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Yesterday I examined the importance of offense versus defense (pitching/fielding) in getting into the playoffs. Today, I'll take an even simpler approach to the same question. Once again, I ranked each team by how many runs they scored (offense) and how many they allowed (defense). Then I loo......

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You've heard it before: Good pitching beats good hitting all the time. Pitching and fielding wins pennants. Pitching is 90% of the game. So, I wanted to examine the relative importance of offense and pitching/fielding in getting into the playoffs. This sort of thing has been done before by Bi......

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In the middle of June, I wrote an article entitled "What's wrong with Curtis Granderson?". On June 14, he was batting .240/.297/.431 and some feared that 2007 might have been a career year. I looked at the stats and concluded that he was being less aggressive than he had been in 2007. He was ......

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Fans often complain that stats like OPS and runs created don't take into account the game situation. For example, a walk-off home run is more valuable to a team than a home run when they are up by 12 runs but they both count the same in the statistics. The Win Probability Added (WPA) statistic ......

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About a week ago, I listed the top seasons for Tigers rookie position players. Today, I'm looking at the best years of all time using the same criteria as I did for rookies. The top 16 are presented in Table 1 below. Remember that position and how well a player fielded his position count for a......

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A couple of weeks ago, I listed the top seasons for Tigers rookie pitchers. Today, I'm presenting the all time top Tigers pitching seasons. Using the same criteria as I did for the rookies, I ranked the top 15 seasons ever in Table 1 below. Table 1: Top 15 best Tigers pitching seasons ......

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In an earlier post, I ranked Armando Galarraga's season among the top rookie pitchers seasons in Tigers history. Today, I'll look at their best rookie position players of all time. Some of the statistics I used to determine the ranks seen in Table 1 below are: OPS+ = OPS relative to league ave......

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I took my first trip to Damaschke Field in Oneonta on Friday night and I felt like I was at a high school game. Most of the seats were high school style bleacher seats and it was a quiet crowd of under 500. They did have a few box seats with names on them but most of those were empty. The offi......

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For the sixth year, Tom Tango is conducting his annual survey on defensive skills. The results of this survey are a very valuable resource so I'm encouraging all knowledgeable fans who watch a lot of Detroit Tigers games to participate. The survey asks fans to rate the fielding skills of player......

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Mike McClary posed 17 questions about the Detroit Tigers at the Daily Fungo. Big Al has answered them. Mack Avenue Kurt is in the process of answering them. Now, I'm going to answer them. 1. Who's the closer in 2009? This is a tough one but they drafted a bunch of college relievers......

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Most Tigers fans agree that the Edgar Renteria for Jair Jurrjens and Gorkys Hernandez deal has been a very bad one for the Tigers but let's forget about the deal and focus on Renteria for a moment. The Tigers need to decide what to do with him after the season as they have an $11 million team op......

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One of the few things that has gone right for the Tigers this year is Armando Galarraga's surprising and stellar season. The 26 year old Venezuelan was acquired from the Rangers for fringe prospect Michael Hernandez before the season and did not make the opening day Tigers roster out of spring t......

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After sleep walking through the first 34 innings of the series, the Tigers broke through for five runs in the eighth inning today to defeat the Blue Jays 5-1. Down 1-0 with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Miguel Cabrera singled versus Jason Fraser to score Placido Polanco with the tying ......

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I'm tired of doing daily recaps of this sorry season so I've been looking at walk-off data and some other stuff. That takes time but I'll post more soon. For today, here are some interesting links from around the net: Eddie B is doing a thorough look at the top bullpens in recent years to see......

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Since I have been on the subject of walk-offs (a game where the home team wins in their final at bat), I thought it would be a good idea to see which teams have won and lost the most walk-offs between 1990 and 2007. Tables 1-6 display the major league leaders and Table 7 looks at the Tigers. ......

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