Posts tagged as:

rick porcello

Tigers Minor League Warp 5-16-08

16.05.2008 1 comment

Toledo 3 Durham 9It wasn’t a good night for Virgil Vasquez who allowed 6 runs on 3 homers in just 3 innings. Yorman Bazardo came on in relief and allowed 3 runs on 7 hits in 4.1 innings while fanning 5 and walking none. And in an odd night, Hessman, Larish, and Hollimon didn’t homer. [...]

Read the full article →

Tigers Minor League Wrap 5-10-08

11.05.2008 9 comments

Charlotte 3 Toledo 5 Mike Hessman and Clete Thomas homered. Brent Clevlen had 3 hits pushing his line to 313/376/563. Casey Fossum got the win allowing 1 run in 6 innings on 3 hits. Blaine Neal allowed 2 homers in one inning of relief. Toledo 1 Charlotte 4 Mike Hessman homered and had one of [...]

Read the full article →

Tigers Minor Leauge Wrap 4-19-08

20.04.2008 1 comment

Louisville 5 Toledo 0 Curtis Granderson doubled and singled, and like the night before in Grand Rapids that was it for the highlights. Virgil Vasquez allowed 5 runs on 9 hits and 3 walks with only 1 K in 5.1 innings. Cassey Fossum went 2.2 innings allowing one hit while fanning 3. Jason Beck was [...]

Read the full article →

Finding a 6th starter

11.04.2008 23 comments

On the second batter of the Friday night’s game Dontrelle Willis slipped and hyper-extended his knee. It’s unclear at this point whether the knee injury will cause Willis to hit the DL, but given his control problems this year it might not be a bad idea regardless. If the Tigers do need a new starter, [...]

Read the full article →

Tigers Minor League Wrap 4-8-2008

09.04.2008 3 comments

Charlotte 9 Toledo 7 Ryan Raburn homered and knocked in 3 while Mike Hessman doubled and tripled. Brent Clevlen went 3 for 4 and continues a promising start to his season. Matt Joyce hit his second homer of the year to go along with a walk. Virgil Vasquez was knocked around for 7 hits but [...]

Read the full article →

Doing my part as a cog in the Rick Porcello hype machine

04.04.2008 10 comments

It’s only one start, but the reviews couldn’t get much better of Rick Porcello’s debut. I hit the details in the minor league wrap last night, but those in attendance have since had time to post their reports. Porcello threw 71 pitches over the 5 innings, which was right in line with a pitch count/inning [...]

Read the full article →

Tigers Minor League Wrap 4-3-08

03.04.2008 4 comments

At least everyone else in the organization won their opening days. Some great starting pitching efforts including the debut of Rick Porcello. Durham 2 Toledo 3 Dane Sardinha homered and singled. Mike Hessman had a 2 hit day as well. Jeff Larish struggled in his AAA debut going 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts. Virgil [...]

Read the full article →

Good news for Tigers pen?

11.03.2008 10 comments

Given the rash of bad news with injuries, shellackings, and visa problems hitting the Tigers bullpen, today was a nice change. Denny Bautista continued to pitch well. He went 2 scoreless innings with 4 K’s and is going to be hard to leave behind when the team heads North. Jordan Tata, who wasn’t a strong [...]

Read the full article →

Porcello and moving pictures

11.03.2008 18 comments

The Tigers are going the split squad route today with a home game against the Reds (Dontrelle Willis) and a road tilt against the Indians (Yorman Bazardo). For those with MLB.tv they’ll be able to catch the road game which is set to feature Rick Porcello. Also of note today, Todd Jones is slated to [...]

Read the full article →

Rick Porcello’s Debut

29.02.2008 5 comments

credit Roger DeWitt The Tigers first round draft pick from a year ago made his debut of sorts today. Rick Porcello pitched 2 perfect innings, the first of which came while the Blue Jays regulars were in the game. Here’s how his day went: David Eckstein grounds out, pitcher Rick Porcello to first baseman Jeff [...]

Read the full article →

Men in uniforms

15.02.2008 4 comments

credit Roger DeWitt The first day of official workouts. Now we’re rolling. Link round up Catching up with Inge – Detroit Tigers Insider – MLive.comA TALE OF TWO CATCHERSJim Leyland addresses Brandon Inge’s future with TigersLeyland isn’t concerned about lineup, is concerned about bullpenThe Official Site of The Detroit Tigers: News: Notes: Porcello gets first [...]

Read the full article →

Baseball America’s 2008 Tigers Prospect List

18.01.2008 13 comments

There isn’t an official top prospect list, but BA’s is kind of the standard. Today they announced the Tigers 2008 top 10 Rick Porcello, rhp Cale Iorg, ss Scott Sizemore, 2b Michael Hollimon, 2b/ss Yorman Bazardo, rhp Jeff Larish, 1b Matt Joyce, of Danny Worth, ss Francisco Cruceta, rhp Brandon Hamilton, rhp Rick Porcello is [...]

Read the full article →

Switch to our mobile site