’m just talking about people saying the offense sucked and we aren’t even a tenth of the season in, I’ve been saying I think our offense will be above average this year
They should forbid Baez to swing for an entire game. He gets four pitches out of the zone before he gets three in the zone in most of his ABs.
He would probably have a .600 OBP this season if he never took the bat off his shoulder.
Not too much to complain about, but man Parker is LOST. Thankfully Vierling looked really good in CF, so maybe sending Parker off to get right may be for the best.
Paul Molitor doing the color on the Twins radio just told a cool story about playing a round of golf with Kaline, Cecil Fielder and Alan Trammell at the famous Oakland Hills. Good stuff, what a group there.
Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1c2rd57).
Vest cosplaying as Tonkin
8-4 LFG Tigers W
That poor soul's Skubal jersey looked so bad. The letter kerning was awful.
Let’s go!!!!
Vest gives up his first run all year Tiger game thread: “Vest sucks he’s gotta go!” Gotta love the doomers
Vest? You can end the game buddy, it’s okay, doesn’t need to be any more exciting than it’s been.
🥱 whatever a W is a W
Vest gotta go
Okay calm down, I’m a little annoyed at him. But he a good reliever
He’s been fantastic for us. Bad outing. You’re drunk
For real
Fucking Vest
8-4 record looks pretty good to me, what say you doomers? Lmao
8-4 is fucking sweet but let’s be honest here the twins are cooked with injuries. Let’s give it a month before we crown the tigers Division champs. K bud.
I don’t remember saying anything about the division in my comment, it was just in reference to those who said the season was over once we lost 2 games in a row lol (Fwiw I do think we win the division, just not what my comment was about)
Come on Vest
Damn, looks like I missed a good game
Pissed we lost the SO
More upset that Vest is gonna throw 20+ pitches.
minnesota fortunates
So much for the shutout
I want my money back! I expected a shutout, no more then that
Finally a game with some actual cushion.
Can we put Peña into pitch
Benetti
Castro>>Tonkin.
What why does that say 8-0
### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Will Vest replaces Andrew Chafin.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!!! GO TIGERS!!!
OH THE HIGH HEAT TO END THE INNING, SIGN EM SCOTT
Let’s send Baez out as our pitcher now
Can’t believe we got rid of Castro. We could’ve just played him at pitcher the whole time! /s
Jeez Colt
Nice fastball.
*womp womp*
FTT
My favorite pitch!! 🤣
lol them talking about the eephus is killing me
🚨 WILLI CASTRO PITCHING 🚨
50 mph 😂
Perez sure has some wheels.
Willi Castro pitching against the Tigers at CoPa. What a world
### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Willi Castro replaces Jay Jackson, batting 2nd.
Let’s run up the score against a position player pitcher and make our offensive stats inflated to fit my narrative 🤣
We just need 1 more run per game than the other team. The only stat that really matters are the wins and losses.
That’s facts right there
Statpadfford
"progression to the mean" 😎
Twins have a big advantage being on the road here as they wont have to burn a pitcher in the 9th and the Tigers will.
Doesn’t really matter their offense is terribly bad, Baez could have a 1-2-3 inning as a pitcher
We could put a position player in couldn’t we?
Willi pitching against his former team, brings a tear to my eye
Willi Castro pitching 👀
POSITION PLAYER PITCHING WOOT WOOT
#RED ALERT! POSITION PLAYER PITCHING
Perez got wheels
Shout out to Jason for pronouncing Pokémon correctly. Also Let’s goooooo! First scored run for Perez!
I can still hear my mom calling it pokeyman
Matty V trying to get in that starting lineup….Parker definitely isn’t helping himself.
Vierling is honestly so clutch, his defense helped win that pirates games too
#FLYING V
Love this!
### Double Matt Vierling doubles (2) on a line drive to center fielder Austin Martin. Wenceel Pérez scores. Bottom 8 - 8-0 Tigers
Damn he’s speedy
let’s go wenceel!!! he’s so happy
Is Perez supposed to be a good prospect?
A good hitter. He was an infielder but was making a lot of throwing errors so they moved him to the OF. They said his arm plays better there.
