Author: Jerry McKennan
Parker Meadows: Leveraging Crowd Insights for an In-Depth Analysis
Parker Meadows recently was our 4th ranked prospect for the second time in a row. He had a .354 wOBA, .256/.337/.474 slash line for Toledo before getting called up to the big league team for his final 37 games. His brief time with the big league has generated some excitement, seeing most of his stats…
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Justyn-Henry Malloy and the Art of Patience
Justyn-Henry Malloy has quickly become a fan favorite for the Tigers. And he brought exactly what we thought and hoped. High walk rates, some power, good average. He was above average in all categories we keep track of even. No one will be upset with a guy who has an 18.0% BB%, 38.9% hard hit%,…
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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 rotation. The final two spots have been up for debate. Does Casey Mize knock the rust off by going to Toledo first? Can…
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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 shoulder. He seems to twist his waist and a little movement as he readies to swing. Wide stance and a leg lift to go with…
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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 levels. That was good for a 31.7% K% and 2.4% BB%. At the end of the season, he left everyone wanting him on the big…
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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 and is the explanation of what it is, what it should measure, and a sneak peek at who has what in some of the Tigers…
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Spencer Torkelson’s Power Surge
It has been nearly 2 full months since I wrote about Spencer Torkelson (which you can read here) and all the data that I gathered for that. He has since hit 9 HRs, has a wRC+ of 118 and a wOBA of .339 — all pretty good for him. But despite that, he seems to…
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Detroit Tigers Run Values
This was a really fun exercise on Detroit Tigers Run Values. This gist of this post: who has seen discrepancies between their run values based on bad calls? It’s one that came to me after the discussion about a month ago on the podcast about the gradual movement to automatic balls and strikes instead of…
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Fixing Joey Wentz
Joey Wentz had shown flashes of brilliance in 2022, despite starting only 18 games between Toledo and Detroit due to injury. With the known injuries, we were hoping he would hold one of the rotation spots down and pitch fairly well. Nine starts in and we have seen Wentz accumulate a 5.79 FIP and 2.09…
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Player profile: Eduardo Rodriguez
This is the second in the Player Profile series (you can read the first one here) and the first pitcher version. We thought that, similar to the first hitter one, there should be a preview of pitchers, so you can see what to expect as we focus on Eduardo Rodriguez. The thought is that…
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