Stretch the Hat link roundup
posted in link roundup |Tom Gage of the News pointed out the Tigers packed everything up and sent it to Lakeland — including an ancient hat stretcher the team has been lugging around for 70-something years. With that inspiration, here’s some links.
First, a look at the World Series odds (via FishStripes via Baseball Musings … Just go read the FishStripes link, it sums it up better). The Tigers had the second-best odds to win the World Series at 5:1. By default, the Yankees are always picked first.
Speaking of the future, based on John Sickels’ rankings at Minor League Ball, Detroit’s minor league system in the middle of the road but, thanks to Andrew Miller, the 2006 draft class tops in baseball. (hat-tip Jeff, who emailed me). I think the 2006 draft class looked pretty good, not just Miller, but infielder Scott Sizemore looks like he may turn out to be a steal several rounds later.
Speaking of Sickels, he recently did a crystal ball prediction for Curtis Granderson’s career. It’s just an educated guess, not anything super statistical like PECOTA.
There was a long interview with Scott Boras at the Boston Herald. I think this came from Baseball Musings too, originally, if someone wants to tip a cap. Despite the obvious demonization that Boras makes so easy, I found it to be quite an interesting operation he runs, complete with his own statistics compilers, trainers and other staff members. I don’t really hate on Boras too much. He has a job to do and does it well. And Detroit has picked up a few of his clients and worked pretty well with him. Still, do I want to see Carlos Guillen have him for an agent? Uhm, no.
And Lee at TigerTales continues to be active on the sabermetric side of the Tigers, if you haven’t checked him out, do so! His current line of research has been Tigers baserunning. He found out the best baserunner was Pudge Rodriguez in 2006.
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