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Today the Palm Beach Post had a terrific article on former Tigers catcher Rob Brantly losing a foot race to fellow catcher Miguel Olivo - twice. As punishment Rob had to lug the luggage for his team on their trip to Minnesota. The race was set up after Olivo was lifted for pinch runner - you guessed it - Rob Brantly. This is shades of the great 2012 Avila/Laird speed debate and also this classic tweet from Will Rhymes:
How about the current Tigers? How would you rank their speed? Does Skip have a pinch runner cheat sheet like a football coach has a 2-point conversion chart? If he does, this is what it would look like. It's not pretty.
- Austin Jackson
- Torii Hunter
- Andy Dirks
- Don Kelly
- Doug Fister
- Omar Infante
- Drew Smyly
- Rick Porcello
- Brayan Villarreal
- Ramon Santiago
- Darin Downs
- Anibal Sanchez
- Matt Tuiasosopo
- Max Scherzer
- Justin Verlander
- Phil Coke
- Al Alburquerque
- Jhonny Peralta
- Alex Avila
- Brayan Pena
- Miguel Cabrera
- Octavio Dotel
- Joaquin Benoit
- Prince Fielder
- Victor Martinez
Coaches Division:
- Tom Brookens
- Rafael Belliard
- Toby Harrah
- Jim Leyland
- Lloyd McClendon
- Jeff Jones
- Mike Rojas
- Gene Lamont