April 2003

Baseball Prospectus – The Jack Morris Project As I said, I don’t know what the performance record of someone who had successfully pitched to the score would look like. I am certain, though, that for a pitcher to build his Hall of Fame case on the notion that he did such a thing, he couldn’t [...]

Rob Neyer: Magic number for Yankees, Tigers: 110 That said, what I didn’t discover until later is that the Tigers, who lost 106 games last season, were significantly worse than their terrible record. Given their runs scored (575) and allowed (864), we’d have expected the Tigers rack up 112 losses rather than 106. And if [...]

Danny Knobler: Do something now Manager Alan Trammell and president and general manager Dave Dombrowski can’t completely remake this team three weeks into the season. It’s not possible. But they have to realize that 1-16 is ridiculous. Something has to be done. Something significant has to be done.

1st win for Bonderman, 2nd for Tigers Bonderman struck out five and walked none. With his fastball humming and his slider breaking sharply, Bonderman retired 17 straight from the second inning until Terrence Long tripled with one out in the eighth. Long scored on a groundout. Bonderman pitched a hell of a game. Most telling [...]

Dull, hopeless Tigers deserve better fate You don’t contract Hoot Evers, Schoolboy Rowe, Dizzy Trout or Mark (the Bird) Fidrych. You don’t wipe out a town where Marvin Gaye, Brenda Holloway and Kim Weston cut their Motown hits not terribly far from the wonderful old ballpark at Michigan and Trumbull. Ridicule them now, as you [...]