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So much for Rick Porcello wearing down at the end of the year.  He’s given up two runs or less in six of his last seven starts and this one was good for win number twelve.  He gave up two runs on five hits with one strikeout in seven innings and he had a typical [...]

Giving this another shot.  I hate hackers.

I didn’t really have anything special planned, but this is the 2,000th post on Tigerblog.net.  Throw in a couple hundred posts at the 1968 Tigers site, a couple of years worth of diaries at the now dormant Reds Cutting Edge and a couple hundred Business of Baseball Reports at the Hardball Times and it’s made [...]

Justin Verlander had one bad inning in his start earlier this afternoon when he gave up a pair of home runs in a three run fourth.  The Tigers took a 3-1 deficit into the eighth and it looked like it was going to be another lackluster performance by the offense before Placido Polanco went deep [...]

The Tigers went back to their arms to pull out the win in this one as they took care of the Rays 6-2 at Comerica Park.  Porcello won his eleventh game of the season with a really nice start.  He gave up one run on four hits and two walks with five strikeouts in 5 [...]

The Tigers lost their finale with the Angels this afternoon and they left the West Coast with a 3-3 split between the Angels and A’s.  Not too shabby considering the Tigers road record.  Now they come home for four against the Rays and they won’t have to go back on the road until this time [...]

Despite all of the Tigers’ troubles on the road, even if they lose this afternoon, they’ll have a 3-3 split in their west coast trip against Oakland and Angels.  They did it with another nice win last night.  Jarrod Washburn made one mistake (three run home run) that put the Tigers down but he pitched [...]

The Tigers won a shootout last night as they dropped the Angels 10-7 in a game that saw Miguel Cabrera drive in five runs.  He finished the game three for five with a home run, two doubles and he scored twice.  Every Tiger starter had a hit in this one and the only Tiger starter [...]

Once again, the Tigers struggled on the road.  This time it was their first of two three game series out on the west coast.  They dropped two of three against the Athletics and unfortunately, it doesn’t get any easier because next up is four against the Angels.  Jack Cust took Rick Porcello deep twice as [...]

After a rough 2008 debut season in the minors, Jared Gayhart, the Tigers 13th round pick in 2008, has put together a nice season.  He’s gone all the way from West Michigan to Erie and he make his first start since joining the Tigers organization yesterday.  Not too shabby because he threw five shutout innings [...]

The Tigers won their rubber game with the Mariners yesterday afternoon with an impressive come from behind victory.  The Tigers were down by four runs two different times (4-0 and 6-2) and they managed to put this one in the win column.  They scored three in the sixth to make it a one run game [...]

Justin Verlander had another solid start he just made one big mistake when he served up a home run to Ichiro.  The two run blast turned a 1-0 deficit into a three run deficit that the Tigers never recovered from. It also didn’t help that the Tigers made Ian Snell look like a Cy Young [...]

This was a nice win.  Rick Porcello had a solid start before the pen kind of messed things up but then the Tigers stormed back in the eighth inning with four runs to walk away with this one.  Six of the eight runs that were scored in the game all came in the eighth.
Porcello struck out a [...]

Dave Dombrowski and the front office was busy yesterday as they pushed a midnight deadline to sign their top draft picks.  Dombrowski did it again though and he inked top draft pick Jacob Turner, second round pick Andrew Oliver and sixth round pick Daniel Fields to deals before the midnight deadline.
Turner got an impressive payday with [...]

The Tigers pulled the trigger on a deal that’ll bring Aubrey Huff to the team for pitching prospect Brett Jacobson.  This is basically the left handed bat the Tigers were looking for a couple of weeks ago at the trade deadline, just Huff’s power is all but sapped.  He’s hit just 13 home runs this [...]

The Good – Armando Galarraga bounced back with a solid start.  He pitched just five innings, but he gave up just two runs on four hits and two walks with six strikeouts.  He lasted 92 pitches, which is good considering he’s been sick and the pen pitched four shutout innings before Fernando Rodney gave up the [...]

