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Sanchez has proven to be pretty much useless the third time through the order. Every time they try to push him further, he gets further obliterated. He looks bereft of ideas when a team sees him the third time. It doesn't matter if he's thrown 70 pitches or 100 of them. A starter who can only give you 4 or 5 decent innings on a regular basis is pretty much useless, and I'd rather see 6 or 7 innings of four run ball than four innings of decent pitching and then a total implosion.
So no, Sanchez shouldn't be starting, particular if Shane Greene or Daniel Norris are giving you something to think about it. But as long as the Tigers insist on Sanchez being in the rotation, their coaching staff should stop setting him up to fail.
Wednesday's game against Philadelphia serves as a prime example. The right hander gave up a three-run home run to Odubel Herrera, the first batter who saw him for a third time, turning a tight 2-1 game into a 5-1 contest in the blink of an eye. Acting manager Gene Lamont managed to drag him through the sixth for some reason, but when Sanchez was inexplicably sent out for the 7th, he immediately gave up a home run to light-hitting Peter Bourjos right after the Tigers had fought back to get within a run.
Here are Sanchez's numbers each time through the order, not including Wednesday's outing, via Baseball Reference:
Too many walks the first two times, but passable. It's MLB quality and you can work with it. In fact, his numbers the first time through the order are better than league average. His numbers the second time are below league average, but still passable.
The third time, though? Compare Sanchez's numbers to the league average .263/.328/.433 triple slash. It's in a different universe. It's unacceptably awful. It means Sanchez is lucky to get to the 6th inning, and it's almost unprecedented to get him through it. That means more stress on the bullpen.
If the Tigers are going to insist on keeping Sanchez in the rotation, they have to give him a different set of rules. He can't get many outs the third time through. Lamont leaving him in to start the sixth on Wednesday was pushing it. Leaving him in to start the seventh was madness. Lamont – and Brad Ausmus – need to be proactive with Sanchez (and all of their pitchers, really) instead of being reactive and yanking them only after they've started to fall apart. Sanchez's shortcomings are there for all the world to see, and the Tigers' brass seems either too blind to notice or not bothered enough to do anything about it. Letting Sanchez soldier through the order a third time through is like giving a transparent kleptomaniac a key to your house – you know exactly what's going to happen, and you enable it.
The only real solution is, frankly, to put Sanchez in the bullpen. He has the repertoire to succeed there, and he can be protected from seeing hitters more than once. Shane Greene's impending return will give the Tigers an excuse to do so. We'll see if they're cutthroat enough or if they'll continue to use experience and track record as a crutch to defend players who are constantly hindering the ballclub.]]>
"The Tigers need to sweep out all the underperforming players and get completely new ones!"
This is ridiculous for many reasons. No one is going to generously decide to help the Tigers offload Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera, or Victor Martinez, for example. The only ones who could possibly bring back any value right now are Ian Kinsler and J.D. Martinez. Miggy, JV, and Victor have hefty contracts and are also on the wrong side of 30. Kinsler is in his 30s, but doesn't have the recent injury history of those three and is coming off a Gold Glove-caliber season at second base.
"The Tigers need to sweep out the entire coaching staff right now!"
Firings are actually a strong possibility. Still don't think it's all Brad Ausmus' fault, but he'll likely be the fall guy. However, the team is probably not going to go scorched earth on the whole coaching staff in mid-May. Only one or two guys, at the most, will get the axe… if anyone does. Say all you want about how Ausmus has "lost the team" and the players "don't respect him." The players are still supporting him and don't think he should be blamed for their struggles.
"The Tigers should trade Michael Fulmer for Denard Span!"
No, that's not gonna happen.
"Well, then the Tigers should trade Daniel No—"
Shut the entire hell up.
Screw off.
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That's what it felt like. The offense is going to be good. It all seemed safe. Justin Verlander looked like his old self. And in a four inning span, a 5-0 lead turned into a 7-7 tie, complete with another spectacular Tigers closer implosion and a few baserunning blunders. It was like an odyssey of everything the 2015 team was terrible at compressed into one game, except tied together with a win instead of a loss.
So what went right? For five and a third innings, Verlander didn't allow a hit. Then he seemed to run out of gas a bit. He left a few pitches up, he hung a breaking ball to Giancarlo Stanton with two strikes that predictably turned into a home run – giving up a home run to Stanton is hardly an unforgivable offense, of course.
The offense, too, looked as advertised. They had a 1-0 lead three batters in and were up 4-0 in the second after Ian Kinsler took full advantage of Verlander's rocket of a single* by following it up with a three run home run. Wei-Yin Chen, at least, did not have the means to slow down this offense.
Until the 9th, though, Detroit struggled to do much against the Marlin bullpen. Detroit's didn't look bad, but it didn't look airtight. Justin Wilson gave up a hit to leadoff man Justin Bour, but escaped unscatched. Mark Lowe allowed a leadoff triple to Dee Gordon, but aside from allowing a run on a sacrifice fly, there was no further damage. When Anthony Gose (!) and Victor Martinez (!!) homered in the top of the ninth, it seemed that Francisco Rodriguez's first Tigers save would be little more than a formality as he entered with a three run lead.
It wasn't. Oh, to be fair, he gave up some bad luck bloopers to start the inning – Martin Prado's single and J.T. Realmuto's double were both of the fluky variety, and put runners at second and third with one out, but Rodriguez had no excuses from there. Only a fantastic defensive play by Justin Upton saved K-Rod from giving up a two-run double afterward, and there was nothing illegitimate about the doubles he gave up to Derek Dietrich and Gordon that ultimately tied the game. K-Rod probably won't be Joe Nathan 2.0, but geez, he could not have gotten off to a more inauspicious start.
It was then that Drew VerHagen and Ian Kinsler combined to save the Tigers. VerHagen gave up a leadoff single, but got Stanton to strike out on his way to a scoreless inning. Kinsler came through in the eleventh with his second big hit, a single that scored Gose to give the Tigers a lead that they wouldn't relinquish, and Shane Greene of all people pitched a perfect ninth for his first career save.
One thing needs to be noted, though. Brad Ausmus and his staff spent much of the spring talking up the fact that they were focusing on improved baserunning. The Tigers responded by running themselves out of the 10th and 11th innings, with Jose Iglesias and Kinsler both making pretty glaring, preventable errors. The players are ultimately at fault for lack of execution, but it's not a great look for the coaching staff that made no secret of the fact that this was a huge focus.
