The Comissioner said something about each of us tackling a position. He is so organized and has stats and research to back up what he says. Me? I go with gut instinct. The season saw many 2nd basemen. Brandon Inge (gave up 3rd for the MVP) before he was banished to Oakland, Ryan Rayburn before he was banished to parts unknown, Ramon Santiagop - a steady back up. And then my mind went blank. For the life of me I could not remember who the 2nd baseman was. What does that tell ya? It tells me that whoever the heck it is could be expendable. I cheated and found out that it was Omar Infante. He was just OK in my book. He was one of the few hitters in the World Series (.316). Could we live with him in 2013 - sure. Is there somebody else out there? I don't know. 32 days till pitchersand catchers report!!
A discussion of the Detroit Tigers past, present and future.
Le Grand Orange
Best DH Season for a Bengal
Guillermo is Tops in Our Opinion!
Willie Hernandez posted the best relief season in the history of the Tigers.
The Best Season in Left?
The Rock, no doubt
Ty Cobb
Clearly, we picked Cobb as having the best year in center
Kaline narrowly wins our poll
for best season in right.
George Kell, 1949
The best Tiger season at third
It's Unanimous, Tram had the Best Season at Short
By Acclaim!
Who had the best season at first?
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, that's who
My Kind of Town
Toledo is our favorite minor league stadium
Old Yankee Stadium - Our Favorite
Winning our poll for favorite non-functioning ball park-Yankee Stadium
Wrigley Field: Our favorite (non-Detroit) operating MLB park
By narrow vote over Fenway, it's Wrigley Field
Sparky Anderson - The Greatest Skipper
With the election of Spark, we complete our little Hot Stove project of selecting the Greatest Tiger Team. This was fun.
Who Was the Greatest Tiger Reliever, DH/PH
We resoundingly agree that Willie Hernandez was the best reliever, but we tied on Rusty Staub or Daryl Evans for DH or pinch hitter
Kaline is the Unanimous Rightfielder
In our second consecutive unanimous vote, Al Kaline, is chosen as the Greatest Tiger Rightfielder!
Cobb is Unanimous!
Nobody liked him, but we agree he was the best in center
Willie is Our man in Left!
Willie Horton is our choice for the greatest Tiger in left field
Good Ol' George Kell, the Best Tiger at the Hot Corner
At least by our vote, he's been elected. (BTW, thanks to Tom Haggerty for the write up on all the third basemen.)
Tram Stands Tall at Short
Tiger's Super Second Sacker - Gehringer in a Lanslide!
Once again, I was overwhelmingly out-voted, Charlie Gehringer wins.
Heaven's First Baseman
Hank Greenberg, elected as the Greatest Tiger firstbaseman in History
Our Tiger Hall of Fame
Bill Freehan, catcher
No genius here. for all stats you can use http://www.baseball-reference.com/
ReplyDeletea neat resource.
excuse no caps. broke my arm this weekend.
might have been worth it when i asked the doc "is my major league baseball career over?"
he got all confused and flustered.
re 2b: no, infante is not essential, but better than the who's on second game we played early in 2012.
meanwhile, dallas baseball writer evan grant says kinsler doesn't want to move to first, rumors Andrus might be good trade bait, with profar behind him. c'mon tigers, let's make a deal!
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ReplyDeletewhat did anonymous say to have his comment removed??
ReplyDeletehe included a link to porn. On second thought, maybe we could get more participation with a little spice...
ReplyDeleteOn third thought, nah.