Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: July 2008
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Todd Jones is no longer the Tigers’ closer. The statement is as true today as it was on this date in 2001. That’s the day the Tigers sent Jones to the Twins for lefty Mark Redman. In 2002, his only full season with Detroit, Redman went 8-15, 4.21 in 30 starts. The Tigers traded Redman…
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The last we saw of Frank Tanana (in this 1987/Frank’s-birthday-mini-mini-series, at least), he pitched brilliantly against the Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium only to watch the bullpen blow the game and put the Tigers farther behind Toronto in the A.L. East race. Tanana faced the Jays 10 days later, this time at Tiger Stadium, and…
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The righty from Phoenix posted a record of 8-19 for the awful 1974 Tigers. But let’s step back and look at his totals: 1970: 0-1, 7.03 ERA in 12 innings pitched 1972: 0-1, 1.32 in 27 IP 1973: 1-5, 4.33 in 54 IP 1974: 8-19, 4.66 in 216 IP 1975: 7-14, 4.38 in 164 IP…
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Frank Tanana turned 55 on Thursday. I was ecstatic when the Tigers picked up Tanana on June 20, 1985. For years — since the days of Mickey Lolich, in fact — Detroit lacked a long-term lefty in the rotation. Unfortunately, Bob Sykes didn’t pan out as we’d hoped. But along came Tanana in a one-for-one…
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