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April 2007

links for 2007-05-01

30.04.2007 7 comments

If a pitcher pitches a brilliant game is he likely to be a good pitcher Fun with simulation and probability MPR: The Bleacher Bums: Off Day News: Tigers send champagne to Greinke for beaning Hunter Mesa could return Friday – MLive.com blog: Tigers Insider Mesa doing a DL appearance on Tuesday. Vance Wilson plays catch. [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 4/30/07

30.04.2007 1 comment

Rochester 4 Toledo 1 Jack Hannahan and Mike Hessman each had 2 hits. Chris Shelton struggled going 0 for 4 with 3 K’s. Brent Clevlen doubled and walked. Yorman Bazardo took the loss on a fine effort. He was 2 outs shy of a complete game an it only took him 100 pitches as he [...]

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Contacting Polanco

30.04.2007 5 comments

This is something that I actually started tracking a few days ago, but Placido Polanco is off to quite the start this year making contact. Polanco has always been a tough strike out, and for his career he’s made contact with 91% of his swings. For some context, the average is 80%. But this year [...]

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Game 25: Orioles at Tigers

30.04.2007 65 comments

PREGAME: It’s a beautiful night here in Detroit and a pretty good pitching match-up. Daniel Cabrera stymied the Tigers the last time they met allowing only 2 runs and no walks as he pitched into the 8th. Jeremy Bonderman has pitched very well for most of the season, save for the first couple innings of [...]

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links for 2007-04-30

29.04.2007 4 comments

Baseball Musings: Scoring on Homers David Pinto notes that the Tigers rank 11th in the AL in percent of runs scored off homers. (tags: stats) Beck’s Blog: Sunday extra: Zumaya gets advice Kenny Rogers and Todd Jones to the resuce (tags: zumaya kenny-rogers todd-jones) D-Town Baseball – A Detroit Tigers Blog » Mesa likely to [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 4/29/07

29.04.2007

Rochester 9 Toledo 6 Kevin Hooper went 4 for 5 with 2 doubles. Chris Shelton added 2 doubles and 2 walks and is now sporting a 301/422/458 line. Dennis Tankersley went 7 2/3 innings allowing 3 runs on 7 hits. Erie 1 Bowie 2 Mike Hollimon walked twice. Despite a 242 batting average he has [...]

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Game 24: Twins at Tigers

29.04.2007 34 comments

PREGAME: The Tigers look to stave off the sweep and they’ll have their hands full with Johan Santana. He’ll be opposed by Mike Maroth. Maroth has struggled with consistency this year, and couldn’t make it the 5 innings to qualify for the win last week in LA. Maroth told Mario Impemba that he’s been struggling [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 4/28/07

29.04.2007

Rochester 3 Toledo 1 Brent Clevlen tripled and walked, and that was the extent of the offense. Ron Chiavacci had a nice start going 6 1/3 innings allowing 7 hits and 3 runs while fanning 5. Erie 6 Bowie 2 Jackson Melian and Brent Dlugach each homered amongst their 2 hits. Erie knocked out 3 [...]

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Game 23: Twins at Tigers

28.04.2007 66 comments

PREGAME: The Tigers take on the Twins in an afternoon tilt today. The pitching match-up is Justin Verlander taking on Carlos Silva. Last year the Tigers rocked Silva, as did many teams. The torched him for 9 runs on 3 homers in 3 2/3 innings. Of course Silva has been much better this year not [...]

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links for 2007-04-28

27.04.2007

1_b_070424_zumaya.wmv (video/x-ms-wmv Object) Joel Zumaya talks yoga, guitar hero, and Todd Jones in an 8 minute video interview (tags: zumaya) The Baseball Analysts: That Sinking Feeling Studying the sinker with enhanced gameday data (tags: gameday pitching) Rogers plays catch, eyes return – MLive.com blog: Tigers Insider Kenny Rogers threw for the first time today since [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap – 4/27/2007

27.04.2007

Rochester 2 Toledo 6 Mike Hessman and Jack Hannahan each went deep for the Mud Hens. Chris Shelton was 0 for 3 with a walk and his average has dipped to .289. Virgil Vasquez had another strong start allowing 2 runs on 7 hits and no walks while striking out 6. Erie 2 Bowie 3 [...]

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Game 22: Twins at Tigers

27.04.2007 92 comments

PREGAME: The Tigers return home from their 2 city, 3 game road trip to take on the Twins. The Tigers found some offense on the road while the Twins went into a funk. Over the last 5 games Minnesota has only managed 12 runs. It is a battle of sub 3.00 ERAs tonight on the [...]

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