I have hated the Oakland a's since the mid 1960's when they used to throw and hit Tigers batters in the head and body parts. Rat fcuk lew krause Jr. especially for hitting and breaking Kaline's arm in the summer of 1968, rat fcuk jack aker for throwing at Northrup and Horton, and rat fcuk campaneris for throwing his bat at Tigers pitcher Lerrin Lagrow in the 72 playoffs.
Riley Greene with hitting 30 home runs last week, joined a RARE list of players drafted by the Tigers.
Dillon Dingler has made himself the number one catcher in Detroit for the long haul with some subtle changes to his game
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Dillon Dingler: Catcher of the future.
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Days of Roar Tigers Podcast: Detroit Tigers make statement with Astros sweep; Baseball America's Geoff Pontes on Kevin McGonigle. 68 minutes.
The West Michigan Whitecaps have a plus 275 run differential after winning 16-0 Sunday. No other team in organized baseball is higher than a plus 148. Their manager, Tony Cappuccilli seems like he is getting the most from his players.
Skubal allowed one earned run last night. His ERA is 2.28
McKinstry error saved Skubals ERA.
Tarik Skubal had allowed 27 ER for the season through July 31. He has allowed 14 in 32.1 August innings.
The Tigers have scored 18 runs for Tarik Skubal over his last 10 starts, covering 61.1 innings (and counting). That’s about 2.6 runs per 9 innings, which is the 2nd lowest out of 74 qualified pitchers in that time.
Only Shane Baz (2.28) has gotten less run support.
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igers SP ERA last 30 days:
Skubal 3.06 (if you add the 5 runs from last night) 4.45
Morton 3.63
Mize 4.74
Paddack 5.13
Flaherty 5.18
Tigers radio analyst Bobby Scales will switch to the TV booth for this road trip. He’s done pregame and postgame on Tigers TV, but this is his booth debut.
AJ Hinch, on MLB radio, said Alex Cobb was being pulled off his rehab assignment and shut down for a week. This allows the club to reset the assignment for another 30 days, but obviously a decision will have to be made before that. Time is about up.
