Sometimes there are things more important than output in a batting order. While the Tigers may be struggling out of the gate in the AL Central, Will Rhymes, the winner of the Tigers Second base sweepstakes, has been showing a skill that is guaranteed to benefit the rest of Detroit’s lineup. I started writing this [...]
Plate Selectivity Rhymes With Success
By: AnnexNate | Sunday April 10th, 2011
Opening Day as a Tigers Fan: A Rant.
By: AnnexNate | Thursday March 31st, 2011
Happy Opening Day Kids! While I know all about the concept of appealing to the bigger market, something that should be an unwritten rule but is about as textbook as it gets, its opening day! Can’t the major baseball networks disguise their partisanship slightly? We all watch the games and have more than likely played [...]
Pre-Season Central: Dead-Arm Starts
By: AnnexNate | Thursday March 10th, 2011
It’s always interesting to see the established big league pitchers get rocked in their third to fifth spring start. These are called dead-arm starts. As soon as pitchers start throwing 50 or 60 pitches – about 4 innings – the rust starts weighing arms down. Its basically saying the arm is ready to start seriously [...]
Miggy: Definitely Not One of A Kind
By: AnnexNate | Thursday February 24th, 2011
He who is the most reliable power-hitter in the AL has taken another step back to the plain of the mortals. This one involved sirens and scotch. Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was arrested (2/16/11) after the police found him inside his Land Rover, pulled over to the side of a road in Southern Florida, [...]
In the History Books: Ichiro Hits Ten!
By: AnnexNate | Thursday September 23rd, 2010
He did it again. Right about this time last year I posted a short series on Ichiro Suzuki’s ninth consecutive two-hundred hit season. Well, this year makes ten. Before the 2010 campaign Pete Rose was the only hitter in the history of the game with ten 200 (or more) hit seasons. He never had more [...]
