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Previews

World Series Preview: Tigers-Cardinals Season Series

10.20.2006 2 comments

A look back at what went down when these teams met up for a 3 game set in Comerica Park this season…

ALDS Preview: Tigers and Yankees

10.02.2006 38 comments

In my mind I kind of laid out a long preview of the upcoming series. Fortunately for me, some other bloggers already beat me to it. As it is, it will be a much shorter preview while I lean on their work.

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Tigers Prediction Thread

04.03.2006 24 comments

Well I guess it’s finally time that I give up my prediction for the Tigers season. If you’ve been reading the last couple years, you may remember that I did extensive analysis, player-by-player to predict runs scored and runs allowed to arrive at a final win prediction. That was a lot of work [...]

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Opening Day Eve Link-up

04.02.2006 1 comment

Okay, so it isn’t opening day eve if you’re a White Sox or Indians fan. But we’ll look past that little fact for now…
The Bird
Detroit Tiger Tales is hopping on the diary theme. This one takes a look at Mark “the Bird” Fidrych’s magical 1976 season. Here’s the first paragraph of the first [...]

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Keep an Eye on: the Erie Seawolves

03.31.2006

Over the last few weeks of spring training, I

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Keep an Eye on: Productive At-bats

03.31.2006 2 comments

Over the last few weeks of spring training, I

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A heaping helping of Zumaya

03.29.2006

There were several Detroit Tiger mentions over the last two days, and many of them included references to Joel Zumaya.
The Free Press had a piece on Zumaya’s new curveball/slider.
“My curve can be a slider,” he said. “If I throw it from over the top, it’s a curve with a 12-to-6 break. If I lower my [...]

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Tiger Linkfest

03.27.2006 4 comments

Roster Issues
I’ve said pretty much all I have to say about the Carlos Pena release in that I don’t like how the roster sets up. Knobler’s blog today didn’t make me feel any better
Leyland raved again after the game about Ramon Santiago. Santiago is very likely to make the opening day roster, in part [...]

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Off Day Tiger Round Up

03.22.2006 1 comment

The Tigers still have 45 players in camp, so there are a couple of sizable cuts coming. The next one will probably be before the end of the week. Until then, here are some items of note:
The rotation is set – sort of
Jim Leyland had already decided that Kenny Rogers would take the first turn, [...]

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Tiger Seasonal Previews

03.21.2006

A couple of looks at the 2006 season from fellow baseball bloggers…
Simulation
The Replacement Level Yankees Weblog has run 1000 seasonal simulations using 3 different projection systems: ZiPS, PECOTA, and Diamond Mind. With each of the 3 systems, Detroit was projected in 4th place, with approximately a 500 record.
Diamond Mind was the biggest [...]

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St Patty’s Bracket Busting Tiger Round Up

03.17.2006

The Boys are Back in Town

Detroit AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Granderson, CF 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 .364
Guillen, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250
Santiago, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 .281
Ordonez, RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 .222
Taylor, RF 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .379
Young, D, DH 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 .429
Pena, 1B 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 .194
Inge, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 .308
Gomez, LF 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 .317
Wilson, C 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 .400
Peterson, B, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Infante, 2B 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 .455
How about that lineup? It’s nice to see some regular names in there. Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordonez saw their first action since Venezuela was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. The game [...]

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