The Future of Tarik Skubal
Jerry McKennan Let’s start this piece off with a bit of fun trivia. In the history of baseball, there have been 10 players with 190+ IP, 30%+ K% and 5%- BB% in…
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Detroit Tigers High Leverage Relievers
We are in the midst of watching an improbable run for our beloved Detroit Tigers. Everything seems to be going their way. 25-10 in their last 35 games, on the…
Keider Montero Fastball Evolution
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Parker Meadows: Leveraging Crowd Insights for an In-Depth Analysis
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Justyn-Henry Malloy and the Art of Patience
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Giving Reese Olson a rotation spot
Reese Olson’s numbers suggest a spot in the rotation. Tarik Skubal, Kenta Maeda, Jack Flaherty. Those are the names we hear repeatedly as being the guarantees to rotation in the…
Detroit Tigers Prospect Report: 2B Luke Gold
By Jerry Mackinem 2B Luke Gold DOB: 10/10/2000 B/T: R/R Physical Description and Background: He is listed at 6’0”, 220 lbs. Stands with the bat a little above his back…
Jackson Jobe breaking balls
The hype for Jackson Jobe is really high. And for good reasons. He threw 62 innings this year and gave up 6 walks while striking out 80 across three different…
Introducing the HIM metric
Introduction Rogelio was awesome and referred to a new metric in his recent Wenceel Perez article that has been in the works. This article is the first of a series…