Mike Aviles, IF
Age: 35
2015 statistics: .231/.282/.317, 5 HR, 17 RBI
Since Mike Aviles is new to the Tigers this year, I'm going to start with a little bit of background information. Aviles first came to the big leagues with the Kansas City Royals in 2008 as their primary shortstop and put up a solid campaign, hitting .325/.354/.480 and finishing fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting. Tommy John surgery cost him most of the 2009 season, but he put up another decent year in 2010 and was dealt to the Boston Red Sox at the trade deadline in 2011. He's spent the last four years first with Boston and then with Cleveland, having transitioned himself into a superutility player, but his offense has fallen off dramatically. He batted .231/.282/.317 in 98 games with the Indians last year. On a personal (and positive) note, it was recently announced that Aviles's 5-year-old daughter Adriana, who had been battling leukemia last year, was declared cancer-free.
Back in December, when the Tigers signed Aviles to a 1-year, $2 million deal, it was a bit puzzling. Aviles is a super-utility guy who can play the entire infield and the corner outfield spots (and, according to Brad Ausmus, centerfield in an emergency). However, he's below average defensively at every position and the Tigers already had Andrew Romine and Dixon Machado as backup infielders. I suppose he may have been aiming for a left field platoon with Tyler Collins, but even that was a longshot. Then the Tigers signed Justin Upton to play left field, which has pushed Collins to the backup role and has made Aviles's presence on the team kind of redundant, regardless of what management says. The problem that the right-handed Aviles has is that all of the positions that he can play already feature starters who are also right-handed, which means that none of these starters will sit against lefties to make room for Aviles, especially when Romine is a switch-hitter.
Ultimately, the injury to Cameron Maybin may give Aviles some more playing opportunities at the beginning of the season than he might have had otherwise, but once Maybin returns, I'm just not sure where he's going to get his at-bats from, barring another injury. Unless he starts the season on a hot streak (and we shouldn't count out the psychological boost he may get from his daughter's improving health), it would not surprise me if he were traded at some point in the season for some depth in another area.
2016 Prediction: .240 AVG, 4 HRs, 21 RBIs - Erin Saelzler
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Age: 32
2015 statistics: .338/.440/.534, 18 HR, 76 RBI
It's a testament to Miguel Cabrera's status as one of the elites that a year in which he hit .330, won a batting title, and led the league in OBP is considered one of his "down" years. Granted, 2015 was also the first year he had to hit the DL in his major league career, and this has somehow caused him to be labeled as "injury prone." I'm not buying that narrative just yet. His 2014 injury issues were directly related to the injury he suffered in 2013, and his only injury in 2015 was a calf strain (and I'm still convinced that he had to have gotten his spikes stuck in the dirt or lunged or something, because someone in peak physical condition would not suffer a calf strain simply by running). This year is the first time since 2013 that Cabrera has been able to have a normal offseason without any injury rehab, and as seemingly everyone else has been bothered by minor injuries during the spring, he's remained healthy. While it remains to be seen whether his power will return after two years of not having his legs under him, I am confident that Miguel Cabrera still has a few more elite seasons left in him.
Prediction: .329 AVG, 34 HR, 117 RBI - Erin Saelzler
Nick Castellanos, 3B
Age: 24
2015 statistics: .255/.303/.419, 15 HR, 73 RBI
Well, Nick, this is it. Year three, it's time to show some progress.
This isn't entirely fair. Castellanos is still extremely young – he's only just turned 24 in March, which makes him younger than Mike Trout and Kris Bryant and only a few months older than the likes of Jose Fernandez, Noah Syndergaard, Manny Machado, and Xander Bogaerts. He was born in the same year as guys like Domingo Santana and Gary Sanchez, who are still considered prospects. Keep that in mind as you assess him.
That said, Castellanos is entering his third major league season, and we're going to need to see some progress from him. He's spent two seasons as a barely-below league average third baseman offensively. While his power was up slightly in 2015, his average and OBP stayed stagnant.
You can see the offensive tools with him, though, and there's reason for optimism. Nick got off to a dreadful start in 2015, his average dropping to .217 in mid-June, at which point a number of people – myself included – were advocating that the young third baseman get a stint in Toledo to regain his confidence. The Tigers were patient, though, and from July 1 to the end of the season, Castellanos put together a very respectable .275/.323/.481 triple slash, which would be more than good enough for a starting third baseman over a full season. He's not a guy who's going to walk much, but he has a sweet swing when he's not trying to do too much. I firmly believe that he very much has room to grow, and I share this link with you to give further evidence for that.
Defensively… well, maybe Castellanos can be average. He's simply not going to be a great defensive third baseman, which is why his bat is so important. If Castellanos does not hit at a decent clip, the Tigers will look elsewhere. It's a big season for him in more ways than one. He'll be headed for arbitration for the first time after the season, and one could argue that the Tigers will need to see tangible progress from him this season if they're going to keep him penciled in as their long-term solution at the hot corner. I think he's capable of doing it.
Prediction: .268/.314/.457, 18 HR, 78 RBI - Grey Papke
Jose Iglesias, SS
Age: 26
2015 statistics: .300/.347/.370, 2 HR, 23 RBI
By the numbers, Jose Iglesias had an outstanding 2015. He hit .300, he made the All-Star team, and he remains an outstanding defensive shortstop. So why doesn't it feel like he did?
Well, his dugout scuffle with James McCann – as well as the ensuing questions about his effort and whether or not he was a good teammate – put a damper on it. And Iglesias seemingly confirmed on his own that some of these questions were warranted.
The .300 average was nice, but Iglesias is what he is because he's a very good defender. He could, frankly, hit 50 points lower than that and he'd still be an everyday player for that reason alone. By all indications, 2015 was something of a troubled season for him despite the obvious successes. I don't personally think Iglesias is going to hit .300 again, but he doesn't need to. A few timely singles and better defensive plays, and the Tigers will have a very good everyday shortstop. With all the potential power hitters in their lineup, that's really all they need.
Prediction: .267/.310/.368, 2 HR, 25 RBI - Grey Papke
Ian Kinsler, 2B
Age: 33
2015 statistics: .296/.342/.428, 11 HR, 73 RBI
Ian Kinsler seems ageless at this point. He continues to post productive season after productive season. He's not the same player he was in his prime, but that's to be expected, although he did post his best OPS since his age 29 2011 season last season. He won't steal 20 bags anymore. He probably won't hit 20 homers anymore. 40 doubles might be asking too much. But he's capable of double digit steals and homers, and a 30 double season should be attainable. Kinsler remains a very capable four win player into his mid-30s. Hopefully he can stave off the aging curve for one more season.
