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Both teams seemed built to win when they faced the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS. Back in 2013, fresh off a trip to the World Series, the Tigers seemed poised to take another run at victory. They had a remarkable season, handily winning the AL Central, and had one of the greatest pitching staffs in modern history on hand: Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer (who won the Cy Young that year in his breakout season), Anibal Sanchez, Rick Porcello, and Doug Fister. These were players at the peak of their...
Daz Cameron is off to a solid start, and we’re analyzing small samples everywhere. Few prospects in the Detroit Tigers system had as much momentum ending this season as did Daz Cameron. While the small stint he served in Triple-A Toledo didn’t tell us much, his successes with the Lakeland Flying Tigers and at Double-A Erie were demonstrative of rapidly improving skill. His potential as a producer on both sides of the ball could make him the best two-way player Detroit has seen since Ian...
The NLCS moves out west as the Dodgers and Brewers battle in a pivotal Game 3.
Milwaukee Brewers (96-67) at Los Angeles Dodgers (92-71)Time/Place: 7:39 p.m., Dodger Stadium
Series: 1-1
SB Nation sites: Brew Crew Ball and True Blue LA
Media: Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Go
Pitching Matchup: RHP Jhoulys Chacin (15-8, 3.50 ERA) vs. RHP Walker Buehler (8-5, 2.62 ERA)
Warm up with some walk-offs October can be hard when your team is out of contention. For the 2018 Tigers, there was never much hope of a playoff dream, but the team has had a storied history of October baseball memories, which we can look back on to keep us warm on these chilly autumn nights. This week, and October 14 specifically, are huge moments in Tigers lore, and for fans of the team, two major events will stick out from Octobers past. Most recently, on October 14, 2006, only three...
Detroit’s starters allowed fewer runs, walks, and hits compared to 2017, but lacked an ace. The Detroit Tigers’ starting pitching rotation showed improvement from 2017 to 2018 in some areas, while they regressed in others. Unlike the team’s league-worst batting lineup, their starting rotation ranked closer to the middle of the pack in most statistical categories. However, the difference may not mean a whole lot in terms of the future of the team. This is so for two reasons. First, the...
The BYB staff decided to talk about trading for prospects, so we’re sharing that with the rest of you. Normally, we here at Bless You Boys try to pump the breaks on rumor discussion and free agency dreams in October. While the 2018 season wasn’t exactly an exciting one for the Detroit Tigers, it’s still important to look back at the year that was before moving forward. Plus, the winter is a lot longer than you think. If we blow through everything in October, this place will be a ghost...
Detroit's Arizona Fall League contingent is highlighted by Daz Cameron and Jake Rogers, both of whom were acquired last August as part of the Justin Verlander trade and just completed their first full seasons in the Tigers' organization.
The Tigers’ groin surgery epidemic continues. Also, Ron Gardenhire doesn’t like strikeouts.
Hello, and good Monday morning to you, reader. We’re down to four teams in the playoffs, and if this weekend proved nothing else, it showed that the Milwaukee Brewers are actually beatable in the playoffs.
If you are still on the fence about who you should be rooting for or why, you have a variety of reasons to root for any team. Actually, you have nine really good ones. With four teams left,...
Gerrit Cole and the Astros will look to take a 2-0 series lead while David Price needs to silence his playoff demons.
Houston Astros (103-59) at Boston Red Sox (108-54)Time/Place: 7:09 p.m., Fenway Park
Series: 1-0, Houston
SB Nation sites: The Crawfish Boxes and Over the Monster
Media: TBS, TBS.com
Pitching Matchup: RHP Gerrit Cole (15-5, 2.88 ERA) vs. LHP David Price (16-7, 3.58 ERA)
Better late than never. Happy JV Day!
Yeah, this is late. Sorry about that. We were all busy celebrating Paul Simon’s birthday with an acoustic guitar sing-along. But this Dodgers-Brewers game is a real nailbiter, isn’t it?
