this groundhog has made a very beau burrow What a hot garbage pile of a home opener. There were a million home runs. The Tigers jumped out ahead early and then fell behind with horribly familiar speed. I dunno, it’s like a thousand degrees in my apartment right now so my ability to deal with
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Paws sanitizes Matt Boyd. Hey everyone. It’s July 24! It’s a global pandemic! It’s the first day of real live 2020 baseball! And the Tigers got whomped by the Reds. BASE BALL IS BAK BABEE!! No need to worry. It’s very clear what happened. After all, we’ve got all these new pandemic-related rules and procedures
Where does right hander Aurelio Lopez rank among Tigers relievers? Photo source: VintageDetroit.com Last year, I wrote a series of posts listing the all-time top ten Tigers at each position ad earlier this year, I listed the top forty starting pitchers. These lists can be found at the links below: Catchers first basemen Second Basemen
Al Kaline, drawing by Samara Pearlstein It’s April 2020. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic. Opening Day has come and gone without any baseball– in fact, there are no major sports of any kind being played right now. The Tigers were not very good last year, but it turns out that even not
Tigers Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser had the highest Baseball-Reference WAR of any Tigers pitcher (Photo credit:Baseballhall.org) Last year, I wrote a series of posts listing the all-time top ten Tigers at each position. They can be found at the links below: Catchers first basemen Second Basemen Shortstops Third Basemen Left Fielders Center Fielders Right
Most of the recent Tigers internet Hall of Fame talk has centered around long-time Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker. He was recently on the Modern Era Committee ballot but was not voted into the Hall of Fame despite having the highest career Wins Above Replacement among 20th Century players not in the Hall and not
Tigers star second baseman Lou Whitaker is looking to finally make the Hall of Fame tomorrow. Photo credit: CooperstownExpert.com Hopefully, this is the last “Lou Whitaker should be in the Hall of Fame” post you will ever see. Tomorrow, the Tigers long-time second baseman will get another shot at the Hall of Fame when the
(all drawings by Samara Pearlstein) What can we say? It’s a rebuilding year. The good news is… well, the good news is that it’s already May, I guess, and the team has not dissolved into screaming incoherence yet (I mean this in the literal sense that most everyone on the team is still walking upright
It was a lot more fun making projections for the Tigers staff when they had Justin Verlander (Photo credit:GiveMeSport) Now that I have projected the Tigers runs scored total for 2019, the next step is to estimate how many runs they will give up. Compared to run production, run prevention is more difficult to predict because pitcher’s
The health of first baseman Miguel Cabrera will be a big determinant in how many runs the Tigers score in 2019 (Photo source: Crain’s Detroit Business). It is time for my annual runs scored prediction for the Tigers. Table 1 below shows that I had been pretty good (lucky?) at projecting the Tigers team run totals
Early 20th Century outfielder Sam Crawford accumulated 64 WAR in his Tigers career. (Photo credit: National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Today, I am presenting the list of top ten right fielders in Tigers history. Other installments in this series can be found at the following links. Catchers first basemen Second Basemen Shortstops Third Basemen
Legendary center fielder Ty Cobb accumulated 145 WAR in his Tigers career. (Photo credit: Britannica.com) Today, I am presenting the list of top ten center fielders in Tigers history. Other installments in this series can be found at the following links. Catchers first basemen Second Basemen Shortstops Third Basemen Left Fielders In the previous articles,
Left fielder Bobby Veach with Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford made up one of best outfields ever. (Photo credit: Detroit Public Library Digital Collections) Today, I am presenting the list of top ten left fielders in Tigers history. Other installments in this series can be found at the following links. Catchers first basemen Second Basemen
Edit: The Adjusted Batting Average formula and numbers have been changed since this was originally published. The final ranking of players is unaffected. Hall of Fame slugger Hank Greenberg accumulated 54 WAR as a Tiger (Photo credit: Society for American Baseball Research) Today, I am presenting the list of top ten first basemen in Tigers
illustrations by Samara Pearlstein I think Paws and I might have a slightly different definition of ‘fine,’ but to be perfectly honest, I haven’t had time to watch as many games as usual this year, while Paws has seen all the games (or at least, we may assume, all the home games). Perhaps I should
Ron Gardenhire is the new manager of the Detroit Tigers, replacing Brad Ausmus after 4 seasons. This is a hard curve in terms of team direction. Ausmus was a very veteran former player, but a brand new kitten of a manager. He was an Ivy League guy who looked like the hottest dad at the
Images by Samara Pearlstein. Thirteen years. That’s how long Justin Verlander had been with the Tigers. In this era of constantly shifting lineups, it seems unreal to think that we had a pitcher stick with us for over a decade. ‘Ace’ is a term that can be applied one year and gone the next, but
Someone in the Rays production team set up a beautiful split-screen view of the ray, nose to the glass, and Miguel Cabrera, innocently up at bat with no idea that the local fauna was coming for him. I tried to take a photo of this amazing moment in baseball television but my phone was out