Tiger History

The Detroit Economic Development council approved a plan to tear down Tiger Stadium. The nearly $3 million cost will be offset by a web based memorabilia auction.
The plan will be taken to the City Council in July.
The plan calls for the preservation of the field for youth leagues while the site is redeveloped for [...]

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A little bit of this and a little bit of that:
More Curtis
Curtis Granderson opened up his mailbag again. This time he talks about the high socks (love the high socks), his at-bat music, and bubble gum. Hard hitting stuff? Not at all. Interesting? I think so.
I always liked how the [...]

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Things have been lighter for the last week on the blog. Part of that is a lack of terribly interesting news coming out of Lakeland - which is a good thing. This offseason I’ve been trying to compensate for these lulls by cranking through some analysis. That’s kind of what I’ve been [...]

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A & E television has been building quite the library of baseball DVDs over the last couple years. Looking to continue this trend and capitalize on the resurgence of the Detroit Tigers, they recently released a DVD featuring footage from the Tigers 3 post WWII World Series victories.
Now none of the content [...]

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credit Roger DeWitt
Miller Time
John Sickels has another prospect smackdown, this time it is Andrew Miller vs. Adam Miller. Sickels gives a very slight edge to Adam Miller.
Maybe a SLIGHT edge on intangibles for Adam Miller, Andrew gets a slight edge on tools, Adam gets a slight edge on current polish and performance, even on [...]

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We’ll wrap up our look at best and worst Tigers seasons of all time with the best Tigers pitching seasons. The methodology is quite simple, and if you’ve read the other parts of the series will look quite familiar.
Using data from Baseball Reference PI I looked at the best seasons in terms of ERA+ [...]

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Following up on last weeks look at the best and worst offensive seasons, we’ll look at the pitchers now.
Armed with the power of the Baseball Reference Play Index I was able to pull the worst Tiger season in terms of ERA+ for those pitchers with at least 10 starts. Using the suckage [...]

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On Friday we took a look at the worst Tigers offensive seasons. Today we’ll take a look at some of the best.
I’ll use a similar methodology to the suckage index only this we’ll call the awesomeness index. What I did was look for the top OPS+ seasons where the player had a minimum [...]

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A whole pile of links, plus another great shot from spring training…

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Have you ever wondered who had the worst offensive season of all time in a Tiger uniform? Well, I hadn’t either until this morning. I came across (via Knuckle Curve) a post at the Blue Jays blog Batters Box that looked at the worst pitching seasons in the organization’s history. This peaked my [...]

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Okay, so we’re not going to all start a campaign to save the old girl before she gets it from the wrecking ball. What I’m talking about is preserving some of Tiger Stadium’s history and charm. Moving some of Michigan and Trumbull to Montcalm and Witherall.
A couple weeks ago I flashed back [...]

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