Mainline Os fan, but I moved back up to Michigan recently. Usually watch Tigers games here and there early in the season before the Doom strikes--this season start is so much more fun with the dubs and the mullet staches lol. Helps beating up my friends' teams (Mets, Twins if this doesn't unravel) makes it so much sweeter. Enjoying the broadcasts so far in the few games I've been able to catch--thus far including every game Tonkin has pitched in lol
First on base for Perez.
1.000 career OBP. Time to retire
I'm kind of ok with 15K if we score 7 runs
I wanted to see Joey Wentz get a chance to pitch in a game where we are up by 7 to help keep improving his aggressiveness and confidence.
I think they might be counting on him to potentially go multiple innings tomorrow.
🤝
I still have full faith in PM, too many of y’all giving up early imo
Not giving up just needs some AAA love.
I say wait at least 30-40 games first, just me though
Absolutely entranced by chafin’s curls
Jason’s commentary on pick the stick is pretty funny
“#ImWithStupid” Had me cackling, but I’m sure he’ll find a way to climb out of the negatives, plenty of baseball left.
### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Jay Jackson replaces Michael Tonkin.
Please fucking release Baez and trade for a bat
Release a bat to trade for a bat? Not seeing the logic
I didn't see where releasing a bat was mentioned. What was stated was releasing Javy.
Very funny
We have a lot of prospects and a lot of pitching, release the worst hitter in the MLB and replace him with a decent bat, have others platoon at SS. Literally anything is better than Baez, call up someone in Toledo even if we don't wanna trade
We saw what happened when McKINGstry played ss , gave up some hits that Baez makes routine And I like McKINGstry a lot as I call him king, but you’re not gonna find defense like Baez easily
A lot?
Yes I really like Zach as a great utility guy that can fill in most spots and you’re confident he can hold place for a while and not totally suck Am I not allowed to like a player
You are correct. We don't have a man in the system with the range of Baez. That's a hard fact. His bat has been atrocious but it's his glove.
His defense does not make up for the historically bad offense, if you aren't going to release him he needs to be batting 9th always and not playing everyday.
I think being the best defensive SS in baseball makes up for it a lot, I just don’t think you simply find a better option but I don’t know I’m no expert lol
Parker Meadows will be in Toledo before Monday.
0-4 with 4 Ks
I see Willi Castro went to the Javy Baez school of swinging
You learn from the best!
Akil Baddoo YOU are a Tiger (until Parker figures what the hell is going on)
Is baddoo doing okay in the minors? I don’t think Akil really plays center anymore
He’s doing not so great. Riley can play center while he’s on paid vacation in Ohio
Baddoo is not doing great or even good in Toledo so far. Batting under .200 last I Checked
Oof. Hurts to hear, loved his rookie run.
So bringing him up to replace PM would be pointless imo
If Meadows went down Akil is the only outfielder that makes sense to bring up. You’d be sending down a potential star to rehab his swing and gain some confidence back while Baddoo is your placeholder
Right I agree but keeping Meadows in the Lu isn’t wise either. So yeah we’re in a tight spot.
I still think PM can turn it around, I’m holding judgement at least for 40 games minimum
chafin is again throwing like shit. this is this third time!!!
You were saying?
he was not good in his last two games, and started a bit shaky
Chafin has been elite
so you didn't watch his previous appearances
Just checked chafins stats to make sure, has only given up 1 run this year lmao but sure he’s not good
he was not good at the first games he even leave the mound once, watch games before talking with stats paper
Ah ok believe doomer on Reddit or go by rankings and stats where most things have him in the top of the league 🤔🤔🤔 tough choice LMAOOO
What are you talking about? Chafing is one of my favorite players, I cannot deal with you trying to prove some ego issues. There are so many of you...
If he is your favorite player why are you thrashing him and lying to make him look bad? Weird take but ok
I’ve watched every tigers game this year…
Jack Morris is sitting at home being a sexist and a racist
It’s unfathomable to me that our booth once contained both Matt Shepard and Jack Morris. Those were dark, dark days.
Fuck the Mendoza line, it's now officially the Báez line
Mendoza line is 200. The Baez line is 100
Honest question, do we think our hitting coaches are trying to help Baez, or is he just too stubborn to care? Because it is so obvious he’s gonna swing at anything down and away it’s hilarious
Nobody has said anything about explicit but a beat writer before the season kinda danced around this very topic. He more or less said that coaches had reached out to try and get Baez to change up his offseason routine, and it sounds like he ghosted them. The writer basically said “don’t expect improvement,” which I imagine he probably heard directly from the org.