Prediction: .275/.315/.410, 12 HR, 78 RBI - Grey Papke
Victor Martinez, DH
Age: 37
2015 statistics: .245/.301/.366, 11 HR, 64 RBI
Victor Martinez followed up the best season of his career in 2014 with the worst in 2015, and his resurgence will be vital to the Tigers' hopes of returning to contention. It's unfair to expect him to hit .330 again. Frankly, it's difficult to know what to expect from him. The good news is he got a full offseason program in with no further injuries to his already mangled knees. The bad news is he has already faced one DL scare during spring training with a hamstring issue.
What was it last year? Was it the knee? There was a time that it looked like the worst was behind him – he hit .370 with four home runs over a two week stint in mid-July, and it looked like he was finally healthy again, but he trailed off and hit just .220 from July 20 until the rest of the season.
I don't think Martinez has lost his talent completely, and I think the knee never being healthy was a significant factor. I also don't think he's going to hit .300 again. He's 37, and steep declines like that are rather alarming. If he stays healthy, I think he has a productive season, but that's a significant if considering his age and injury history.
Prediction: .290/.340/.420, 14 HR, 88 RBI - Grey Papke
Andrew Romine, IF
Age: 30
2015 statistics: .255/.307/.315, 2 HR, 15 RBI
Romine is what he is: he can play most positions competently. Every roster needs a guy like that. I'm mildly surprised he's still here, given that he and Aviles seem to fulfill the same role on paper, but the Tigers seem to think highly enough of Romine and have different enough plans for the two of them that they're being allowed to coexist. Brad Ausmus has even toyed with the idea of throwing him in center. I'm not sure that's a good idea, but Romine's role seems like it will remain largely the same: he'll spell guys on days off, come in for defense late in games, and perhaps be a useful piece against left handed pitching. If he needs to play a bigger role than that, the Tigers have some issues.
Prediction: (really?) .250/.300/.315, 2 HR, 12 RBI - Grey Papke]]>
I'm definitely sensing more optimism in 2016 with regards to the Detroit Tigers than I did this time last year. Maybe it's because Jordan Zimmermann is a significantly superior pitching headliner than Alfredo Simon was as far as offseason acquisitions go. Maybe it's because I, and most people, feel that Justin Upton is a better player than Yoenis Cespedes was. Maybe it's because there were real, tangible, significant attempts to make the blowpen less of a blowpen.
Anyway, while the rest of baseball is getting underway already, the Tigers still have to wait a little less than 24 hours as of this writing because of a quirk in the scheduling. (Miami? Really?) So we're taking the opportunity to preview this year's crop of Tigers players. Look for a series of them before Tuesday's game starts, and we'll begin with the catchers. Without further ado…
James McCann
Age: 25
2015 statistics: .264/.297/.387, 7 HR, 41 RBI
Dumping our collective, complex perspectives into one of two buckets is, frankly, lazy. (Don't tell that to CNN or Fox News – I kid, and that's the last political joke, I promise.) Evaluating James McCann makes this apparent and I will do my best in the following words to avoid attempts at persuading you to label him as either "A Budding Leader with Grit & Hit Tools" or "An Overhyped Batsman with Framing Deficiencies".
It appears nearly certain that ("for a catcher") James can hit and James can slug. It also appears that James could still learn to take a few more walks. This, as with nearly everything I'll say, is a skill he obviously has time to develop. Baseball Reference projects him at a .267 Batting Average, .307 On Base Percentage and .404 Slugging for 2016, with 9HR and 42 RBI, for those who highly value these stats. I've no choice but to provide perspective and you can do with it as you please:
A certain polarizing catcher, in his last "healthy" season, put up an OBP of .327 and hit 11 dingers while also driving in 47 runs. But the past is the past, even if you're a Wolverine fan (sorry to break it to you).
I like James McCann. I want that to be clear. Call it biased or silly or whatever you want. I'll leave it at that. I like the kid and I think he is going to be a solid catcher for our Tigers for years to come. But let's not pretend that "solid" isn't a word of varying definitions. While watching the Tigers (or any sports team we love), beauty is often in the eyes of the beerholder. Whether I'm dry or 2015 Tigers Bullpen wet, I do like these things about Mr. McCannon…
Dude can throw, as one might surmise from the nickname
He believes in himself and he's not afraid to demand that same confidence from his teammates, along with a high level of sustained effort; for better or worse, depending upon your view (personally, I do still believe in the importance of this quality)
His power is developing and its potential is exciting
He's fast – we can argue about how important this is until we're blue in the face – is it more important to get on base or to be able to score once on base? Let the joust begin. I just like that he's fast (and I believe he will develop more patience, for lack of a better word, at the plate)
He's seemingly a workaholic – which I hope (and this is where my fandom influences, admittedly) leads to improved framing skills and walk rate.
He's young. This kind of ties into the above.
Ask 100 Tigers fans their feelings about McCann and (just a guess) 65 of them will probably respond positively; there's nothing wrong with that, in my mind. Fans, GMs and coaches will vary on what they value in a catcher – what is the relative importance of slugging ability vs. pitch sequencing, for example? How high is vocal leadership rated against a discerning eye at the plate? These are among the many questions for which there are no easy answers, but by all means we should continue enjoying the debate. I'd suggest that we (Tigers fans) are lucky to have a player who, at least, carries the skills to stoke the debate.
No matter where you stand on McCann (ooh), one thing is certain. He is The starting Catcher for your 2016 Detroit Tigers. Just to stir the pot as I leave you, there IS another catcher on the roster who projects to have a higher OBP and Slugging rate than James this year. But I'll leave the positing of his respective merits to another of the Walkoff Woodward team. Until then, my projection for James (you'll notice it's a little more optimistic than that of Baseball Reference; I'm foolishly basing this on his spring performance thus far, plus my faith in the payoff of his work ethic):
2016 Projection: HR (15) RBI (53) SB (6) BB (25) BA (.274) OBP (.314) SLG (.411)
Go Tigers!
- Ryan Callery
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Age: 30
2015 statistics: .225/.310/.435, 9 HR, 24 RBI
We're a little over two years on from Jarrod Saltalamacchia being a fairly in-demand free agent catcher who ultimately landed a 3 year, $21 million deal from the Miami Marlins. To say he bombed there would be an understatement. His two seasons with Miami yielded a .209 batting average and a .351 slugging percentage, a huge crater for a guy who had been a league-average hitter with the Boston Red Sox.
