Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Category: Players
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This week I received the missing piece(s) of my hyper-specific Tigers baseball card collection: the 1983 team set. (I’ve never learned if a set’s designation is the last season listed on the back, or the year it came out.) Anyway, an unexpected bonus was receiving two Jerry Ujdur cards. Birthdays Daz Cameron, Armando Galarraga, George…
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The other day I saw on Baseball Reference’s In Memoriam section that former Tigers infielder Gary Sutherland died on Dec. 16 at 80. Sutherland wore number 3 and played in 320 games for the Tigers in 1974, ’75 and part of ’76. He (and Jim Ray) came to Detroit from Houston on Dec. 3, 1973…
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There are many candidates for this distinction, but I think Mike Moore was the quintessential Dave Duncan reclamation project in the late 1980s. He went from a so-so starter in Seattle to a 19-game winner in Oakland. By the time he signed a three-year, $10 million contract with the Tigers in 1993, most of that…
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Duane Singleton, who the Tigers acquired on Jan. 23, 1996 in a trade with the Brewers for minor-leaguer Henry Santos. The left-handed hitting outfielder appeared in 18 games for 1996 Tigers: 56 at bats and a .126 average. Also the late:
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Cruising through Baseball-Reference’s All-Star section I was able to find a list of every Tigers player named to the American League squad. Here are a few of the more interesting (i.e., surprising or forgotten) players on the list: Brad Ausmus, 1999. He batted .275 that year. Tony Clark, 2001. A solid year for Tony in…
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In the nightcap of a doubleheader in Cleveland, the Tigers’ Cesar Gutierrez goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning, 9-8 win. Mickey Stanley‘s home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez came into the game hitting .218, and was hitless in his…
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I’ll admit it: I wasn’t the biggest Magglio Ordonez fan in 2006. After an injury-riddled debut season with the Tigers in 2005, I was ready to see the Ordonez that seemed to crush Detroit at every opportunity while with the White Sox. But he just didn’t seem to deliver as often as I expected him…
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And this evening I gleefully eat crow. Justin Verlander or no, I didn’t expect the Tigers to win Game 5. After Wednesday night’s deflating extra-inning loss, my typically optimistic self thought the Tigers had run out of gas and that the Rangers were just too hot to lose. Texas was making the most of their…
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