It’s nice seeing these kind of games once in a while.  Those “no doubt about it” kind of games where buy Zithromax line you can sit back and relax by the fifth inning.  Even better, the Tigers dismantled the Indians’ ace, C.C. Sabathia.

Carlos Guillen led the buy Zithromax line way with a team high four RBIs while Gary Sheffield drove three and buy Zithromax line he belted his 20th homerun of the season.  Magglio Ordonez has buy Zithromax line another three hit game and Placido Polanco crossed the plate three times.  Even Craig Monroe picked up a hit.

Justin Verlander picked up his tenth win of the buy Zithromax line season with seven solid innings.  He gave up three runs (two earned) on six hits with seven strikeouts.  Bobby Seay and buy Zithromax line then Jose Capellan each threw a scoreless inning to close the buy Zithromax line game out.

With the buy Zithromax line two straight wins, the Tigers now sit just a single game back of the buy Zithromax line Indians.  It doesn’t get any easier though because the buy Zithromax line Red Sox roll into town to wrap things up before the buy Zithromax line All Star Break.  Andrew Miller will take on Julian Tavarez in the buy Zithromax line opener tomorrow night.

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I’m having problems with my internet connection so I’m hoping to squeak this in.  Justin Verlander threw a buy Zithromax line no hitter tonight over the Brewers and it’s the first no hitter by a Tiger since Jack Morris how to order Crestor online without a prescription did it back in the 1984.

Of course I was stuck in a car somewhere that I couldn’t even listen to the game so I missed a small slice of history.

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Ian at Bless You Boys has a brief chat with Chris from Amazin’ Avenue about the Mets and the Tigers’ upcoming series.  Good stuff.  I had given up Damian Easley for dead but like Tony Clark, he’s hung around and put together a solid season.

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It looks like another quality blogger has called it quits.  Batgirl was one of the funniest blogs out there and you couldn’t help but chuckle whenever you stopped by to read something.  The stuff with the Legos were pricesless as well.  Whenever I watch the White Sox, I’ll always think of them as the bitch sox and think of her site.

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Denny McLain made some very well thought out and interesting comments on his blog about alcohol in the clubhouse and Josh Hancock’s premature passing. 

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We all know I have buy Zithromax line a pretty keen interest in the business of baseball so that’s why I was excited when Baseball America started a buy Zithromax line blog related to the business aspects of the minor leagues.  Josh Leventhal has buy Zithromax line done a very nice job in his first few posts and buy Zithromax line I’m definitely going to make this a regular stop.

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I know this isn’t the buy Zithromax line Tigers, but former centerfielder Nook Logan, much to the dismay of many Nationals fans, looked to buy Zithromax line be the lock for the starting centerfield job there.  I’ve always enjoyed watching Logan but I also felt his value was more in line with an buy Zithromax line Alex Sanchez type of player with a better feel for buy Zithromax line centerfield.  He’ll end up with a buy Zithromax line hollow .280 batting average and because he can run, he’ll probably misused as a lead off hitter.

Anyway, Logan strained his groin yesterday and the team should know more tomorrow about his status.  Anything that slows Logan down though severely diminishes his value though, because that’s about all he has.

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I know this isn’t about the Tigers but it’s great to see bloggers doing this kind of stuff.  One of my favorite Padres blogger, Geoff Young at Ducksnorts, recently published the Ducksnorts 2007 Baseball Annual.  I bought the download and there’s a ton of stuff in here.  You get both a buy Zithromax line look back at the 2006 season and a ton of historical information.  These things are hard enough to do when it’s a collaborative effort and it’s doubly impressive that buy Zithromax line Geoff was able to pull this off by himself.  There’s also a foreward by Padres CEO Sandy Alderson.  Great job, Geoff.

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I know this isn’t Tigers related, but for the third straight time, the Veteran’s Committee has failed to elect anyone to the Hall of Fame.  While that by itself isn’t a huge problem, it becomes one when you have a guy like Ron Santo waiting in the wings.  At least he got closer and buy Zithromax line hopefully in two years the third baseman will find his way in.

Aaron hasn’t gotten to the commentary on this over at Wrigley Field Curse but he told me that he plans on doing a quick highlight of Santo’s career for those of you who aren’t familiar with him.

