For all the marbles…
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Hopefully the Indians don’t call up Cerrano! he has been working on his marbles
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Winner of series has over 90% chance winning division.
Tigers lose the series. They have to win 2/3 vs Boston or they are out of the playoffs.
In other words. They need to win 3/6
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I mean good lord this collapse is…well I dunno about the worst one ever but man it’s up there.
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Posted this in the braves thread but, to your point…there was this blurb in the article.
Last season’s run was almost incomprehensible. If this collapse concludes without a playoff berth, it’s equally incomprehensible. Last August, the Tigers had a .02% chance of making the playoffs, according to FanGraphs, and went on a 31-13 streak to squeeze in. On Aug. 22 this season, they had a .02% chance of missing the playoffs and have gone 7-18.
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Everyone will blame Scott Harris but this whole thing starts with Illitch and his Mr Krabs money ways.
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People can blame Harris all they want. I stand by my belief that he’s one of the best in baseball.
His drafting and other means of gathering young talent has been second to none. We should start to reap the benefits of it some time next year.
Some of the impatient fans need to take up knitting while we wait for the final product.
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15-21 4.65 10.56 mil avg
This is the w/l and average era of our guaranteed pitcher salaries but this includes Finnegan who has a 3-0 0.59 era and 0-0 0.00 era for Cobb
If you take Cobb and Finegan out
12-21 6.10 ERA with a average of 9.75 mil for the year
We have had 21 pitchers with a ERA above 4.00
Of those 21 pitchers we have had them start 73 games this year
36 losses combined from those 21 pitchers
I understand the patient approach. I also understand that the owner of the Tigers is also the owner of the Red Wings, who both are trying to take this same approach. I guess it remains to be seen whether this is going to work out in the long run.
One of the flaws I see in this approach is the attrition that happens while waiting for these prospects to finally arrive.
In the Tigers case, will Skubal even be here when the great prospects are ready for MLB level play. What about Green, or Tork. With the Red Wings, will Larkin still be here. Kane is most certainly not going to be here. So while we hope these players develop into what we hope we are losing good players as well. So then what? Do we again have to wait for the prospects needed to replace the already good players that have left.
And then what happens when all these great prospects come due for their pay days?
Will Illitch ever be willing, or able, to pay what’s needed to truly put a World Series contending team, or a Stanley Cup contending team, together.
Patience is great, patience is needed, but patience has its limits.
My guess is that we will be like the Indians and trade our high dollar guys for prospects before they are due the big money.
Including Skubal.
Unless MLB goes to a hard salary cap the low to mid market teams are gonna have to play it like this. We will never be able to throw money around like the NY teams, and LA. Those guys should win a world series every year.
This post is just to ex-out any karmic juju you old farts just choose not to recognize. This post does not mean I am trying to die on some hill or really give two shits in the long run:
This series is against the GUARDIANS. The Tigers are hoping to sweep the Cleveland GUARDIANS. The city of Cleveland has a major league baseball team named the GUARDIANS. Just like there is not a football team in New York called the Titans and there isn’t a team in Cincinnati called the Red Stockings or a team in New Orleans called the Hornets, there isn’t a team in Cleveland called the Indians. They are the GUARDIANS.
Turns around 3 times and spits - Thank you.
Morton picked up by the sweeping Braves
The Braves are eliminated from playoffs and pick up 41 year old pitcher!? That makes no sense to me. Why? Just cause he pitched there before maybe. Like a retirement home move
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Why couldn’t they pick him up last week so that we could face him?
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I dont get it either.
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I think they are just giving him a final goodbye start! Thanks for pitching for Atlanta in the past kinda thing. Seems pretty ridiculous to me. But whatever
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Still can’t believe Harris made that trade.
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He actually had about a 2 month stretch with Baltimore where he looked decent. But yea it quickly resorted back to a 41 year old gas can. jays have the same problem with Max