Just now, Richie said:

This was almost poetic, seeing as he should have been picked off right after this post.

Damn right...even a clean pickoff can not stop little Chuck....

I thought they might have a chance off of Thompson's bat. 

Credit to Adam and Trayce for great execution. 

 

Good, back to back ABs with good contact for Moncada 

I'd give Gio another inning. Pitch count looks good and the crummy bottom of the order for the Tigers is coming up.

This has to give with Moncada soon. The majority of his AB's recently, he's put good swings on the ball consistently. That wasn't a rocket, obviously. Still a line drive right at an outfielder. 

They're gonna drop for a 2-3 hit day any time now. They have to.

Edited June 16, 20187 yr by Richie

Curve ball has been better for Lucas in the past couple of starts.

I hope all of those who want Giolito sent down understand that you're punting on him at that point. You're saying that he's not going to figure it out here or ever.  He's going to get caught in a numbers game next year in the spring, while being out of options. They can afford to give him every opportunity to figure it out in the Bigs. Why lose that flexibility? 

Isn't Davidson hitting the best he has all season right now?

Gio is a gioke. Stop the torture. 

Yolmer heads up player

35 minutes ago, SonofaRoache said:

Although I agree with you, just because we are rebuilding doesn't mean our prospects should look this awful. It's tough to deal with losing, even if you know bad times are coming. I'm not expecting them to be great right now but I want to see significant progress towards the end of the year. 

Ohhh I agree. But the constant nagging and moaning is getting stupid and ridiculous

Verhagen stinks. We can get to him with 2-3-4

As I said!

Yolmer!

Just now, JoshPR said:

Ohhh I agree. But the constant nagging and moaning is getting stupid and ridiculous

So you don't like nagging and moaning, so you nag and moan about people nagging and moaning. Ignoring those posts you don't like was never an option?

The Castellanos experience yet again.

Just now, Richie said:

Verhagen stinks. We can get to him with 2-3-4

 

His era is like 9+....he's a turd

31 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:

As bad as the results have been, Gio has had some flashes of positivity in this start IMO. It's nice to see he's gotten the Tigers to swing through and miss a few bats. Still a massive work in progress though.

Yes. only 2 BB and 6 K in 5.1 IP is progress. He's starting to miss bats, which is good, his stuff seems to be returning both with velocity and crispness on the curveball. I'm pretty sure his problems are physical(meaning mechanics) and you have to give him time to fix it. It is going  to take time. It is going to be really bad at times during the process, but if he figures it out and be comes a top 3 pitcher in a rotation it will all be worth it. Sending him to AAA accomplishes nothing in his development. It can only hurt, and does nothing to help. He made 2 mistakes today to the same guy and it cost him 5 runs. That could happen to anyone. 

Edited June 16, 20187 yr by Jack Parkman

Just now, kwolf68 said:

So you don't like nagging and moaning, so you nag and moan about people nagging and moaning. Ignoring those posts you don't like was never an option?

No when you get 5 pages in the game thread and 4 are complaining it gets old. Once thing is making comments about thing but the same rant on every pitch or mistake... Well

Lol

Kevan Smith continues this ridiculous BABIP run

Aaaaaahhhh...

Damn

Castellanos is an adventure in right

Just now, JoshPR said:

Castellanos is an adventure in right

Palka-esque.

1 minute ago, DirtySox said:

Palka-esque.

+1 yup