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Is anybody else ready for this team to start playing good baseball again? Justin Verlander and Ross Ohlendorf do the honors tonight.
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Kevin in Dallas Some good dialog going regarding the Fielder signing on Fangraphs.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-10-worst-transactions-of-the-winter/
I'm still waiting for some original thought.
StorminNorman$ Well stated Kevin!
...anyway Illich seemed prepared to cough up $400M last year to buy the Pistons (which Tom Gores ended
Crunruh These are also available for streaming from Netflix. All the above mentioned and many more interviews of players from
Only Tiger Fan in Mississippi Thanks for the tip Kevin. BTW, Ed Randall and Rico Petrocelli have a show on XM/Sirus MLB channel every Saturday
Andrew in Toronto Actually, if the Tigers signed Pujols, Reyes, Wilson and Darvish i think i would not have minded at all.
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“I think we’re just one click away from getting it going,” catcher Gerald Laird told the Tigers’ official website. “We’ve just got to find this click.”
I think Gerald is several clicks short
There is some cruel irony attached to someone hitting .160 giving their opinion as to what the team needs to do to “get it going.” This was undoubtedly lost on Mr. Laird, but at least he didn’t complain about the opposition pitching to him like he was Johnny Bench.
He hits more like Johnny Bench’s Bench (random 70′s commercial reference).
Speaking of Johnny Bench’s bench, do you recall the “no runs, no drips, no errors” commercial he did for Krylon (I think) spray paint years ago?
Actually, I do…also all the Aqua Velva commercials, “when a man wants to smell like a man,” Pete Rose and Enos Cabell among others. I mean, good lord, who out there was thinking, oh yeah, wanna smell like Pete Rose and Enos Cabell…
Laird not only can’t get the click going ….. he has no idea where the click gizmo is
Anyone care to predict how the Tigers do over the next 15 pointless IL games. I’ll go out on a limb and say 9-6 (6-3 home, 3-3 away), after which they will still be at least 4.5 games behind the Twins, but do to the weak opposition will have retained their undeserved status as pretenders to the Central crown.
The Tigers tend to do really well in IL play, so I’ll go with 11-4
they play really well in IL….. so taking recent performances into consideration i say 9-7 few breaks 10-6
Undeserved? They are only one click away!
Does McCutchen look like on of the Milli Vanilli guys? The one that’s still alive?
No. He looks like himself….damn good!
Anyone catch Verlander mouth ‘wow’ after that Jackson catch? He made that a little more interesting than it needed to be
Encore!
Don Kelly is batting third. #$(#($ $@$#% #%%($%.
Isn’t it required to bat him 3rd since he’s filling in for Maggs?
Besides, once you get used to seeing Ryan Raburn batting 3rd what could possibly surprise you/
well i want to know why opie didn’t get to bat third
Even Rod acknowledged this on the telecast, saying “Leyland doesn’t like to mess with the line up card much”
Seriously, Don Kelly batting third is just stubborn dumb assness.
Or, it’s… “we’re only playing the Pirates so I will consult Nancy Reagan’s astrology guide…”
Cy Ohlendorf
36 pitches combined total after 2 innings…I think they can just go and rent out the bullpens to a private party tonight
Verlander just cost himself a run by blowing it on that bunt. We must have the worst fielding pitchers in baseball.
Inge, Avila and Santiago. The heart of the line up.
So far it’s the only part of the lineup that’s hitting. B.O.O.B. rally!
Since it looks like the Pirates are trying to hand us a run here, we should probably try to cash in
R3L2O-K Fail
R3L2O-Kx2 Fail
Hey Ramon at least swing at pitches that care in the city limits of Detroit….you did the same thing in the ninth inning at chicago swung at four balls….same thing today not even close…..
Sigh. Dead team walking.
Well I’m gonna nominate the bottom of third as “the most frustrating offensive half inning of the year”
Agreed. I’ve started to change the channel knowing 7-9 are coming up, waiting for the next inning.
Looks like you’re missing a good game so far
I’m glad I still had the radio on while painting. Maybe I should stop watching more often…
what awful ABs. Just a waste.
It’s still early…but seriously, you can’t get Inge home!
infield back and there going to give you a run or two on a ground ball 3Ks’ god this offense is disgusting ……..just a ground ball fly ball too much to ask for……..
With runner on 3rd Less than 2 out we are striking out 20% of the time (125 PA, 24K).
League average is 15%.
Ouch–Austin Jackson with R3L2O: 10 PA, 5 K.
