Baseball Historians

We’re only eight games into the season but the Tigers pulled off yet another spectacular comeback win as they snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against the Royals this afternoon.  Down 5-0, the Tigers rallied for six runs in the bottom of the seventh as they improved on their already solid record.  The big [...]

Max Scherzer got off to a decent enough start yesterday by pitching three scoreless innings but four in the fourth and one in the fifth cut his start short in the Tigers second loss of the season.  It also didn’t help that the Tigers made four errors in this one which is part of the [...]

This is getting fun.  Down 8-3, the Tigers rallied for six runs in the final frames to finish up a sweep over the Cleveland Indians.  The Tigers finished with nine runs off of 18 hits and there were plenty of hitting stars.  How the Tigers got it done in the ninth was particularly interesting though [...]

The Tigers top draft pick last year, Jacob Turner, had a really nice start last night in his pro debut. The Caps didn’t win but seven strikeouts in five shutout innings is a nice start. Wonder when we’ll be seeing him in Lakeland.

The Tigers left Kansas City with a series win and a big reason behind it was Dontrelle Willis’ strong start in the Tigers 7-3 win. Willis pitched six strong innings in which he gave up two runs on seven hits and (most importantly) just two walks with four strikeouts. He didn’t get [...]

In Will Carroll’s latest Under the Knife, he touches on Max Scherzer’s throwing motion and how it may or may not be an injury waiting to happen. Good stuff as usual from Will.

A really nice start by Max Scherzer went to waste as the Tigers dropped their first game of the season in an eleven inning loss to the Royals. He pitched six innings of one hit ball in which he struck out three and walked two. Overall, the pen did a nice job with [...]

Tigers Opening Day Mega Chat

Well, the wait is over and the 2010 has begun.  The Tigers kick things off today with a battle of Cy Young contenders.  Game time is 4:10.  There’s going to be a live chat amongst Tiger bloggers that I may or may not be able to make but I’ll post the link in a little [...]

The Tigers dropped their spring finale yesterday to the Brewers 13-12.  Magglio Ordonez, Austin Jackson, Ryan Rayburn, Danny Worth and Jeff Larish all belted home runs in this one.  Rick Porcello threw 4 1/3 shutout frams while Dontrelle Willis gave up a run in three innings.  Joel Zumaya was hit hard (five runs, never got [...]

The Tigers wrap up their spring season this afternoon in an encore against the Brewers at Miller Park.  It’ll be a fun day because you’ll get the Tigers at 2 pm then shortly thereafter, MSU plays for a chance to be in National Championship game.  My son has a birthday party to go to so [...]

I’ll touch more on this later when I have more time but the Tigers decided on their rotation and shipped Nate Robertson to the Marlins in the process.  Interesting move because if Willis tanks, the Tigers don’t have as much major league ready experience ready to fill in.

I always love stories like this because when aren’t teams talking to each other about potential deals.  Still, the idea of getting something for Nate Robertson or Dontrelle Willis a couple of months ago would have been laughed at.  Now with both pitchers having solid springs and the Tigers needing just one of those two [...]

The Tigers lost yesterday to the Yankees 2-1 but once again, Nate Robertson did a nice job making his case for the fifth spot in the Tigers’ rotation.  It’s getting awfully close to the start of the season so if Leyland wants to stretch out his starters, he’s going to have to decide on his [...]

The Tigers played two yesterday and while Jim Leyland still won’t say who will anchor the back half of his rotation, both Jeremy Bonderman and Dontrelle Willis threw good enough yesterday to where they may be the front runners for the job.  In the afternoon game, Willis got into trouble early in the first but [...]

I’m a little late on this but the Tigers had a rare spring day off so I’m getting caught.  Max Scherzer has had his troubles this spring but he put them behind him on Tuesday as he shut down the Nationals in the Tigers 6-2 win.  He threw four innings of no-hit ball before he [...]

My Detroit Tigers preview is up at the Hardball Times.

The Tigers and Braves combined for 28 hits late Friday afternoon in a 4-4 ten inning tie.  The Tigers top of the order accounted for seven of their thirteen hits and five players had multi-hit games.  Ryan Raburn led the way and he went three for five.  Jeff Larish and Johnny Damon both went yard [...]

Rick Porcello has pitched three innings today and he’s been roughed up for four runs by the Yankees in the Tigers first game of the day.  Three of those runs won’t show up in his ERA though because of a Ramon Santiago error.  Porcello did strike out three (assuming he’s done) but he gave up [...]

Talk about an interesting spring development.  Dontrelle Willis threw three innings today.  He gave up a walk and he struck out two with no hits and no runs.  He also did all of this with back spasms.  That brings his spring ERA down to 0.90 and he’s making his case for the fifth spot in [...]

It’s going to be feast or famine for me writing the next few weeks because I’m knee deep into my busy work season.  Fortunately I’m past one big deadline and the next one isn’t for a month so I have a little bit of breathing room.  I’ve watched/listened to some games, but haven’t followed the [...]

The Tigers are MLB.TV for the first time this year and I’m not at home to watch it.  The big news was Stephen Strasburg and at least for this one game, he lived up to the hype.  He put the Tigers out in order in the first, then the Tigers got a pair of hits [...]

Just about everyone got in on the action yesterday as the Tigers took care of the Astros 17-7.  Fourteen Tigers accounted for 16 hits and eleven walks that resulted in 17 runs.  Seventeen Tigers reached base and Ryan Rabun led the way with a single, three walks and three runs. Don Kelly went two for [...]

The Tigers opened up Joker Marchant stadium yesterday to a packed house and while they came back from an early 3-0 deficit, they eventually blew a 6-3 lead later in the game and lost 9-7.  Rick Porcello and Dontrelle Willis looked good while Max Scherzer, Zach Miner and Armando Galarraga were all roughed up.  Brent Dlugach [...]

Ryan Strieby hit a two run home run and Don Kelly is two for two with a run as the Tigers have a 5-0 lead through three innings against Florida Southern.  Phil Coke struck out three in two scoreless innings and Eddie Bonine threw a perfect third inning.  Baseball is here folks.

The Tigers kick off their spring season today with their annual exhibition game against Florida Southern.  Phil Coke gets the nod.  I’ll be running around meeting with clients but I’m hoping to catch at least some of this game on the feed.  Speaking of which, I have to renew my MLB.TV subscription.

John Wagner’s latest at Baseball America is a nice piece on Avisail Garcia. one of the Tigers younger prospects to keep an eye on.  Garcia made his debut with the Whitecaps last year but he’s still only 17 so I agree some more time at Low-A will do this kid some good.  Talk about a wild [...]

It’s official.  The Tigers are going to have a press conference at 2 pm to announce the Johnny Damon signing.  I’m a lot more excited about the Tigers now then I was back in December when the team dealt Curtis Granderson and Edwin Jackson.

After a couple of weeks of speculation, the Tigers finally inked Johnny Damon to a one year, $8 million deal.  That’ll make Damon the everyday left fielder with Ryan Raburn spelling him now and then.  What makes this move interesting is how the domino effect.  Raburn is going to lose out on some time because [...]

Baseball Prospectus recently unveiled their AL Central preview and talk about some interesting results.  The good news is, they have the Tigers tied for first place.  The bad news is, they’re tied with the Twins and White Sox and all three teams have a projected record of 80-82.  That’s right, nobody is projected to have [...]