Giving Reese Olson a rotation spot
Jerry McKennan 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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Player Profiles: The Bash Bros
Welcome to our first Player Profile! This is going to be a reoccurring series using some of the Statcast data available, giving yet another look to players. As a Patreon…
Spencer Torkelson, the good and bad
Spencer Torkelson. The future of Tiger baseball. An enigmatic player. The guy a lot of people have high hopes on and lots of frustrations with. I wanted to know: is…