June 29, 2011
By Nick Shlain in Featured,Fungoes | 0 comments
Many times during the baseball season we’ll hear that a pitcher is currently undergoing or falling victim to a failed “mechanical adjustment”. Generally more common with starters, we heard this very thing early last season about Tigers starter Max Scherzer. He said that he was able to see on video that he wasn’t getting the correct “extension” on his pitches, went to [...]
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June 24, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 1 comment
There’s a lot to talk about this weekend with the Tigers taking on Kirk Gibson and Alan Trammell‘s smoke-and-mirror Diamondbacks. We’ll get to that. Today I’d like to honor Peter Falk who died this afternoon at 83. Here’s one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies, The In-Laws — the original 1979 [...]
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June 21, 2011
By Nick Shlain in Featured,Fungoes | 2 comments
The Tigers enter play on Tuesday night mathematically behind the Cleveland Indians, though its clear the club has positioned itselfquite well thus far this season as Baseball Prospectus’ playoff odds favor Detroit with a 58.6% chance of playing in October. A big part of the team’s success has been the stellar performance of staff ace and early Cy Young [...]
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June 20, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,The Non-Sequiturs | 2 comments
Many of you have written to ask what happened to the Detroit Tigers Podcast. Without going into the boring details, the fact is that Ian and I both were unavoidably detained over the past few months. But that’s about to change. We will restart the podcast machine after the All-Star Game and take the second [...]
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June 20, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 1 comment
This morning I received my Baseball Hall of Fame newsletter, Inside Pitch, and the lead story recapped yesterday’s Hall of Fame Classic in Cooperstown. Before the game they held a parade that featured Hall of Famers Jim Rice, Ozzie Smith, Goose Gossage, Phil Niekro, Andre Dawson and Dick Williams. Scanning through the article I could’ve sworn [...]
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June 19, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Video | 0 comments
On ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters”, Israel Gutierrez is ready to crown Justin Verlander with title of greatest pitcher in baseball.
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