From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Hitting em where they ain’t

29.11.2008 4 comments

We recently took a look at the Tigers team defense through the eyes of David Pinto’s Probabilistic Model of Range. As Pinto wraps up this season’s numbers, he calculated the PMR behind each pitcher. Not much went right for Nate Robertson this year, and it is little surprise that his woes were reflected in the [...]

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Tigers pass on Junichi Tazawa

25.11.2008 17 comments

In an effort to maintain the relationships in the Pacific Rim that the organization has been cultivating recently, the Tigers are going to pass on Junichi Tazawa. Tazawa is the amateur Japanese player who is going to skip the Japanese professional leagues and try and jump right to the US. Tazawa is being courted by [...]

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links for 2008-11-25

25.11.2008 6 comments

http://tangotiger.net/scouting/scoutResults2008.html As David pointed out in the comments the Fan Fielding Survey results are in. Interesting Santiago rates a 64 which is very close to the 61 that Renteria scored in the 2007 survey. Dave Dombrowski – GM Trade History: MLB Rumors – MLBTradeRumors.com An Excel file with all of DD's trades, signings, and drafts. [...]

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Renteria inked by Giants – Tigers get draft picks

24.11.2008 22 comments

UPDATE: It appears the report may not be true. Tim Dierkes keeps updating the link below with more information, so check back. I have to admit that $18 million for Renteria didn’t pass the smell test, but it was the Giants… It appears that Edgar Renteria is heading back to the National League. The Giants [...]

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Tigers Top 10 Prospects according to Baseball America

21.11.2008 42 comments

It’s another one of those rites of the offseason, the Baseball America top 10 list. The list itself is available to anyone, but for additional information (like scouting reports) you need to be a subscriber. As for the list, here it is: Rick Porcello, rhp Ryan Perry, rhp Cale Iorg, ss Casey Crosby, lhp Jeff [...]

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Clarifying Luis Marte’s status

20.11.2008 3 comments

Earlier today I questioned the Tigers leaving Luis Marte off the 40 man roster and then exposing him to the rule 5 draft. Yeah, it turns out I was wrong. Jon Paul Morosi noted in his Baseball America chat today ($) that Marte wasn’t eligible. On Beck’s blog he mentioned my article and then later [...]

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Tigers set 40 man roster

20.11.2008 31 comments

Today is the deadline for the Tigers to announce who would and wouldn’t be protected from the Rule 5 draft on the 40 man roster. Below is the roster, and highlighted are the 5 players who the Tigers just added: Alfredo Figaro, Casper Wells, Zach Simons, Guillermo Moscoso, and Wilkin Ramirez. That brings the total [...]

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DTW’s new look

19.11.2008 15 comments

Every offseason I realize that after looking at this site for a whole year I’m tired of it. I need to freshen things up a little. I also discover there are some functional things that I’m not really happy with, and so I try to fix those as well. So every year about this time [...]

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Catch-all post

17.11.2008 64 comments

I know there is a lot of interest in some of the rumors swirling around the Tigers (like Julio Lugo) and that people want to comment on signings that may or may not effect the Tigers  (Jeremy Affeldt).  While I don’t have a lot to say about these things (though I don’t want Lugo and [...]

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Pounding the zone by count

16.11.2008 3 comments

In part 1 of the series I dumped some big tables in here that looked at the rate at which teams threw a)strikes and b)the ball in the strike zone. Today we’ll continue along the same path, but we’ll start to differentiate based on count. Pitches In the Strike Zone by Count In 2008 teams [...]

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The Tigers according to PMR

15.11.2008 61 comments

The Tigers defense was the cause of much consternation this season, and rightly so. Now that David Pinto has released his PMR defensive metrics, we can take a detailed look at each position. If you’re not familiar with PMR, it is a system that looks at each ball hit into play and the probability that [...]

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Tigers make some ticket price hikes

14.11.2008 4 comments

The Tigers are adjusting some prices, on some games. The following areas won’t see an increase to their base ticket prices: Outfield Box, Right Field Grandstand, Bleachers, Kaline’s Corner and the Upper Level. That comprises 70% of the capacity. The base price is the key here because the team will have premium pricing for 21 [...]

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