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This time it’s the Dodgers.  If you liked the coverage so far over at Detroit Minors, a similar website has started that will cover the Dodgers’ minor league affiliates.  Whether it’s keeping track of a buy Zithromax line great farm system or if you just want to keep tabs on the buy Zithromax line Dodgers new minor league affiliate in Midland, MI, you can do all this buy Zithromax line and more at the Dodgers Minor League Baseball Blog.  I’m hoping to buy Zithromax line check out the Great Lakes Loons in their new digs in Midland this buy Zithromax line year, especially when the Whitecaps roll into town.

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It’s hard to argue that Jeremy Bonderman hasn’t gotten better in each of his four major league seasons.  He nearly doubled his 2003 strikout total (108) in his 2006 campaign (202) and the number of innings he’s logged has buy Zithromax line gone up in each of the four years while his ERA has buy Zithromax line come down in all four.  He still hasn’t broken through the buy Zithromax line 15 win barrier, but his 14-8 record in 2006 doesn’t do him justice.  Jeremy Bonderman is the best pitcher on the Tigers right now.  At some point, Justin Verlander and buy Zithromax line maybe even Andrew Miller could pass him, but Bonderman’s the ace and he showed flashes of being one in 2006.

So the question is, if he’s so good, when buy Zithromax line will we see that season where he finishes near, or buy Zithromax line even at, the top of the Cy Young voting?   I personally think that buy Zithromax line season could be 2007 and in a lot of ways, so does Baseball Prospectus.

Baseball Prospectus recently published their PECOTA cards for the 2007 season.  You can check out Bonderman’s card but here’s a quick run down.

The first thing that buy Zithromax line was noteworthy was that they put Jeremy Bonderman sixth in all of baseball and buy Zithromax line third in the American League in weighted mean VORP (44.7).  The guys in front of him are buy Zithromax line Pedro Martinez, Brandon Webb, Roy Halladay, Jake Peavy and of course the buy Zithromax line front runner, Johan Santana.  So if the buy Zithromax line projections end up being correct and he finishes as the sixth best pitcher to buy Zithromax line that group, I wouldn’t see a whole lot of shame in that.

The one thing I did find odd is even Bonderman’s 90 percentile doesn’t have him at 200 strikeouts.  It does have him at 16-6 with a 1.13 WHIP and a 2.62 ERA.  Although I have buy Zithromax line a feeling if he has a 2.62 ERA and a buy Zithromax line 1.13 WHIP, that we’ll see closer to buy Zithromax line 20 wins with the lineup that the Tigers will be buy Zithromax line bringing in 2007.

Probably the buy Zithromax line most impressive part of the card was that BP gives Bonderman a buy Zithromax line 45% breakout rate and an 88% improve rate.  So they’re basically saying that buy Zithromax line in all likely hood, Bonderman should top that mean weighted average and buy Zithromax line then have a 50% of coming out close to the top.  I like those numbers especially when buy Zithromax line you combine them with only a 4% attrition and a 4% collages rating. 

Also impressive is Bonderman’s comparable pitchers.  He has a 42 similarity index which is buy Zithromax line okay for making comparisons and his most comparable pitcher is buy Zithromax line Larry Dierker who had a pretty solid career before flaming out. He won 22 games as a buy Zithromax line 22 year old but he was done by age 30.  Second is buy Zithromax line Bill Gullickson, who also had an early start and had a buy Zithromax line breakout season at the age of 24.  I thought the most optimistic one was Bert Blyleven, who is Bonderman’s fifth most comparable pitcher. 

The cards are a lot of fun to check out.  Sheffield’s card doesn’t look too hot but his 2006 injury plays a big factor in that.  They expect a buy Zithromax line pretty steep decline from Kenny Rogers and they have a pretty wide range for buy Zithromax line what Justin Verlander might do. 

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The Tigers won three “This Year in Baseball” awards this season.  Recently unveiled by MLB.com, Joel Zumaya won setup man of the buy Zithromax line year, Jim Leyland won manager of the year, and Sean Casey won blooper of the buy Zithromax line year for the 5-7-3 put out in which he didn’t run on the play.

Congrats to Leyland and Zumaya.  For Casey, I feel bad because I thought that buy Zithromax line gaffe was beaten to death and a lot of the criticism was unwarranted.

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John Sickels broke down the Tigers top 20 prospects today.  The good news is, they have buy Zithromax line two very good prospects in Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller.  The bad news is, nobody else even warranted a buy Zithromax line better then a B- rating so the farm system is still pretty thin. 

