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TIGERS Career SO above league average, AL.

STRIKEOUTS DIFF PLAYER LEAGUE
1 Mickey Lolich 602 2679 2077
2 Tommy Bridges 584 1674 1090
3 Hal Newhouser 564 1770 1206
4 Jim Bunning 356 1406 1050
5 John Hiller 322 1036 714
6 Justin Verlander 297 1720 1423
7 Virgil Trucks 280 1046 766
8 Jack Morris 230 1980 1750
9 Max Scherzer 215 907 692
10 Ted Gray 201 676 475
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/05/detroit_tigers_miguel_cabrera_107.html
Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera exits game with right hamstring cramp, listed as day-to-day.
from Mlive

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...l-Cabrera-leaves-game-hamstring-cramp-he-s-OK
Tigers' Miguel Cabrera leaves game with hamstring cramp but he's OK.
from the detnews

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/det...md=20140525&content_id=76782472&vkey=news_det
Cabrera day to day with right hamstring cramp.
Slugger clutches leg after single to left field in the seventh.
from the Tigers official site
 
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Increased work yields better velocity for Coke.
DETROIT -- The Tigers spent most of May trying to find opportunities to get Phil Coke some situations to work. They've found plenty during this recent skid.

He entered this week having thrown just three innings over three appearances in a three-week stretch. His mop-up work Saturday gave him 6 2/3 innings in a six-day stretch.

They haven't all been productive innings, of course. He took the loss Wednesday in Cleveland, obviously, and he gave up a run on three hits over two innings two days before that. But they've been opportunities to try to get him going. He has had scoreless appearances his last two outings, showing what manager Brad Ausmus said might have been his best form of the year.

"He's definitely thrown better in his last couple outings for sure," Ausmus said. "Maybe there's something to be said for him being a little tired, because his velocity was still good. Maybe when he's tired, his command's a little better. He doesn't try to overthrow it. ?

"He's really helped us out a lot. We all know how short the 'pen's been the past week. He's given us some big outs."

According to info from MLB.com's Gameday app and brooksbaseball.net, Coke averaged 96 mph on his fastball Saturday, to go with a sinker that came in at just over 94. Both were well above his season averages. His velocity was much the same on Wednesday in Cleveland with a different radar gun.
from the Tigers official site
 
Romine sees rewards from extra work.
DETROIT -- Andrew Romine had just finished up his first two-hit game in three weeks, boasting three hits in a two-game stretch, when he hit the cage Saturday. Even after some of his best swings in a month, he had extra work to do.

"It's funny, because he was actually working with [hitting coach] Wally [Joyner] after the game yesterday," manager Brad Ausmus said Sunday morning. "Despite the fact that he had some good at-bats, there was something that he felt wasn't quite right, so he just took about 10 minutes to try to fine-tune something."

It wasn't that anything was wrong, Romine said. He just wanted to reinforce what he had going right.

"I was just trying to get it solidified," Romine said. "I felt good yesterday. I just wanted to go over, I guess, kind of recap it so I had something to go home with and think about."

He wanted to think about it Saturday night, outside the ballpark. He does not want to think about it when he's at the plate. Thinking at the plate has been part of the problem at times this year.

He has taken in plenty of advice the past few weeks. Now he wants to see the ball and hit it, and not waste time thinking about what he needs to do.

"The worst thing is my brain will get in the way," Romine said. "I wish I could shut it off."

Though Romine hit his first Major League home run Friday night, his Saturday performance was more productive for his style of game. He had two solidly-struck ground-ball singles -- one that began a two-out rally ahead of Rajai Davis' double to send him home, the other a one-out single through the middle after an 0-2 count. The latter nearly led to a run in the fifth before Davis' fly ball to left died near the fence.

Romine has been working with Joyner for the past couple weeks to try to figure out what tweaks would work to get his swing in tune and get him started swinging sooner. They feel like they found some adjustments that work.

