Spencer Torkelson had gone 129 plate appearances since his last HR on May 18 in St. Petersburg.
His 2-run homer off Brady Singer got the Tigers on the board in the 5th.
Tracy Smith, who coached Spencer Torkelson at Arizona State, is officially the new head baseball coach at Michigan.
Not sure Riley Greene can keep this up but hell of a start
302/434/442
154 wRC+
18.9% BB rate
15.4 SO%
22.7% LD%
57% GB rate
20% FB%
he will SO more
walk less
GB 10% less
FB 15% more
SLG over .500
but he's been great..and he's close to really mashing the baseball.
Rony Garcia reported shoulder soreness in warmups today and won?t make his Monday start.
Garrett Hill will come up for his MLB debut in one of the doubleheader games. Alex Faedo will start the other as the 27th man.
The Tigers announced the following roster moves:
*Placed RHP Rony Garc?a on the 15-day IL, backdated to 6/30, with right shoulder soreness
*Selected RHP Garrett Hill from Triple A Toledo
*To make room for Hill on the 40-man roster, transferred RHP Matt Manning to the 60-day IL
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/07/tigers-select-garrett-hill.html
Tigers Select Garrett Hill.
MLBTR
That non-tender to Jeimer Candelario, which looks like it?s taking shape, is going to be some tumble ? for him and for the Tigers.
How out of touch do you have to be to declare the rebuild is 100% over and then look at the team, 17 games below .500 with the worst offense in the 120+ year history of the Detroit Tigers and say "I'm very pleased".
Can you say this team we root for is Fucked with Chris Ilitch owning the team and stumble fuck Al Avila the GM.
Do you know how important it is to grind out at bats and walk which is as good as a hit and increase the pitch count of opposing pitcher?
Rickey Henderson walked 796 times in his career *leading off the inning*. He walked more times just leading off an inning than Lou Brock, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Roberto Clemente, Kirby Puckett, Ryne Sandberg and 50 other Hall of Famers did in their entire careers! We need more players that can work a count and walk instead of swinging at a pitch 5 feet off the outside corner.