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Defense

Two Tigers win Gold Gloves, but not the right two

06.11.2007 18 comments

Ivan Rodriguez and Placido Polanco were honored today as MLB announced the Gold Glove winners. For Pudge it was his 13th while it was Polanco’s first. But were they the most deserving Tigers? Rob Neyer took a look at the inherent biases or trends in the voting. A couple of these helped the Tigers (previous [...]

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Defense shaky early

04.04.2007 11 comments

This is more an observation than a concern at this point, but the Tigers defense just hasn’t looked good in the early going. The Tigers pitching staff received many accolades for keeping runs off the board last year. But the stat-minded folks pointed to the the lower strike out numbers and wondered how they were [...]

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Making their own luck

14.03.2007 9 comments

In my last post I pointed out that Kenny Rogers, Nate Robertson, and Justin Verlander were the beneficiaries of some combination of good defense and good luck. Basically I was trying to point out that while all 3 had solid seasons, there were some breaks that were beyond their control that went their way. But [...]

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Luck of the Pitcher

14.03.2007 9 comments

I think it is pretty common knowledge at this point, that in large part the Tigers pitchers results exceeded their performance last year. If you subscribe to the DiPS theory, that pitchers have limited ability to control whether balls in play turn into hits, then in general the Tigers pitchers got by without striking out [...]

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Quick Links

19.01.2007 2 comments

We’re over the hump of the offseason and news is flowing now. So these link posts might get to be more frequent. You’ve probably seen this, but Brian from Tigerblog interviewed Ernie Harwell for The Hardball Times. He did an excellent job with the interview so make sure to check it out (if you haven’t [...]

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Midweek Linking

09.01.2007 1 comment

Jason Beck blogs that the Tigers are about to announce their new radio deal with WXYT and WKRK. Dan Dickerson and Jim Price will be returning. Beck also notes that Jason Johnson will be playing in Japan in 2007. John Sickels Yankees prospect list has Humberto Sanchez at #3 and Kevin Whelan at #12. Baseball [...]

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The problem with Sean Casey

21.11.2006 47 comments

When Sean Casey was resgined I indicated I didn’t like the deal, but never really elaborated. My issue is that as nice a guy as Sean Casey is, he just isn’t very good. Offensively Casey is at best an average hitter. His OPS+ since 2002 looks like this (OPS+ indexes a players OPS against the [...]

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Off Day Linking and Site News

28.08.2006 15 comments

It appears that comment spam problem is taken care of. It wasn’t a specific attack on me, but Akismet, which is a service that does spam filtering went down. The tide has been stemmed so no need to register for now Tiger blogger night is one week from Tuesday. Big Al will be joining the [...]

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Verlander, Granderson, Maybin and More

27.07.2006 10 comments

Justin Verlander Thwarts Running Game One of my favorite baseball columns is Dave Studemund’s “Ten Things I Didn’t Know Last Week” piece he writes for Hardball Times. This week’s column highlights just how hard it is to run on Justin Verlander. We know about his lightning quick pick-off move that has gunned down 5 victims. [...]

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Links and stuff

01.06.2006 27 comments

Between anniversaries, and attending Tiger games, and work, I’ve got a pile of links to power through: The Baseball Crank took a look at the Tigers pitching. He found that through the 29th, the Tigers were in some rare company. In terms of the Tigers ratio of ERA to league average ERA they stood as [...]

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Quick Hits

03.02.2006 4 comments

Some brief notes an links as I prepare to have 14 preschoolers over for a birthday party tomorrow… Monroe Re-ups The Detroit Tigers avoided arbitration hearings completely this year with Craig Monroe now under contract. He signed for one year and $2.8 million. A fair deal all around, and the two sides essentially split the [...]

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Shelton Game

01.02.2006 6 comments

Remember when it seemed like Chris Shelton didn’t have a position? In fact one local columnist didn’t include Shelton in last year’s Top 10 Tiger prospects because: Shelton does not have a position and is unathletic. Last season, when he did get to play in the major leagues and rehab assignment at Toledo, he did [...]

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