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Tuiasosopo walks way into rare Tigers company.
DETROIT -- Sunday night was a performance to behold for at least one Tiger, even if it was in defeat. As Matt Tuiasosopo stepped to the plate time and again, only to toss his bat and take his base, he was walking his way to a career best.

What, you were thinking about Miguel Cabrera's three-homer performance? Actually, what Tuiasosopo did Sunday -- walking four times in a game without any of them intentional -- is something not even Cabrera has done as a Tiger.

In fact, just three other Tigers have done it since 2000. Austin Jackson did it once in each of the previous two seasons. Brennan Boesch and Gary Sheffield did it once each. All of them were regulars. Tuiasosopo is not, but his at-bats earned him a rare start against a right-hander Tuesday night in Cleveland, which started Corey Kluber.

Tuiasosopo made the team as an aggressive, lefty-pounding power hitter, and he has far exceeded expectations. Yet he had never walked more than twice in a big league game, nor had he walked more than three times in a Minor League game.

Three of those walks Sunday night came after Tuiasosopo worked the count full, one of them battling out of an 0-2 hole.

"He obviously did a pretty good job the other night," manager Jim Leyland said.

Those at-bats, plus a huge reverse split for Kluber, earned Tuiasosopo the start. Right-handed batters entered Tuesday hitting .357 (20-for-56) off Kluber, compared to .256 (14-for-57) for left-handed hitters.

"He's done a good job against left-handers, hitting over .400, so I ran him out there tonight," Leyland said. "He might run into one, I don't know, but he's giving us good at-bats."
from the Tigers official site

 

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Dotel's recovery will require rehab assignment.
DETROIT -- Octavio Dotel has resumed throwing on schedule as the Tigers try to work him back slowly from the elbow inflammation that has sidelined him for a month.

Dotel was shut down a little more than a week ago after experiencing more discomfort while throwing. After a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews confirmed no structural damage, Dotel went on a six-day medication cycle. So far, he has come out of that throwing pain-free at the Tigers' Spring Training complex in Florida.

The plan is for Dotel to begin a throwing progression that will eventually lead to a Minor League rehab assignment, meaning it will still be a while before Dotel returns, even if all goes well.

The Tigers have struggled to fill Dotel's right-handed middle relief role. Al Alburquerque is back at Triple-A Toledo now, trying to find his command, while Jose Ortega has taken on a good amount of righty middle work.
from the Tigers official site

 

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Longtime GM Cook to represent Tigers at Draft.
DETROIT -- For the second consecutive year, the Tigers will use the First-Year Player Draft to pay homage to a longtime Major League general manager on their staff.

Once again, Murray Cook will serve as the Tigers' representative for the first night of the First-Year Player Draft on June 6 at MLB Network's Studio 42. Unlike last year, he'll actually have a pick to announce.

2013 Draft Central.

The Tigers went three years without a first-round selection, having surrendered them as free-agent compensation. Because of that, their participation in Major League Baseball's new tradition of honoring former legends as draft reps has been pretty much invisible.

This year, they not only kept their first-round pick, but added a sandwich pick at the end of the first round that they acquired from the Marlins in last season's trade for Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante.

They'll get to honor Cook, who served as general manager of the Yankees, Expos and Reds during the 1980s. Though his highest-profile job was the GM post under George Steinbrenner in New York, he made his name for taking chances to accumulate talent that paid off in three seasons in Montreal.

Some of that came from trading established stars. When the Expos traded Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, Cook swung the deal for a package that included Hubie Brooks, who became an All-Star shortstop in Montreal. Cook pounced when the Orioles decided to trade Dennis Martinez, who went on to three All-Star selections, an ERA title and a perfect game as an Expo. Another risky signing, Pascual Perez, posted a 7-0 record in 1987 and threw a rain-shortened no-hitter in 1988.

Cook also made a key pickup for the front office when he hired Dave Dombrowski, who had just been let go by then-White Sox general manager Ken Harrelson, to become the Expos' director of Minor League clubs in December 1986. A year and a half later, Dombrowski became the Expos' general manager, and he now serves as Tigers president, CEO and general manager.

Though Cook became known in Cincinnati as the Reds' general manager during the Pete Rose scandal, he put together several of the pieces that helped lead them to the World Series in 1990. Cook traded for a talented young arm in Jose Rijo soon after his hire, sent Kal Daniels to the Dodgers for Mariano Duncan, and acquired Todd Benzinger in the Nick Esasky trade.

Cook has had a second career as a scout over the past two decades, including stints working for Dombrowski with the Marlins until 2002 and with the Tigers since 2007. He currently scouts central Florida and the Northeast for the Tigers' draft efforts.
from the Tigers official site

 

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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/05/detroit_tigers_play_cleveland_1.html
Miguel Cabrera, Max Scherzer star as Detroit Tigers close gap on first-place Indians with 5-1 victory.
from Mlive

 

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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...igers-victory?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Tigers 5 - Indians 1: Miguel Cabrera homers, Max Scherzer retires 22 straight in Tigers victory.
from the detnews

 

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http://www.freep.com/article/201305.../detroit-tigers-cleveland-indians-game-thread
Detroit 5 - Cleveland 1: Scherzer dominates in Tigers' win.
from the freep

 

