Keith Law is still catching hell from Cardinals fans over his 2009 Cy Young Award ballot which they (erroneously) believe screwed Adam Wainwright and/or Chris Carpenter out of the Cy Young Award. That’s not his problem. He’s wrongfully accused of hating every team’s fans at some time or another, but Keith votes his mind and…
For the eighth time in his ten seasons, Miguel Cabrera reached the 30 home run mark. His shot Wednesday afternoon helped the Tigers to a 5-1 win over Minnesota. Miguel has never reached 40 homers in his career, but with about six weeks left in the season, he has a decent chance to reach that round number. His single season high stands at 38.
Miguel is not close to making the top ten list of home runs hit through seasonal age 29. You will notice that most of the top players through that age did not go on to set home run records. Only Henry Aaron, who is tied for seventh, went on to hit 700 dingers. The history of young hitters with big home run totals is that they burn out. I thought Alex Rodriguez might avoid that, simply because he was so far ahead of every one else. Injuries took their toll on him however, like they did on his former teammate Ken Griffey, Jr. Aaron’s teammate, Eddie Mathews, had more home runs than Aaron through age 29, but came no where near Ruth’s record.
My point is that Miguel’s career total of 307 home runs doesn’t look gaudy, but neither were the totals of Bonds, Aaron, or Ruth through that age. Miguel might be the kind of player that surprises at the end of his career.
Miguel Cabrera got to 100 RBI last night. On Wednesday, he reached 30 homers by taking Minnesota’s Cole De Vries deep in his first at-bat. In so doing, he became the first player in Tigers history to reach to hit 30 homers in five straight seasons. Surprisingly enough, just 18 different Tigers have had 30-homer…
It was shutout Tuesday, apparently. Let’s tally the goose eggs: Yankees 3, Rangers 0: Hiroki Kuroda with the two-hit shutout. He was masterful, but man, there were a lot of ill-advised Texas swings in the parts of this one I watched. Either Kuroda had them more fooled than someone on the foolingest day of his life [...]
It was shutout Tuesday, apparently. Let’s tally the goose eggs: Yankees 3, Rangers 0: Hiroki Kuroda with the two-hit shutout. He was masterful, but man, there were a lot of ill-advised Texas swings in the parts of this one I watched. Either Kuroda had them more fooled than someone on the foolingest day of his life [...]
Tied with Josh Hamilton for the major league lead at 99 before tonight’s action, Miguel Cabrera struck first Tuesday, knocking in two runs in the Tigers’ 8-4 defeat of the Twins. Hamilton was held without an RBI as the Rangers were shutout by the Yankees. Still just 29 years old, Cabrera now has nine 100-RBI…
It’s not terribly surprising that Jim Leyland is going to say that he thinks his guys — Miguel Cabrera — should be the MVP over someone else.* But his comments about why Mike Trout may win the award instead of Cabrera are pretty fun: “I mean this respectfully,” Leyland said during the interview. “I don’t…
Justin Verlander became the first pitcher since Boston’s Pedro Martinez in 1999 to strike out at least 14 Yankees in a 7-2 victory for the Tigers on Monday. Verlander pitched eight innings and allowed both runs in easily outdueling Ivan Nova on the night. Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera homered off Nova, who ended up…
After being criticized by Rangers president and CEO Nolan Ryan earlier this week, Josh Hamilton is now hearing it from some of his home fans. Hamilton went 0-for-4 in last night’s 9-5 loss to the White Sox. While he at least contributed with a sacrifice fly and an RBI ground out, a smattering of boos [...]
Pardon me if I seem discombobulated, but I’m suffering from weekend movie whiplash. On Friday night I saw “The Dark Knight Rises.” Yesterday I saw “Safety Not Guaranteed.” If you can find me two movies out right now that are more dissimilar in terms of tone, themes, budget and every other single other relevant measure,…
Miguel Cabrera took Phil Humber deep twice Sunday to reach 300 career homers and help the Tigers top the White Sox 6-4. Cabrera’s second homer made him the second Venezuelan to reach 300 career homers. The first was Andres Galarraga, who finished his career with 399. Quintin Berry and Brennan Boesch also homered for Detroit…
Miguel Cabrera took Phil Humber deep twice Sunday to reach 300 career homers and help the Tigers top the White Sox 6-4. Cabrera’s second homer made him the second Venezuelan to reach 300 career homers. The first was Andres Galarraga, who finished his career with 399. Quintin Berry and Brennan Boesch also homered for Detroit…
Brandon Inge was a shortstop and relief pitcher back in high school, but came into the bigs with the Detroit Tigers as a catcher for a few years before getting moved to the outfield and third base. Now that Miguel Cabrera is taking over at the hot corner to make room for Prince Fielder at first, the 34-year-old Inge is asking Manager Jim Leyland if he’ll try him out to be the starting second baseman.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Leyland is into the idea. “I hope it works out,” Leyland said, according to the idea. “If he’s really good defensively at second and can hit, it makes us better. I can use (Ryan) Raburn in left and use Delmon (Young) at DH, and vice versa. It’s pretty interesting. I want to give it a fair shot.”
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