The good news? Salty was unceremoniously dumped by the Marlins last April, barely a year into his deal. He landed with the Diamondbacks, where he looked at least a bit closer to his former self, bumping his average to .251 and slugging .474 in 194 plate appearances. The better news? The Tigers are paying him the league minimum as Miami is still sending him checks as part of that previous free agent deal.
So with Saltalamacchia, the Tigers have a low-risk, potentially high reward backup catcher. He's not that old (he turns 31 in May) and he's not that far removed from productivity (he was a regular on the 2013 Red Sox, and even had a walkoff hit during that year's ALCS. Sorry for the reminder). He's a switch hitter who's better against right-handed pitching, which complements McCann nicely – not that McCann won't still see the majority of playing time against righties, but Salty is a superior hitter against righties than he is.
So if the Tigers' catching situation is screaming out for a platoon, why isn't Salty the answer against righties? Well, he's not good defensively. That's a simple fact, and it's where much of the importance lies in having a good catcher. He has a history of being a decent framer and he's not a butcher, but he's average on a good day.
There's upside here, though. If McCann underwhelms for any reason, Salty is capable of stepping in, especially if he hits. He should never be allowed to see a lefty, mind you, but he's a nice depth addition who could be a real asset if things go well.
2016 prediction: .243/.313/.407, 7 HR]]>
A crapload of pics under the cut!
Unexpected fan favorite Alex Wilson warming up before the Mudhens' opening day
Outfielder Tyler Collins and teammate Trayvon Robinson
The always-smiling Melvin Mercedes
Infielder Jefry Marte and backup catcher Miguel Gonzalez
Shortstop prospect Dixon Machado with Marte
The Mudhens aren't afraid to get dirty.
Case in point: Dixon Machado
Machado scores
Shane Greene makes his final start of the season prior to being shut down for the season due to a pseudoaneurysm in an artery in his shoulder
Bryan Holaday gets helped off the field after a violent home plate collision
A tip of the cap from Angel Nesbitt
Steven Moya vacates the playing field
Mudhens fans said farewell to a few familiar faces this season…
Outfielder Daniel Fields
Reliever Ian Krol
Jordan Lennerton, Canadian
Pitching coach Mike Maroth
Longtime manager Larry Parrish
And Minor League homerun king, Mike Hessman
Here's hoping 2016 treats the Mudhens and Tigers kindly.]]>
First, we need to figure out the payroll. The 2015 team opened the season with a payroll in the neighborhood of $172 million. Believe it or not, they only have five players committed to the books next year that aren't arbitration eligible or making the league minimum: Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez, Ian Kinsler, and Victor Martinez. They are also contributing $6 million toward Prince Fielder's salary in Texas. That's $110.8 million committed already.
The Tigers have five players eligible for arbitration, and for the purposes of ease, we're going to use the figures projected by MLB Trade Rumors' arb model. J.D. Martinez and Jose Iglesias are sure bets to be tendered a contract, for a combined estimated salary of $9.3 million. The organization seems to like Andrew Romine enough to pay the $700k it would cost to keep him, bringing things to an even $10 million. That leaves us with Al Alburquerque and Neftali Feliz. The Tigers may look to bring back Feliz, but not at the $5.2 million it would allegedly require to keep him, so he's likely to be non-tendered. I'm torn on Alburquerque at $2.1 million. It's not that much, and he's still got The Slider, but he was not good this year and hasn't really been trustworthy for a while. Given the Tigers' bullpen shorthandedness and the fact that, in the grand scheme of things, $2.1 million isn't that much, I expect he'll be tendered and they'll give him another shot at not being useless. So that takes our arbitration spending to $12.1 million, and our total payroll obligations to $122.9 million.
That leaves $50 million for us to spend this winter, assuming we're staying in the neighborhood of $172.8 million that the Tigers opened 2015 with. (They could conceivably go up to $189 million without breaching the luxury tax threshold, and said threshold is presumably going to rise again after 2016, but when you factor in how it's calculated what with AAV and the estimated $10 million or so in player benefits that counts toward it, they're probably uncomfortable close as it is, so it's not going to go much higher.) Let's play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
CATCHER – James McCann
McCann is pretty solidly penciled in as the starter, but the Tigers will need a backup, as Alex Avila is a goner. I still maintain the opinion that the Tigers should really consider a platoon again, as McCann's .247/.277/.332 triple slash against right-handed pitching is downright brutal, but I don't think they'll actually do it, and if they did, it would have to be done via trade because the only lefty hitting catchers on the free agent market are, uh, A.J. Pierzynski and Alex Avila, so no thanks. Jarrod Saltalamacchia is a free agent and once upon a time creamed righties, but I just don't see it happening. Heck, this job may end up going to Bryan Holaday. The pursestrings are tight enough that they can't afford to pay decent money for a catcher.
FIRST BASE – Miguel Cabrera
Right, we're set here. Next…
SECOND BASE – Ian Kinsler
If the Tigers still had Devon Travis lying around, Kinsler and his $14 million salary would make for a really attractive trade candidate. But alas, they don't, so Kinsler probably stays at second for the Tigers for another season.
THIRD BASE – Nick Castellanos
Like it or not, Castellanos will be the third baseman on Opening Day. From July 1 until the end of the season, he posted a .275/.323/.481 triple slash, which is perfectly respectable. The numbers indicate his defense has also improved to bearable levels. If you're looking for reason for optimism about Castellanos, read this, and know that his cost-controlled status is going to keep him at the hot corner for at least another season.
SHORTSTOP – Jose Iglesias
This is where things get a bit interesting. I don't think the Tigers should trade Iglesias and I find most of the criticisms of him grating, but if they do decide to move somebody to acquire talent somewhere else, it may well be Iggy. He's still cheap, he's coming off a good season, and the Tigers have Dixon Machado. If something comes along that they just can't reject, by all means, though I don't think they should be aggressively shopping him around. If Iglesias is moved, I don't expect the team to pursue a replacement – I would take it as a sign that the Tigers have faith in Machado to handle the job.
This is where things get fun, as this is the first position the Tigers have explicitly stated they'll be looking to address. Logically, the Tigers will look for a right-handed platoon partner for Tyler Collins here, though it's not impossible they could still splurge on a full-timer. Yoenis Cespedes and the Tigers still have warm mutual feelings, but the odds are somebody's going to give him 6 years and a lot of money and I'd prefer it not be Detroit – Cespedes is a good player, but not a superstar, and that stint with the Mets will definitely blow up his value a bit. If the Tigers are going to spend that kind of money, it should be on Alex Gordon, who is basically the dream here. Gordon, however, will probably cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 years and $100 million, and much as I'd love to have Gordon, with all their other holes, it's a bit of a stretch to imagine the Tigers dropping $20 million AAV on a left fielder. If the Tigers do go the cheaper route, a reunion with Rajai Davis is possible, and they could also look into someone like Jonny Gomes or – and I am completely serious – Ryan Raburn, who would be a perfect fit for what the Tigers actually need.
