September 27, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 0 comments
Things keep looking up for the Tigers. The ALDS is fast approaching, Wilson Betemit is playing tonight and Ozzie Guillen is leaving the American League. Good times. The Tuesday Rundown The Tigers are in first place, 13 games ahead of the Indians. Today’s Game: Tigers vs. Indians - Max Scherzer (14-9, 4.37 ERA) vs. RHP Jeanmar Gomez (5-2, 3.52 [...]
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January 18, 2011
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 2 comments
With about a month to go before pitchers and catchers arrive in Lakeland, here are some various and sundry Tigers items to keep you warm as you wait: On this date in 1947, the Tigers sold All-Star first baseman Hank Greenberg to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1946, Greenberg led the American League with 44 home [...]
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November 16, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 1 comment
I just couldn’t see the Tigers making a move for Dan Uggla and hoped, quite frankly, that they wouldn’t. The added power behind Miguel Cabrera certainly would’ve been nice but not in the form of another righthanded bat. I’m willing to wait and see what Dave Dombrowski has up his sleeve. Until then, here are [...]
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September 21, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 0 comments
Courtesy of Elias Sports Bureau: Will Rhymes hit his first major-league home run for the Tigers on Monday, making him the seventh Detroit rookie to hit a homer this season, joining Alex Avila, Brennan Boesch, Austin Jackson, Alex Avila, Casper Wells and Danny Worth. No other major-league team has gotten homers from as many as [...]
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August 31, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 1 comment
Is it just me or were there a lot of Aug. 31 trades made back in the day? Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s it seemed that Oakland was always adding a big name at the deadline — Willie McGee, Ruben Sierra, Harold Baines. Just asking. The last time the Tigers made any [...]
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July 27, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 0 comments
When you look at the dozen no-hitters thrown against the Tigers since 1902, you see three Hall of Famers, one future Hall of Famer and you see, ahem, Matt Garza. Sept. 20, 1902: Jim Callahan at Comiskey Park; White Sox 3 – Tigers 0 Sept. 6, 1905: Frank Smith at Bennett Park; White Sox 15 [...]
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May 18, 2010
By Mike McClary in Featured,Tuesday Tananas | 1 comment
Some thoughts and recommended reading culled during what sounds like another dreary day at Comerica Park. Despite his 4 for 28 slump during the current home stand (at least through the fifth inning today), Austin Jackson continues to be an early favorite for the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Given Curtis Granderson‘s poor [...]
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