It's just a couple games, but the swings have been better, hit or no hit.
"I felt good yesterday," Romine said. "It was productive."
from the Tigers official site
 
Basestealing helping Tigers distract opposing pitchers.
Rajai Davis is helping distract opposing pitchers stealing bases.
DETROIT -- Part of the reason for the Tigers' aggressiveness on the bases this season was to create more consistent scoring opportunities at different spots in the lineup. Part of it, too, was to potentially distract pitchers in run-production situations.

It's hard to find data to tell definitively whether that's happening, but manager Brad Ausmus believes having Ian Kinsler and Rajai Davis on base has had an effect on how his RBI producers are pitched.

"I don't know if there are any hard numbers on it," Ausmus said. "It seems to me with Rajai and Kinsler on base, some of the pitchers' attention is being diverted from the hitter. But it's kind of a difficult thing to put a stat on.

"I'm not writing down every single pitch they throw with Rajai Davis on first. It just seems that some of the pitchers, not all of them, become more distracted with those guys on base, which theoretically should improve the odds of getting a pitch to hit."

Pitch selection stats from Fangraphs are mixed on that. For Miguel Cabrera, who has hit one or two spots behind Kinsler all season, the ratio of fastballs is nearly identical to the past three years, right around 58 percent. Separated by two- and four-seamers, Cabrera might be getting a slight uptick in four-seamers, about 40.7 percent compared to 37 percent the previous few seasons according to Pitch f/x.

Torii Hunter, who often bats directly behind Kinsler and Davis, has seen a more noticeable increase in fastballs, now comprising a career-high 64 percent of his pitches. By comparison, he's seeing fewer sliders and curveballs.
from the Tigers official site
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2014/05/tigers_rangers_justin_verlande.html
Rangers 12 - Tigers 4: Justin Verlander ties career worst with 9 runs surrendered in another lopsided loss.
from Mlive

http://newenglishd.com/2014/05/25/how-was-the-game-may-25-2014/
How Was The Game? (May 25, 2014).
from the NEDTB

http://www.freep.com/article/20140525/SPORTS02/305250128/detroit-tigers-texas-rangers-game-thread
Texas 12 - Detroit 4: Justin Verlander shelled; Tigers drop another to Rangers.
from the freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...s-pound-Justin-Verlander-extend-Tigers-misery
Rangers pound Justin Verlander, extend Tigers' misery.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...014_05_25_texmlb_detmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Verlander adds to tough week for Tigers starters.
Detroit ace ties career high with nine runs allowed in 5 1/3 innings.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/inde...d=det#gid=2014_05_25_texmlb_detmlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2014/5/25/5750182/rangers-12-tigers-4-verlander-adjustment
Rangers 12 - Tigers 4: Verlander's adjustments pull the Tigers into their sixth loss in seven days.
from bybtb

http://walkoffwoodward.com/?p=9424
Tigers Cap Off Week Of Playing Like Garbage By Playing Like Garbage Again.
from WWTB
 
AL RSAA Runs Saved Above Average

LEADERS
1 Mark Buehrle 16
2 Masahiro Tanaka 13
T3 Sonny Gray 12
T3 Max Scherzer 12
5 Yu Darvish 11
T6 James Shields 10
T6 Felix Hernandez 10
T8 Dallas Keuchel 9
T8 Zach Britton 9
T8 Drew Pomeranz 9

WORST
1 Felipe Paulino -15
T2 Clay Buchholz -13
T2 Kevin Correia -13
T4 Tanner Scheppers -12
T4 Hector Noesi -12
6 Zach McAllister -11
T7 Justin Masterson -10
T7 Brandon Maurer -10
T7 Mike Pelfrey -10
T10 Ricky Nolasco -9
T10 Ivan Nova -9

TEAM TOTALS
1 Athletics 37
2 Royals 29
3 Tigers 22
4 Mariners 17
5 Angels 15
6 Yankees 11
T7 Red Sox 0
T7 Rays 0
9 Blue Jays -1
10 Orioles -8
11 Astros -14
12 Indians -15
13 Rangers -21
14 Twins -22
15 White Sox -36