Perhaps some coaching is needed here…
this is a sad statement about this tiger team. playing the lowly Pirates — one if the worst teams on in MLB — with JV on the hill and they are losing 1 nothing in the 4th.
Well, I’m not the most positive baseball fan, but lets not extrapolate too much about a one run deficit in the fourth. That’s like Blanche Lincoln conceding just based on the absentee ballots from Pulaski County.
OK, you’ve pretty much nailed down the obscure reference of the night award.
thank you and goodnight!
Woah that was a missle
Pitch wasn’t even a strike according to gameday, even though Rod said it went right down the middle
Boesch Bash!!
I wonder when the last time Inge got a 2 out hit with RISP with 2 strikes on him…
Probably the last time he got a 2 out hit with RISP. He pretty much always has 2 strikes on him…
“Inge now has a 7 game hitting streak, his average is slowly but surely beginning to climb.”
OK, slowly maybe, but surely might be stretching it.
Hey, look at that! RBInge!!!
Inge clinches the POW no more votes needed!!!!!
POW–player-of-the-world?
7 game hitting steaks will do that!
they just got Boesched and Binged in the same inning….wowoie
Boesch is now leading the team in BA and OPS, now that Miguel has fallen into a bit of a slump
JV, stop throwing fastballs to McCutchen. Thanks.
Especially if you’re gonna walk the 9 hitter in front of him
I see the Pirate catcher is hitting under .200 there must be a club or official group of these catchers…Laird for Pesident
Mauer applied…they told him forget it!
Avila has just been notified that he has been put on probation
I hope the kick him out!
Avila……atta boy……
is this how you get as bad as Pittsburgh is????
obviously They didn’t scout out the BOBS very well!
Maybe they were counting on Laird and Raburn
Pittsburgh, you’ve been B.O.O.B. Bombed!
Santiago takes him deep??
Holy frickin Jackson…he ran 100 yards after that thing!!!!1
Please give this to Rob In 1971, the Pirates also became the first Major League Baseball team to field an all-black starting lineup.[7] That lineup, on September 1, was Rennie Stennett, Gene Clines, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillen, Dave Cash, Al Oliver, Jackie Hernandez, and Dock Ellis
Maybe Cabrera needs a day off…he hasn’t looked good at the plate in several days, could there be a bit of fatigue there?
Not that we need him, with guys like Inge and Avila in the lineup…
His wife isn’t having another baby is she?
Batting fourth and playing 1st Base, Ryan Raburn.
is is to much to hope that given the chance Avila really can play!!???????
Ouhc, A-Jax fourth 0-5 game in the last seven. That’s in a bit of a rut.
He needs a couple of days off. Then Kelly can lead off and Raburn can return to the 3-spot.
Only if Kelly plays CF–whoever plays center has to lead off, it’s a rule. And since Leyland will want Damon to lead off, that means he also has to play center…wait, he’s actually done that already, hasn’t he?
8 hits 5 RBI is that a modern day BOOB record….atleast for this year
Valverde – the Un-rollercoaster.
Damn those Twins: 2 to 1 over the Braves in the middle of the 8th
On 5 soft singles around a K for both runs in the 7th. Liriano pitched another good game -11 Ks in 8 innings.
Rauch fanned the side in the 9th. They aren’t skipping a beat without Nathan.
When you look at the overall numbers, our overall hitting has been about as good as the Twins; in fact we have actually had fewer 0 and 1 run games than them. Their starting pitching has been the difference, and who would’ve predicted that?
Twins have a slightly better BA/OBP than the Tigers (.271/.348 vs.267/.339), but the bigger difference (before tonight) is in 288 RS vs.Tigers 257. They K less and W more, and in general play better small ball (do the Tigers actually play small ball?) which allows them to deal better with their own lineup holes (both Hardy and Hudson are on the DL right now) and still keep winning.
As far as pitching, one could argue that it has actually been the Tiger starters that have made the difference.
And then there is the defense. No matter how you want to evaluate it, the Twins are superior there as well.
Starting pitching:
DET 18-23 4.87 344 IP 1.44 WHIP 1.87 K/BB
MIN 30-20 4.01 383 IP 1.31 WHIP 3.23 K/BB
Check out that last one. Twins starters have walked 82 batters in 383 innings. Tiger starters have walked 131 batters in 344 innings. If I was going to pick 1 statistic from hitting, pitching, and defense as the biggest difference right now between MIN and DET, there you go.
New baby often = not much sleep
Somehow, I don’t thing Cabrera is doing a lot of midnight getting ups…
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