Category Archives: Batting
Detroit bats no longer a worry
After today’s win and with the Indians taking their second loss in a row Detroit is now leading the AL Central. Today the Tigers combined to hit .371 having 13 hits in 35 at-bats in an offensive performance that is … Continue reading
Early/Late runs propelling Detroit in 2007
With the day off I’ve taken the opportunity to play around with some of the cool stats that the folks at Baseball Reference have made available. Looking through the wins and losses so far this year it seems that the … Continue reading
Detroit pitching holds strong; offense struggles
Last nights game featured a heroic performance by Jeremy Bonderman who allowed no runs after the home run from the very first batter. Jeremy went nine full innings giving up six hits and zero walks with two of those hits … Continue reading
Leyland clarifies Tiger’s lineup
Finally the silence has been broken on what the Tigers plans were for the batting lineup. There has been quite a bit of chatter about Leyland batting Pudge first in the lineup often this Spring Training. This was followed earlier … Continue reading
Tigers showing offensive prowess this spring
Everyone has been watching Tiger pitching very closely this year after a powerful and, to most, surprising 2006 season. This has caused their offensive start this year to be overlooked a bit. The Tigers team stats might not look all … Continue reading
More Tigers Lefty/Righty Splits
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. … Continue reading
Grandersons strikeouts are nothing to worry about… yet
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 … Continue reading
More fun with Tiger lineups..
I was recently reading a good article over at Detroit News talking about lineup options for the Tigers into the ’07 season ending with a lineup suggestion by Lynn Hennings, as well as a follow up over at the Detroit … Continue reading