Posted by dahsdebater on 3/1/2016 7:45:00 PM (view original):
When you lead the majors in caught stealing while being below average in successful steals, it's not bad luck. It's bad managing. Hopefully Ausmus has learned his lesson.

Do pickoffs count towards CS? Cuz Kinsler had a lot of bonehead, base running mistakes

Yeah, 19 runners picked off. Without that, the Tigers had a 73 SB%. Ausmus can be blamed for a lot of things, but not for guys getting picked off that many times. So 2nd best offense, 3rd worst base running team

How many years did you ride the short bus?

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:05:00 PM (view original):
How many years did you ride the short bus?

All 13 but how is that relevant?

Posted by dahsdebater on 3/1/2016 4:13:00 PM (view original):
How do you figure that Chicago, Minnesota, and Cleveland "got better?" There weren't any impact signings by anybody in the division aside from Zimmermann in Detroit and Gordon in Kansas City, neither of which represents a substantial improvement. I see the AL Central as a division being a little bit weaker than the past 2 seasons as a group. Nobody got a lot better on paper.

Minnesota - Byung ho Park, Buxton, Sano, and Jose Berrios.

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 7:17:00 PM (view original):
I was gone for awhile so I gotta catch up. And yes, since I'm a Tigers fan I'm a little biased. But I wonder how many games were blown by our bullpen. If they can hold onto leads from the 6th or 7th inning like the Royals do, they're easily a 90 win team. Last year, they had the majors best offense, even with Miggy missing time, V-Mart missing time and playing injured, and Cespedes playing 60% of the season for Detroit. They'll hopefully get a full year from J-Upton, Miggy, and hopefully V-Mart will rebound and improve on the majors best offense. The bullpen won't blow the leads they did last year (hopefully) and I'm hoping Anibal Sanchez doesn't lead the majors in homers given up again. Verlander looks like he's the real deal again, and J-Zimmerman should keep up his production he did with Washington since he's at a better pitchers park.

Again. A lot of wishing and hoping. Just saying.

Posted by wylie715 on 3/1/2016 7:30:00 PM (view original):
Blue Jays - 891 runs
Tigers - 689 runs
Are you going to tell us how scoring 200 more ruins does not make the jays offense better?

Maybe d_rock has dyscalculia.

Anyways. Chicago is just bad. Sale, Quintana, and Rodon is a good and underrated pitching staff but can they count on Danks to give them innings and will Latos have a rebound year after how terrible last year was? Can the White Sox count on Melky, LaRoche, or Alex Avila to do anything? Frazier can hit homeruns but he doesnt get on base much and is an average fielding 3rd baseman. Don't think he'll do well AL Central ballparks. Lawrie just isn't good. Way below average fielding 2nd baseman, I think he'll be just below average after spring training, but he doesn't get on base a lot and doesn't hit many homers. Adam Eaton is a good lead off man and Jose Abreu is one of the better power hitters in the game right now but, I don't think they have the hitters to support them in Melky, Frazier, Lawrie, Avisail Garcia (who has been a disappointment, another Tigers prospect) Avila, and Rollins. Some bigger names than most teams have but definitely overrated. And that bullpen might be worse than last year's Tigers bullpen.

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:12:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:05:00 PM (view original):
How many years did you ride the short bus?

All 13 but how is that relevant?

So you dropped out before high school?

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:12:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:05:00 PM (view original):
How many years did you ride the short bus?

All 13 but how is that relevant?

So you dropped out before high school?

There's 13 years of public school

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:34:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:12:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:05:00 PM (view original):
How many years did you ride the short bus?

All 13 but how is that relevant?

So you dropped out before high school?

There's 13 years of public school

Maybe you have dyscal-whatever

You greatly underestimate the division. I guess we'll see. I'm guessing when your team is struggling with injuries and inconsistency, you'll come up with some tard fringe set of stats to prove it was a fluke.

Minnesota started off well last year, but they finished the season 53-60 making their record a but deceiving. They have a weak starting pitching staff and have yet to make any improvement on it this offseason. Phil Hughes, Ervin Santana, Kyle Gibson, Tommy Milone, Ricky Nolasco. I don't see any of them having a good year this year. A full year of Miguel Sano should help their offense and maybe Byung Ho Park will provide a spark but I don't believe in Japanese sluggers playing in the majors. I don't buy the Joe Mauer couldn't see right the last 2 years but now it's gone story and think he will continue to struggle and Byron Buxton is only 22 but he strikes out at higher percentage than Jon Singleton. And Brian Dozier is the same as Todd Frazier. Sure 25-30 homers at 2nd base is good, but how valuable is it when you strike out 150 times, bat .230 or .240 and only get on 3 out of 10 times. The Twins don't get on base much, and outside of Sano, and maybe Park (even though I believe he will struggle mightily) don't have the home run power to make up for the lack of runners getting on base. They have one of the worst rotations in baseball but they do have an okay bullpen

Posted by sjpoker on 3/1/2016 8:38:00 PM (view original):
You greatly underestimate the division. I guess we'll see. I'm guessing when your team is struggling with injuries and inconsistency, you'll come up with some tard fringe set of stats to prove it was a fluke.

Nah, just injuries, and injuries usually are a fluke.

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:34:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 3/1/2016 8:12:00 PM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 3/1/2016 8:05:00 PM (view original):
How many years did you ride the short bus?

All 13 but how is that relevant?

So you dropped out before high school?

There's 13 years of public school

Yeah but there's no way you graduated anything. You don't have a basic understand of math. Or even numbers.