CENTER FIELD – Anthony Gose
It seems as though Gose did enough to cement the center field job as his in 2015 – by OPS+, last season was his best offensively in the majors, and he played solid defense. He can't hit lefties at all, so a platoon would be nice, but you can only have so many platoons on your roster.
RIGHT FIELD – J.D. Martinez
Right field belongs to J.D. now, as he cemented the fact that his power is really truly real with improved defense that graded out quite highly. He remains the waiver steal of waiver steals.
STARTING PITCHERS – Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez, Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd, Buck Farmer, Who Knows
The Tigers have openly stated that they're looking for two starting pitchers. That makes perfect sense. Verlander and Sanchez will be there, and I figure Norris gets a spot as well. Sanchez might make for an interesting trade candidate, but coming off a bad year, $30 million remaining on his contract, and a potential strong point in a position of weakness makes me believe that's far less likely than it could have been.
The better news for the Tigers is that if there was ever an offseason to need starting pitching, this is definitely the right one. The market is awash with quality starters. David Price is likely out of the question, but if the Tigers are feeling ambitious, Zack Greinke or Jordan Zimmermann are feasible, and both would be great. I'm skeptical the Tigers will go that big, though. Johnny Cueto is an interesting proposition who may have cost himself some cash with his up-and-down postseason in Kansas City – MLBTR has his projection down to five years and $115 million, which would be worth considering. Jeff Samardzija and Wei-Yin Chen should get long looks as well, and there's a whole other group below that that includes the likes of John Lackey, Ian Kennedy, Yovani Gallardo, and Hisashi Iwakuma, not to mention value plays like Mat Latos. The Tigers should easily be able to find their two starters. The questions are who will they be and how will the Tigers allocate money between them? They don't need an ace – they need depth in the rotation.
BULLPEN – uh, help
So how do you fix the unsolvable problem? First, throw all the money at Darren O'Day. (I'm not really kidding that much.) Tyler Clippard also deserves a look, though he was a bit worse than usual this season. A reunion with Joakim Soria can't be ruled out either. Relievers are so fickle, though, that there's no guarantee you're going to get anything good in this market. Cheap, low-risk, high-reward signings are a necessity, and the team may have to turn to the likes of Michael Fulmer and Buck Farmer out of the 'pen this season. Shane Greene may get a look as well. Time to get creative, because there's no fixing this in one offseason solely via free agency and trades.
The Tigers can absolutely contend with astute moves this winter, but the budget is on the tight side and one bad move can very easily blow up in your face (see: Nathan, Joe). The pitching is vital, and they need to figure out left fielder, and someone needs to get some outs out of the bullpen. The Tigers offense was good last year, as we so easily forget, and if they can augment it a bit, who knows what happens in 2016?]]>
We know it's bad. But contextually, just how bad has it gotten? There's a very simple way to compare – ERA+, which is adjusted for both league and stadium factors. 100 is average. Over 100 is above average, under 100 is below average. The 2015 Tigers currently hold a team ERA+ of 83. How bad is that? The 2003 Tigers had an ERA+ of 81. The 1996 Tigers, who had a team ERA of 6.38 (albeit in a much friendlier run scoring environment), had an ERA+ of 80.
To add further context, the last team to post an ERA+ of 83 or worse in the Major Leagues? The 2010 Pirates, who had an ERA+ of 81. (This year's Braves also have an ERA+ of 81, the only one lower than the Tigers.) No American League team has posted an ERA+ of 83 or lower since 2008, when the Rangers, a team that allowed 967 runs, did it. In short, we are looking at one of the worst pitching staffs in the American League in the last decade. It's made even more alarming when you consider how much David Price's presence through July helped those numbers. Detroit has three good pitchers right now in Justin Verlander, Alex Wilson, and Blaine Hardy.
Good luck with your offseason, Al Avila. You're gonna need it.]]>
Barely over a month later and the Tigers seemingly haven't learned a thing from the Dombrowski fiasco. Late Thursday night, WDIV-TV's Bernie Smilovitz reported that the Tigers would fire Brad Ausmus at season's end, a report that was corroborated by the Detroit Free Press the next day. There's no real reason to doubt these reports: by all accounts, Smilovitz is well-connected with the Ilitch family, and the Free Press obviously maintains sources within the organization. The denials have come quickly from the organization; Al Avila insisted to media members on Friday that Ausmus would manage the team until season's end, at which point his position would be evaluated.
Thus, Brad Ausmus will be forced to spend the next three weeks trying to manage a ballclub and deal with the media with it hanging over his head that multiple respected media outlets have basically made him a dead man walking. Ausmus, for his part, would be in the final year of his contract next season, so it stands to reason that the team would be wise to either relieve him of his duties or hand him a contract extension to make sure he isn't going to be a lame duck. Ausmus hasn't done much to deserve an extension – I certainly don't want to see him back next season – but this fiasco is quickly becoming another black eye for an organization that has prided itself on being one of the best in baseball. If these reports are true – and I believe they are – it is deeply unfair to Ausmus to force him to manage this club with the axe hanging over his head. Job speculation is nothing new, but it's an entirely different animal when it's in the public domain that he will be fired. The proper, reasonable thing to do would be to fire him now, let someone else manage the club on an interim basis until the season's over, and start a comprehensive interview process to find the right guy to take the club forward.
If this isn't true, the Tigers should probably do something about the inaccurate leaks purportedly coming from their front office. If it is – and if they stick to their guns and force Ausmus to manage out the season – it is, as Ken Rosenthal put it, "sloppy and disrespectful" – and yet another rather public embarrassment for a franchise that likes to consider itself classy, and shame on them if that's exactly what they're doing. The man may not be a very good manager, but he deserves better than this. Everyone does.]]>
Simon continues to be an automatic loss when sent to the mound. His ERA has ballooned over 5 after giving up four home runs – to Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion, Kevin Pillar, and Russell J. Martin – in five innings of work. Remember, the Tigers gave up a young, cost-controlled infielder who has been worth a full win to the Reds this year to get him. Nice trade.
