2021 MLB Regular Season thread

I get those alerts from Google all the time. They don’t have the extra innings alerts optimized yet.

 

Which Gibson are you talking about?

 

Tank for Tork looks like it’s working pretty well
26 homers and a .920 OPS over three levels

 

45 homers? He's never hit more than 27: Salvador Perez Stats | Baseball-Reference.com

 

Good for him. A few more years of this and he’ll pretty much be a Hall lock. Well, maybe. I am stoned, so everyone seems nice.

 

It's definitely a mixed bag. Avila got almost nothing for all those major trades -- definitely Candelario and the jury's still out on Rogers, Cameron and Paredes -- but Faedo may be the only first-round bust over the past five drafts. And his international signings have been nothing to write home about.

Mize (24) and Manning (23) are on-the-job learning at Comerica. 2019's Riley Greene (21 in 10 days) is perhaps the best outfield prospect since Granderson, and maybe the ceiling's even higher. 2020's Torkelson (22) is maybe a right-handed Norm Cash, although his batting average suggests more of a Rob Deer comparison. I'm much more impressed with the past month in Toledo, where he's been working on hitting the opposite way and working the count. That suggests he may be able to keep his Ks under control.

Skubal (24) was a great lower-round pick. Baddoo (22) was the steal of the Rule 5 draft. Sixteen players on the 40-man roster are 25 or under, not including Greene, Torkelson, Kreidler and Clemens. If you stretch that out to age 28, that's 32 of the 45 currently listed.

A franchise player shortstop is almost a must, because the Tigers have a ton of guys who all amount to nothing there. Dingler could very well be Lance Parrish-like, but he's a good year of experience behind the rest.

Hinch and pitching coach Chris Fetter have worked miracles. I don't expect a linear improvement but the future is there.

 

He's already what Cardinals truthers think Yadier Molina is.

 

Nothing happening in St. L…. Only a 40 yr old with 16-7 (I still love W’s), 3rd innings pitched and 2.88 ERA. Great to see.

 

And still quotable as hell. After beating the Mets (AGAIN) this week, he said he struck out Jeff McNeil looking leave the bases loaded at the end of the first b/c he likes nostalgia and knows what Mets fans want to see. That is some funny, funny shit.

 

Faedo had TJ
I can’t call guys like him or Franklin Perez busts
More like bad luck
Faedo is a year behind Joey Wentz, who also had TJ and started pitching again this summer

 

Surprised no one has mentioned Manny Machado lighting up Tatis, telling him “It’s not fucking about you!”