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http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_05_21_detmlb_clemlb_1&mode=recap_away&c_id=det
Scherzer gets max out of Miggy's encore vs. Tribe.
Cabrera homers to put Tigers ahead, moving game closer in division.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...d=det#gid=2013_05_21_detmlb_clemlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.

from the Tigers official site

 

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http://www.blessyouboys.com/2013/5/...-straight-cabrera-dirks-detroit-cleveland-mlb
Tigers 5 - Indians 1: Max Scherzer retires 22 straight in brilliant performance.
from blessyouboystigersblog

 

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http://motorcitybengals.com/2013/05/21/max-scherzer-dominates-as-detroit-tigers-top-tribe-5-1/
Max Scherzer Dominates as Detroit Tigers Top Tribe 5-1.
from motorcitybengals-tigersblog

 

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http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...igers-stun-Indians?blockID=904353&feedID=3706
Scherzer, Tigers stun Indians 5 - 1.
from DetroitFox

http://www.thedetroitsportssite.com...ominates-miguel-cabrera-goes-yard-again/34251
TDSS Tigers Recap Game 43: Max Scherzer Dominates, Miguel Cabrera Goes Yard Again.
from the detroitsportssite

 

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http://eyeontigers.blogspot.com/2013/05/brayan-pena-should-not-be-everyday.html
Brayan Pena Should Not be an Everyday Starter.
from EyeOnTigersblog

 

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Should have found and posted this Tuesday morning, instead of 11:25 Tuesday night;

http://www.dailyfungo.com/2013/05/21/what-we-learned-from-the-tigers-losing-three-of-four-in-texas/
What We Learned From the Tigers Losing Three of Four in Texas.
from the DailyFungoTigersblog

 

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http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/playerrankings
MLB Top 10s: 'On pace to' list: Cabrera, we get; but 63 saves for Mo?
from cbssports

 

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May 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1907 - American League umpire Billy Evans needs a police escort after argumentative Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings incites a riot. Jennings will be suspended.

1919 Star Tigers outfielder Bobby Veach gets his 1,000th hit.

1922 - The Yankees, who have been sharing the Polo Grounds with the Giants since 1913, begin construction on their own stadium in the Bronx.

1933 - Joe Sewell of the Yankees fans for the first time this season, a 3 - 0 win behind Lefty Gomez over Cleveland. Sewell will strike out only three more times in 524 at bats this year.

1937: Facing Wes Ferrell in Boston, Hank Greenberg hits a long centerfield home run out of Fenway Park. It exits to the right of the flag pole and is called the longest home run ever hit at Fenway. Gee Walker has three hits to run his hitting streak to 26 straight games, but the Red Sox counter with 14 hits of their own to win, 11 - 9. Walker's streak will end on the 24th after 27 games.

1942 - Ted Williams is sworn into the U.S. Navy, but will remain with the Red Sox until he is called for active duty.

1952 - The Celler committee finds legislation for government control of baseball to be unnecessary. It says that the sport can solve its own problems, and opposes legislation exempting the reserve clause from antitrust laws.

1956 - Detroit's Red Wilson belts a two-run home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Tigers a 3 - 2 win against theYankees. The loss goes to Whitey Ford, his first following six wins. Ford had given up just five earned runs through 54 innings before today.

1960 - With Rocky Colavito on the bench because of poor hitting, the Tigers sweep the visiting Red Sox, 6 - 2 and 5 - 2. Boston has now lost nine straight and will extend that to 10 games before winning. Jim Bunning and Hank Aguirre notch the wins, as the Hubmen strand 15 runners in the nitecap.

2002: The Tigers defeat the Indians, 2 - 0, on Jeff Weaver's one-hitter. OF Chris Magruder's double with two outs in the 8th inning in his Cleveland debut is the Tribe's only safety.
Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Simmons
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/simmoal01.shtml
Al Simmons 1936.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Hatfield
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hatfifr01.shtml
Fred Hatfield 1952-1956, coach 1977-1978.

from Baseball Reference

 

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http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/36207/max-scherzer-is-better-than-you-think
Max Scherzer is better than you think.
espn

 

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http://www.freep.com/article/20130522/SPORTS02/305220027/detroit-tigers-cleveland-indians
Notes from Tuesday's win.
from the freep

 

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http://www.freep.com/article/201305...-cleveland-indians-miguel-cabrera-jim-leyland
Once again, threat of Miguel Cabrera changes a Tigers game.
from the freep

 

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Climbing the ladder
Miguel Cabrera?s 195th home run as a Tiger on Tuesday ties him for 10th place in franchise history:
PLAYER HR SEASONS
Al Kaline 399 1953-74
Norm Cash 373 1960-74
Hank Greenberg 306 1930-46
Willie Horton 262 1963-77
Cecil Fielder 245 1990-96
Lou Whitaker 244 1977-95
Rudy York 239 1934-45
Lance Parrish 212 1977-86
Bill Freehan 200 1961-76
Kirk Gibson 195 1979-95
Miguel Cabrera 195 2008-

 

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http://www.freep.com/article/201305...detroit-tigers-cleveland-indians-max-scherzer
Tigers' Max Scherzer (6-0) retires 22 straight to shut down Indians.
from the freep

 

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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/05/outing_by_max_scherzer_just_an.html
Outing by Max Scherzer just latest example of how good, deep Detroit Tigers starting rotation is.
from Mlive