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Detroit Tigers Avoiding Double Plays

Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope I didn’t just jinx them. Last year, the biggest issue (or pair of issues) that kept the regular-season Tigers from fulfilling the potential we figured that…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. He was this past offseason’s $80 million man, and he was, perhaps, The Detroit Tigers’…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 Monday, and a rain-out on Tuesday, it gave fans additional time to savor the recently completed four-game…Read More

Scouting Profile: David Gonzalez

It’s been a little while since I’ve gone in depth on some scouting reports on some of the Tigers minor leaguers, so I thought I would get to a few over the course of the next month as I continue…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 by a Bill James reader (and brought to my attention on the Tangotiger Blog) pertaining to batting…Read More

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Tigers Rotation Wins Cy Young Award!

We’re just around that point in a season (closing in on 1/5 of the way through…) when the…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

A Tale of Two Wins

It was a tale of two wins for the Detroit Tigers on Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday, the Tigers…Read More

Detroit Tigers Minor League Recap 5/4/13: Tyler Collins Homers for 4th Day in a Row

AAA:  Charlotte 10, Toledo 2 Avisail Garcia had three more hits to bring his two-game AAA total to five…Read More

Looking Back At The 2003 Detroit Tigers–Week 5 (4-25)

The 2003 Detroit Tigers, the team that quite possibly turned around the fortunes of the franchise,…Read More

Rick Porcello Gets Back On Track With A Pair Of Solid Outings

After Rick Porcello’s 0.2 inning, nine run outing in Los Angeles a couple of weekends ago, many fans…Read More

Detroit Tigers Minor League Recap 5/2/13: Tyler Collins Homers Yet Again

AAA: Toledo 4, Charlotte 2 Bryan Holaday was 3-3 on the day. He’s hitting a none-too-shabby .265/.324/.426…Read More

Prince Fielder Banned in New Zealand

Well, I suppose not actually the man himself – but apparently his name is. According to TIME magazine,…Read More

The Cutoff Man: Justin Verlander’s Pitches, Torii Hunter’s Fit, and Bruce Rondon

GIF: Justin Verlander’s four pitches from one release point – Bless You Boys Unfortunately,…Read More

Detroit Tigers Minor League Recap 5/1/13: Tyler Collins and Austin Schotts Homer

AAA: Toledo Mud Hens – Off Day AA: Erie 11, Binghamton 4 Tyler Collins went deep for the second…Read More

Kenny Faulk Gets the Short End of the Stick

We heard earlier today that lefty Phil Coke is heading to the DL and righty Jose Ortega is heading to…Read More

Phil Coke Hits DL With Injured Groin, Tigers Recall Jose Ortega From Toledo

Earlier today the Detroit Tigers announced that left-handed pitcher Phil Coke has been placed on the…Read More