From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Catch Anyone?

31.01.2006 5 comments

There was a surprising quote from Detroit Tigers assistant GM Al Avila in the Toledo Blade. “Within the Detroit Tigers organization, catcher is probably our weakest position,” Avila admitted. Okay, so that wasn’t the suprising part. “We do have the best catcher in the organization coming to Toledo in Max St. Pierre. “He’s a year [...]

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Defending Center

29.01.2006 11 comments

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post making the case why Curtis Granderson should be the starting centerfielder for the Tigers over Nook Logan. The the bulk of the agrument was based on Granderson’s offensive superiority. I intentionally didn’t delve into defense for a couple reasons. First, defensive metrics are tricky. It’s rare that [...]

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BA’s Top 10 Tiger Prospects

27.01.2006 2 comments

Baseball America has released their list of the top 10 Tiger prospects and things are looking up: The Tigers, who entered 2005 slotted 29th in Baseball America

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Seth’s Impact Rookies

25.01.2006 5 comments

Seth Stohs has posted a list of the top 20 rookie hitters and pitchers that he expects to make an impact in 2006. Arms On the pitcher list, he has Joel Zumaya ranked at number 20, and Justin Verlander ranked at number 10. While those may seem a little low, I think the presence of [...]

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Detroit Tiger-ish News

24.01.2006 1 comment

Juan Samuel finds a job: Juan Samuel will be the manager of the AA Binghamton Mets. The former Tiger 3B/outfield coach is the second member of last year’s staff to find work in the minors. Bruce Fields will be the hitting coach in Buffalo. UPDATE: It appears that Lance Parrish will also be in uniform [...]

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Luck and Fieldability

23.01.2006 1 comment

David Pinto from Baseball Musings has begun to release the 2005 Probabilistic Model of Range (PMR) data. Today he posted a table of which pitchers had more outs than expected on balls in play (or the lucky/unlucky) as well as rankings of the expected percentage of outs on balls in play (how easy was it [...]

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Tiger of the decade?

22.01.2006 7 comments

While on the Comerica Park tour during Fanfest, I noticed a large display just outside the Tigers clubhouse. It was actually on a wall adjacent to the clubhouse, facing the kitchen/food area. It was floor to ceiling high and featured Tiger history by decade. Each decade featured one photo prominently which presumably represented the Tiger [...]

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Tigerfest 2006

21.01.2006 3 comments

Just think if they were good I took in Tigerfest today with my family. It was my first Tigerfest in 4 years, and I came away amazed at how much people love the Tigers. We parked at Grand Circus Park and took the people mover to Joe Louis Arena where we looked out and saw [...]

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Stuff you might find interesting

19.01.2006 4 comments

A few links and items that you may not have seen but might find interesting: The Ray Lankford Wing Beyond the Boxscore has created the Ray Lankford wing of the Hall of Fame for players with “no real shot at the Hall of Fame, but a great career nonetheless.” Unfortunately, or fortunately I guess, the [...]

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The Platoon Ratio

18.01.2006 10 comments

When talking about players strengths and weaknesses, ultimately the discussion will veer towards: “What they really need is a platoon because player X can’t hit Y-handers to save his life.” Okay, so maybe not every baseball discussion goes this way, but I’m sure you’ve all heard it, and perhaps even said it before. That’s why [...]

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Tigers sign Bonderman, Spurling, and Pena

17.01.2006 5 comments

Detroit signed Jeremy Bonderman, Chris Spurling and Carlos Pena to one year deals, thus avoiding arbitration. Craig Monroe remains the lone arbitration eligible player not under contract. The only mild suprise is that Bonderman re-upped for a single year instead of working out a long term contract. I don’t have terms of the contracts, and [...]

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Granderson versus Logan

16.01.2006 12 comments

Lynn Henning has a piece in today’s Detroit News once again touting Logan as the Tigers starting centerfielder – and leadoff hitter. Let’s take a look at this step by step. But he was pretty good the first half of the season We submit that one of Leyland’s pet projects during spring training will include [...]

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