No, Simon is supposed to be bad, we know that by now. The biggest problem today was how lackadaisical this group looked at times. They have, for all intents and purposes, checked out mentally. The coaching staff seems perfectly fine with that. I'm aware that teams always look listless on extended losing streaks, but this goes beyond basic listlessness. For the second day in a row, Anthony Gose made a stupid mental error – today it led to a runner who was halfway to third on a caught fly ball somehow not getting doubled off – and Gose saw no repercussions for it. I don't know how Brad Ausmus handles these things privately, but I get the impression he's the stereotypical Nice Dad: a firm talking to no matter how many times you screw up, but no real punishment. Teammates going at it in the dugout? Keep playing. Same guy making mental errors two days in a row? Keep playing. No wonder some of these guys are so blasé. They know their positions are under no threat whatsoever. Remember that famous Jim Leyland "if they won it was okay and if they lost it was okay and that's not good enough" rant in April 2006 that was widely attributed as being a key moment in the "culture change" that followed? I get the distinct impression that, at this point, for this coaching staff, if they win it's okay and if they lose it's okay, and apparently that is good enough. It has all the hallmarks of the same sort of malaise that seeped in during the final days of Alan Trammell's ill-fated tenure in 2005.
But the fact is, players gotta play, and so many of these guys are just not good enough, and are playing like they've already checked out. They did precious little against Mark Buehrle and seemed like they just wanted this to be over. (I suppose I can't blame them for that.) Mercifully, they are off tomorrow before starting a series in Kansas City.]]>
Sometimes, as a fan, you know going into a series that your team is going to be up against it. You have that feeling, that inkling that this is going to be a long three days. You're bereft of confidence and you're steeling yourself for a beating.
I wrote that last night after the Tigers' 5-3 defeat and followed it up by saying, hey, that wasn't as bad as I thought it might be!
Well, today was. Today was basically right in line with what I was expecting. Edwin Encarnacion hit three home runs, including a grand slam in the seventh, and the Tigers lost 15-1.
Buck Farmer continues to do little to change my opinion that he's a bullpen arm. The Tigers don't have a ton to lose by continuing to start him – it's not like he's taking a spot away from someone more deserving, unless you're on the hardcore Michael Fulmer train – but he continues to be bad when he starts. My complaints about Farmer largely echo the ones I voiced about Matt Boyd – a good fastball/changeup combination is nice, but you need more than that to last as a starter, and to make matters worse, Farmer doesn't have Boyd's command. Unless he gets a decent third pitch, his future is in the bullpen. Like Boyd, Farmer is still 24, so he has some time to get that straightened out…
Farmer only lasted four innings and got shelled, which meant we got four innings of the atrocious Detroit bullpen against the best offense in the league in one of the best hitters parks in the league. Results were predictable. I'm not even remotely interested in hearing any more about Tom Gorzelanny's supposedly new and improved arm slot – he was the one who loaded the bases for Encarnacion in the seventh, and he has been every bit as bad since his recall as he was before it. Guido Knudson wasn't good, Alex Wilson was terrible… only Neftali Feliz managed to avoid making a fool of himself. The offense was largely shut down by Drew Hutchison. In short, there were virtually zero positives to be taken from this game, and the best part of it was when it ended.
The Tigers, by the way, are in last place in the AL Central. But you knew that.]]>
I felt like that before the Tigers kicked off their three game set in Toronto, and from that point of view, Friday night's 5-3 loss wasn't really that bad. At one point it looked like they were going to get obliterated 10-1 or something, but hey, 5-3 looks pretty good.
On the pitching front, Matt Boyd continues to elicit extremely mixed feelings. There's talent in there, but no reliable third pitch, and he's hittable when he's not locating the fastball/changeup combination perfectly. The breaking ball needs work. And against a team like the Blue Jays that bombs everything, well… the results are there for all to see. Three homers, including a truly monstrous shot off the bat of Josh Donaldson. Boyd doesn't have the stuff to overpower hitters. He needs to locate, and he needs a third pitch. If he figures that out, you have a solid Major League starter. If not, well, this team needs bullpen help, right?
Of course, the basic point here is the Blue Jays are a really good baseball team, and look like the favorites to win the East at the moment. Their lineup is a nightmare and truth be told, R.A. Dickey pitched really well, or as well as you can while still allowing Anthony Gose to hit a home run. Gose and Ian Kinsler's homers accounted for all the offense, and Aaron Sanchez and Roberto Osuna look like a deadly combination in the back of the bullpen. They're for real.
The Tigers are now 60-68. They have not been eight games under .500 since 2008. Yes, we're in THAT territory.]]>
Justin Verlander blanked the Angels 5-0 on Wednesday night, taking a no-hitter into the ninth inning and losing it on a Chris Iannetta double down the left field line that kicked up chalk. Fantastic as the no-hitter would have been, that hit should not detract from Verlander's performance not only tonight but over his last seven starts: his ERA is under 2, he's kept the walks down, and posted an increasingly high strikeout rate. His last two starts, tonight included, deserve special attention: even more encouragingly, he's struck out over a batter an inning and kept a healthy ground ball rate to go with it. That's a recipe for success, and it's notable because he'd been relying on a ton of fly balls in his starts prior to his previous effort against the Rangers. While it's only two starts, this bodes extremely well for the future – especially if he keeps the ground ball rate up.
Verlander was the story tonight – it really did look like he was going to do it, particularly after an eighth inning double play off the bat of Erick Aybar that capped off a tough at bat. The outs were easy and there weren't even any of the sterling defensive plays you usually see in a game like this, and at one point he struck out five Angels in a row. Indeed, Iannetta's hit was the only thing that could have conceivably been a hit – and wouldn't you know that it was the hitter who was hitting .186 on the season and had five hits in the entirety of August.
The Tigers flexed their power early offensively as Nick Castellanos, Miguel Cabrera, and J.D. Martinez all homered for Detroit – Martinez's was his 34th of the year.
And with this, the Tigers' last two victories have come with their starter throwing a one-hit shutout. See, guys? It's just that easy.]]>
Emily Waldon tweeted of a broken left thumb for Holaday, and the Toledo Blade's John Wagner elaborated, adding that Holaday's season was over.
This is a rather unfortunate, uh, break for both Holaday and the Tigers, as he was a probable September call-up. With Alex Avila most likely leaving in free agency, September would have been a good opportunity for Holaday to show his stuff. Perhaps he could have given the Tigers something to think about with regards to James McCann's platoon partner/backup for 2016. Also of note, there is no obvious replacement for Holaday as a potential September call-up and they can't really go without a third catcher once rosters expand.