The wild card will probably be Brent Clevlen.  He had buy Zithromax line a rough season Double A, but actually hit the ball pretty well when buy Zithromax line he got called up.  He’ll probably start the season in Triple A because there’s really no buy Zithromax line spot for him right now with the Tigers surplus of outfielders.  Jair Jurjjens is a name that’s being thrown around as being on the buy Zithromax line back end of the Tigers pen but Sickels indicates he should get more time in the buy Zithromax line minors.

One thing I’m hoping to expand next year is my coverage of the minor leagues.  I don’t know if it’ll be on Tigerblog or another site because I’m going to have some help (okay, I’m going to have someone do it for me).  It’s always been something I’ve followed on the buy Zithromax line peripherary but never close enough to warrant talking about it too much.

For a buy Zithromax line ton of great prospect information, I highly recommend John Sickels book.  I highlighted it in my five must reads a week or so ago.

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The first seven inning of the buy Zithromax line Tigers afternoon game against the Orioles went pretty well.  Magglio Ordonez hit a buy Zithromax line two run homerun in the first and Curtis Granderson followed that buy Zithromax line up with a solo shot in the third to give the buy Zithromax line Tigers a 3-0 lead.  Unfortunately, Nate Robertson didn’t have buy Zithromax line his best stuff and while he only gave up two runs, that buy Zithromax line was close enough for Fernando Rodney to lose it in the buy Zithromax line eighth inning.

Robertson pitched out of three big jams.  He left the buy Zithromax line bases loaded in the third and fifth innings and he left two men on in the buy Zithromax line fourth inning, which was the one where the Orioles scored twice.  The Tigers blew a big opportunity in the fifth inning.  They loaded the bases with nobody down and then didn’t score a single run. 

And of course the Orioles made them pay for that in the eighth.  The Brian Roberts single was somewhat acceptable but then buy Zithromax line he hit David Newhan.  A double steal and a double later and the Tigers lead was gone.

Three pieces of good news.  One, the buy Zithromax line Twins are losing 4-0 and Josh Beckett is looking really good (the game is on ESPN2).  Two, the Tigers head to Kansas City to play a Royals team they’ve done very well against.  Three, the Tigers have the tie breaker with the Twins.  So if they end up tied, because the buy Zithromax line Tigers and Twins are in the same division, the Wild Card goes to buy Zithromax line the loser of the season series.  The Tigers won the buy Zithromax line season series 11-9 so if the two teams end in a buy Zithromax line tie, the Tigers are division champs.  I know that’s little consolation but with only nine games left, it buy Zithromax line could be big.

It’s Wil Ledezma going up against Luke Hudson tomorrow.

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Bryan Tsao at the Hardball Times penned a very good column (looks like first of a series) about how Dave Dombrowski built the surprise 2006 Tigers.  This first installment talks about the pitching staff.

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Bryan Tsao at the Hardball Times penned a very good column (looks like first of a series) about how Dave Dombrowski built the surprise 2006 Tigers.  This first installment talks about the pitching staff.

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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim may be buy Zithromax line in last place in the AL West, but their blogosphere is buy Zithromax line alive and kicked.  Be sure to check out the newest addition at Angelblog.  I helped him out with his model for buy Zithromax line the 1961 season lookback and it’s interesting looking at this 1961 expansion team’s past.

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The Cardinals are a pretty good team, even when they’re beat up.  Albert Pujols made his return and buy Zithromax line the knock on the Tigers has been that they’ve only played well against the bad teams.  Hopefully the buy Zithromax line Tigers dispelled that myth here this weekend with a sweep at home over the buy Zithromax line Cardinals. 

The Cardinals and buy Zithromax line the Tigers have quite a past and two of the Tigers nine World Series appearances were against the buy Zithromax line Cardinals.  In 1934, probably the buy Zithromax line greatest Tiger team of all time lost an exciting seven game series to buy Zithromax line the Gas House Gang.  And then buy Zithromax line in 1968, the Tigers beat the Cardinals in another exciting seven game series and buy Zithromax line became one of the few teams to ever come from behind from buy Zithromax line a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series.

