Comments on: Tiger Links

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:25:48 +0000

Not sure what I did wrong there, but the rest of the message was supposed to be:

Quit stealing my mojo, I’ve taken to calling them “The J Crew”. I’m hoping it’ll stick.

By: Jeff K

Jeff K — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:23:21 +0000

>>>I even gave the trio a nickname tripple J

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:47:43 +0000

First of all i noticed that the Tigers stats match up favorably to the A’s. What suprises me How many innings Zumaya has pitched. He and Bonderman are the only two pitchers that did not go to College on this list, but I wonder if he was as highly touted as the rest of the group when he was drafted if he would not have already pitched in the show. Thirdly Verlanders stats look out of this world his controll is outstanding and nobody gets on base against him. Another pitcher who shot through the minors after a distinguished college carreer was Mark Prior. His minor league stats, when you take out his rehab assignments look like this.

Prior

51 13.9 3.18 2.29 1.31

OK so now I feel like i can get giddy, one thing that is impressive is that Prior never pitched in A ball he only pitched AA. And Verlanders bulk of innings came at A ball, However his seven starts and 32 innings at AA allowed only one earned run, in a word outstanding.

Im giddy all over again.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:25:44 +0000

I saw a quotte from Joel Zumaya today on Detroittigers.com in an interview with him and Justin Verlander. Joel said that he can see the Tigers having starting pitching the way that the As did a few years back. Needless to say I got giddy inside at the thought and it occured to me he could be right. I started to imagine the three of them pitching together, taking the tigers to the playoffs, I even gave the trio a nickname tripple J’s (cause they all have names that start with J). And then I came back to reality and wondered if they actually could be as good as the A’s trio. So I decided to look at the minor league stats and here is what i came up with.

INN K/9 BB/9 ERA WHIP

Hudson

271 9 3.2 3.25 1.15

Zito

170 10.0 4.2 3.18 1.27

Mulder

137 5.7 2.3 4.13 1.57

Bonderman

156.2 9.8 3.4 3.79 1.27

verlander

118.2 10.4 2.0 1.29 0.90

Zumaya

409.2 11.1 4.17 3.25 1.17

By: Cathryn

Cathryn — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:48:55 +0000

// for sticking with the mainstays in the rotation (Bonderman, Robertson, Maroth) //

I think that’s the bit that made the least sense. Maroth improves with each season, Nate kept getting screwed by the worst luck EVER last year – but, yeah, that Bonderman guy, get him off my team. Twenty-two years old with fifteen wins last season. Slacker.

I mean, obviously a non-fan doesn’t know a team like its fans do, and I’ll give him a pass on the thing with Nate’s tragic luck since it’s kind of obscure to an outsider, but it’s not hard to check the numbers with the others and see how much better they’ve both gotten and that there’s no reason to think they won’t continue to improve. If you’re gonna review in any kind of depth a team you don’t know well, do your homework.