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The folks at MVN take a look at potential offseason moves for the Tigers.
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Ilitch speaks, but doesn't tip his hand about the direction he'll go with payroll. He just wants to fix stuff.
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Someone not high on Porcello due to his low strike out rate. Yeah, but the ground balls and the age relative to the league are still very encouraging.
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Henning and Gage look into the crystal ball with different results.
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At the bottom there is a note that Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Guillen, and Magglio Ordonez will be skipping the World Baseball Classic. I view this as good news.
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Tiger Fans!
Memorize this quote for the next time someone criticizes Porcello’s low K rate.
“Porcello had just 72 whiffs in 125 innings, a surprisingly low number for a pitcher with his stuff, but that’s attributable to Detroit’s desire that he work on his changeup and limit the use of his curveball and slider. He also was kept on tight pitch counts, so he focused on being efficient rather than going fo strikeouts.”
-Baseball America, 6 October 2008
Also consider that the only other 19 year old pitcher in the FSL (Deolis Guerra) threw 130 innings, logged 71 K’s, 71 BB’s, 12 HR and 138 hits.
Porcello’s performance relative to his in-game limits and his age within that league is actually quite impressive.
And as a sidenote I think that if Porcello profiles more as Roy Halladay than Josh Beckett, that’s not a bad thing.