TIGERS CORNER: Robertson adjusts his delivery Hopefully it works. Nate has struggled his last few times out. Bullpen isn’t only problem for Tigers Henning says the Tigers have to have more production from first, even if Sean Casey is a nice guy. Even the traditional stats point out Casey’s flaws. RBI is a flawed stat, … Continue reading links for 2007-05-30
Normally when a team is slumping, you look to the next day’s starting pitcher to put a stop to the slide. It’s one of those things that people talk about when defining an ace. Well how much more can you ask for from a rotation that has put up these performances over the last 6 … Continue reading In search of a little support
The Tigers are keeping the same pitching rotation heading into the second half. Jeremy Bonderman will take the ball first though as Leyland treats Kenny Rogers All Star appearance as a start. Essentially Justin Verlander misses a turn which should help on conserving his workload. Baseball Prospectus muses further on the Tigers potential for a … Continue reading Rotation Rotation
For a few minutes there in the 8th inning, I thought I might be titling this post “Sweepless in Seattle.” Fortunately the Tigers held onto the lead and Detroit heads into Anaheim wiht their second 5 game winning streak of the season. In the process of knocking off the Mariners, Detroit guaranteed themselves a winning … Continue reading The sweep thread – Detroit takes down Seattle
I’m not sure if I’ll do the by the numbers stuff after every series, but I’ll keep doing it for now. So far it’s easy to compile the stats by just working off of the splits, because the Tigers have only played teams once. 800That was Carlos Guillen’s batting average on balls-in-play. For the series, … Continue reading The Indians Series – by the numbers
Tigers President/CEO/General Manager David Dombrowski was kind enough to do an interview with DTW. The discussion touched on trends from the off-season, player development, and a look forward to the 2005 season. The theme throughout is that if the Tigers are going to have success, the improvement will have to come from within the organization. … Continue reading My interview with Dave Dombrowski
The Tigers have really tried to be active this offseason. They’ve made competitive offers, if the reports have been true, to a number of guys. But although they’ve competed, they just haven’t come out on top. Sounds a lot like the Lions doesn’t it? However, even with missing on Glaus, Finley, Koskie, and Pavano the … Continue reading The not so hot stove
Random Thoughts while watching Detrot’s dominant pitching: -The Tigers have won consecutive games for the first time in awhile. The Tigers last winning streak was April 23rd and 24th when they took the first two games of a series against Cleveland. Before that, their only other win streak was the 4-0 start to the season … Continue reading Tigers Streaking
Danny Knobler thinks the Tigers need to make one of those trades that seems meaningless at the time (Greg Gohr for Damion Easley) that turn out to be incredibly fortunate for the Tigers. He’s not sure that Illitch has intentions of spending the money that they will save in expired contracts next year, so the … Continue reading