From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Game 2009.122: Tigers at A’s

22.08.2009 55 comments

PREGAME: The Tigers won a road game. Is it getting too greedy to want them to win 2 in a row? Tonight it will be Armando Galarraga taking on Trevor Cahill. Cahill has some pretty brutal peripherals with 25 homers allowed in 139 innings, only 70 strikeouts, and 57 walks. He somehow has an ERA [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 8/21/09

22.08.2009

Toledo 4 Columbus 1 Mike Hessman doubled and homered. Nate Bump allowed only an unearned run in 7.2 innings on 4 hits, no walks and 3 K’s. Casey Fien finished it off with a walk and 2 K’s. in 1.1 innings. Akron 4 Erie 1 Cale Iorg went 2 for 4. Michael Bertram homered. Jonah [...]

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Game 2009.121: Tigers at A’s

21.08.2009 79 comments

PREGAME: The Tigers start their last left coast swing and they do it in Oakland where the Tigers haven’t been particularly impressive, save for 2 games in October, 2006. Edwin Jackson slogged through a victory against the Royals last Saturday. He wasn’t especially crisp, but he got plenty of run support for a change. Really, [...]

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links for 2009-08-21

21.08.2009 4 comments

Baseball Prospectus | Unfiltered An interview with Leyland where he swears and talks about working pitchers BaseballAmerica.com: Draft: Chat: Signing Deadline Chat Callis says Turner is the Tigers new #1 prospect (shocker) and that the big 3 from this draft all fit in the org's top 10 Beck's Blog: Wild week and a half for [...]

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Tigers Minor League and Rehab Wrap 8/20/09

21.08.2009 2 comments

Toledo 10 Columbus 1 Nate Robertson went 5 innings and allowed 1 run on 5 hits with no walks and 4 K’s. Jeremy Bonderman didn’t allow a hit in 2 innings and he fanned 2 and walked none. Dusty Ryan went 3 for 5 with a homer. Don Kelly also had 3 hits and a [...]

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Game 120: Mariners at Tigers

20.08.2009 149 comments

PREGAME: Some lefty-on-lefty action today with Jarrod Washburn taking on his old team and the hyphenated one Ryan-Rowland-Smith (yeah, it’s an extra hyphen but I don’t have time for a proper pregame so instead you get lame punctuation jokes – sorry). Seattle vs. Detroit – August 20, 2009 | MLB.com: Gameday POSTGAME: The Tigers were [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 8/18/09

20.08.2009 1 comment

Toledo 7 Columbus 6Scott Sizemore doubled twice and homered. Dane Sardhina homered and singled. Brent Dlugach had 2 hits. Dontrelle Willis started and allowed 1 run on 1 hit and a walk with a K before leaving in the second inning with a knee injury. Brooks Brown came in and threw 4.2 innings allowing 3 [...]

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Game 2009.119: Mariners at Tigers

19.08.2009 78 comments

PREGAME: Justin Verlander has been a little up and down lately. He sandwiched 2 monster starts against Sox of different colors around 3 outings where he allowed at least 4 runs. The last time he faced the Mariners he had no hit stuff, except for the 5th inning where he had multi-hit stuff. Ian Snell [...]

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Tigers Minor League Wrap 8/18/09

19.08.2009

Scott Drucker was rocked for 7 runs in 3 innings but Matt Rusch, Zach Simons, and Casey Fien followed with 6 innings of shut out ball. Mike Hessman hit his 19th homer and doubled. Scott Sizemore went 2 for 4 with a double and a walk. Brent Dlugach was a homer short of the cycle and added a walk.

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Game 2009.118: Mariners at Tigers

18.08.2009 124 comments

PREGAME: Aubrey Huff makes his Tigers debut tonight and he’ll be batting 5th in the lineup. I don’t know if Daniel Fields will make an appearance tonight or not, but he’s in town. As for the pitching match-up it will be a rehabilitated Rick Porcello. Rehabilitated in the sense that he has done time for [...]

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Tigers Draft Signing Presser

18.08.2009 4 comments

Many of the principles involved in the drafting and signing process were on a conference call to discuss the draft. Here are some of the highlights from the call. Key: DC=David Chadd, DD=Dave Dombrowski, JT=Jacob Turner, DF=Daniel Fields, BF=Bruce Fields, JF=Julie Fields, AO=Andrew Oliver DD: Willing to go over slot because these players were the [...]

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Tigers Minor League and Rehab Wrap 8/17/09

18.08.2009 9 comments

Columbus 4 Toledo 8 Mike Hessman 2 for 4 2B, HR. Jeff Fraizer 2 for 4, HR. Ruddy Lugo 6 IP, 3 R, 6 H, 3 BB, 3 K. Jeremy Bonderman 1 IP, 1 H, 1 K. Erie DNP Clearwater 5 Lakeland 1 Audy Ciriaco 2 for 4, SB. Justin Henry 2 for 4, 2 [...]

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