Max Scherzer Pushing Justin Verlander
The Detroit Tigers will have their ace on the mound tonight against the Cleveland Indians. That’s Justin Verlander, owner of a Ferrari 458 Italia and winner of each of the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young,…Read More
Max Scherzer Dominates as Detroit Tigers Top Tribe 5-1
I shouldn’t say that the Detroit Tigers’ 5-1 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night pulled them to within 1.5 games of the Cleveland Indians – because baseball is a long, long season and…Read More
Detroit Tigers Lunch Links: Miguel Cabrera is Good at Baseball
A New Low For Miguel Cabrera – Fangraphs And Cabrera didn’t just club three ordinary dingers. According to the ESPN Home Run Tracker, there were 22 homers on Sunday. The longest was hit by Miguel…Read More
Detroit Tigers Fall Below .500 Versus Non-Astros Teams
The Detroit Tigers, after losing to the Texas Rangers on Sunday despite a three homer day by Miguel Cabrera, stand at 23-19 on the season. That’s 89-win pace which would (should) be just fine for postseason…Read More
Only Rick Porcello Can Get Rangers Out
Today, Doug Fister got knocked around in the 5th and finished with 5 earned on 9 hits in 4 2/3 innings. That raised his season ERA all the way up to 3.62. By the standards of Tigers starts in this series…Read More
Detroit Tigers Minor League Recap 5/19/13: Tyler Collins and Aaron Westlake Homer
AAA: Toledo 4, Syracuse 3 Jose Alvarez provided the Mud Hens with a quality start going 6.2 innings with…Read More
Miguel Cabrera: Trade Bait?
Miguel Cabrera just hit an opposite-field home run 441 feet. This is not something normal ball players…Read More
Austin Jackson’s Return To Detroit Tigers Will Push Avisail Garcia Back To AAA
Austin Jackson will still need to remain on the disabled list for about nine more days before he’s…Read More
Al Alburquerque Won’t be in the Minor Leagues for Long
Yesterday the Detroit Tigers announced that they had optioned reliever Al Alburquerque to Toledo. Today…Read More
Are Detroit Tigers Uniforms MLB’s Best?
I didn’t happen to notice that ESPN.com was hosting a baseball version of “Battle of the…Read More
Detroit Tigers Quick Hits
Last night the Tigers rebounded to take the first game of the series with the new AL whipping boy, Houston…Read More
Tigers Beat Houston! A Recap That Isn’t A Recap
Game recaps or summaries just aren’t my thing. So it’s a rare occurrence when I sit down…Read More
Detroit Tigers History Lesson – 1984 vs. 2013
When Spring Training broke 40 days ago, I was convinced this incarnation of the Tigers mirrored the…Read More
Anibal Sanchez Didn’t Start Out Well In Detroit, But Quickly Turned To Dominance
Anibal Sanchez is the current WAR leader in all of baseball according to FanGraph’s FIP-based calculation.…Read More
Was it “Just the Astros” or solid work by the Detroit Tigers?
While the surging Detroit Tigers have been forced to cool their jets through a scheduled off-day on…Read More
Detroit Tigers Thought Experiment: Free-for-all Batting Order
A quirky never-going-to-happen (but still fun to think about) rule change was suggested for discussion…Read More
American League Central Playing Like the Best Division in Baseball
We usually don’t have much to be proud of here in the American League Central division,* but, in the…Read More
Tigers’ Victor Martinez Has Been Hitting the Ball Hard, Even if Results Don’t Show it
One of the themes of the Detroit Tigers’ offseason was that getting Victor Martinez back from injury…Read More
Houston…You Have A Multitude Of Problems
The last two days of Tigers baseball were a massacre. They scored 26 runs on 34 hits, while allowing…Read More
Today in Selective Endpoints: Alex Avila Finishes a Blazing Hot Week
Is it a coincidence that the Detroit Tigers went 5-0 in games in which Alex Avila played last week? Of…Read More





















