Motor City Bengals » 2009 » July http://motorcitybengals.com A Detroit Tigers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Wed, 16 May 2012 08:07:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tigers Acquire Washburn http://motorcitybengals.com/2009/07/31/tigers-acquire-wasburn/ http://motorcitybengals.com/2009/07/31/tigers-acquire-wasburn/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:07:24 +0000 John J. Parent http://tigerstracks.com/?p=155 For all the fretting and hand-wringing Tigers’ fans have been doing over the past several days, waiting, hoping, in fact begging GM Dave Dombrowski to make a move to improve this club, he has responded.   According to MLB Trade Rumors, the Tigers … [visit site to read more]

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]]> For all the fretting and hand-wringing Tigers’ fans have been doing over the past several days, waiting, hoping, in fact begging GM Dave Dombrowski to make a move to improve this club, he has responded.

 

According to MLB Trade Rumors, the Tigers … [visit site to read more]

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]]> In case you missed it, Kurt Menshing over at Mack Avenue Tigers examined the thought that many (myself included) have had that Tigers hitting coach Lloyd McClendon should be fired.

 

When you take a peek at the poor offensive statistics that the Tigers have posted as a team this year, it would easy to have the knee-jerk reaction to want to see Legendary Lloyd given his walking papers.  Maybe a new voice is needed to wake these guys up.  But when Kurt looked deeper at the numbers of a couple of players, what he found was that McClendon role in the steady decline of the Tigers’ offense was minimal at best.

 

McClendon took over as the hitting coach in 2007, after serving as bench coach the year prior.  2007 saw career years from Magglio Ordonez, Curtis Granderson and Placido Polanco and the Tigers finished second in the AL in runs scored at 5.87 per game.

 

Even a quick glace at the three players listed above this season will show a significant drop in production this season.  Remember though, Ordonez and Polanco are both on the wrong side of their primes, as they were back in ’07, so a decreased level of performance should certainly have been expected. 

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]]> http://motorcitybengals.com/2009/07/31/mcclendon-not-the-problem/feed/ 2 Tigers By The Numbers: Rudy York http://motorcitybengals.com/2009/07/30/tigers-by-the-numbers-rudy-york/ http://motorcitybengals.com/2009/07/30/tigers-by-the-numbers-rudy-york/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:13:59 +0000 John J. Parent http://tigerstracks.com/?p=147 This is the fourth installment of Tigers By The Numbers, if you missed any of the first three, click on the By the Numbers tag on the top of the page. This profile has been by far my most difficult to choose.  There have been many Tigers to don … [visit site to read more]

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]]> This is the fourth installment of Tigers By The Numbers, if you missed any of the first three, click on the By the Numbers tag on the top of the page.

This profile has been by far my most difficult to choose.  There have been many Tigers to don … [visit site to read more]

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