Toledo 1 Norfolk 0 Brent Dlugach’s homered proved to be all the offense. Ryan Roberson did pick up 3 hits. Scott Drucker fanned 4 and walked 1 with 3 hits in 6 innings. Clay Rapada pitched the final 2 innings for the save. Erie 6 Bowie 10 Scott Sizemore singled, doubled, and walked. Brennan Boesch … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 6/6/09
Toledo 5 Durham 2 Marcus Thames is wrapping up his rehab assignment in fine fashion with a homer and a single. Brent Clevlen doubled and tripled. Dusty Ryan and Wil Rhymes both homered as well. Ruddy Lugo allowed 2 runs on 7 hits and 2 walk with 4 K’s in 6 innings. Clay Rapada got … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 6/3/09
Norfolk 6 Toledo 8 Don Kelly and Brent Clevlen each had 3 hits. Marcus Thames went 1 for 5 with 2 K’s. Chris Lambert went 4 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits. Clay Rapada struck out 3 in 3 innings with 1 hit allowed. Freddy Dolis gave up 4 runs in 1+ innings. The … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/27/09
Lehigh Valley 5 Toledo 3 Mike Hessman hit 3 doubles. Don Kelly was 2 for 2 with 2 walks. Jeff Frazier also had 2 hits. Ruddy Lugo allowed 6 hits and walked 4 in 5.1 innings. Fu Te Ni allowed a solo homer and 2 other hits in 2.2 innings. Clay Rapada struck out one … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/10/2009
UPDATE: Per Jason Beck on Twitter Guillen hits the DL with shoulder inflammation. Also Jeff Larish is called up and Clay Rapada heads down. The Tigers have called up Clete Thomas. A corresponding roster move hasn’t been announced, but with Carlos Guillen’s struggles and general injury-ness (achilles and shoulder pain) it is likely he is … Continue reading Clete Thomas called up
PREGAME: The Minnesota Twins make their first journey to Comerica Park as the Tigers complete the homestand with a 2 game series. The Twins have been outscored by 26 runs this year, but are only a game under .500. The Twins are one of only 3 AL teams to be slugging below .400, but the … Continue reading Game 2009.025: Twins at Tigers
The Tigers optioned Jeff Larish down to Toledo to make room for lefty reliever Clay Rapada. My read is that this has little to do with Larish and more to do with Bobby Seay pitching every day and a bunch of games against lefty heavy teams coming up. Seay has pitched 3 days in a … Continue reading Tigers swap lefty bat for lefty arm
Louisville 10 Toledo 3 Clete Thomas went 2 for 4 with a walk. Dusty Ryan homered and walked. Scott Drucker allwoed 7 runs on 10 hits including 3 homers in 4 innings. Fu Te Ni walked 2, but also struck out 2 in 2 innings. Clay Rapada allowed 2 runs on 3 hits with 2 … Continue reading Tigers Minor Leauge & Dontrelle Wrap: 4/26/09
Louisville 4 Toledo 5 (10 inn) Brent Clevlen was a double short of the cycle. Brent Dlugach went 3 for 5 and is now hitting 362/404/638. Ruddy Lugo allowed 4 runs on 9 hits with 3 K’s in 6 innings. Casey Fien, Clay Rapada, Matt Rusch and Freddy Dolsi held Louisville off the board. Harrisburg … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/24/09
Toledo 5 Columbus 7 Bretn Clevlen had 2 hits. Don Kelly walked twice and homered. Chris Lambert allowed 5 runs on 9 hits with 2 K’s in 4.1 innings. Clay Rapada fanned 2 in 1.1 innings of 1 hit work. Erie 4 Altoona 6 Jeff Fraizer went 3 for 4 with a double. Cale Iorg … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/19/09
Toledo 2 Indianapolis 3 (14 innings) A whole lotta baseball in this one, and not a lot of offense. Brent Dlugach was 3 for 4 including a homer and a walk. Lucas French went the first 5 innings (3 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K). Casey Fien had 3 k’s but blew the save … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/12/09
Today’s roster decisions pretty much wrapped up nearly 2 months (and in some cases even more) of speculation. There is one spot yet to be decided. That will go to either Jeff Larish or Brent Clevlen, though the Tigers are reportedly in trade talks with the Pirates regarding Clevlen. (ironically, or at least coincidentally, such a trade would displace former Tiger Craig Monroe) But with 96% of the roster decided we shift our guessing from personnel to performance.