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2008
Bunt Singles: July 1
posted in 2008 season, bunt singles |Some news and notes:
- The Tigers’ short-season-A team, the Oneonta Tigers, seem to be up for sale. The team has a contract with Detroit through 2010. Interestingly, with a population of 13,000, Oneonta is one of the smallest towns affiliated with a major league club. I think someone in Marquette needs to buy it. Although that might be a bit of a commute for the New York-Penn league.
- Miguel Cabrera may end up on the disabled list, Lynn Henning reports. We’ll learn more today.
- La Velle E. Neal III, who appears to have the most complicated name in the A.L. Central beat writers’ circle, wrote in the Star Tribune that Jason Kubel will sit tonight while Craig Monroe gets the start. Kubel can’t hit Nate Robertson.
- Neal also reports Glen Perkins apologized for throwing the bal near Guillen’s head.
- There was lot to second-guess, a StarTrib blog reports.
- The Indians are alone in LAST?!! That’s kinda weird.
- Marcus Thames has the highest OPS for a Tiger with 100 at-bats or more. (He was 148) and a .961 OPS. He is just ahead of Magglio Ordonez (.866) and Curtis Granderson (.849).
- Robertson has allowed hte most hits and most ER in the Tigers’ rotation. That fact remained so even when you only look at the month of June though his ERA of 3.77 was much improved.
- The Tigers reportedly are one of the teams most interested in Freddy Garcia. I’m not sure I’m as interested as some. I know he won a decent number of games for several years. But even before injuring his shoulder, his ERA+ for his previous three seasons, from 2006 to 2004, was 105, 116 and 122. That’s kind of going in the wrong direction.
- Jeremy Bonderman had a successful surgery to remove a rib. He’s now officially done for the season. But the surgery went well, fortunately.
Thinking Miggy probably won’t go on the DL, given his pinch hit AB tonight. That’s good. We should be fine in his absence anyways, Thames looked comfortable at first. I;m not sure it’s worth putting Miggy on the DL just for two weeks of Jeff Larish.
Robertson has been struggling a bit lately. He needs to stop nibbling at the plate so much. Far too many baserunners the last two starts, especially compared to the other Tiger starters who have enjoyed success of late, like JV, Galarraga and Bonine.