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Good. Pitch inside and brush him off. Its your plate not his

Hitting over 300 with RISP!

Speedster!!

Pillar!!!!! Mr. Clutch!!

lots of leash for arguing batters today, Zunino and Upton barking at the ump

tbh I think this was Carerra's call, he's always been bunting all year

Lol we've been saying this for the past few weeks, He's been a beast since come back from the DL!

I want to see Drew Storen so we can light him up

stupid bunt lol

Tulo!!!!!! Beauty hack right there as usual

nice steal? lol

welp

good steal!!

Smooth as butter

Damn I thought that was gone

This is why I still listen to Bobcat, lots of good pulls

I saw a couple of articles not too long ago talking about Ausmus and from what I read there and in the comments the people seem indifferent about him but say he's better than Leyland lol. Then again I saw one of the articles talk about how he's using Justin Wilson and Shane Green a lot in leverage situations as a negative... but if you head over to Fangraphs they're the top 2 relievers on the Tigers so I think the articles that I see are from the Blairs and Wilners of the Tigers

Lol no offence taken, actually now that I think about it I do sound like all those other people. The only thing is I wouldn't have any other explanation on Sanchez. I don't think it's like the league is figuring him out, he's walking a lot of people and missing his spots. Is that a side effect of fatigue? Could be but like I said the spin looks the same and the velo's not dropped. Maybe it's just a bad stretch? He hasn't had one this season yet

I don't think the record since that happened really has anything to do with the starting rotation. Because if you look close into those games you'll see Sanchez -- who has been our best pitcher pitched way less than he did before and his starts were taken away by Dickey and Liriano, both doing meh in that role. Happ had a slight regression which was expected, and Stroman was the positive in the rotation. As for Estrada it came out that he wasn't healthy and is pitching with a herniated disk, which makes sense why he's a CY Young pitcher for 4-5 innings before blowing up in the last inning before he gets pulled. It seems like there's a limit where his back goes which makes the fastball and curveball hard to spot and the changup flatter than a BP fastball. I think he's rusty. Lots of great movement still on his pitches and velo didn't drop, but it would make sense that pitching every like 9 days you lose your touch. His biggest issue has been his walks but his stuff is still there. Also I believe (could be talking out of my ass here but based on what I've seen) he gets better as the game has went on for his past 3 starts. It's his first few innings that are loaded with walks.

hahaha But seriously though, this team the whole season hasn't hit. We've had hotspots here and there but overall our offence wasn't doing as good as we thought they were. At least for me I love looking at RD, but then I realized this team has been riding the rotation for much of the season. I mean if we take Stromans terrible starts this year and give him last year's offence he'd come out a winner. I just can't help but think imagine this rotation that we had matched with the offensive output of last season... Like literally when Estrada's back starts acting up more and Sanchez gets rusty the problem with the offence became so much more prevalent. Even our BP, they've done a GREAT job this second half and seeing Biagini and Grilli become less sharp down the stretch is just a side effect of how bad the offence is. They continue to not hit so when the starters go through the rough stretch we saw against NY and Boston we overwork them. Above all, the mental hiccups and bad defence really reflects the team has either a really big problem or is really depressed

Eric Wedge is the front office? I never knew that

What? Atkins presented scenarios to Gibby, Walker and the pitching staff in person and they chose with the 6 man what are you talking about? Thats why Gibby doesn't want any more complaints about the 6 man rotation, they chose it, gotta bite the bullet if your regret it

Well old people get banged up more and slow down a lot. I think a lot of it has to do with the growing age. Durability usually goes down as age climbs. Obviously Donaldson's an exception because he's playing through a leg injury since May and a recent hip injury. But that's not even really my argument lol. What I meant to say with my original post is when people talk about an old group of players they usually say its good to have "experience" on your side. Where's this experience when we've seen so many blunders, why isn't the belt being tightened? This team looks like they're accepting the fact they're free-falling. Maybe there's a problem with leadership? Not enough leaders? Or maybe there's a clubhouse issue? I don't know what exactly is the problem but it doesn't look like anyone wants to really win right now. You can see after strikeouts, very tame depressed looks going back to the dugout.

Our average batters are 30 years old and our average pitchers are 29. The age of the batters is still old

In soccer when the front office give a vote of confidence it usually translates to "you have a week to clear your desk" lol