April 22, 2008

Leyland: Cabrera’s Moving to First, Guillen to Third

No joke. He just announced it in his post-game press conference.
Updates: From The News.
Insight from Rob Neyer [$].

April 21, 2008

Game 19: The Hex-stein Lives On

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: The Tigers lost 5-3 to the Toronto Blue Jays Sunday at Rogers Centre. Nate Robertson showed no sign of turning the corner for the Tigers and allowed five runs on eight hits in five innings of work to take the loss. Clete Thomas led the Tigers offense with three [...]

April 18, 2008

Friday Fungoes

By now you know how we like to recognize the birthdays of current and former Tigers. Imagine our excitement to run across this many birthdays for April 18:

Miguel Cabrera, 25
Rico Brogna, 38
Brian Dubois, 41
Doug Flynn, 57
“Wahoo Sam” Crawford, would have been 128

And from the Baseball-Reference.com archives:
1991 - A sellout crowd of 42,191 watch the Chicago [...]

April 16, 2008

Game 15: A Giant Clicking Sound Emerges from Tigers Offense

ESPN highlights available here.

The Gist: The Tigers won their third game in a row — and in a route — over the Indians, 13-2. Where to start? How about with the pitching of Armando Galarraga? Two runs and only one hit over 6.2 innings.
And then there’s Miguel Cabrera who, as recently as Sunday, couldn’t [...]

April 16, 2008

Game 14: Tigers Borrow Rally Monkey Again

ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: Powered by four home runs — solo shots from Gary Sheffield, Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordonez and a two-run dinger from Miguel Cabrera — the Tigers defeated the Twins 6-5 and swept the mini-series. Nate Robertson appears to be working his way back into form with 6.1 innings pitched, four [...]

April 7, 2008

The Doug Report - Weak (sic) 1

Greetings,
I figured if this Drudge fellow can have his own report, why can’t I have mine? (Plus, during the school year, once a week is about all I can muster for blogging.)
Well, here I sit staring at this morning’s paper and an 0-6 record after six home games. I haven’t even found the time to [...]

April 3, 2008

Game 3: More of the Same

Game 3 - Royals 4, Tigers 1
UPDATE: ESPN highlights available here.
The Gist: Zach Greinke did. Jeremy Bonderman didn’t. And Tigers hitters — with Miguel Cabrera on the pine — did even less.
The Quote: “Now it won’t straighten out.” Gary Sheffield on his left ring finger which, according to Sheff, has a torn tendon.
The Stat: Six [...]

March 31, 2008

Game 1: The Big Letdown + Three Things

LEAGUE CITY, Texas — The big letdown. That’s what I prepared myself for this Opening Day and that’s what I got.
For me, the letdown wasn’t the 5-4 final from Comerica Park. Nay, it was when the Royals came back to take a 4-3 lead in the seventh. And when I boarded my plane for Houston [...]

March 26, 2008

Jayson Stark on Miguel Cabrera


March 23, 2008

Buster Olney on Cabrera’s Deal