24th
April
2007
Bunt Singles: April 24 edition
posted in 2007 season, bunt singles |Tigers news and notes:
- At SI.com, Jon Heyman ranked the top managers in baseball. Buddies Tony La Russa and Jim Leyland ranked 1 and 2, respectively.
- Danny Knobler reports former Tigers pitcher and scout — now an Angels scout — Troy Percival bought a suite at Comerica Park this season for players wives to use. Also of interest, Jeremy Bonderman rents Percy’s house in metro Detroit and picks his brain for pitching information. … Bondo also keeps in touch with Kenny Rogers.
- Via the same article, Leyland is pretty sure it wasn’t a health problem that is causing Rodney’s problems. Frankly I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing, since Rodney has four of the Tigers’ eight losses.
- According to the radar gun at The Big A, Gary Sheffield’s line drive at Jered Weaver, which surely left a stain, flew by at 108 mph, the LA Times reports.
- Detroit is third in the A.L. in scoring with 95 runs, despite the fact half the lineup wasn’t hitting worth anything.
- The Tigers are above the Major League average for walks. After last year, we’ll take it!
- Daily Fungo Mike was in Orange County for yesterday’s game and has a recap of how he missed Curtis Granderson’s homer. He also had breakfast with Lynn Henning.
Around the MLB:
- The Yankees’ pitching is awful. Flat out awful. So they’ve called up phenom prospect Philip Hughes to start Thursday. (Replacement Level Yankees Blog)
- SI’s A.L. Central blog updates Tuesdays.
- Twins reliever Pat Neshek blogs. And trades autographs.
- Torii Hunter gave some bottles of bubbly to the Royals for sweeping the Tigers last September, giving Minnesota an A.L. Central title. Funny. It’s against the rules and could have got him banned for three years. Not funny. The Royals had to give it back. It’s all a bit stupid, more than funny.
- Tampa surpassed 100 runs scored Monday, second to only the Bronx Bombers in the A.L.
- In the AL West, starting pitching took a hit when both Seattle’s Felix Hernandez and Oakland’ Rich Harden made a trip to the disabled list.
- Toronto closer B.J. Ryan moved to the 60-day disabled list. (hat-tip Baseball Musings)
- Also via Baseball Musings, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette looks into players and coaches belief in clutchiness.
- Scoring is down in the MLB so far this year. Baseball Prospectus tackles the question whether it is the weather. (subreq). Turns out scoring may be down slightly for the season, but the dramatic increase is probably due to the cold start.
