Motor City Metrics: A Detroit Tigers podcast

Our thanks to lead baseball writer Craig Calcaterra of NBCSports.com for joining Roger and Chris this week to discuss an unique approach to his recent blog. You can find links to the articles we referred to in the podcast.
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/0

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-The show intro (0:00-3:45) pays tribute to Al Kaline
-Chris and Roger kick off the show discussing Jeff Passan's story about a possibility of MLB starting the season in May. (3:45-22:50)
-Remember Al Kaline and the guys breakdown the build of the 1968 De

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Roger and Chris recap the recent roster moves, have high school flashbacks and review the 2016 movie  "Everybody Wants Some!!"

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-Starting the show discussing injuries and where baseball is during this crisis
-The MLB draft strategy for the Tigers, when it happens.
-Brandon Day of Bless You Boys.com & Jules Posner of ForbesSports.com stop by to talk about swing mechanics 
-How much

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-the music tracks used this week were Thees Handz, Murs, The Grouch - Be Nice & Gasoline-A Journey Into Abstract Hip-Hop and the track "The Hardest"
-Chris and Roger kick off the show discussing what has been going on including folks losing their minds ov

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-This weeks's song is The Specials "Ghost town"
-Roger discusses strikeouts do matter and Chris breaks down ERA in "Inside the Numbers"
-No baseball for a while so what's next?
-Chris is a game inventor
-Thanks to our Twitter followers who participated in

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-Isaac Paredes clears up how to say his name
-Jordy Mercer may win the third base job
-Daniel Shoptaw (on Twitter @C70) joins to talk Cardinals baseball
-Chris goes to college and Roger references heat in "Inside the Numbers"
-How many doctors does it tak

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-The show starts talking about winter driving scares (1:58)
-The first Inside the Numbers of 2020 as Chris talks Victor Reyes's soft hit balls and Roger talks catchers (26:57)
-The Good Bad and Ugly goes oversees and the Tigers make another list. (40:32)

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-Our thanks to Donovan and Roy for stopping by to talk all things San Diego Padres as we go heavy into prospect talk and a Kevin Brown flashback
-A tip of the cap to Grandpa
-The Tigers did have a good off-season, right?

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-How's the Royals farm system coming along? Clint Scoles @ClintScoles on Twitter joins us
-the new MLB playoff proposal is insane and Chris is all in for it
-Roger is starting to like Trevor Bauer, a sentence he thought he would never say.

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