Toledo 0 Pawtucket 4 Brent Clevlen went 3 for 3. That was half the Mud Hens hit total as the team was shut down by Daisuke Matsuzaka. Ruddy Lugo walked 5 and allowed 6 hits for 4 runs in 6.2 innings. Erie – PPD Dunedin 5 Lakeland 8 Michael Bertram homered. Christopher White had 3 … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 5/5/09
Louisville 6 Toledo 0 Brent Clevlen doubled, one of only 4 hits for the Mud hens. Chris Lambert allowed 4 runs on 3 homers, 2 walks, and 3 K’s in 6.1 innings. Fu Te Ni struck out 2 in one inning. Harrisburg 1 Erie 5 Brennan Boesch homered and singled and Ryan Strieby added his … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/25/09
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 3 Columbus 1 Danny Worth went 4 for 4 with a walk out of the lead off spot. Brent Clevlen singled and doubled. Ruddy Lugo went 5 innings and allowed 3 walks and 4 hits with a single K but only 1 run crossed. We covered Zumaya’s outing already. Casey Fien allowed one hit … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/18/09
Columbus 3 Toledo 5 Ryan Raburn went 3 for 3 with a homer and a walk. Brent Clevlen doubled and singled. Lucas French fanned 8 and walked none in 6 innings of 3 hit shut out ball. Scott Williamson gave up all the runs. Freddy Dolsi got the save pitching 1.1 innings with a K. … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 4/17/09
Toledo 4 Indianpolis 2 Scott Drucker allowed 1 run on no walks, a strike out and 3 hits in 5 innings. Casey Fien allowed a homer in 2 innings. Brent Clevlen was 2 for 5. Wil Rhymes and Mike Hessman each walked twice (Hessman also struck out 3 times). Altoona 0 Erie 2 Max Leon … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 4/10/2009
Steve Kornacki reports that Jeff Larish was getting congrats from his teammates today as he secured the last spot on the bench. Larish will be able to provide depth at the corners and be a lefty option at DH as well. He edges out Brent Clevlen who is out of options. The Tigers are probably … Continue reading Jeff Larish is the 25th man
It appears the Rick Porcello and Ryan Perry will be breaking camp with the Tigers. Details are still thin beyond that. I’ll update as more information floats North. Also, Mike Hessman was placed on outright waivers and Ryan Raburn was optioned to Toledo. That leaves 29 players in camp including Scott Williamson, Brent Clevlen, Jeff … Continue reading Porcello and Perry make the team
I was going to just ammend the original post, but enough time has passed, and I ‘ve read plenty, and I have a number of thoughts about this, so we’ll start a new post. Risk/Reward When the Tigers acquired Josh Anderson on Monday I thought it was a very strong possibility that Marcus Thames career … Continue reading Some more Sheffield stuff
Aside from trying to handicap the Tigers starting rotation battle, the other story of interest was figuring out the last 2 spots on the bench. That picture is a little clearer today with the news the Tigers have traded for Josh Anderson. In exchange they send Rudy Darrow to the Braves. Anderson (who when I … Continue reading Tigers solve crowded outfield by trading for outfielder
The trade winds are blowing. On Sunday Peter Gammons mentioned Marcus Thames as a player the Tigers have made available. Now the Freep has two articles mentioning the fact that Thames is a trade candidate and that with 2 weeks left before the season, the phones are getting more active. In the past when Thames … Continue reading Is this the year Thames gets traded
A couple of bullpen candidates have been trimmed from the big league camp. Freddy Dolsi was optioned to Toledo and Casey Fien was assigned to minor league camp. Fu Te Ni was also assinged to minor league camp. The Fien move is a little surprising because he has pitched so well this spring, but as … Continue reading Fien, Dolsi cut