Detroit Tigers

[jaadam4]

And yes baseball and hockey take awhile to get the kids to come into their own. My thing with Tork was that I just didn’t see any kind of wow moment early on like i was hoping to. He’s really start to pop though and I’m extremely happy about that

[klondike]

...also remember Tork has more college home runs than anyone besides Bob Horner. The guy raked all throughout his life until the big leagues. The fastball in the bigs is difficult to catch up with right away. Everything is quicker and sharper and takes awhile to get adjusted. A rare few do well out of the gate. Like for every Al Kaline there's a bunch of Lou Whitaker's and JD Martinez'.

[froot loops]

The argument for Torkleson was that he was the most MLB ready bat in the draft. You don't draft a first baseman at 1-1 if you have to wait a few years.

[jaadam4]

The argument for Torkleson was that he was the most MLB ready bat in the draft. You don't draft a first baseman at 1-1 if you have to wait a few years.

That’s what I always hung onto as well.

[froot loops]

What's done is done, we have to hope Klondike is right about giving it time. This team stinks but this division is ridiculously bad.

[mason reese]

The argument for Torkleson was that he was the most MLB ready bat in the draft. You don't draft a first baseman at 1-1 if you have to wait a few years.

Isn’t he the only position player from that draft playing in the bigs right now? At least that was the case at the beginning of the season

[chemiclord]

Which isn't necessarily more than an indictment of the Tigers' talent level as an organization.

[mason reese]

Sure and he probably was promoted too fast. But…Froot said you don’t wait a couple years for the “most MLB ready bat” but isn’t waiting a couple years for a drafted position player to get promoted to the majors basically the minimum?

[Whitley]

Isn’t he the only position player from that draft playing in the bigs right now? At least that was the case at the beginning of the season

Garrett Williams (Milwaukee) was called up a bit ago. But yes from jump of this season Tork was the only one as a position player.

[Cody_Russell]

’Tank for Tork’ turned out to be a hoax. Though he’s improved from .604 to .690 OPS… from pathetic to not good. Baby steps!

and LOL the AL Central is pathetic. 4 games out of 1st with the Twins coming to town!

[froot loops]

Every other team in the AL besides Oakland would be in 1st place in the Central. Last week the division leading Twins were on pace to strike out the most times in one season ever.

Tigers were 2 hit last night. Since they started this rebuild 8 years ago, it is comical how many times they fail to get more than 3 hits. The one silver lining is the pitch clock, the game last night to a brisk 2 hours and 11 minutes, it is much more easier to listen to or watch a game consistently every day when it's not a 3-3.5 hour slog.

They are really bad but if they could acquire a solid bat, they could win the division.

[chemiclord]

Perhaps the hype train for Tork still needs to stay in the station. Dude is 1 for his last 19 with 7 strikeouts.

[wcfwtf]

If Miggy could only be the young Miggy☹️

[Whitley]

If Miggy could only be the young Miggy☹️

Yep. But those are very very rate

[froot loops]

When I say that they need to spend, it doesn't mean you have to go out and only spend on Aaron Judge. If you look at this dog shit off-season they non-tendered Jeimer Candelario to save money. He was thought to get 7 million. They replaced him with Nick Maton who has been an abject disaster, but he was much cheaper. The dude is terrible at 3rd and blew the game today. Jeimer is 2.4 WAR this year at the plate, Maton -1.1 WAR at the plate.