Most HR in MLB this week.
Most in a week by a Tiger team since 2004
New card for @Weaselpuppy
Riley Greene’s historic performance is a Topps Now card. The Tigers outfielder became the first MLB player to ever hit two home runs in the same ninth inning.
Exactly brother! I like a few winter sports and a white Christmas… But after that… Bring on the fun in the sun as much as possible.
I been working real hard on my farmers tan… Coming in nicely.
I am in no rush for football season… I hope the next 4 months are sunny and super slow.
Narrator: It did not.
I have some of the Ohtani 50/50 night Topps Now being graded. Problem is, they take online orders for 48 hours, and thats the print run. They do a couple different cards a day. Some get 400, some get 4000. A 10,000 card run happens infrequently. The Ohtani 50/50? 650,000. So, not rare, but at $10 a pop, Topps made suuuuper bank
I may look at the Greene one. Topps randomly inserts the serial numbered /colored into the orders. Thats what people are really shooting for. I ordered 5 Ohtanis, all base/normal. Meh.
Or wait til the Greene card’s green colored parallel pops up.for sale. They make 100 of the greens, 150 blue, 250 purple 75 yellow 50 gold 25 orange 5 red and 1 “superfractor” gold foil
@Weaselpuppy I know you are a card guy… How much is this beauty worth?
Haha if it wasn’t for the red head… He probably crushes Barry Bond’s home run record. 
Tigers hit well this series, we need Flaherty to figure it out
That was a fun series.
Somebody said Sweeney might go down when Vierling and Meadows come back. I guess its Malloy and Jung now.
http://archive.today/2025.05.05-110217/https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/05/05/detroit-tigers-offense-mlb-stats-hitting-coaches/83449308007/
Full article at Link.
Let me also make something clear. I am not suggesting the Tigers have a great offense. “We have a pretty good offense,” Hinch said on May 4. “And it comes from different places.”
But these hitting coaches are getting these guys to score like crazy.
And that’s the poin
“Our hitting department is very consistent with everything from what information they provide, but more importantly, just the environment in the cage, the game planning, the temperament after at bats,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “I mean, they are invested in every aspect for every hitter and they’ve got become a very good group of hitting coaches that can adapt to 13 different hitters, which may require 13 different approaches.”
He is not talking about approach at the plate.
He’s talking about approach in how they deal with people, which is a huge part of this.
“Each guy is a little bit different, which is why we built a department that way,” Hinch said. “They’re tireless workers. They can never really have a good day because one of the hitters probably struggled and but yet they are very consistent
This morning from ESPN.
Of course, we made the playoffs with a 0.2% chance in early August last year, so anything can happen…both ways…
We need to trade Jung while he is still considered a top prospect and has some value.
Send him to Texas to play with his brother.
He can be Atlanta’s replacement 3B “top prospect” for Austin Riley.
Too soon.
The bat is what he is known for and my biggest concern on him was his glove at third. The glove has looked very good, I think the bat will come.
But, I suspect he goes to AAA when Vierling comes back.
Best record in the AL, and the best run differential in all of baseball.
My Peter tinkle says @DBend144 is wrong…we are going to the World Series.
I would be so happy if that happens.
I guessed Sweeney but he has definitely had a few good days at the plate.
I think you are correct on Jung being one of them, should know in the next week as Vierling has started his rehab. Meadows is still gonna be a bit from the sound of it.
From the News:
“I’ve got to figure it out,” Flaherty said after giving up four runs in the sixth Saturday, as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 to end their seven game losing streak. “I don’t know what’s going on there.”
What makes it confounding is how sharp he was through the first five innings. He cruised into the sixth on just 68 pitches, allowing only an unearned run. He was flummoxing hitters with a nasty knuckle-curveball. He struck out the side in the fifth, that was how good he was throwing.
“That third time through, I don’t know,” Flaherty said. “I am searching there for that back half, to carry the stuff over from the first handful of innings to the back half of the game.”
The same thing happened to Flaherty in his start in Houston at the start of this road trip on Monday. He cruised through five and was out of the game after three hitters in the sixth, giving up a two-run homer to Jose Altuve.
On the season, opponents are 11 for 21 and have scored eight runs off Flaherty in the sixth inning
“I think it’s more a function of how the game is going,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said. “The location, an ill-timed walk, that’s when it started. … These are location issues. The walk is going to be the big one because it continued the inning before all the stuff happened.” (Greene and Carp colliding is the stuff the article is referring too).