TIGERS
Max Scherzer 12
Ian Krol 5
Justin Verlander 5
Drew Smyly 5
Anibal Sanchez 5
Joba Chamberlain 2
Rick Porcello 2
Justin Miller 1
Evan Reed 1
Al Alburquerque 1
Joe Nathan 0
Danny Worth 0
Robbie Ray -1
Jose Ortega -3
Corey Knebel -3
Phil Coke -3
Luke Putkonen -7

through May 24.
from leesininsatmreports
 
AL RCAA Runs Created Above Average

LEADERS
1 Brandon Moss 19
T2 Lonnie Chisenhall 18
T2 Jose Bautista 18
4 Shin-Soo Choo 17
T5 Mike Trout 15
T5 Victor Martinez 15
T5 Michael Brantley 15
8 Derek Norris 14
T9 David Ortiz 12
T9 Josh Donaldson 12
T9 Nelson Cruz 12

WORST
1 Alejandro De Aza -13
2 Brad Miller -11
3 Mike Moustakas -10
4 Jonathan Schoop -9
T5 Ryan Goins -8
T5 Marc Krauss -8
T5 David Lough -8
T5 Jose Molina -8
T5 Alex Presley -8
T10 Andrew Romine -7
T10 Eric Sogard -7
T10 Logan Forsythe -7
T10 Carlos Santana -7
T10 Billy Butler -7
T10 Raul Ibanez -7
T10 Paul Konerko -7
T10 J.P. Arencibia -7
T10 Brian McCann -7
T10 Jackie Bradley Jr. -7
T10 Pedro Florimon -7
T10 Ryan Raburn -7
T10 Marcus Semien -7
T10 Brian Roberts -7
T10 J.B. Shuck -7
T10 Elvis Andrus -7
T10 Nick Castellanos -7

TEAM TOTALS
1 Athletics 45
2 Angels 31
3 Indians 22
4 Tigers 19
5 Blue Jays 16
6 White Sox 15
T7 Twins -4
T7 Rangers -4
9 Orioles -5
10 Yankees -8
11 Red Sox -15
12 Rays -22
13 Mariners -29
14 Royals -39
15 Astros -44

TIGERS
Victor Martinez 15
Miguel Cabrera 10
Ian Kinsler 9
Austin Jackson 4
J.D. Martinez 2
Rajai Davis 2
Alex Avila 1
Torii Hunter 0
Don Kelly 0
Bryan Holaday -1
Tyler Collins -2
Danny Worth -3
Alex Gonzalez -4
Nick Castellanos -7
Andrew Romine -7

through May 24.
from leesininsatmreports.
 
AL FRAA Fielding Runs Above Average

LEADERS
1 Alexei Ramirez 20
2 Asdrubal Cabrera 14
T3 Gordon Beckham 12
T3 Josh Donaldson 12
T3 Jonathan Villar 12
6 J.J. Hardy 11
T7 Kyle Seager 10
T7 Alex Gordon 10
T7 Ben Zobrist 10
T10 Josh Wilson 9
T10 Elvis Andrus 9
T10 Eric Hosmer 9
T10 Sam Fuld 9

WORST
1 Jed Lowrie -21
2 Erick Aybar -18
3 Omar Infante -14
T4 Melky Cabrera -11
T4 Adam Jones -11
T6 Dexter Fowler -10
T6 Robinson Cano -10
T6 Alcides Escobar -10
9 Torii Hunter -9
10 Andrew Romine -8

TEAM TOTALS
1 White Sox 49
2 Indians 10
3 Rangers 4
T4 Orioles 3
T4 Mariners 3
6 Royals 0
7 Rays -1
8 Astros -4
9 Red Sox -6
T10 Twins -7
T10 Blue Jays -7
12 Angels -9
13 Athletics -10
14 Yankees -13
15 Tigers -22

TIGERS
Rajai Davis 4
Tyler Collins 2
Don Kelly 2
Miguel Cabrera 2
Danny Worth 0
Bryan Holaday 0
Alex Avila -1
Ian Kinsler -1
Victor Martinez -1
Alex Gonzalez -2
J.D. Martinez -2
Austin Jackson -4
Nick Castellanos -4
Andrew Romine -8
Torii Hunter -9

through May 24.
from leesininsatmreports.
 
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