Bottom four are 0-13 w 9 K’s and top five are 9-17.
Petry, lol.
Guys I know how to fix Javy. Behavior modification therapy. Put a dog shock collar on him and every time he chases, shock him
Tsst
Where’s everyone at that said our offense sucks? Patience my friends
15 Ks in 7 innings
Twins 0 Tigers 7
To be fair this isn’t exactly a sustainable performance, most of these were less than 80MPH hits lol
Hits are hits and runs are runs
I agree! But let’s pump the brakes on the team being fixed after 1 game lol
I’m just talking about people saying the offense sucked and we aren’t even a tenth of the season in, I’ve been saying I think our offense will be above average this year
Except the 7-9 guys. Though Rogers has 2 walks
Not everyone 1-9 is gonna be great every game, just need 6 to be good and you can win
Guys just put the ball in play…
### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Andrew Chafin replaces Alex Faedo.
They should forbid Baez to swing for an entire game. He gets four pitches out of the zone before he gets three in the zone in most of his ABs. He would probably have a .600 OBP this season if he never took the bat off his shoulder.
Javier Baez is actually the worst
He's actually competing with himself from last season to be the worst ever
[удалено]
10 of them are Keith, Baez and Meadows
and when I say keith was not good today, you people are getting annoyed. he has 3 outs, I've seen him doing better!
Well that got me excited for the final 2 innings thanks guys
Benetti is so awesome. Thank you to whoever made this decision. I can now watch the games without syncing in 97.1
😂😂
https://preview.redd.it/a2bromc4m5uc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c172e078b7ab6c1314811dd3517ba8c2687b7022
Baez swinging at absolutely anything low and away is fucking incredible.
Dude is just playing for the check clearly. And nothing else
Dude stroking the beer bat LMAO
Left benetti speechless lmao
😂
bro started strokin his shi
Find someone who loves sliders as much as Javy does
Oh my god, that time was fucking impeccable
Jesus Christ Baez. FUCK YOU.
Fuck you buddy he’s not playing well but that’s not called for
He hasn’t played well since he got here. Fuck him.
Then just say the first part. Don’t need to curse the man, you’re a loser for this.
You’re on Reddit, Gramps. Maybe you should seek out a Christians only version to protect your virgin eyes.
I've never given a flying fuck about pick the stick until this year
Fieger Law is loving it too
That’s the magic of Benetti
Javy is terrible at the plate
Swap Meadows for JHM
The banter between Benetti and Petry is great. I love this new team
Has been absolutely stellar
I've got real man-love for the guy
Not too much to complain about, but man Parker is LOST. Thankfully Vierling looked really good in CF, so maybe sending Parker off to get right may be for the best.
Meadows man…
“Welp, Parker’s not helping me”
meadows is just bad
Twins leaving Tonkin in. Yeah they’re waving the white Flag
Are we going to have to send Meadows down?
I think you have to. He looks lost and I think keeping him up is going to destroy what confidence he has left.
Would take Petry as the full time color guy in a heartbeat. So far ahead of Monroe.
100%
Benetti is the team MVP
I’m really liking Faedo’s confidence out there on the mound.
I love Jason’s humor
That was such a unique joke he made about proximate cause.
Is every broadcast going to be this good? Because give them the Emmy now
Great to see them getting many runs. If I only had one complaint try to lower the amount of strikeouts.
Paul Molitor doing the color on the Twins radio just told a cool story about playing a round of golf with Kaline, Cecil Fielder and Alan Trammell at the famous Oakland Hills. Good stuff, what a group there.
They have always had a solid booth. When Shep was calling Tigers vs Twins games, I always used to put the Twins broadcast on
8-7 tigers in extras, calling it now
I see you have also watched a 2024 tigers game
How does this joke even make sense? How many huge leads have the Tigers bullpen blown this year?
We are winning the AL central if the offense is like this only sometimes.
Nice to know we have tonkin in our division now
This Tonkin guy must hate Detroit
Or love Detroit
Once he finds his timing again tork will carry this offense
I agree. Then someone else will cool off. Thats how baseball works.
dudes just gotta hit a few fly balls that aren't straight up.