Morning Prowl: Galarraga honored, Thomas operated on

by Kurt Mensching on Jun 8, 2010 10:30 AM EDT in Detroit Tigers Links

Wait, you mean there was still news in the major leagues as well? Stunningly, yes.

Armando Galarraga was named the AL's player of the week. (At least the MLB got something right last week.)
And this has already been touched on, but his cleats and the first-base bag will be headed to Cooperstown. Good to see the Hall of Fame acknowledging the game.
While you're at MLive for the above link, you can check out the Detroit Tigers Nickname Compendium and let them know what your favorite Galarraga nickname is. At that point I realized Galarraga really has no nickname other than "Mondo," which is really just his name. Or the Little Cat, which I don't believe anyone actually calls him anyway. I'm going with Señor Perfecto myself.
The Arizona Republic got in a "downtrodden Detroit" reference. That should be the city's official nickname. It would save on marketing, right?
Jack Morris shared his feelings on Galarraga's game and the MLB's response in an article at TigsTown (no subscription needed for this one.) The onetime Tiger and onetime Twin declared the Tigers and Twins the only teams with a real shot to win the AL Central.
Former pitcher Curt Schilling wrote that commissioner Bud Selig missed his chance to make things right.
Let's not forget Señor Perfecto pitches tonight. So how did the starters of this season's other perfect games do in their first start after the big day? Dallas Braden gave up four runs in eight innings against the Angels. Roy Halladay allowed two runs in seven innings to the Padres. Both pitchers allowed a hit in the first inning.
Clete Thomas had microfracture surgery on his knee and will be out for the season. (Like Grady Sizemore.)
Lynn Henning wrote about the roster shuffle going on in Toledo.
Tom Gage has more on the Tigers' decision to cut ties with Adam Everett.
Magglio Ordonez is paid a lot this season, obviously. But he is doing very well against his fellow Richy Rich club members. In fact, he's second in WAR and third in OPS+ in the group of baseball's 15 highest-paid batters, Baseball Daily Digest writes. His teammate is ahead of him in both categories. (Via Billfer)

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First Opie, now Clete.

Bad week for Caucasians.

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." Walt Whitman

by NCDee on Jun 8, 2010 12:55 PM EDT reply actions

WAR Leaders

Just to help you vote, here’s the WAR leaders for each position:

AL:
1B: Morneau, Youkilis, Cabrera
2B: Cano, Zobrist, Hudson
SS: Jeter, Scutaro, Andrus
3B: Longoria, Beltre, Bautista
OF: Rios, Crawford, Wells, Ordonez, Suzuki, Gutierrez, A. Jackson, Swisher, Choo
C: Mauer, … humans.

NL:
1B: Pujols, Votto, A. Gonzalez (Aubrey Huff is 4th, which what’s with former Tigers succeeding with the Giants? Huff, Torres, Renteria — somebody send them Deivi Cruz, owait…)
2B: Utley, Uggla, K. Johnson
SS: Tulowitzki, H. Ramirez when he’s trying, Drew
3B: Zimmerman, Wright, Rolen
C: McCann, Y. Molina, Doumit
OF: Byrd, Willingham, Former Tiger Andres Torres, Ludwick, Holliday, Pagan, Soriano, Heyward, Rasmus

A week ago Saturday lastly
My ears were assaulted quite ghastly
When I clicked on a link
Before stopping to think
I wound up at a song by Rick Astley

by Misopogon on Jun 8, 2010 3:02 PM EDT reply actions

The old manager's praise

leyland seems to have a thing for praising over the hill players when some praise of his better performing younger players might be more appropriate. He praised Gary Sheffield when he struggled to help the Tigers. He was irate defending Dontrelle as a major league pitcher when he clearly was not. Now it is Chad Everett who is a good fielder and a good guy but let’s face it offense is still part of baseball. If this were Leyland’s only fault I suppose it could be overlooked. Maybe when his promising young team falters so more someone will realize a change is needed on that bench. BTW the praisemeister puts down his almost perfect pitcher by saying he would not start tonight but for his one hitter. That’s real praise Jim. Keep it up.

by Giant Tiger on Jun 8, 2010 4:46 PM EDT reply actions

It’s not CHAD Everett, it’s ADAM Everett. Chad Everett is an actor; Adam Everett is/was a Detroit Tigers shortstop. I agree that he is a good fielding shortstop, but he cannot hit. I agree with Jim Leyland on this decision.

by mslegato on Jun 8, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

My vote is 4 Sr. Mota!

sorry, had 2 parrallel AG 2 former bullpen great Sr. Smoke Auerelio Lopez. Finally they wised up on Adam Everette, worth was doin alot better. Idt their offensive woes r all that hard 2 figure out Cabby=Hr machine-2 bad knees=Inge-Grandy’s 30+hr-Thames-Mags Slg%=lack of runs. I mean, they had the same problems last year, the only bright spot has been Boesch, I mean besides Cabby, but other than the everlasting hope Guillon can stay healthy, there’s not 2 much power in the line-up. It does seem like their hitting a bit better, just still not gettin the rbi’s.

by LTownDown on Jun 8, 2010 4:52 PM EDT reply actions