From the monthly archives:

April 2005

Game Report 4-29-2005

30.04.2005 8 comments

I don’t normally do reports on individual games, but there was enough interesting stuff going on last night to warrant it. First, the Tigers had no business winning that game last night. Tigers’ pitchers gave up 11 walks and they hit a batter. In the irony of ironies, Franklyn German didn’t allow any of the [...]

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Miscellaney

29.04.2005 7 comments

The trouble with work is that it tends to get in the way of hobbies, kind of like this blog. I was in San Luis Obispo this week, and I found myself with out a lot of time to write. The result is another crappy bullet point post. 4 game FunSo the Tigers have been [...]

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The Pocket Schedule

26.04.2005 10 comments

A reader recently sent me a Tiger artifact he happened to come across. It is a pristine Tigers pocket schedule from 1972. Aside from this being a very thoughtful gesture from a generous stranger, the pocket schedule is a great way to look back in baseball time. I scanned in the schedule, and the pictures [...]

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One Run Bummin

22.04.2005 10 comments

With the Tigers dropping to 0-5 in one run games this year, the fans are getting restless. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that the Tigers were 12-27 last year in one run contests. Of course it is necessary to assign blame. Typically success or failure in close games is attributed to the bullpen, the [...]

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B. Inge-ing

21.04.2005 7 comments

So do you believe in Brandon Inge yet? I have to admit that I was highly skeptical that he could pick up where he left off last year. I didn’t expect him to slide all the way back to his .200 batting average ways, but I certainly didn’t expect the 375/453/607 line he’s posted to [...]

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K-Less

20.04.2005

We knew going into the season that the Tigers’ pitching staff wouldn’t be a strikeout heavy staff. Bonderman as the ace would pile up quite a few, and Nate Robertson would be okay. But we knew that Jason Johnson at best was near average and Maroth and Ledezma would be below average. That’s why after [...]

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Catching up

18.04.2005 9 comments

The tough thing about not having time to write everyday, is that when I come back, so much can happen. In this case, the Tigers lost Magglio Ordonez for a couple months, Farnsworth developed a strained bicep, Urbina combusted again, Trammell was slammed for his bullpen utilizaztion, Bonderman turned things around with an ace like [...]

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The night I spent with a Twins fan…

15.04.2005 8 comments

Okay, so the title may make this sound more sordid than it really is. Seth Stohs from SethSpeaks and I were both online and chatted throughout the course of the game. Seth has the first part of the transcript up on his site, and I have the second part below. In the first part we [...]

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Back away from the ledge

13.04.2005 14 comments

Yes, I know last night’s game was terribly frustrating. The Tigers lost their third one run game of the season. Clearly what we need to do is panic first, and then assign blame. I think that the common responses are that it was Urbina’s fault for blowing the lead, and Trammell’s fault for burning through [...]

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The Indians Series – by the numbers

12.04.2005 6 comments

I’m not sure if I’ll do the by the numbers stuff after every series, but I’ll keep doing it for now. So far it’s easy to compile the stats by just working off of the splits, because the Tigers have only played teams once. 800That was Carlos Guillen’s batting average on balls-in-play. For the series, [...]

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Winning big, losing small

10.04.2005 10 comments

So if you had told me that the Tigers would be leading the league in scoring one week into the season, I’d be happy. If you also told me that Tiger pitchers would have 3 times as many strikeouts as walks, and be second in their division in runs allowed I’d be really happy. And [...]

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By the numbers – The Royals series

08.04.2005 3 comments

With a sample size of 3 games you can’t make a lot of statistical inferences. But it doesn’t mean you still can’t have fun with the numbers: 2:1This is the ratio of Nook Logan’s runs scored to plate appearances. Nook managed to score twice despite grounding out in his only plate appearance due to a [...]

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