Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: July 2011
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Ben Lindbergh at BaseballProspectus.com today makes an interesting case for Alex Avila as the Tigers’ most valuable player. Miguel Cabrera gets most of the accolades in the Detroit Tigers’ historically top-heavy lineup, and not without reason — the first baseman’s .349 True Average (TAv) trails only Jose Bautista’s among American League batters. However, Cabrera hasn’t…
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http://espn.go.com/videohub/player/embed.swf Does commentator Barry Larkin really call Raburn “an exciting player”?
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Here’s some more video from the terrific “From Glory Days” site, this one of the late Jim Northrup. This is the first of three installments. Here are the links to episodes two and three.
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Nice feature on Kirk Gibson in today’s Arizona Republic. He’ll be on Bruce Bochy‘s staff for the All-Star Game in Phoenix next Tuesday and it will be the first time Gibby appears at an All-Start Game in uniform. Back in 1985 and ’88, Gibson had better things to do. He politely turned down offers from…
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If you’ve been wondering how the Tigers’ eighth-round pick in 2010, Patrick Leyland, has been progressing here’s an update from The Norwich Bulletin: The consensus between Connecticut manager Andrew Graham and Detroit’s roving catching coordinator, Joe Depastino, is that Leyland is blessed with a wealth of talent. Because the 6-foot-2, 200-pound catcher didn’t see as…
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This is the first of three installments. Here are the second and third episodes.
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