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[Raider Nation]

Great play by Infante. Maybe a game-saver.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Great play by Infante. Maybe a game-saver.

Yeah, he gave up a run earlier in the game so that evened things out.

Valverde had good movement tonight, best I've seen in three years I think, but the velocity was just 90-91 which is not good. sigh...

 

[jon_mx]

Assuming this team stays healthy, I don't think the Tigers make any trades this year.

 

[Gopher State]

Assuming this team stays healthy, I don't think the Tigers make any trades this year.

The only question mark was who would close, and valverde is pitching like an all star, no need to bring anyone up or make a trade

 

[jon_mx]

Porcello's next start will be skipped. If they can skip one of his starts each month and give the rest of the rotation a couple extra starts each this year, that will be a good thing.

Valverde has to be a candidate for the comeback player of the year. Every team in baseball wrote the guy off.

ETA: Santiago is a waste of a roster spot.

 

[tri-man 47]

Smyly.

 

[teamramrod]

Vmart is warming up....I like it.

Peace

 

[Raider Nation]

I just saw the two HRs that Miggy hit.

I think they are still rolling around somewhere in El Paso.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I just saw the two HRs that Miggy hit.

I think they are still rolling around somewhere in El Paso.

No comment on that Eddie Murray 56 yd FG to make it 17-2?

 

[Ilov80s]

I just saw the two HRs that Miggy hit. I think they are still rolling around somewhere in El Paso.

In batting practice, he hit two balls over the arches and out of the stadium.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

ETA: Santiago is a waste of a roster spot.

This

 

[tri-man 47]

A snippet in this morning's Tribune: Fielder has used Mozart's Requiem as he walks to the plate. He picked this up after learning Torii Hunter listens to classical music to prepare for games. "Fielder says Hunter caught his eye in spring training because he 'was so seasoned and had so much energy early in the morning.' He told the 37-year-old he was going to watch him and copy everything he did so he also could have a long career." The Trib notes Fielder is under contract through age 37.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

A snippet in this morning's Tribune: Fielder has used Mozart's Requiem as he walks to the plate. He picked this up after learning Torii Hunter listens to classical music to prepare for games. "Fielder says Hunter caught his eye in spring training because he 'was so seasoned and had so much energy early in the morning.' He told the 37-year-old he was going to watch him and copy everything he did so he also could have a long career." The Trib notes Fielder is under contract through age 37.

I would have gone with Richard Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries.

 

[tri-man 47]

And is there a series slaughter rule? Poor Houston: They lose a tough one in 14 innings; they give up a lead and lose on a ninth inning, two-run home run; they get man-handled in a 17-2 game; and then have to face Verlander ...and promptly give up 7 runs to Detroit in the first two innings.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Sweep! Twins at home and then to Houston this week, good chance to get nice and clear of .500.

That's what we should expect, and they actually delivered!!!!

 

[jon_mx]

ETA: Santiago is a waste of a roster spot.

This

Well he did double his hit production for the entire season today, so he does have that going for him.

 

[tri-man 47]

Vmart Dirks is warming up....I like it.

Peace

Fixed.

 

[Eephus]

A snippet in this morning's Tribune: Fielder has used Mozart's Requiem as he walks to the plate. He picked this up after learning Torii Hunter listens to classical music to prepare for games. "Fielder says Hunter caught his eye in spring training because he 'was so seasoned and had so much energy early in the morning.' He told the 37-year-old he was going to watch him and copy everything he did so he also could have a long career." The Trib notes Fielder is under contract through age 37.

He'll be Pavarotti-size by then

 

[Doctor Detroit]

A snippet in this morning's Tribune: Fielder has used Mozart's Requiem as he walks to the plate. He picked this up after learning Torii Hunter listens to classical music to prepare for games. "Fielder says Hunter caught his eye in spring training because he 'was so seasoned and had so much energy early in the morning.' He told the 37-year-old he was going to watch him and copy everything he did so he also could have a long career." The Trib notes Fielder is under contract through age 37.

He'll be Pavarotti-size by then

He'll still be "belting out the hits" though.

 

[tri-man 47]

From a quick look at the pitching stats this a.m. - guess which of the 'big four' starters has the lowest WHIP?

Max! All four, though, are doing incredibly well (15-4 record). Smyly's WHIP actually falls between Max and the others, and Valverde and Potkanen beat them all. If they're settling in with the relief pitching, this is then a very dangerous team.

