Five Things to Watch in April
Due to the glorious reality that we now have actual baseball to watch and dissect rather than just future baseball to dissect, we can start to look for early seasons indications of how the season is...
View ArticleHow Was The Game? (April 4, 2013)
Kind of a meltdown. Twins 8, Tigers 2 At different points this afternoon, different storylines sought to grab the headline. When the game began, I was expecting to write about how well Rick Porcello...
View ArticleHow Was The Game? (April 10, 2013)
It got away from us. Blue Jays 8, Tigers 6 The day began with a two hour and twenty-nine minute rain delay and ended with a whimper in the face of a home plate umpire who wanted to go home. The...
View ArticleHow Was The Game? (April 20, 2013)
Kind of a laugher. Angels 10, Tigers 0 The Tigers lost their third straight game today and we can point to two distinct causes. First, the offense has really just not gotten anything going over the...
View ArticleHow Was The Game? (April 27, 2013)
A nice bounce back for Porcello. Tigers 7, Braves 4 The Tigers came into today’s game on a high note thanks to a 10-0 win on Friday, but the starting pitcher, Rick Porcello was coming off his worst...
View ArticleThe Morning Edition (May 29, 2013)
From Last Night: Harvey and Kuroda deliver a classic duel in NY Lee dominates the Red Sox, wins 3-1 Rays walk off against the Marlins McCann homers in the 10th to lift the Braves over the Jays What...
View ArticlePorcello and Fister: The Great Ground Ball War of 2013
The present author has made no attempt to hide his affection for Rick Porcello and Doug Fister. Low walk starters who get a lot of ground balls are a personal favorite and you’re just going to have to...
View ArticleRick Porcello’s Closing Argument
It was just a couple of months ago that I wrote about Porcello’s breakout season and then I did it again as he broke out even further four weeks later. This was the year that Rick Porcello made the...
View ArticleRick Porcello: Ace Rising
It’s possible that the title of this post is a touch hyperbolic. But then again, not really. It depends on your definition of ace. At this exact moment in time, Porcello isn’t one of the best dozen...
View ArticlePorcello’s Release Point Slid, His Results Tumbled
Remember the first six weeks of the season? Those were simpler times. Let’s not talk about what’s gone wrong writ large. Let’s talk about one problem and it’s root cause. Rick Porcello was awesome...
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