Tigers at Sox!
Tigers opening up a 3 game series at White Sox Tonight. Matchups:
Greene / Samardjia
Big Pasta / Sale
Lobtstein / Quintana
Its Sox 1, 2, and 3 pitchers vs our 4, 5, and 6, so edge their. Sox just embarrassed themselves in Minnesota, so I'd expect them give us a better effort.
Tigers are no longer on the flaming hot start, but have settled into a pretty good groove.
As an arm chair manager, I wouldn't mind seeing the lineup change to: 3)Cabrera, 4) Cespedes, 5) Victor. 6) JD.
Its nice how long our lineup is right now, and this maybe shortens it, but I feel like we're wasting those doubles Cespedes is hitting with our 2 slowest players in front of him and then JD isnt great on the bases. Plus Victor would prob drive Cespedes home more than the guys behind him now. The other big downside is losing a switch hitter protecting Miggy. No one would ever consult me for baseball strategy.
The Hawk looked like he was ready to cry to open the broadcast.
Out of topic. OT
Three different IPA's tonight. Crooked Tree, Lagunitas and Stone. It's setting up to be that kind of a week.
a good week.
The only online streams Im finding are of the ChiSox broadcast. Ugh. Guess I will have the sound down.
You could hear a really great rant if they get blown out again.
Ugh. We give up a run instead of turning two because Jose isn't in the lineup tonight. That's frustrating.
anyone that has to listen to Hawk for more than 30 seconds.
I'm really hoping the Tigers sweep this series so that the Sox can dump Ventura. He has proven to be completely incompetent as a manager, and I've seen better coached little league teams.
What love for them to hire Gardy instead right now.
Errors! This team is a joke.
News of the White Sox being a contender were a bit overblown.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-white-sox-looming-decision/
Did the Tigers get a bullpen yet? Obviously they're good, but it'd be really nice to get a title and it's hard to be optimistic about that the way their bullpen seems to get continuously hammered in the playoffs over the last few years.
Soria looks like the guy they traded for, not much else. Rondon could help when he's healthy, ready, but certainly not a guarantee on any account. Undoubtedly, we'll need to make a trade or two if we're serious.
Rafael Soriano is still out there, and we have money from Nathan's contract being picked up by insurance.
Strike 'em out, throw 'em out double play!
We're having shit weather this evening in Chicago. It is probably mostly diehards in the stands.
The Blackhawks game on at the same time.
I think you guys are in for a promising offseason.
Greene doesn't look good out there.
You can't win if you can't throw Strikes. Greene was awful and has been his last few starts. Hopefully he can figure it out before his next start.
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It looked like he didnt trust his stuff at all out there. Or he had no control. Most of his pitches weren't even close to the strike zone. I don't know if he has option years left, guessing yes, and guessing he's headed to the minors as soon as JV is ready if this is not corrected.
out of the left handed batter's box, then why doesn't he stop doing the switch hitter thing until after he heals?
Brad leaves pitchers in too long. He should have gotten Greene when he walked in the run. It's clear that he wasn't giving us the best chance to win at that point.
Hard to pull a starter in the 3rd inning, nobody likely warm enough yet to come in.
Managers always leave them in too long or pull them too soon. They just can't win, can they? Pulling a starter early and going to the bullpen really screws yourself for the next couple games in regards to the bullpen being ready to throw.
Haha forward thinking from a random guy in the stands (or at home watching the ball game on tv)??? That doesn't happen. It's hard to manage your staff and bullpen but you do NOT want to pull your starter that early in a game even if he has given up a few runs. Let's him fight through it. You do not want to tax your bullpen the first day after an off day.
Sox announcers talking about the guy we used to trade for Gose (Devon Travis) like he's the second coming of Babe Ruth and was as hyped as Kris Bryant. I know he was the top prospect in our system for a minute, but only after we called up Castellanos and traded about a half dozen pitchers in front of him.
Sound is coming off shortly, Hawk is bad enough when we're winning, but when Sox are up, no no no.
Travis has been real good for Toronto, that said he didn't really have a spot on our roster as Kinsler is going to be here awhile. Good trade for both teams thus far, slightly to Toronto, but it's stupid to compare trades after a 1 month sample.
Hawk is my least favorite thing about living in Chicago.
Be quiet the man is an angel. He's the GOAT!!
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I agree with your lineup change. Not sure why it hasn't happened yet, actually.
Well, I'm happy Detroit has the Tigers to root for. As a Chicago native and fan, it is fun to follow the Bulls and the Blackhawks right now, and hopefully for a good month and some. The wheels sure seemed to come off for the Sox. Not a lot of fun.
He got it.
damn.
Some real bad luck there, Kinsler likely had an RBI there and Miggy would have been up with 2 on.
Dude is nasty. Too bad the Sox rarely need a closer these days.
One of the more painful things about being a sox fan for me right now. Basically knowing you have that great shinny new toy and never being able to use it. The bats have been pathetic this yr which makes it worse.
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JD is in the midst of a deep slump, he's rarely making contact now.
Just not sure if Greene is a big-league pitcher. Yeesh.
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It's early. He's young. Remember when Scherzer struggled early on in his career. I'm more worried about JD, Victor and Castellanos.
Castellanos is even younger.
True but Greene is the 5th starter (with verlander healthy). Castellanos plays everyday and the Tigers have very little insurance at third if this continues. He's been a streaky player so hopefully he turns around.
with 4.2 era which includes one bad outing
This would now be 3 straight bad outings. 8 runs against Cleveland. 7 against Minnesota and tonight/yesterday.
The Tigers will not win this division or make the playoffs. Vmart needs to be benched. The lineup needs to be shaken up. Move Cespedes to clean up. Move both Martinez down in the lineup. I hope by August they are trying out some younger blood from the minors. We have passed our window with this group.
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Well this is about as pessimistic as it gets.
After horrendous outings last time out, I'm not surprised to see Shark pitch fairly well (and career he's been much better at night as well) and I'd expect to see Sale firing on all cylinders tonight. Sort of bad timing for the Tigers to have the starters line up the way they did. Quintana's turned it around after a rough start to the year too, and you don't get to see either of the Sox's lousy 4/5 starters.
Is anyone else just done with JV and question how good he will be when he's off the DL?
I'm not going to pretend to know how serious his injury is but he was barely "good" last year and I fear it will not improve. He hasn't thrown a pitch yet this year and we have him for the end of time.
Not trying to jump on the pessimitic express but rather the realist express.
Sox GM is a MICHIGAN MAN ....
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this is brutal. The Simon/Greene acquistions' luster has faded awfully fast.