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May 2009

Juan Rincon DFA’d

12.05.2009 14 comments

To make room for Dontrelle Willis the Tigers are sending out Juan Rincon. Rincon pitched his way onto the team with a very good spring, but with a rough start to the season the Tigers deemed him most expendable. Brandon Lyon has been just as bad, but he’s owed more, and frankly has been better in recent years than Rincon and therefore has a better chance of contributing.

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Game 2009.031: Tigers at Twins

12.05.2009 61 comments

And the 3 game win streak is over. It was one of those games. Armando Galarraga wasn’t good again. He couldn’t find the strike zone consistently and when he did the pitches got hammered. The outs were well hit, the hits were well hit. The Twins hit 3 balls with home run distance but Clete Thomas brought one back.

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/11/09

12.05.2009

Lehigh Valley 2 Toledo 9 Brent Clevlen went 3 for 5. Don Kelly homered (321/418/500 line, who knew?). Danny Worth chipped in 3 hits also. Scot Drucker started and went 6 innings allowing 2 runs on 6 hits, 1 walk, 1 homer and 8 K’s. Ron Chiavacci pitched the last 3 innings allowing just one [...]

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Granderson is not a cougar

This “the cougar” business has to stop

11.05.2009 22 comments

Curtis Granderson made a spectacular catch on Friday night, saving the game for Justin Verlander and the Tigers. There is an unfortunate by-product of this play though and that is the proliferation of a new moniker for Granderson. Unsatisfied with calling him by name, or even by Grandy, ESPN has taken it upon themselves to [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/10/2009

10.05.2009

Lehigh Valley 5 Toledo 3 Mike Hessman hit 3 doubles. Don Kelly was 2 for 2 with 2 walks. Jeff Frazier also had 2 hits. Ruddy Lugo allowed 6 hits and walked 4 in 5.1 innings. Fu Te Ni allowed a solo homer and 2 other hits in 2.2 innings. Clay Rapada struck out one [...]

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Game 2009.030: Tigers at Indians

10.05.2009 77 comments

So how would you like to be Rick Porcello today? He’s sitting there in front of his locker before the game. A teammate slides up next to him and says: “You know, the Indians haven’t scored in this series. Don’t screw it up.” Or course Porcello can point to earlier in the week when he tossed 7 shutout innings against the Twins and perhaps get credit for starting this 3 out of 4 game shutout string.

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Robbie Weinhardt pitches for the Lakeland Flying Tigers

Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/9/09

10.05.2009

Lehigh Valley 7 Toledo 11 Jeff Frazier (newly promoted), Don Kelly (playing centerfield), and Wilkin Ramirez all had 3 hits. Brent Clevlen and Brent Dlugach homered. Lucas French allowed 3 runs on 5 hits, 2 walks and 3 K’s in 6 innings. Matt Rusch was touched up for 5 runs in 2.2 innings. Bowie 5 [...]

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Game 2009.029: Tigers at Indians

09.05.2009 43 comments

Was anyone else nervous that Edwin Jackson was going to get screwed again? Here he is pitching another gem (and each one seems to be a little better) and his guys can’t get the bats going. Fortunately, the Tigers finally got to Carmona by staying patient.

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Justin Verlander’s New Slider

09.05.2009 17 comments

Justin Verlander has turned in 3 remarkable outings in a row amassing 31 strike outs as hitters can’t catch up with his heater or their knees buckle with the curve. But very quietly Verlander has added a slider to his repertoire.

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/8/09

09.05.2009

Lehigh Valley 5 Toledo 4 Wilkin Ramirez homered, singled, stole 2 bases, and walked. Ryan Roberson also went deep. Eddie Bonine allowed 3 runs on a walk, 5 K’ss and 7 hits in 7 innings. Freddy Dolsi blew the save allowing 2 runs on 3 hits in the 9th inning. Bowie 3 Erie 4 Alex [...]

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Game 2009.028: Tigers at Indians

08.05.2009 76 comments

Justin Verlander was amazing again. He’s been money in his last 3 starts, and the one thing that may have been holding him back a little (and I mean a little) was efficiency. No problem with that tonight as he notched a complete game shutout. He fanned 11 Indians tonight, the second time he’s turned that trick in a week. And this is a team that had beat him like that annoying drum in the bleachers over Verlander’s career.

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Mmm Bacon

08.05.2009 12 comments

Do you have a bad taste in your mouth from last night’s Tigers/White Sox game? Get rid of that bad taste with Bacon Lovers Night at tonight’s Toldeo Mud Hens game. The first 5000 fans will receive bacon scented air freshners and bags of bacon flavored sunflower seeds will be handed out after the game.

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