The streak ends at 7: Scott Sizemore leads Tigers to 4-2 win
by BigAl on May 3, 2011 11:11 PM EDT
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I'll give you two for the price of one, as both were huge for the Tigers.
1. Scott Sizemore's batting line: 3-4, 1 R, 1 RBI.
2. Brad Penny's 6 innings pitched.
Penny had to throw well, as the Tigers' depleted bullpen was little more than Daniel Schlereth and Jose Valverde. Penny also put up a quality start, allowing 1 R in 6 IP.
Sizemore was swinging the bat well with the Mud Hens...and never stopped after arriving in Detroit. Sizemore now has as many extra base hits in one game as the demoted Will Rhymes had in 19.
KEY PLAY
With the Tigers holding on to a slight 2-1 lead in the 4th, RF Casper Wells threw out Andruw Jones at the plate to end the inning and a budding Yankees rally. I seriously doubt regular RF Magglio Ordonez makes that play. Alex Avila was a brick wall, stuffing Jones well short of the plate. The play went a long way (along with some bad Yankees base running in the 6th) toward Penny tossing six full innings, instead of the Tigers being forced to use their understaffed pen.
KEY CALL UP
Immediately after the game, Dave Dombrowski announced Omir Santos was optioned to Toledo, and the Tigers will activate Victor Martinez on Wednesday.
KEY THOUGHTS
The Tigers' record with Scott Sizemore: One game over .500.
The Tigers' record without Scott Sizemore: Five games under .500.
Coincidence? Well, probably. But Sizemore's performance (tonight and all season long with the Mud Hens) gives more ammo to those who believe he should have been the Tigers' 2nd baseman coming out of Lakeland.
With a pair of K's tonight, Ryan Raburn is on track for 600 strike outs...though my math may be a little off. Seriously, there are two players with more than 40 strikeouts in the bigs, and they are both Tigers. Raburn and Austin Jackson.
Speaking of Jackson, after an 0-4 hiccup last night, his gradual recovery from a season long slump continued. Jackson was 2-5, with a double, triple, 2 runs scored and an RBI. When combined with Sizemore, the Tigers' top of the order was as productive as its been all season (5-9, 3 R, 2 RBI).
Earlier today Ordonez said he's "Hitting with one leg." So it begs the question, why is he even in the lineup? Injured though he may be, slumping though he is, Ordonez was back in the 3 spot tonight. But he did have a pair of singles and his 2nd RBI of the season. I do have to wonder if Ordonez's performance will change Jim Leyland's plan to move him to 6th in the batting order. It's only one game...but it's also Leyland we're talking about.
At the very least, I hope Singglio is back. I badly miss Magglio, but it's better than Ground-outliggio, who has hung around for far too long.
Tonight the Tigers played as I expected them to this season. There was timely hitting, good starting pitching, a shutdown bullpen, and mistakes kept to a bare minimum. I haven't seen that team in over a week, and only in spurts earlier in the season. It's great to see them back, hopefully for good.
So it's finally over. The losing streak ends at seven. A Tigers win is nice. Several more, preferably strung in a row, would be nicer.
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Like I said before the game...
Leyland must keep Jackson in the leadoff spot tonight. Glad he listened.
Glad to see a win.
I think Sizemore answered what he needed too—his scored run and RBI was the winning difference in this game. Glad to see him do well.
Also glad to see penny throw six strong. He’s seemed to dial in and has been a quality pitcher and hope he continues. The baserunning errors late innthe game really helped the bullpen so those same issues are there, but the offense really looked like it took a step in the right direction.
How much of a homer am I?
I already released Gordon Beckham and signed Scott Sizemore on my fantasy team. I’m also starting him over Howie Kendrick tomorrow.
Top that.
He who laughs last didn't get it.
I picked up Sizemore and dropped Benoit
Well, our league does have a one Tiger rule, so I swapped Tigers.
I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!
I actually picked him up and started him yesterday....
worked out pretty well!
I picked him up as soon as I heard the news of his promotion.
Dropped Russell Branyan off my bench. It’s a deep league. I’m hoping to use Sizemore as trade bait later. With Neil Walker, I don’t need another 2B.
you do realize his career K rate is bad
and his BABIP was over 500 in the minors this year.