 

[Da Guru]

A snippet in this morning's Tribune: Fielder has used Mozart's Requiem as he walks to the plate. He picked this up after learning Torii Hunter listens to classical music to prepare for games. "Fielder says Hunter caught his eye in spring training because he 'was so seasoned and had so much energy early in the morning.' He told the 37-year-old he was going to watch him and copy everything he did so he also could have a long career." The Trib notes Fielder is under contract through age 37.

He'll be Pavarotti-size by then

He'll still be "belting out the hits" though.

Heard Rod Allen sat that Prince is 15lbs lighter than last season from martial arts training all winter.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Will be at the next two games. Tomorrow I am about 20 rows up from the Nats dugout and then Wednesday in the second row down the firstbase line about halfway between 1st and the foul pole. When I go to Nats games I normally wear something Nats and something Tigers, this time I will be wearing nothing Nats related. A split would be nice, Anibal/Zimm tomorrow and Fister/Haren Wednesday.

 

[tri-man 47]

Will be at the next two games. Tomorrow I am about 20 rows up from the Nats dugout and then Wednesday in the second row down the firstbase line about halfway between 1st and the foul pole. When I go to Nats games I normally wear something Nats and something Tigers, this time I will be wearing nothing Nats related. A split would be nice, Anibal/Zimm tomorrow and Fister/Haren Wednesday.

Sweet! I guess our "vacation" of the last several games is over. Time to play some grown-up baseball games again.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

It's about time the white sox did something useful.

 

[jon_mx]

It's about time the white sox did something useful.

Considering their late collapse last year, they are paid up for they year.

 

[whoknew]

I hate Denard Span. That guy KILLS us.

ETA: Wow - picked off.

 

[jon_mx]

Sanchez certainly gets a lot of run support. He must per in everyone's beer or something.

 

[tri-man 47]

Well, not necessarily bad games against Washington. Too bad Fister took several batters to settle down today. But ...Tui!!!

From following on-line, it seemed like the Tigers had a lot of line-drive outs. We needed some production out of AJax and Torii.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

The only two hits off Fister that were hard were the Zimmerman one in the first and the LaRoche one in the second. It was a bunch of dinks, dunks and hitting it to the right spot. He definitely wasn't on though, hitting Span then walking the horrendous Roger Bernadina ended up being the difference in the game. Had he not walked Bernadina the Nats might have only got one, maybe nothing at all.

Prince barely missed that one in the ninth, I thought it was gonna be off the wall but he just got under it. Good game today besides Fister adn good game last night as well to be honest. Now we welcome the red hot Tribe, they need to put that team down now.

 

[teamramrod]

doodz.....

Cabrera is batting .381

How is that even fair?

Peace

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Division is 9 games over .500

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Looks like 2008 Verlander, can't locate fastball in the early innings.

 

[Gopher State]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

Shtick? Coming into the game Verlander was 2nd in ERA, 15th in WHIP, 9th in K's and had a 4/1 K/BB ratio.

 

[Raider Nation]

Nick the Butcher keeps hope alive!

 

[Raider Nation]

Amazing effort at 2B. Wow.

 

[Raider Nation]

They can't pitch to Miggy in this spot, right??

 

[Raider Nation]

Damn. Oh well, nice comeback anyway.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Yeah good comeback. Weird to say but even when they lose they look pretty good, they had no business being in that game with two outs in the 9th. Great play by Kipnis or we might still be playing.

 

[Frostillicus]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

Shtick? Coming into the game Verlander was 2nd in ERA, 15th in WHIP, 9th in K's and had a 4/1 K/BB ratio.

He's terrible now. Hate to break it to you, but it's over.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

Shtick? Coming into the game Verlander was 2nd in ERA, 15th in WHIP, 9th in K's and had a 4/1 K/BB ratio.

He's terrible now. Hate to break it to you, but it's over.

Gopher State had Brokeback Mountain jokes for fours years, almost every one of his posts involved something about camping or #### sex. I honestly think he should go back to that shtick, seems like it was more valuable to the group here.

 

[Frostillicus]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

Shtick? Coming into the game Verlander was 2nd in ERA, 15th in WHIP, 9th in K's and had a 4/1 K/BB ratio.

He's terrible now. Hate to break it to you, but it's over.

Gopher State had Brokeback Mountain jokes for fours years, almost every one of his posts involved something about camping or #### sex. I honestly think he should go back to that shtick, seems like it was more valuable to the group here.

