Detroit Tigers, Volume 9: The Carlos Guillen edition

[Hammer]

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I'll be darned. One finally went our way.

[melmac]

Re: Detroit Tigers, Volume 9: The Carlos Guillen edition

I'll be darned. One finally went our way.

And there was much rejoicing.
Yay...

[Hammer]

Re: Detroit Tigers, Volume 9: The Carlos Guillen edition

We're gonna go from a team no-hitter to a blown save and 1-1 tie in about 2 batters here in a minute.

[Hammer]

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There it went. Tie game.

[Hammer]

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2-1 final in 10.

Rajai Davis does the honors tonight with a triple to right.

[MaizeRage]

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Tigers announce Ausmus will be back as manager in 2016. You've gotta be fist-****ing me.

[geezer]

Re: Detroit Tigers, Volume 9: The Carlos Guillen edition

Tigers announce Ausmus will be back as manager in 2016. You've gotta be fist-****ing me.

Good. I've been very impressed with the level of support he gets from the players. Don't underestimate how important that is. As for his situational pitching miscalls, some of the criticism hasn't been exactly fair (he gets blamed for having a hopelessly shitty bullpen too often) and hopefully he's learned from the mistakes that were his. I think we'll end up being glad that we kept him around.

[Hammer]

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I don't like it. Especially because he's now on the last year of his contract, and his clubhouse knows that he's a lame duck.

It's generally not a good idea to let your manager see the last year of his contract. You either break him off, or you extend him. IMO, he has not earned an extension.

[bronconick]

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I don't like it. Especially because he's now on the last year of his contract, and his clubhouse knows that he's a lame duck.

It's generally not a good idea to let your manager see the last year of his contract. You either break him off, or you extend him. IMO, he has not earned an extension.

So he'll be fired in August 2016 when they're 10 games out again?

[Hammer]

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I dunno. I give up.

There's going to be a lot of jobs open this offseason. We're this close to being the Phillies of the AL, but we don't have the championship that they got out of the whole deal.

[Hammer]

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With the Tigers' loss tonight, combined with Houston's win today, the Tigers have been mathematically eliminated from postseason contention this season.

[MaizeRage]

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So he'll be fired in August 2016 when they're 10 games out again?

The Royals and maybe the Twins aren't going anywhere and the Tigers keep moving backwards. They'll be 10 games out by June.

[Hammer]

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They might be 10 out by Memorial Day. All of a sudden this roster needs a serious overhaul this winter. You've got to revamp the entire bullpen, pick up 2 starting pitchers on the FA/trade market (and somehow avoid coming home with another Alfredo Simon), and a left fielder. And you've got about $50-60 mil to get this done.

[Twitch Boy]

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This is a preemptive post to cover all of 2016.

https://youtu.be/Q16KpquGsIc

[manurespreader]

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They might be 10 out by Memorial Day. All of a sudden this roster needs a serious overhaul this winter. You've got to revamp the entire bullpen, pick up 2 starting pitchers on the FA/trade market (and somehow avoid coming home with another Alfredo Simon), and a left fielder. And you've got about $50-60 mil to get this done.

Yes but... They do have some good pieces. My concerns would be: can victor be good again, or is he done; can Cabrera go the whole year healthy; will some of the young guys continue to improve. Gose, Nick, Romine, VerHagen, and a few others made big steps this year, will that continue?. If so, we should do ok.
Jeff Smardzija is available and might be a good signing, and affordable.
Hammer is right, we don't have the funds to just go buy what we need.
You have to ask yourself why it is we had so many hits but so few runs. It just seemed like we hit into a ton of double plays which really cost us and we failed to get guys home.
I wonder if we will continue with Avila and McCann.