As the Tigers announced that Kenny Rogers was headed to the disabled list, I was finishing up some analysis on Rogers. Diving into the enhanced gameday goldmine, I looked to compare and contrast two of Rogers’s starts. His first game back against Atlanta when he was sterling and his last outing against the White Sox … Continue reading Comparing Kenny Rogers to Kenny Rogers
Pawtucket 3 Toledo 2 With a chunk of the team playing in Chicago tonight, the Mud Hens came up short. Jack Hannahan doubled and walked and Henry Mateo homered. Jordan Tata turned in a 7 hit, no walk, 2 run 8 inning performance. Erie 12 Trenton 1 Clete Thomas had 3 hits and a walk. … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 7/24/07
Thanks to Mike R who did the wrap… Toledo 3, Norfolk 5 Offensively, Kevin Hooper, Erick Almonte, and Chris Shelton each had an RBI. Shelton’s numbers are taking a hit as he’s hitting .200/.303/.345 in the month of July. Jordan Tata took the loss after going 5 1/3rd innings, giving up 4 runs on 5 … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 7/19/07
Charlotte 3 Toledo 2 Timo Perez homered and Chris Shelton singled and that was all the offense. Jordan Tata allowed 3 runs, 1 earned, on 5 hits in 6 2/3 innings. Bowie 11 Erie 2 Jeff Larish homered, one of only 4 hits for the Seawolves. Dallas Trahern was knocked around for 12 hits in … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 7/14/07
Louisville 1 Toledo 2 Jordan Tata pitched 7 innings of 3 hit ball. No runs crossed the plate and he walked just 2 while fanning 4. Eulogio De La Cruz pitched one inning allowing a hit and a walk. Brent Clevlen rejoined the team and walked twice. Kevin Hooper had the only multi hit game … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 7/6/07
Toledo 8 Ottawa 2 Timo Perez was 2 for 5 with a homer. And Ramon Santiago added a single and homer as well. Chris Shelton picked up 3 hits and Ryan Raburn added 2 hits and a walk. Jordan Tata started and allowed 2 runs on 9 hits, 1 walk, and 4 K’s in 7 … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 6-20-07
Toledo 5 Syracuse 2 David Espinosa had quite the game with 4 hits. Ryan Raburn continues to rake and knocked his 15th homer. Jordan Tata started and once again battled control issues with 4 walks in 5 2/3 innings but only 2 runs came in. Aquilino Lopez pitched a scoreless inning for the save. Erie … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 6/15/07
Not much in the way of good news for the Tigers today with Vance Wilson undergoing surgery and Roman Colon undergoing suspension. Vance Wilson So Vance Wilson finally gets a multi-year deal, and he’s going to spend the bulk of it on the DL. After spending 2 1/2 months trying to rehab his elbow, he … Continue reading Vance Wilson done for the year, Roman Colon suspended
Norfolk 2 Toledo 3 (11 innings) Ryan Raburn was a triple short of the cycle and Kevin Hooper added 3 hits. Jordan Tata pitched 5 shut out innings allowing 4 hits and 3 walks with 2 K’s. New Hampshire 7 Erie 2 (10 innings) Mike Hollimon doubled twice and is now hitting 261/379/435 on the … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap 6/9/07
Toledo 3 Buffalo 9 Jordan Tata started and was rocked 3 homers leading to 6 runs in only 2 1/3 innings. Eulogio De La Cruz who was recently promoted came on in relief and walked 5 batters and lasted only an inning. Ryan Raburn hit his 12th homer. Erie – DNP St. Lucie 2 Lakeland … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 6/4/07
Toledo 7 Scranton 0 Jordan Tata is back. He made the start tonight, and it was a short one as they build his arm strength up, but by all accounts successful. He went 3 innings and threw 34 pitches and allowed only a walk with no strikeouts. Ron Chiavacci “started” the back end of the … Continue reading Tigers Minor League Wrap – 5/30/07
As the injuries mount in the Tigers bullpen, the best the Tigers can hope for is to get by. Joel Zumaya still has another 8 weeks or so on the shelf, and while Fernando Rodney’s injury isn’t expected to be serious the Tigers won’t have him for a couple weeks. Now Jason Grilli probably won’t … Continue reading Coping