He might upgrade he Tigers offense but he’s not close to a fantasy second baseman.
by Kurt Mensching on May 4, 2011 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
It depends how deep your league is...
I’m in a 14 team mixed league. Sizemore has value.
Drink, and Drink, and Drink, and Drink, and Drink, and Drink, and Fight!
by Brand New Hero on May 4, 2011 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Career .840 OPS in the minors
would translate to a rosterable 2B in a lot of leagues…especially with a favorable spot in the lineup for the counting stats and double digit steal potential.
His career K rate is 16% by my calculation, which is actually pretty decent. I read somewhere MLB average in 2010 was 19ish%.
2010 at Toledo was not good (22.5%), 2011 a little better (20.6%). 20% is still not outrageously high.
i'm not quite sure where you are getting your numbers
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=2881&position=2B
I don’t see a K rate under 16% anywhere there.
by Kurt Mensching on May 4, 2011 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions
I always thought k-rate was K/PA but fangraphs uses K/AB
I calculated based on PA, which makes a lot more sense to me. AB’s are used as the denominator for most of the batted ball stats though, while PA is used at the denominator for BB%.
Someone who walks a lot rather than making poor contact on ball out of the zone will have a substantially higher k rate using AB at the denominator…seems like a flawed stat to me.
I understand why they use AB.
If you’re trying to isolate the skill of making contact then you don’t want to include pitches you wouldn’t have swung at anyway. Still somewhat misleading.
I suppose that’s why sabermatricians have developed a million different stats and a thorough analysis includes several indicators (swinging strikes, chase %, etc. ) rather than just one.
But,
I never understood why they haven’t reevaluated the walk. To not count it as an at bat in sabremetrics has never made a whole lot of sense, and I’m starting to see a PA used more often instead of AB. It just makes more sense, epecially considering so many of these stats are weighted to fix what ERA, BA, etc. doesn’t include(I.e. an error doesn’t effect a pitchers FIP negatively)
I like the usage of PA to AB because a walk is a quality at bat and the only way it used to be rewarded through traditional statistics is OBP.
I think he's close, if not already there
I have Ricky Weeks in one league and Kelly Johnson in another. In fantasy baseball, just count the offensive stats. K’s don’t matter.
I don't care what the Chinese say, 2011 is the Year of the Tiger!
He'll kill your BA
"Aside from the stuff I haven’t been diagnosed for yet, I don’t have a problem."- Phil Coke
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On a hot streak he is
And if his power production is good…
Corey Ettinger compared him to Kelly Johnson, which I could see as his upside.
"Aside from the stuff I haven’t been diagnosed for yet, I don’t have a problem."- Phil Coke
Contributor, Bless You Boys
So this is what winning feels like . . .
. . .I’d forgotten.
So when are we going to see a series
of the different Magglio Cartoons, a la Mario, Wario, Waluigi?
Paging Samara, I suppose………
"severe cheddar"
top of the ordee
"I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
by rock n rye on May 4, 2011 9:50 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
*order
They get hits, the Tigers win. Its amazing.
"I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
by rock n rye on May 4, 2011 9:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Sizemore was a huge key!!!
Dont forget Ajax too. Key double to start the game as well as a triple. Ajax and Sizemore gona tear it up the rest of the year!!! GO TIGERS!!!
Tigers Pitching Hold Yankee's To 2 Runs
Last night the Tigers pitching held their opponents to 2 runs in the game. They have not done that in the previous 7 games. Out of those last 7 games, if the Tigers had scored 4 runs they would have won only 1 of those games & lost 6, which is better than losing all 7, I guess. It was great to see the team firing on all cylinders for once, Scott & Austin were a huge spark, and pitching was very good. I just hope this continues & some others come back around & this team starts to play the quality of Baseball that we know they can.
Lets Hope He Continues
He should be great tonight after his flub up last time. He pitched great right up to his last inning. Garcia’s junk pitches usually give the Tigers a fit. He is 18 & 7 in 31 games against the Tigers. Let make it 18 & 8 after tonight.
by TigersFan1957 on May 4, 2011 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
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