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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees-miguel-cabrera-ryan-braun-alex-rodriguez-010432886.html
10 Degrees: Miguel Cabrera's brilliance taking a backseat to baseball's pariahs.
from yahoosports

Today, Cabrera is hitting .360/.452/.689. Only eight players in history have finished seasons with numbers that high in each triple-slash category. He has 40 home runs and 120 RBIs.
In a ludicrous strikeout environment, he has almost as many walks as strikeouts.
He is batting .437/.552/.881 with runners in scoring position. That is not a misprint.
Neither is this: With runners in scoring position and two outs, those numbers jump to .451/.594/.941.

Cabrera won the Triple Crown last year. He is leaps-and-bounds better this year.
His OPS by month (.995, 1.222, 1.196, 1.028 and 1.265 thus far in August) dwarfs last season?s in all but July (.939, .839, .991, 1.086, 1.092).
Since the All-Star break, Cabrera has 10 home runs and 11 strikeouts.
 
http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_pitcher_max_sch.html
Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer compares watching Calvin Johnson to Miguel Cabrera.
from Mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20130820/SPORTS02/308200090/detroit-tigers-lions-max-scherzer
Max Scherzer, Jeff Daniels drop by Detroit Lions practice. with webvideo.
from the freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...-high-school-quarterback-drops-Lions-practice
Tigers' Max Scherzer, a high school quarterback, drops in on Lions practice.
from the detnews
 
Most career 4-hit games since 2005:
Miguel Cabrera 30
Ichiro, Crawford 28
Pujols 27
Reyes 25
Polanco, Ad Gonzalez 24
Jeter, Holliday, Cano 23
 
http://www.highheatstats.com/2013/08/quiz-expansion-era-outfielders/
Quiz ? Expansion Era Outfielders (solved).
from HighHeatStats

The players in this quiz are the only outfielders with a particular season accomplishment since 1961. What is this unusual feat?

Player
Carl Yastrzemski
Barry Bonds
Ken Griffey
Dave Parker
Lenny Dykstra
Al Kaline
Darin Erstad
Brian Jordan
Rickey Henderson
Ichiro Suzuki
Andruw Jones
 
Verlander lauds Kershaw's superb campaign.
DETROIT -- Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw is putting up one of the best statistical seasons for a pitcher in recent memory, with a 12-7 record, 1.80 ERA and 182 strikeouts in 190 1/3 innings. His current 0.85 WHIP would be the fourth-lowest mark in the live-ball era.

Those numbers, along with the team's recent winning streaks, have been creating buzz for Kershaw as a National League Most Valuable Player Award candidate. If he were to win the award, Kershawk would become the first pitcher since Tigers starter Justin Verlander won the American League MVP Award in 2011. No NL pitcher has won the award since Bob Gibson in 1968.

Despite the difference in leagues, Verlander said Kershaw has been the best pitcher in baseball, and his opinion hasn't changed that deserving pitchers should be considered for MVP. Verlander also noted there are a number of factors involved for a pitcher to win the award.
"My year, there weren't a lot of guys that had huge years, offensively," Verlander said. "I don't know what's going on in the National League, I haven't really paid attention, but I had one of those perfect years."

While some critics will point out that pitchers have the Cy Young Award to battle for, Verlander said there is a difference between the two.
"I think Cy Young is starting to go towards sabermetrics -- ERA, ERA+, lots of different things besides just win-losses and traditional Triple Crown stats [wins, ERA and strikeouts]," Verlander said. "When you start talking about MVP, it needs to be one of those all-encompassing type years.
"I know what a 1.80 [ERA] means, and I know how incredible it is, regardless of the league. That's just Nintendo numbers."
from the Tigers official site
 
Recovering from concussion, Avila takes BP.
DETROIT -- Alex Avila was in for his toughest tests yet on Tuesday after suffering a concussion more than a week ago and passing a battery of tests in accordance with Major League Baseball protocol over the weekend.

Before Tuesday's game against the Twins, Avila took batting practice, did catching drills and threw to bases.
"He's going to take BP and the normal process before a game," manager Jim Leyland said. "Then we'll just have to wait and see how it comes out."

Leyland has said multiple times that Avila has been hit by more foul tips than any other catcher he's ever seen, and players around the league have noticed the same thing.

"Well, that pitching staff is hard to hit. But yeah, for whatever reason, there's some guys that get more beat up than others," Twins catcher Joe Mauer said. "It's a position where you get beat up anyway, but I know playing against Alex for a few years, he tends to take a pretty good beating back there."

Avila tried to switch to a hockey mask in the past, but found it uncomfortable. Mauer switched the shell of his helmet to a prototype made by Rawlings, which is supposed to limit concussions.

"Like any hitter will tell you when they switch to the new batting helmets, they're heavier, a little more bulky and they kind of slimmed them down," Mauer said. "But it's definitely heavier, I can tell you that. We're still trying to get the safest scenario possible."
Whether the key to preventing concussions is in the shell or mask, catchers are happy to see more options are available.

"That position, catcher, they're a lot more in the line of danger than a hitter," Mauer said. "I would even like to see the umpires get in on that, too. They're back there taking shots and stuff like that. Hopefully, the research they're doing keeps getting better."
from the Tigers official site
 
Infante returns to lineup for opener vs. Twins.
DETROIT -- Omar Infante was back in the Tigers' lineup Tuesday after missing Sunday's game against the Royals due to lower back spasms and a tight left quadriceps.
"Omar's fine," manager Jim Leyland said. "I wasn't sure about that one, but he's fine and ready to go."
Infante said he suffered the injuries while running home from third during a suicide-squeeze play in Saturday's game, in which exited in the seventh inning.
"Just coming from my ankle problems, I think it's coming from that," Infante said on Sunday. "I don't know. It's the first time it's happened to me."
from the Tigers official site
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_open_series_wit_19.html
Prince Fielder hits home run, Rick Porcello sees hot streak come to end in 6-3 loss to Minnesota Twins.
from Mlive

http://www.freep.com/article/20130820/SPORTS02/308200113/detroit-tigers-minnesota-twins
Minnesota 6 - Detroit 3: Porcello roughed up as Twins topple Tigers.
from the freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...p-short-Twins?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Tigers threaten in ninth, come up short to Twins.
from the detnews
 
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