Manny Pina isn't a "preferred option," so says Lynn Henning. Miguel Gonzalez likely isn't the answer either. It's also highly unlikely Victor Martinez will be asked to catch.
The Tigers have some time to sort out their September call-ups, but Holaday's injury is yet one more complication to a difficult, disappointing season.]]>
However you want to spin it, this just isn't a good look for a struggling team. Not only have they appeared to have "given up" on reaching the playoffs, they also appear fractured. The team has closed ranks, "moved on," won't discuss the incident in any depth, and insist it's in the past, but that won't keep the media or a frustrated fanbase from rampant speculation and attempts to pinpoint blame.
Some will point to the incident as evidence that the team is falling apart, or that Ausmus has lost control of the players. Considering these guys are around each other more than their own families, these kinds of disagreements happen. In fact, they happen much more often than we think, they just usually play out behind closed clubhouse doors. They certainly happened under Jim Leyland's watch (here), have happened before and will happen again in the future.
In the long run, incidents like the one that played out tonight in the Tigers' dugout probably aren't a huge deal. There's a right way and a wrong way to hold your teammate accountable, though, and Brad Ausmus said as much after the game. This incident just should not have played out publicly.
If you're James McCann, you shouldn't be confronting your teammate in the dugout and showing him up. Pull him aside in the privacy of the clubhouse. If you're José Iglesias, you shouldn't be shoving your teammate or throwing your glove at him. You've got to keep your cool.
If not for third baseman Nick Castellanos intervening and separating the two, that incident could have been even uglier (applaud the "fire" and "emotion," all you want, but you'd almost certainly be singing a different tune if someone got hurt).
Oh yeah, and the Tigers got thumped by a bad Red Sox team to add insult to injury.
Tomorrow will be better.]]>


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Crimson Dragon developer and creator of Panzer Dragoon Yukio Futatsugi has expressed his interest in both mobile development and to work with Nintendo again in a new interview. He also has glowing things to say about his dealings with Microsoft.
Futatsugi, who heads up Japanese studio Grounding told Siliconera at TGS, "My personal interest is in smartphones. They're gradually becoming capable of having visuals like this. We've worked on a number of mobile games so far, and I'm really interested in using the network aspect to make a more interesting game. Perhaps we'll work with Nintendo again, since we have a good relationship with them…and naturally, Microsoft has been great to us. We want to do a lot of different things, so I guess we're kind of a greedy company."
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I'm so pleased you noticed that fidgetbones.
But the FDA still rate the average daily allowance on mouses!!!!
what ever next. (human trials) for humans??? WOW. THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY GET RESULTS FROM THAT!?
(Sorry for shouting.)
I'm 46 and have just bought my first plant for someone else that was not for commercial gain , My other half.
Its a Dieffenbachia and if taken, internally, it could kill.
There was a BOGOF offer so I could not refuse!
The phrase Commercial gain always got me. Does that mean I can sell the plants after and how soon would you like them after the death? To be honest before death would help me out a lot.
fidgetbones. Its the new fountain of youth if they can stop it from shooting out your other end.!!!https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjE-oKUpK3MAhXqI8AKHQwbDZgQFggzMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicalnewstoday.com%2Farticles%2F264218.php&usg=AFQjCNHsZFLW_nJ2ySRGpscwlks8pX4E9g (sorry it was the first thing i found and it needs more looking into )
Patronising Verdun ??? No No No!
I would swap you a ladder for a mountain down there any day Verdun.
Unfortunately you have the winning edge as you have the climate, down there.
Then again trying to sell crampons and climbing ropes in Cornwall never worked out for me. It never even sound right!!!!
Never been so stressed Verdun. Sorry stressed is not the word.
Its excitement about doing something new, I have gotten fogged about doing thing that scare me. My belly has gotten bigger and I find myself doing less and less. The excitement in life has gone. The testosterone is getting lower and I miss the risk when climbing a mountain.
Is this how it goes???????????
Also wangled myself into the Metformin trials with a exception to use Turmeric as well.
See you at your funeral??? (only kidding)
Think it might have been Victoria Sponge who gave me the seed 2 years ago? Still not 100% on that. If Ive got it wrong on that one as I've had many seeds for my park and pond project, that should flower this year. The seed bombs are down and growing.
That can only be a good thing.
I just wish the pond could be more productive.
Dog walker helping to chuck seed bombs.
fidgetbones. No it was a seed swap on here.
Will have to go back through my old posts and find out who it was. I feel ashamed at this moment that I can't remember.
Half way between a new house and information that everyone should know,at sea rescue Verdun. (this is going to take time)
To be honest that last bit is not true. It will take a whole lot longer.
My rosemary blossomed (in pot) is flowering, While it snowed today.
I can still sell worm shit (sorry) but it's still only worm poo, and does sell well.
Would you like some? I'll swop for some of your climate mate?
I'ts free seed from members on here, remember! It just takes 2 years and I get older and forget (never forget) but then I Just hate gob shites,that think better.
Where else would we go to learn?
Remember the free seed option about a year or more???
I apologise but the bloody seeds have been growing for a year now and they should, flower this year.
Does this look right for the 2'nd year???? OR ARE THEY GOING TO SEED???
Epsom salts Verdun! FANTASTIC! (for everything)
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It appears that might be the case. A statement from Biden's office reads: "There are almost 2,000 separate websites across the federal government." It goes on to say that the administration will shut down or consolidate 25 percent "of the 2,000 sites over the next few months and set a goal of cutting the number of separate, stand alone sites in half over the next year."
That figure, 2,000 websites, was the number Biden and other officials involved in the campaign used at the announcement, and it was reported by many of the media outlets that covered the story. Unfortunately, the number may be misleading.
The confusion arises from the difference between top-level domains and actual websites. Macon Phillips, the White House's director of new media, explains that there are almost 2,000 top-level domains in the government, but 24,000 websites.
There are top-level sites, such as www.whitehouse.gov, where a website is attached directly to the domain. But then there are secondary sites, such as the Office of Management and Budget, which is at www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
"Under many of these [top-level] domains are smaller sub-sites and microsites resulting in an estimated 24,000 websites of varying purpose, design, navigation, usability and accessibility," Phillips writes.
We suspect the officials wanted to keep the presentation simple and understandable to a group of reporters with varying degrees of technological sophistication. Talking about the nuances of Internet technology might have been an unnecessary complication. Unfortunately, the simplification may have gone a bit too far, erring on the side of imprecision.
So while the campaign has an ambitious goal of cutting out unneeded websites, the actual reduction in sites might not be as dramatic as the reduction in domains.
