April 2004

Rodney to be Tommy John’dI know this is old news at this point, but Fernando Rodney is out for the year. After originally being diagnosed with a sprained ligament in the spring, the Tigers medical staff hoped things would work out with rehab. Unfortunately the pain persisted and he was sent [...]

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Pat Caputo has an interesting article about Brandon Inge today. According to the article, Brandon Inge once upon a time hit the ball hard. Then Phil Garner told him to change his swing.
“Inge had this inside-out swing at the time. Scouts likened it, ironically, to Ivan Rodriguez’s batting stroke.
That was [...]

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The Hardball Times have posted their first cut of pitching statistics now as well. Their pitching stats include runs saved above average (RSAA), fielding independent pitching (FIP), defensive efficiency ratio (DER), and line drive percentage. The stats are through the 4/26 games.
Like I did with the offensive stats, here’s what I found [...]

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The Hardball Times has posted their first page of statistics. So far it’s just offensive stats, but they aren’t posting basic stats. They have runs created (which I used extensively in my season preview), pitches per plate apperance, batting average with runners in scoring position, and line drive percentage.
A couple interesting notes [...]

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Reader Mark Auman sent me a note last Tuesday following the Tigers 10-4 win over the Indians. Despite splitting the series with Cleveland, the Tigers were struggling. Here is what Mark pointed out:
I’ve been keeping detailed scoresheets for each game this season and happened to notice a disturbing trend after that great [...]

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That pesky work took me out of town and has kept me pretty busy. Fortunately, the crunch has passed and I can focus some more effort on this blog and my AL leading run scoring Tigers.
-I’m finding that the play of the Tigers has an impact on my mood each day. [...]

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Nate has made three starts this year. The first he pitched well enough to pick up the win. The next two starts were atrocious. Cornejo’s ERA is currently sitting at 9.73 and he’s allowed 36 baserunners in 16 1/3 innings. Last year Cornejo was fairly effective despite a cosmically low [...]

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The first 6 Tiger hitters reached base off of Jeff D’amico, scoring 4 times. Then the hail started to fall. Then in came Jake Westbrook who retired the next 21 Tigers on all of 82 pitches. Fortunately, Eric Wedge pulled him and the Tigers piled 6 runs on the Indians bullpen. [...]

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Miscellaneous Tiger factoids:-Lead off hitter Alex Sanchez now has 42 plate apperances without a walk. Fortunately he’s batting .300, unfortunately his OBA is .300. -Equally concerning is that Eric Munson doesn’t have a walk this season in 30 plate appearances. Last year Munson had about one walk for every ten PA’s. [...]

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Okay, losing 11-0 to Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays isn’t fun. Following it up with a 10-3 to the Indians is miserable. Cornejo was rocked, and the bullpen contributed some runs to the pummeling as well. With the loss, the Tigers moved into a 3 way tie for the lead [...]

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It looked like it might be a tough day against Halladay when the Tigers burned through 6 outs on only 14 pitches. Halladay went on to pitch an eight shut out. The only time the Tigers threatened was in the 5th inning. Trailing 3-0 they managed to load the bases before [...]

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