Stark Tigers Reality

[Mrhockeytown]

did research concerning Tigers drafts,the last 10 years,528 draftees.out of all those drafted by Dave Dombrowski ,5 position players played at least 300 games-less than 2 full seasons.only 6 pitchers played in 100 mlb games. a shocking .021 pct. of Tigers draftees met this criteria.Tigers have finished last 3 times under Dombrowski.the Team has only finished last 10 times in 111 years of baseball.6 times under Mike Ilitch in 20 years.no one going to games maybe realizes how poorly put together the Tigers have been for the last 20 years.

[PokerAndPucks]

They had a lot of work to do to get to where they were respectable, but Dombrowski is just an average GM and Leyland is just an average manager. Dombrowski moves out vets before he knows the kids are good enough, gives up on prospects too quickly instead of letting them develop, and over values what he has on the roster based on one good year, or even half a year. Fat Jhonny is a career .267 hitter, and although is power numbers are down, expecting him to hit close to .300 again was stupid. Thinking that Raburn would magically hit well all year when he never has was even worse. Scherzer and Porcello weren't likely to all of a sudden figure out how to be consistent, Avila and Boesch are Young and you never know how a young guy will come back after having a decent year, and Young is what he's always been.

[jerrytimes]

Give me a break. The Tigers have been decent since 2006. Dombrowski has been here since 2002. He brought people in and in 4 years, made the world series.... a few years later, we made the playoffs again. Most GM's have a low % of draftees playing for them, since they draft something like 40 or more rounds? Of course you won't have a ton of drafted players that ever see the MLB team.

[PokerAndPucks]

Give me a break. The Tigers have been decent since 2006. Dombrowski has been here since 2002. He brought people in and in 4 years, made the world series.... a few years later, we made the playoffs again. Most GM's have a low % of draftees playing for them, since they draft something like 40 or more rounds? Of course you won't have a ton of drafted players that ever see the MLB team.

That doesn't make anything I said untrue.

[legendofgordi]

I haven't checked his draft stats, but if that's true, that's god awful.

[Ghostwing]

They had a lot of work to do to get to where they were respectable, but Dombrowski is just an average GM and Leyland is just an average manager. Dombrowski moves out vets before he knows the kids are good enough, gives up on prospects too quickly instead of letting them develop, and over values what he has on the roster based on one good year, or even half a year. Fat Jhonny is a career .267 hitter, and although is power numbers are down, expecting him to hit close to .300 again was stupid. Thinking that Raburn would magically hit well all year when he never has was even worse. Scherzer and Porcello weren't likely to all of a sudden figure out how to be consistent, Avila and Boesch are Young and you never know how a young guy will come back after having a decent year, and Young is what he's always been.

Porcello is still young enough to do that, Scherzer might need to be looked at (for trade)when Turner is ready.

[PokerAndPucks]

You can hope for it, counting on it is stupid.