From the monthly archives:

May 2008

The 3rd inning – 2008

31.05.2008 8 comments

Last year Sam Hoff started breaking down the season into 18 games segments, each representing 1/9th of the season, or an “inning.” Here is the 3rd inning report. The 3rd Inning is over. Each 18 games represent 1 inning of a baseball season. The Tigers record for the first 3 innings in 2008: Starters: Bullpen: [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 5-31-08

31.05.2008 1 comment

Toledo 3 Indianapolis 4Matt Joyce homered and drove in 2. Brent Clevlen doubled, singled, and walked twice and is now sporting a 320/405/572 line. Chris Lambert allowed 3 runs on 5 hits, a walk, and 5 K’s in 6 innings. Altoona 3 Erie 8Max St. Pierre homered twice. Justin Justice, Ryan Roberson, Wil Rhymes, and [...]

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Game 55: Tigers at Mariners

31.05.2008 49 comments

PREGAME: Ah, Fox Sports and national TV means most of you will be blacked out. That’s too bad because the pitching match-up of Justin Verlander and Felix Hernandez could be a good one. Hernandez has a 3.60 ERA and is fanning 7.4 per nine innings. He’s had some control issues allowing 5 walks in 2 [...]

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Guillen to left field?

31.05.2008 42 comments

The Tigers new left fielder is Marcus Thames, except for when it’s Carlos Guillen? Guillen has been taking flyballs in left and it’s another way to keep his bat in the lineup while trying to find a place where his glove doesn’t hurt the defense too much – at least that’s the story. Out of [...]

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Willis being mixed into rotation

31.05.2008 7 comments

It’s been a couple weeks since Dontrelle Willis came off the disabled list. He’s made all of one appearance. That will change this week when he splits a start with splits a start with Armando Galarraga. Willis will pitch the first 4 to 5 innings and Galarraga will pitch the rest. It’s an unorthodox move [...]

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McClendon- “batting average is the most overrated statistic”

31.05.2008

Hitting philosophy Hitting coach Lloyd McClendon said runs scored, followed by on-base percentage, are the most important statistics. “Batting average is the most overrated statistic in baseball,” McClendon said. “Pete Rose told me, ‘When you are scoring runs, you are doing the job.’ I don’t have a lot to comment on here, but I thought [...]

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Shuffling the deck and rehab news

31.05.2008 10 comments

A cornucopia of Tigers news that has come out today. Jim Leyland is prepared to make some changes, even if it means hurting some feelings. The skip says: “So I’m going to change some things around here and see what happens. I think that’s important. As I said, I don’t know if it’s going to [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 5-30-08

31.05.2008

Toledo 2 Indianapolis 3Brent Clevlen homered, singled, and walked and has pushed his average to .313. Mike Hollimon was 1 for 4. Matt Joyce went 0 for 4 with 3 K’s. Yorman Bazardo allowed 2 runs on 6 hits in 5 innings, walking none and fanning 3. Denny Bautista allowed an unearned run on 1 [...]

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Game 54: Tigers at Mariners

30.05.2008 155 comments

PREGAME: Good old game 54. The one-third mark of the season. Yeah. The Tigers journey to Seattle to take on the Mariners. Seattle snapped a 7 game losing streak when they took the last 2 games against Boston. Detroit will face Carlos Silva who they bludgeoned to the tune of 7 runs in 4.1 innings [...]

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links for 2008-05-29

29.05.2008 55 comments

Leyland highly critical of his performance so far: ‘I’ll take the heat, I deserve it’ | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press Leyland is just one of many deserving heat. Detroit Tigers Thoughts: More on Pathetic Bullpen Management A snapshot of recent poor bad moves Gammons On Available Pitchers: MLB Rumors – MLBTradeRumors.com He lists ten [...]

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Joyce down, Clete up

29.05.2008 20 comments

The Tigers have optioned Matt Joyce back to Toledo and have called up Clete Thomas. I suppose this is because they have the left handed option with Jeff Larish on the roster now to provide some power. And as Jason Beck noted, they want Joyce to play everyday and with Thames getting left field duties, [...]

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Unintentional Consequences

29.05.2008 14 comments

As I watched intentional walks by Tigers pitchers lead to runs on both Sunday and Monday this week, it seemed to be an all to familiar story. It seemed that the Tigers strategy of intentional walks was failing with remarkable regularity. So I went back to each of the 19 IBB’s the Tigers issued (that’s [...]

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