Well, the first three games in this series didn’t go very well but Justin Verlander fulfilled his role as ace by coming up with a shutdown outing against one of the better offenses in baseball. Verlander was throwing 100 mph late in the game and he needed it to strike out eight in eight shutout [...]

The Tigers bounced back from Saturday’s beat down to edge out another tight on yesterday afternoon.  Even better, the Tigers came back from a 3-0 deficit with their big inning being a four run fourth inning.  The Twins never let go though and Michael Cuddyer’s second home run of the game in the ninth made [...]

This game looked pretty brutal from the box score.  I was at a wedding so I didn’t get to see it but the Tigers and Twins combined for 18 runs, 30 hits, nineteen strikeouts and three errors.  The Tigers came out on top mostly because of a six run first inning that was capped off [...]

While Lucas French could make more of an immediate impact for the Mariners, many thought Mauricio Robles as the guy with the greatest long term potential between the two players that were traded for Jarod Washburn.  What’s interesting is Baseball America came out with a top ten traded prospect list and neither guy showed up [...]

The Tigers took a 2-1 advantage in their four game series with the Orioles as Edwin Jackson bounced back from a rough start. Jackson threw eighth shutout innings before he gave up a two run home run to Adam Jones in the ninth inning.  Jackson then yielded to Fernando Rodney, who also got into trouble [...]

For those Tigers fan hoping for the next Doyle Alexander, things didn’t go quite as planned last night.  Jarrod Washburn made his Tigers debut and gave up six runs before he departed with an out in the sixth inning.  Oddly, the Orioles eight run offensive onslaught came without Luke Scott in the lineup.  Washburn gave [...]

Wilkin Ramirez got called up today and he’s getting thrust into the lead off spot against leff handed starter Brian Matusz.  This was a big time WTF moment but Ramirez does have a .416 OBP against lefties down in Triple A so maybe the move will pay some dividends.  There have been some more unusual [...]

While some of the Tigers’ higher round picks like Wade Gaynor (3rd round) and Edwin Gomez (4th round) have struggled so far this year, the Tigers ninth round draft pick, John Murrian, has had an outstanding season for the Oneonta Tigers.  The scouting report on him has him as an above average fielder and with [...]

Luke Scott drove in a pair in the first inning and that capped off a five run first inning for the Orioles in what looked to be a meltdown start for Justin Verlander.  Fortunately for the Tigers, Verlander bounced back and threw seven shutout innings after that and the offense got just enough for the [...]

One advantage of being self employed is what you’re able to do at work.  Right now, I’m watching the Rays dismantle Zach Greinke.  It’s a tough call right now between Greinke (he only has ten wins and that won’t help with the voters who have a hard time looking past this) and Verlander and a [...]

While I wouldn’t bank on either guy making a big impact this season, both Nate Robertson and Jeremy Bonderman will begin rehab assignments beginning Tuesday with the Hens.  It looks like the goal is to have both guys back right around the time the Tigers can extend their rosters to 40 players.  The way Armando [...]

I almost saw my first no-hitter in person this afternoon.  I took my son Devin to the Lugnuts game and Lansing pitcher Joel Carreno had a no-hitter going until he gave up a single with one out in the eighth.  He came out after that and Jason Roenicke finished the one-hitter up.  I’m going to [...]

The Tigers and Indians went into extra frames again last night and this time it was the Tigers who came out on top 4-3.  Ryan Raburn singled home the Tigers first run in the twelth and then right after that, Clete Thomas scored on a balk by reliever Jose Veras.  The Tigers needed that last [...]

I had let my subscription to Baseball Reference’s Play Index lapse and I renewed today so I started messing around with it.  The first thing I did was ran the “by pitcher” numbers for Brandon Inge and some interesting things popped up.
With pitcher’s who he’s faced at least 30 times, Inge has a 1.000+ OPS [...]