If the administration eliminates half of the stand-alone top-level sites, but leaves many of the secondary sites intact (moved to other top-level domains when needed), the overall change will be minimal, at least from the perspective of the users of the sites.
On the other hand, if the plan is to cut the top-level sites and take all the secondary sites under the top level at the same time, that could be huge.
Some clarity at the announcement June 13 would have been nice.
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and Macon Phillips is still not getting the terminology correct. Top level domains (TLDs) are the letters after the last dot,for example, .com, .gov, .mil, .org, .us. The Whitehouse is not focused on reducing the number of TLDs, but is focused on reducing the number of second-level domains (SLDs) under the TLD .gov. Domain structure and hierarchy is one of the most basic elements of the Internet. If the Whitehouse can't discuss this using at least the correct terminology and relationships, then no wonder we can't get traction on some of the more complex Internet challenges. Shutting down an SLD is not the same as shutting down a website (depending on how one defines a website), as the information may just move to a different address. For example, forestfiddlers.gov is shutdown, but will the same information now be managed as a website at http://www.fs.fed.us/forestfiddlers/? Ah yes, .fed.us: how many Federal websites are under that SLD? How many Federal websites are under the other TLDs, like https://hrm.gdcii.com/directory/ and http://www.godefense.com/ and what is the strategy for "dealing with" them? One TLD at a time, I guess. I wonder if every Federal agency CIOs has an inventory of every Internet domain assigned to their agencies.
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I was talking to a native German speaker and he tends to introduce himself like this:
Ich bin der Philipp.
Why "der"?
I was talking to a native German speaker and he tends to introduce himself like this:
Why "der"?
As mentioned in another answer, it is more common in the South to add the article whereas people in Northern Germany rather leave it out. I live in Western Germany and I use the article, too.
I want to add some further thoughts. I'll reuse the example for that purpose.
Suppose, there is a group of people with more than one person being called Alex and you point at one of them and say that sentence. By that, you kinda put emphasize on whom exactly it belongs.
But note in your question's example it is a bit odd as the following excerpt highlights:
In the Alex-example you can also differentiate between two people with different sex but same name (Alexandra, Alexander).
In addition to that another excerpt:
Some people won't like it if you add a die in front of their name (or leave out):
Just for your information: In some regions female person are neuter ;p
Of course, if someone introduces himself, it should be (but not always ;-) obvious which gender is appropriate - but here it's something regional, if one uses the article when speaking of ones name.
This difference occurs even more clearly when speaking about someone, so for example you can say
I personnaly use the latter form, but you'll find both versions.
On a not-able-to-show-references basis, I would say that using the article is more common in the south; not using it, in the north of Germany.
Geziefer and Em1 are right - it's primarily a North-South thing.
In my experience this has little to do with real practical reasons - the clarification thing Em1 mentions feels like something entirely different to me (it also is always characterized by a strong emphasis on the article which isn't there in the usage you're referring to, Gigili).
Another distinction is a social rather than geographical one: there's a stereotype that overly PC and socially/ecologically conscious people talk like that (cf. "Ich bin der Martin, ne?".
Also, it appears to be a feature of kiddie-talk: "Das sag ich dem Papa!" (a threat to tell Daddy about something) sounds much more stereotypical (and 'younger') than "Das sag ich Papa!"
(Educators - at least according to the stereotype - fall in both categories :))
As everyone has remarked, as far as informal speech is concerned, it is a matter of difference between North and South - where Southerners are the ones to add articles. Having lived in the South for the last 13 years, I have started to acquire it myself.
There can, however be little doubt, that German Standard German does not allow this usage, as I can not come up with any example where this was used in classic German literature. I will now start a search in the works of Austrian writers Zweig and Doderer, though Ingmar has already provided evidence of "extra" articles in works of other Austrian writers.
Several comments have shown people confuse this issue with articles in front of titles. This must be treated separately. For instance, it is totally acceptable, even in the North, to write:
Here "des Johannis" is preferred to avoid antiquated genitive forms such as "Johanisens". Through, I think, we should not drag the genitive into this. I believe it is always permitted to form it with des, just usually not preferred.
With titles, care has to be taken. In Standard German German you should observe, how strongly the title forms part of the name.
Said master may in fact not be Lord Ilmenstein, but rather an usurper named Björn Malte Mehring-Brunnendreck.
Furthermore, confusion has arisen in the comments concerning cases like ministers, prime ministers and so on. Since these are unique, when not followed by a name, they demand articles:
Additionally, we use articles in front of occupations to convey additional meaning:
These are variants of:
EDIT: Ingmar has already provided examples of Austrian writers using the "extra" article. The clearest one is from a work of Jörg Mauthe "vom Thomas begleitet streife ich durch die Ruine...". Naturally, works that want to convey a particularly Austrian setting are full of this. For instance "Die Tante Jolesch" by Torberg.
Other answers have not yet highlighted the benefits of including the article for clarifying some ambiguous sentences. The sentence:
is unambiguous, however:
remains ambiguous!
That is not to strongly argue for the inclusion of the article, since the slightest syntactic awareness clarifies every misunderstanding, by opting for :
Bastian Stick points out the semantic difference between "Barbara" and "die Barbara", the latter being a specific one. While that is usually sufficiently clear by intonation, please refer to my earlier example, on the Lord of Ilmenstein, where no Intonation will save you. This obviously concerns marginal cases, so it's no big asset of standard usage either. A further example would be:
But here, luckily, intonation suffices to clarify the meaning of colloquial usage. "Frau" as a title is stressed very little. And, even in the North, "Bartels Frau" is the common genitive. You could, however, create such sentences for the joy of it:
Perhaps, Indoeuropean languages tend to develop in this way. I find the inclusion of the article more and more often everywhere in Germany. It might be that speakers consider the Tom-Richard-Martin clarification a virtue. Note, however, that Greek, which inflects names and thus does not need such clarification, has also developed from a stage where omission of the article was allowed to mandatory inclusion!
Just wanted to add: I live in west Germany and I know many people who say this (including myself). So I wouldn't say that this is not common here.
In this context, it is added for emphasis.
"Ich bin der Philipp," translates into "I am the Philipp." (Not just a "random" Philipp.)
It connotes a sense of self-importance. although some Germans use it, this is not standard usage. It is best used for important people like Presidents (perhaps even of a company), that is the "big boss".
It is appropriate if someone happens to be the (wo)"man of the moment." For instance, if "Philipp" just published a best-selling book, or even a book, it might make sense to call him der Philipp for a period of time.