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Sizemore leaves AFL game with injury
October 22, 2009 by
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Scott Sizemore, the heir apparent at second base left today’s game in the first inning due to an injury. He was trying to turn a double play when a hard slide by Danny Espinosa caused both players to exit. What we know right now is that Sizemore’s injury is to his left leg but I [...]
Much ado about Carlos Guillen
October 21, 2009 by
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Jason Beck caught up with Carlos Guillen late last week and a maelstrom was the result. Guillen wasn’t happy with the way Jim Leyland handled things at the end of the year. Leyland explained his side. The two talked. Leyland says everything is fine. Guillen isn’t saying much else...
Desert Update: Sizemore Shines
October 20, 2009 by
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The Tigers representatives in the Arizona Fall League now have a week under their belts. Since the opener most have handled the challenge quite well so far with your likely 2010 second baseman Scott Sizemore leading the way.
Quantifying Lloyd McClendon
October 18, 2009 by
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It’s no secret that the Tigers offense was far from satisfying this year. It was the second year in a row that the offense seemed to perform below expectations, after having a huge season in 2007. Naturally suspicions and fingers start to point towards the hitting coach. Is the criticism...
Quantifying Gerald Laird
October 14, 2009 by
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Laird's difficulties with the bat make him a liability at the plate and he was 16.9 runs below average with the bat (about 1.5 wins - or losses in this case) and with a positional adjustment Laird is about 1 win above a replacement level player. Add in his defense though and his...
AFL Season kicks off
October 13, 2009 by
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The Arizona Fall League started today. The Tigers had quite a few representatives in today’s effort, a game that saw the opposition hang 17 runs on the board.
I guess the bad news first, the Tigers had 3 pitchers in today’s game. Scot Drucker started and allowed a run in...
links for 2009-10-13
October 13, 2009 by
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Fire Jim Leyland: Graphic Value: Offense
Looking at who contributed what to the Tigers offense – with graphs!
Prospect Profile: Alex Avila – Minor League Ball
Sickels reviews Avila
Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog: Saber Correct Tigers, Efficient Athletics
The Tigers...
The 9th Inning – 2009 Edition
October 10, 2009 by
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Long time readers of this site remember a feature called the Inning Report. Reader Sam Hoff would break down the season into 18 game segments or “innings.” Why 18 game? Because there are 9 18 game segments in a season. Tuesday’s game against the Twins completed not only the...
Tigers retain 5 coaches, not Van Slyke
October 10, 2009 by
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I had been expecting an announcement about the coaching staff, but this wasn’t it . The Tigers invited 5 of their 6 coaches back for the 2010 season, but Andy Van Slyke is pursuing other other options.
In addition to coaching first base and catching the ceremonial first pitches...
The Dombrowski Presser
October 08, 2009 by
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Dave Dombrowski met with the press today and fielded questions for about an hour. Jaosn Beck, Tom Gage, and John Lowe had it covered. There is enough there to warrant about 6 posts worth of further explanation. But until that happens...
What’s next at DTW
October 07, 2009 by
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It's the end of the season. A time to say thank you and a time to look at what's to come.
Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins postgame
October 06, 2009 by
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Congratulations to the Minnesota Twins and their fans. You have to hand it to a team that finished the season 17-4 (and the Tigers were responsible for 3 of those 4 losses) without their second best player. They went out and took the division from the Tigers. They went down 3 runs...
Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins continued
October 06, 2009 by
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Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins
October 05, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Of all the years for MLB to do away with their asinine coin-flipping scenario for deciding home field advantage for tiebreaker games. Of course if the Tigers could have managed 1 more win at some point they wouldn’t even be in this situation. But this situation isn’t so...
Miguel Cabrera screwed up
October 05, 2009 by
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Miguel Cabrera had a pretty crappy Friday night, and it just isn’t ending – nor should it. Cabrera screwed up big time and is deserving of the bulk of the criticism that he is receiving today. Whether it was a lapse of judgment or a habitual problem remains to be seen but getting...
Miguel Cabrera and speculation
October 04, 2009 by
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Miguel Cabrera had an awful night at the plate on Friday. Miguel Cabrera had an awful night at the plate on Saturday. The difference between the two nights is that his face was cut and bruised on Saturday. This was quite noticeable to the media before the game and it elicited questions...
Game 2009.162: White Sox at Tigers
October 04, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Well here we are. Game 162. Will there be an ALDS Game 1 or a Game 163 or is this it? We all know the deal, the Tigers haven’t been out of first place since May 9th. Yet way too eerily much like 2006 the Tigers could find themselves looking up at the Twins [...]
Game 2009.161: White Sox at Tigers
October 03, 2009 by
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PREGAME: We’ll get this up early in case anybody is so inclined to follow along with the Twins/Royals game which gets started just after 4 p.m.
It’s Alfredo Figaro and Freddy Garcia doing battle today. Figaro has an okay start and a bad start under his belt this year. He also has...
Junkballing: Pitchers, Playoffs, Plunkings
October 03, 2009 by
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Debating Saturday’s starter, some news on a tiebreaker playoff game, and more from MLB’s punishment roulette wheel.
Game 2009.160: White Sox at Tigers
October 02, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Edwin Jackson and Jake Peavy is the first pitching match-up Tigers fans care about tonight. The second one is Lenny DiNardo and Francisco Liriano.
Peavy outdueled Eddie Bonine last time out despite Bonine’s fantastic outing. The Tigers fanned 8 times in 7 innings and could...
I love this game
October 02, 2009 by
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Baseball is a wonderful game. No, it really is. It gets criticized for being boring and too slow moving. But the speed of the game allows for a chess match like no other and with a code that most outsiders aren’t privy too. The Twins and Tigers series had some of the typically hidden...
Game 2009.159: Twins at Tigers
October 01, 2009 by
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PREGAME: So, what will everybody be doing this afternoon? If you’re at work do you listen on the radio, or follow along with gameday, or do you stream mlb.tv, or do you leave work completely and head to the park (or a bar)? Or does you day not change and you’ll just wait to get [...]
The fans, they do care
September 30, 2009 by
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Drew Sharp was disappointed in the turnout for last night's game with "only" 30,000 fans in attendance. But it appears that everyone who wasn't at the game was watching the game on television as last night's Tigers game was the highest rated one ever on Fox Sports...
Game 2009.158: Twins at Tigers
September 30, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Let’s do this again. After a very long day of baseball, it’s just a regular night at the ballpark. Except that it is the immovable force named Carl Pavano that the Tigers will be going up against.
Pavano’s mastery of all things Tigers and few things not-Tigers is one...
Exhausting, Exhilirating, Exhale
September 29, 2009 by
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Both teams went into today hoping to sweep and really put the other team in an uncomfortable position. But both teams went into today really hoping not to get swept. In that respect both teams can walk away somewhat satisfied. With both games being so close both teams can also walk...
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