PREGAME: Another day game on Fox, another Twins starter the Tigers struggle against. This time it's Scott Baker.Nate Robertson is on the mound for Detroit. He went 9 innings of excellent work against the Mariners. But the start prior to that the Twins handed him his worst start of the year   more...
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Cyril Morong of 'Beyond the Boxscore' created two 15 player lists, one of pitchers who improved from the 2005 to 2006, the other of players who declined. He used a statistic called RSAA which means "the amount of runs that a pitcher saved vs. what an average pitcher would have allowed. It is   more...
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Does the Quality Start stat really matter? If you look further into the numbers, you might be surprised at what you see, from these so called "Quality Starts"
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Game 1 - Barry Zito vs. Nate Robertson. Ztio only pitched one game this season against the Tigers. Despite taking the loss, he pitched well, 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 4 BB, 3 K. Bless You Boys has the expected Tigers lineup and their career averages versus Barry Zito. The Tigers could be in for a long   more...
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Put your on your dork hats. David Gassko of Hardball Times lists the 20 luckiest and unluckiest pitchers using a statistic known as LIPS, Luck Independent Pitching Statistics."Essentially, the idea behind both DIPS 3.0 and LIPS is that a lot of luck goes into a pitcher's performance, as measured   more...
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PREGAME:: Nate Robertson and Ryan Rowland-Smith. Rowland-Smith has 2 last names. That's enough motivation to want and beat him right there.DET @ SEA, Sunday, July 6, 2008 Game Preview - Baseball-Reference.comGame Time 4:10POSTGAME: Well, I'm back from my weekend escape. It was nice to stay   more...
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Remember last year when four of the Tigers starting pitchers (Verlander, Rogers, Bonderman, Robertson) made it through the entire season without once heading to the DL...yeah, that's really rare. Rogers is already hurt and and the added innings from last year's postseason and subsequent shorter   more...
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Barry Zito, Anthony Reyes, Edwin Jackson, Mike Pelfrey, and Nate Robertson.
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A recap of last night's Game 3.
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Notes from a Ballgame: World Series Game 1- Interesting that Buck mentions how Jim Edmonds gets a shot of novocaine in his foot before every game. This is in direct contradiction to what he reported during the NLCS, when he snickered at "the media" for reporting that Edmonds received these shots on   more...
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Game 1 [10/11] - Barry Zito vs. Nate Robertson, in Oakland, 7:00 pm CSTZito and Robertson have been announced as the Game One starters. Zito gets the nod as the veteran on the A's staff, and Robertson gets the ball because Kenny Rogers' relief appearance in the final regular season game meant Nate   more...
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With the second half now in full swing, FIO staff writer Lou Poulas takes a look at some of the big surprises (and disappoints) from baseball's first half of the season and discusses whether or not these trends hold substance. Always using great raw data to support his arguments, Poulas puts   more...
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PREGAME: I'll be honest with you. Going into this series I didn't have big demands. As long as the Tigers didn't get swept, I figured things would be okay. However, with that requirement out of the way I'm going to greedy and ask for a series win.Tonight it will be Nate Robertson   more...
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PREGAME: The teams have a 12 hour turnaround for today's game. It will be Nate Robertson and Todd Wellemeyer, both of who I would guess didn't stick around for the end of last night's tilt.Wellemeyer has a 3.67 ERA for the season and he's striking out a little more than 2 batters for   more...
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Well the Tigers start a series with the Royals tonight and will move on to the White Sox after KC, well until Augest 14 when they start a series with the Tribe, they only face one team over .500, now they face the red hot west coast leading Angels, so the best record in baseball may very well just   more...