Going into tonight’s game the Tigers were leading Major League Baseball in number of wild pitches with 28. Tonight Justin Verlander has added two more wild pitches to the Tigers total and putting his personal total at 7 for this year. For the entire 2006 season Justin Verlander was charged with 5 wild pitches (Tigers […]
MLB.com has released the current totals on All-Star balloting for the American League today and the Tigers are faring very well. For infield there is a Tiger in the Top 5 for each position and 2 in the Top 15 for the outfield.
Ivan Rodriguez is leading AL catchers with 370,322 and a margin of 41,348 […]
As of earlier today the Tigers sit at 3rd overall in the Major League’s in team AVG (2nd in the American League) and 6th overall in OBP (4th in the American League) and first in runs scored. This is impressive from a team dominated by pitching and finishing 24th overall in MLB in OBP last […]
In an article today at MLB.com by Jason Beck, Jim Leyland is quoted saying that the Tigers need more innings from the starters assuringly meaning that maybe the bullpen isn’t as much of a problem as I, and the rest of the Detroit blogs, have been saying.
“Everybody’s focusing on the bullpen,” Leyland said, “and the […]
By now you have most likely heard the news that Tigers setup man Fernando Rodney has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with bicep tendinitis. This is another major blow to the Detroit bullpen any way you look at it.
Rodney has certainly not been as good as he was in ‘06 through this point. […]
The Toledo Mudhens will face Roger Clemens in Scranton on Monday night when they face the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Yankees. The game time will be 5PM and will probably be on ESPN 2 as with his last two rehab starts though you can also catch this with MiLB Gameday Audio, which is free of charge.
The Tigers […]
Many Tigers are starting to get noticed more nationally with the team leading the AL Central for another year and this time with some offense. Magglio Ordonez is making a run for MVP but a bit more quietly Polanco continues to be a key member in the 2-spot in the lineup.
Everyone in Detroit knows how […]
I was running through and looking at the Tigers stats and noticed how remarkably close the statistics are between Gary Sheffield and Brandon Inge. Below are each players statistics, can you tell who is who?
H
2B
3B
HR
BB
HBP
AVG
OBP
SLG
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34
5
0
8
16
3
.234
.321
.424
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37
5
0
8
26
5
.234
.354
.418
The walks probably give this one away, but the second line is that of Gary Sheffield. One other interesting stat is […]
Sports Illustrated had an article subtitled “Seven trades that need to happen before the deadline” where they suggested a trade the Tigers need to make to fill the hole left by the slumping Sean Casey. This was also noted over at mlive.com but the article suggests that Detroit trade for Troy Glaus or Todd Helton:
5. […]
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