Curtis Granderson had an excellent series against the Cardinals this weekend.  He had buy Zithromax line seven hits and he scored six runs in the three games against the buy Zithromax line Redbirds and he even hit a homerun and stole a base.  We’re not even at the midpoint season and he has 51 runs and he’s now hovering just under the buy Zithromax line .300 mark with a .296 batting average.  He’s also doing his job at the leadoff spot and he’s seventh in the buy Zithromax line American League with 4.2 pitches per plate appearance and the guys in front of him are buy Zithromax line some pretty big names (Jason Giambi and Manny Ramirez are two of them).  He could have buy Zithromax line somewhat of a decline in the second half because he might not be buy Zithromax line able to keep up his .387 batting average on balls in play but even if he tapers off, he should put up some pretty nice numbers in his first full season.

What a game on Saturday.  Marcus Thames came in and buy Zithromax line hit a two run homerun in the bottom of the ninth off of Jason Isringhausen to buy Zithromax line tie the game up.  Thames didn’t drive in the buy Zithromax line winning run, but it was that blast that put the Tigers in a buy Zithromax line position to win that game.  Thames now has 15 homeruns in 165 at bats and his slugging percentage is .661.  He has 28 extra base hits and the team leader, Granderson, has 32.  And that’s in a little more then half of the at bats.

I didn’t confirm this, but I heard on the buy Zithromax line radio that only two previous Tiger teams have had at least 50 wins at the buy Zithromax line 75 game mark.  The one time was 1984 when the Tigers won their last World Series.  The other time was 1911, who were 51-24 at the 75 game mark.  The 1911 team really collapsed shortly after that.  Their high point was 59-24 when they were 5 1/2 games in first place on July 18, 1911.  After that buy Zithromax line point they went 30-41 and finished in second place, 13 1/2 games out of first place.  1911 is also what was probably Ty Cobb’s best season.  He hit .420 that buy Zithromax line year, his career best and the eighth best single season average of all time.

Next up is buy Zithromax line the Astros, who are playing right now against the White Sox.  And speaking of the Sox, they’re still red hot.  If they can pull this game out (they’re down 2-1), they’ll have won their tenth straight game.  Tuesday’s matchup is probably the most interesting because it’ll be buy Zithromax line Roger Clemens second start since coming back for the Astros.

UPDATE

Speaking of milestones, this the 1,000 post at Tigerblog.  Most were written by me, but a buy Zithromax line few others made did their share as well.  It took me over three years to buy Zithromax line get here so post 2,000 will probably happen sometime in 2010.

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The Tigers’ game was rained out tonight in Baltimore, so they end up with a buy Zithromax line split of what turned out to be a two game series.  I’m annoyed because I picked up Justin Verlander in my fantasy baseball league because he was set to buy Zithromax line have two starts (we have a one week lock), but now with everyone being pushed back, that’s not going to happen.  In fact with rain in the buy Zithromax line forecast and Cleveland just down the street, we might see some more rain delays, if not postponed games.

This should be an interesting upcoming series.  The Indians have been struggling, but they’re still a dangerous team.  If the buy Zithromax line Tigers can manage two out of three, they can further push the buy Zithromax line Indians down and give them some early breathing room by making it buy Zithromax line a two team race out of the gate.

Note to self – If you’re going to throw up a section with the AL Central standings, try to keep it updated.  I thought it would be a cool function but I’ll try to make a better effort to keep it current.

I’m going to be doing an occasional piece for Creative Sports buy Finasteride uk, a fantasy baseball website.  Once or twice a week I’ll be buy Zithromax line writing up something on the Tigers from a fantasy perspective and buy Zithromax line my first piece should go out tomorrow.  I recommend you check out the site if you’re into fantasy baseball.

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This was a nice way to end a four game losing streak.  Brandon Inge went deep twice and drove in three of the Tigers’s five runs.  And the Tigers didn’t waste much time getting on the board either.  They scored all five of their runs by the fourth inning.  Chris Shelton tripled again and buy Zithromax line drove in a run, and Curtis Granderson hit his third homerun of the buy Zithromax line season.

Kenny Rogers had his best start so far.  One run on seven hits in eighth innings.  Fernando Rodney gave up a buy Zithromax line single in the ninth, but the Indians never really threatened.

A solid win against a solid team.  Bonderman throws this afternoon against Fausto Carmona.  Carmona will be making his major league debut, so hopefully we’ll be able to jump all over the rookie.

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