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Jim Leyland and the LOOGy

John J. Parent — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:44:48 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, in the wake of Daniel Schlereth‘s injury, I wrote of possible replacements for Schlereth’s role should the hamstring cause him to miss Opening Day. Withing an hour, I had multiple folks respond to my piece and my contention that Brad Thomas is better suited for a mop-up role than as a late-inning left hander; the role Schlereth is slated to occupy. In each response, the commenter cited Thomas’ splits and voiced their opinion that Thomas is a classic “LOOGy” (Lefthanded One Out Guy).

Upon digging deeper into the numbers, perhaps those commenters are right.

Since Leyland took over the Tigers in 2006, Detroit has had a handful of “primary” left handers, such as Phil Coke last season. Before Coke, the role was held by Bobby Seay and Jamie Walker before him. It was my recollection that all those pitchers had served similar roles, one’s where they would frequently be used for a full inning in a set-up role. After checking the numbers, however, I was wrong.

Coke did become the primary eighth inning man last year after Joel Zumaya‘s injury, but Seay and Walker really more LOOGys than anything else. The simplest way to look at it is in games versus innings pitched, but we should also examine how often the left handed reliever faced a left handed hitter.

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Zach Miner to Have Tommy John Surgery

John J. Parent — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:01:23 +0000

It was announced last night that Tigers reliever Zach Miner will miss the remainder of the … [visit site to read more]

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Tigers Injury Updates

John J. Parent — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:04:23 +0000

As the Tigers close up shop in Lakeland for another year, just hours away from a plane trip to Milwaukee where they’ll play two exhibition games this weekend, there are some Tigers on the mend.

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