Anyway, later on... ALCS Game 1:
Series: 0-0 (obviously)
Where and When: Fenway Park, 8:07 pm EDT
SB Nation sites: The Crawfish Boxes (HOU) and Over the Monster (BOS)
Matchup: RHP Justin Verlander (16-9, 2.52 ERA) vs. LHP Chris Sale (12-4, 2.11 ERA)
Media: TBS
JV vs....
Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers take on the red-hot Brewers at Miller Park to kick off the 2018 NLCS.
Los Angeles Dodgers (92-71) at Milwaukee Brewers (96-67)Time/Place: 8:09 p.m., Miller Park
Series: 0-0
SB Nation sites: True Blue LA and Brew Crew Ball
Media: Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports Go
Pitching Matchup: LHP Clayton Kershaw (9-5, 2.73 ERA) vs. LHP Gio Gonzalez (10-11, 4.21 ERA)
There is a vacancy in the Fox Sports Detroit booth, so let’s fill it with someone good. The Detroit Tigers need new television announcers. We’ve known this ever since Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press reported that longtime announcers Rod Allen and Mario Impemba would not return to Fox Sports Detroit broadcasts in 2019. Normally, we would wait a little while before trying to find successors for Allen and Impemba. Fox Sports Detroit has not yet officially announced that the two...
The 50th anniversary of the Tigers’ third championship occurred on Wednesday.
The Detroit Tigers won Game 7 of the 1968 World Series on October 10, 1968. It was an exciting 4-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, one that stayed scoreless for six innings until Jim Northrup lined a two-run triple over the head of Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood. The Tigers added a couple of insurance runs, and starter Mickey Lolich shut things down from there to earn his third win of the series.
We...
Both players had surgery with Dr. William Meyers, who is becoming all too familiar to Tigers fans. It’s usually not a good thing when a surgeon becomes a household name among a team’s fanbase. This is becoming the case for the Detroit Tigers, who announced that both Christin Stewart and Jordan Zimmermann underwent core muscle repair surgery with Dr. William Meyers, a specialist in Philadelphia. Dr. Meyers has operated on several Tigers in recent years, including Miguel Cabrera, Victor...
Outfielder Christin Stewart and right-hander Jordan Zimmermann underwent core muscle surgery, the Tigers announced Thursday. Both are expected to be ready for Spring Training next February.
The Detroit Tigers announced today that righty Jordan Zimmermann and outfielder Christin Stewart underwent surgeries to repair core muscle injuries. Both players are expected to be at full health for the start of camp. In the case of Zimmermann, the news comes on the heels of another disappointing campaign in Detroit. The 32-year-old now carries a 5.24 ERA in his 396 2/3 innings since signing on with the club in advance of the 2016 campaign. To be fair, Zimmermann did make some strides...
McCann improved defensively, but his bat fell off a cliff this season.
It’s funny to look back at how fans reacted when James McCann was first breaking into the major leagues. Normally, they will over-hype the prospect in question, especially when their favorite team’s farm system is as bad as Detroit’s was at the time. However, expectations for McCann were surprisingly measured — around here, at least. Alex Avila was still the unquestioned starter at that point, with most simply...
Before Gene Lamont became the Tigers' first-ever pick in the MLB Draft, he was headed to Kansas State to play baseball and basketball. He was going to play the latter for Winter, who took the Wildcats to the Final Four in 1964.
For the work Christin Stewart put in along the way, MLB Pipeline honored him as the Tigers' Hitting Prospect of the Year. Former first-round pick Matt Manning, the big right-hander who rose from Class A West Michigan to Double-A Erie this summer, was named MLB Pipeline's Tigers Pitching Prospect of the Year.
These cartoon updates from the Cubs-Tigers series are amazing
The time leading up to the 1908 World Series was a thrilling experience for baseball fans. The defending champion Chicago Cubs would be taking on the Detroit Tigers in a rematch of the 1907 series, which had been won by the Cubs. This was the first time in World Series history that two teams would have a rematch.
The 1908 series is remarkable for another reason: it was the last time the Cubs would win a World Series for 108...