2013 Season

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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

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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