Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Curtis Granderson started the Tigers spring season off right taking Florida Southern pitcher Dan Albritton yard. More importantly today’s game signaled the start of the baseball season and for that I’m excited. We also go a look at Cameron Maybin who replaced Curtis in the second inning. Maybin came up with two hits out of [...]
Monday, February 26, 2007
Billfer, of the Detroit Tigers Weblog, did a very good job recently showing how the Tigers handled hitting when they had two strikes. This had me thinking about how Tigers pitching handled these very same situations through out the year. I was interested in more than two strike counts though and took a look at [...]
Sunday, February 25, 2007
In the last post about Curtis Granderson and his strikeout troubles I took a look at his splits between left handed pitchers and right handed pitchers. Curtis’s large gap for performance between the two was quite well known last year. In many games last season opposing teams would put in a left handed pitcher to [...]
Sunday, February 25, 2007
An article at the Chicago Sun-Times documents Alan Trammels return to baseball as the Chicago Cubs Infield and Bench coach. And his thoughts on the Tigers World Series berth last year?
I was happy for him, honestly,” Trammell said of Leyland, who repeatedly gave his predecessor credit for setting the foundation of last year’s winner.
”We know [...]
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Tuesday the Tigers will have a exhibition game against Florida Southern at 1:05pm at Joker Merchant. Could be a close one as Florida Southern is carrying an 11-1 record currently so they are coming into the game feeling confident. :)
For Tigers fans it will be an opportunity to see some newly acquired pitchers from [...]
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Many news articles of late have tackled some of Curtis Granderson’s issues at the plate but mainly revolve around his high strikeout rate. While I don’t dispute that this is an area of improvement for Curtis, I do not believe it is his biggest issue. His biggest issue, and one that rapidly dropped last [...]
Friday, February 23, 2007
Well, so says the PECOTA Depth Charts. The Royals Review took a look at these depth charts a little more and what they meant for the AL Central. Ultimately it didn’t look good for Detroit:
Team
W
L
Minnesota
91
71
Cleveland
89
73
Detroit
85
77
Chicago
72
90
Kansas City
67
95
Not really surprising, basically saying it will be a close race at the top of the AL Central. Looking around [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The latest Cutoff Man blog entry they bring up the discussion on whether Ledezma should replace Mike Maroth on the Tigers starting rotation. Scott sites a FoxSports.com comment:
At the time of his elbow injury last season, Mike Maroth had a respectable 4.19 ERA in 53.2 innings.
First off, this statement is a bit misleading as the [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
It is almost the time of year that we stop looking at prospects and hoping. We will, in the next month, know which prospects have made the team and which we will be watching in the minors for another year (or the first year in some cases!). I always enjoy looking at the prospects and [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Much was made this past week about Leyland’s comments on a Tigers prospect Kyle Sleeth. Leyland was impressed with what he saw on that day. Sleeth use to show up in the Tigers top prospect lists but those days are over. While he is still very talented I believe these comments made many go to [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Royals news this off season has been dwarfed with talk of the signing of the ex-mariner Gil Meche to a 5-year $55M contract. Maybe rightfully so as that is a whole heck of a lot of money, especially for Kansas City. Much has also been made about who they spent the money on. But all [...]
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