What does this have to do with Verlander being a replacement level pitcher since he got that fat contract? Just accept it and move on.

Correia >>>>>>>>> Verlander

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Use to be when verlander pitched it was an auto win for the tigers, not so this year, maybe all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ has gone to his head

Shtick? Coming into the game Verlander was 2nd in ERA, 15th in WHIP, 9th in K's and had a 4/1 K/BB ratio.

He's terrible now. Hate to break it to you, but it's over.

Gopher State had Brokeback Mountain jokes for fours years, almost every one of his posts involved something about camping or #### sex. I honestly think he should go back to that shtick, seems like it was more valuable to the group here.

What does this have to do with Verlander being a replacement level pitcher since he got that fat contract? Just accept it and move on.

Correia >>>>>>>>> Verlander

Gopher State>>>Worley

 

[tri-man 47]

OK, maybe we don't have the bullpen issues totally ironed out yet.

We are, generally, getting nice seasons from Infante and Peralta. Huh.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

OK, maybe we don't have the bullpen issues totally ironed out yet.

We are, generally, getting nice seasons from Infante and Peralta. Huh.

Porcello pitched well today, he deserved better. Valverde is unable to hold runners and then proceeds to walk the leadoff hitter who is the best base stealer in baseball. He doesn't do that and they win, terrible. Hitters sucked today too, Hunter's bunt in the 9th with Dirks on first and no outs was one of the worst things I've seen all year.

 

[Greco]

Too one dimensional imo

 

[Da Guru]

OK, maybe we don't have the bullpen issues totally ironed out yet.

We are, generally, getting nice seasons from Infante and Peralta. Huh.

Porcello pitched well today, he deserved better. Valverde is unable to hold runners and then proceeds to walk the leadoff hitter who is the best base stealer in baseball. He doesn't do that and they win, terrible. Hitters sucked today too, Hunter's bunt in the 9th with Dirks on first and no outs was one of the worst things I've seen all year.

Hold runners? We were sitting down the first baseline and Valverde never even looked over at the runner. Any player could have taken second base. The fact that he is throwing 99% fastballs is troubling. A couple of years ago Valverde had a good splitter and slider that made his fastball more effective. Don`t know what his fastball was hitting yesterday but it did not look like he was blowing guys away.

I did see the Hanrahan blew his arm out. Who is out there. Brian Wilson?

 

[igbomb]

Too one dimensional imo

Which dimension is that?

 

[tri-man 47]

OK, maybe we don't have the bullpen issues totally ironed out yet.

We are, generally, getting nice seasons from Infante and Peralta. Huh.

Porcello pitched well today, he deserved better.

I noticed that Porcello has gone longer - and been effective - with his pitch count lately. It seems he can get to 100 pitches without blowing up ...last year, I seem to recall anything beyond about 80 pitches was very iffy. So that could be a very encouraging sign as he has gotten older (and stronger)?

A shame to lose 2 of 3 to the Tribe, but we still have a lot of very good things going for us.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

OK, maybe we don't have the bullpen issues totally ironed out yet.

We are, generally, getting nice seasons from Infante and Peralta. Huh.

Porcello pitched well today, he deserved better. Valverde is unable to hold runners and then proceeds to walk the leadoff hitter who is the best base stealer in baseball. He doesn't do that and they win, terrible. Hitters sucked today too, Hunter's bunt in the 9th with Dirks on first and no outs was one of the worst things I've seen all year.

Hold runners? We were sitting down the first baseline and Valverde never even looked over at the runner. Any player could have taken second base. The fact that he is throwing 99% fastballs is troubling. A couple of years ago Valverde had a good splitter and slider that made his fastball more effective. Don`t know what his fastball was hitting yesterday but it did not look like he was blowing guys away.

I did see the Hanrahan blew his arm out. Who is out there. Brian Wilson?

90.6% fastballs. In his first year with Detroit he threw 47% fastball, 53% splitter. When he can't throw the fastball for strikes he's screwed but the good thing is the velocity is there, which it wasn't last year.

Brian Wilson is still available but there is a good reason for that. I'd probably try and sign hi to a minor league deal, but he may be waiting to go back to San Francisco under the right terms. They can trade for a guy like Gregerson or Cook among others, but they would probably cost quite a bit. Best scenario is wait until closer to the trade deadline to see what we have and then get someone from a team falling out of contention. Lots of good relievers out there. Also Rondon is going to be back up, he may still be the answer in 2013.