From the monthly archives:

May 2003

Tigers, Tigers, not burning bright

31.05.2003 2 comments

Eric Neel spends a week watching the Tigers-and survives But if I’m a Tigers fan right now, I’m trying to watch the games free of context, sans the script and the box scores. I’m looking to lose myself in something less definitive than wins and losses, something less concrete than productivity. Forget on-base percentage and [...]

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Jon Connolly Update

30.05.2003

Yesterday Connolly threw a complete game for West Michigan striking out 3 and allowing 7 hits, no walks, and 1 run. This raised his season ERA to 0.79.

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In a Class by Themselves

29.05.2003

New York Times on athletes skipping their senior season of high school. Part of the article is about Jeremy Bonderman. (From Baseball Primer)

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Ouch-Pena and Maroth are injured

29.05.2003

The one positive thing you could say about the Tigers this year is that they’ve been healthy. Fifty-one games in and the starting rotation is intact, and the only person to spend time on the DL is Dean Palmer (which should never be considered a surprise). Sure Omar Infante missed a couple games to a [...]

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Tigers get Alex Sanchez-Eck!

27.05.2003 1 comment

Tigers pick up lockerroom cancerFor some unfathomable reason the Tigers traded for Alex Sanchez. The gave up Noochie Varner-who’s been playing well at Erie- and left hander Chad Petty. For more info on Sanchez, check out this glowing piece from the Journal Sentinel. Sanchez lost his starting CF job in Milwaukee. He’s hitting .282 on [...]

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Where There’s a Wil, there’s an Avery…

27.05.2003

It was nice to see the Tigers fight back yesterday, and I was particularly happy to see Brandon Inge get the go ahead home run. Earlier in the game Inge had 3 solid at-bats with nothing to show for it (I included his weak grounder to second on a hit and run as a “good” [...]

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Lineup shuffling

26.05.2003

A first glance at Bobby Higginson’s numbers this month to date are pretty reassuring. He’s hitting .345/.444/.476. He’s also scored 16 runs during the month so far. What is troubling is his lack of RBI, for the month he only has 7. Frankly I don’t know if it’s because he’s not hitting well with men [...]

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Not a bad weekend

26.05.2003

The Tigers 3 game win streak came to an end yesterday on a 12th inning home run by Joe Crede. The walk-off was set up when Eric Munson threw high to first on what would have been the third out. Despite that, the weekend featured some fine defensive plays, and excellent pitching by the Tigers. [...]

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Pitchers ahead of hitters

26.05.2003

Jayson Stark’s Rumblings “They do have some good young arms,” one scout said. “You have to like Bonderman, and they did a good job with their Rule 5 picks. Both (Matt) Roney and (Wilfredo) Ledezma should be in their rotation at some point. But the idea is to try and get your young arms and [...]

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Tigers hampered most up the middle

26.05.2003 1 comment

Lynn Henning on the the Tigers Center field and catcher are problems that might not go away. Torres can’t hit. Neither has Gene Kingsale been an answer. Ditto for Inge and his catching partner, Matt Walbeck. The Tigers could, conceivably, get away with Torres-Kingsale if the other people begin to click. But fail to field [...]

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Jon Connolly

26.05.2003

Prospect Watch-West MichiganJon Connolly of the West Michigan Whitecaps improved to 8-0 on the year by pitching 8 2/3 innings of shut-out ball. He walked one and had 5 strikeouts. The effort dropped his ERA to 0.75. On the year he has 29 K’s and 17 BB’s in 59 IP. Connolly was a 28th round [...]

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21.05.2003

Baugh gets promoted Because of injuries to two starters, Jeff Farnsworth and Rob Henkel, the Tigers have promoted right-hander Kenny Baugh from Lakeland to Double-A Erie. Baugh, the Tigers’ first-round draft choice in 2001, missed all of last year because of shoulder surgery, but was 3-0 with a 3.86 earned-run average in four starts this [...]

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