Yesterday I wrote about the significant increase in offense that has happened between 2005 and 2006. Today I’ll write about the changes in pitching performance, however the results have not been as outstanding. In fact, the Tiger offense and pitching have simply switched places this year with pitching sitting at league average and the offense [...]
Last year the Tigers seemed to improve overnight from a 2005 record of 71-91 (.438) to end the 2006 season 95-67 (.586). This year it seems that the Detroit offense has made a similar improvement. The 2006 offense wasn’t quite that anemic and ended the year 8th in runs scored (822) and 10th in batting [...]
Or how much is a #5 starter worth in today’s MLB market? Turns out that it isn’t much. In the trade made last week by Tiger GM Dave Dombrowski the team dealt #5 starter Mike Maroth to the Cardinals for a PTBNL (”Player to be named later”). This simply means that each team agreed [...]
The moves made by Detroit GM Dave Dombrowski in the past week have yet to strengthen the teams largest weakness; the bullpen. A week ago I laid out some idea’s on how Detroit could leverage the excess of starters into a stronger bullpen. I, as much of Detroit, expected a trade that helped the team [...]
Watching Chad Durbin’s performance this evening has cemented something I’ve been thinking about the past few weeks. Chad Durbin should remain in the starting rotation for the Tigers.
Detroit has many decisions coming up regarding both their starting five as well as the bullpen, some of which I wrote about in yesterday’s blog with the return [...]
It became official today, the Gambler will return to big league action this Friday against the Atlanta Braves. He’ll be tested right out of the gate by likely facing John Smoltz and a pretty potent offense from the Braves. Smoltz is having a very good year sporting an 8-3 record with a 2.84 ERA over [...]
The Free Press is reporting that the Tigers have called up Eulogio De La Cruz to the big leagues. De La Cruz started the year in Erie as a starter and was successful and was recently moved up to Toledo and moved to the bullpen with some success:
De La Cruz’s ERA was almost two [...]
There have been those around Detroit who have jumped on Jim Leyland for comments he made on why he didn’t and wouldn’t pinch hit for Craig Monroe. Monroe had just finished his 5th at-bat and his 5th strikeout of the day with his last at-bat being particularly harsh as he stranded the tieing run on [...]
Ever since Brandon Inge broke his left to on May 29th due to a breaking ball from Casey Fossum he has been unstoppable. On May 29th Brandon was batting a .219/.314/.396 which, after sitting out six days due to the toe injury, has turned into .254/.350/.361.
That is a heck of a turnaround in such [...]
Wow. Absolutely amazing. When Jim Leyland told his starters that the team needed them to last deeper into games Justin Verlander took that to heart. Tonight he tossed a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers dominating the hitters racking up a total of 12 K’s.
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
HR
Justin Verlander
9.0
0
0
0
4
12
0
That is one hell of a stat line. Amazing game that [...]
Prior to the season Will Carroll releases Positional Health Reports detailing the risk of injury to each starting player for each team. With the Tigers injuries continuing to rack up I thought it’d be interesting to take a look back at the report as it pertains to Detroit. Will is quick to point out what [...]
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