Detroit Tigers, Volume 10: The Tommy Bridges edition

[Hammer]

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Mario and Rod are gone for good.

Thought Mario would be back, but since Shepard wears multiple hats at FSD it's probably cheaper to keep him as pbp.

I think that's probably what we're going to see, along with Craig Monroe in the booth as well.

[Hammer]

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Bill Freehan's in really bad shape:

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/c...rs/1739616002/

Jesus...

[Hammer]

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James McCann and Alex Wilson non-tendered.

Incidentally, Mike Fiers was non-tendered as well.

[JF_Gophers]

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I hope you guys got in on this.

Tigers '84 ticket package to include Trammell-Whitaker Bobblehead

http://flip.it/SF-rtg

[Hammer]

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I get to go to Opening Day!

[JF_Gophers]

I get to go to Opening Day!

Congrats! Bring a parka!

[Hammer]

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Congrats! Bring a parka!

Maybe. Or it might be 83 at game time. It's a complete crapshoot. Knowing my luck, it's probably going to be 45 and raining sideways.

[Spartanforlife4]

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I get to go to Opening Day!

Toronto or the home opener?

No chance of an Opening Day rain out this year unless the roof breaks again.

[Hammer]

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Home opener. I don't want to burn that much PTO in April.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Speaking of Opening Days, Spring Training games started yetserday. For whatever reason, the annual game with Florida Southern was replaced with Southeastern, an NAIA school also in Florida. Looks like it was a close game, 3-2, until the bottom of the 8th when Detroit put up 10.

Across the league there don't appear to be as many college vs MLB games this season.

[Hammer]

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Josh Harrison is going to be our everyday 2B, it looks like.

The defense is fairly well set to start the season. Candelario, Mercer, Harrison and Miggy in the infield. Stewart, Jones and Castellanos in the outfield, and Greiner behind the plate. Not a bunch of upside from what I see, and not much depth yet behind them. A few placeholders in there. I think we'll start to see the kids next year (Castro, Lugo, Cameron, etc).

[Hammer]

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Apparently we served up a moonshot to the opposition this afternoon. The reaction from our manager:

Ron Gardenhire on Cozens HR: “Our people in our offices were ducking. And they didn’t have to, because the ball went over them.”

[bronconick]

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Fulmer's 2019 season has been Tommy John'd.

[Hammer]

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This is exactly why I don't think we're going to see much improvement, if any, in the standings this year. Nothing has really been upgraded, and this rotation was already paper-thin before today. We're not going to see much of an influx of personnel until next year.

[Hammer]

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Gordon Beckham has made the roster over Ronny Rodriguez. Fine. I'm not going to get sweaty over the 25th man on the roster for a team that is probably looking at 95 or so losses.

Jacoby Jones and Drew VerHagen both likely headed to the DL. Not as big a deal on VerHagen. I'm not going to concern myself too much on the 4th or 5th best reliever in the pen. Jacoby Jones, on the other hand, is a bigger concern. He dinged his shoulder the other day. We're already thin enough in the outfield, and Jones was a question mark in the first place. They've already said that Daz Cameron is going to Toledo to start the season, rightfully so. But who is going to play CF now. That's kinda important in this ballpark. The Mikie Mahook Show doesn't exactly dazzle me.