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Tigers ? Max Scherzer?s record streak is over at 187 starts without a CG to begin a career. He, Justin Verlander and David Price make for 3 former CYA winners on the Tiger staff, a first for Detroit......
and tied with a host of Brave teams plus the 1980 Rangers (Perry/Jenkins/Lyle), 1981 Orioles (Palmer/Flanagan/Stone), 1998 Red Sox (Martinez/Saberhagen/Eckersley), 2000 Yankees (Clemens/Cone/Gooden), 2001 Red Sox (Martinez/Cone/Saberhagen) and 2009 Giants (Zito/Lincecum/Johnson). Any others?
Of those clubs, these Tigers are the first to have CYA winners from the 3 preceding seasons.
 
The Tigers have had nine off-rotation starts this year, usually to cover for various injuries to Anibal Sanchez. They?re 2-7 in those games, the latest being Buck Farmer?s disaster start in the first game of a day-night doubleheader in Minnesota yesterday. In the two wins, the Tigers have scored 20 runs. In the nine starts by Farmer, Drew Verstegen and, mostly, Robbie Ray, the Tigers have seen their starters allow 36 runs in 37 1/3 innings while averaging just over four innings per start. They?ve gotten one quality start from the group, that from Ray on May 11 at home against the Twins.
When you build a team around a great starting rotation, you create a gap between those starters and the replacements, should replacements be needed. Every team suffers when it has to dig into their pitching depth, but some suffer more than others. The Yankees, after all, have hung around the wild-card race while using 12 starters and at time having an entire rotation of replacements. As it happens for the 2014 Tigers, the wretched performance of their pitching depth could be one of the key factors that costs them a spot in the postseason.
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Cabrera rests sore ankle heading into off-day.
As a summer of mystery about Miguel Cabrera's recovery from core muscle surgery winds down, the Tigers slugger has a more immediate injury concern. His right ankle, which has seemingly hobbled him for a while, is bothersome enough that it kept him out of the lineup for Sunday's series finale against the Twins.

Cabrera has played through the ankle issue like he has played through every other injury concern. However, manager Brad Ausmus said, Cabrera aggravated it when he hit the first-base bag hard trying to beat out a double-play throw in the fifth inning Saturday night. He hit another double-play grounder in the seventh inning but barely got halfway down the line, clearly limited in his mobility.

Cabrera left for a pinch-runner after hitting an eighth-inning single. Afterwards, Ausmus openly pondered the value of a day off, giving Cabrera two days to recuperate before Detroit's next game against the Yankees on Tuesday night at Comerica Park.

"Maybe two days off in a row might help," Ausmus said. "He was a little sore coming in."

Cabrera has made a point not to talk about injuries after he was quoted in a USA Today article last month saying he was dealing with lingering core muscle tightness from last winter's surgery.

"You guys know me for seven years. I don't like to talk about my injuries or whatever I've got in my body right now," he said a week ago. "The only thing I can say is I'm going to be out there every day and try to play hard. It doesn't matter what I have. I try to play my best. Hopefully I can do my job and hopefully I can help my team to win more games and hopefully we can win the division."

Sunday's move had a cascading effect through the Tigers lineup. Ian Kinsler, who had been leading off for the past week to try to rekindle his hitting, moved back to the second spot. Rajai Davis, who had been hitting ninth again since last weekend, returned to the top spot. Don Kelly replaced Cabrera at first base and batted ninth.
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Anibal could return for Saturday doubleheader.
The Tigers have a much-needed off-day on Monday in between weeklong stretches with doubleheaders, but Anibal Sanchez will spend the day at the office, throwing off flat ground at Comerica Park. How he feels in that session could determine whether he can rejoin the Tigers for their next day-night doubleheader Saturday against the White Sox in Chicago.
It's a strong enough possibility that manager Brad Ausmus isn't ruling it out.

Sanchez has been out two weeks with a right pectoral muscle strain. The initial hope from team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski was that Sanchez would miss three or four weeks. Next Saturday would fall on the low end.

So far, Sanchez has felt surprisingly good, even letting loose some higher-intensity throws near the end of his sessions. If Sanchez feels fine throwing Monday, he'll throw off a mound on Wednesday.

If Sanchez starts Saturday, it would be without the benefit of a rehab outing to stretch out his arm. However, his return would allow the Tigers to use the 26th man roster spot for the doubleheader to call up an extra reliever. Just four or five innings from Sanchez, then, would have them sufficiently covered. The Tigers' current plan has Max Scherzer starting the other doubleheader game.

If Sanchez can't go Saturday, the Tigers have a decision to make among some options they'd probably rather not use. Both Robbie Ray and Buck Farmer were hit hard this weekend by Twins batters and optioned to Triple-A Toledo afterward, but one would most likely have to return to fill Sanchez's spot. Kyle Lobstein, who delivered 5 2/3 solid innings of relief Saturday, would be an option, but he appears likely to start Thursday against the Yankees at Comerica Park.
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Quick hits

? Ausmus said he read about the replay issue in Saturday's Rays-Blue Jays game, in which a call was challenged after a pitcher had stepped on the rubber to begin the next play. It was the same issue he argued in a game against the Angels last month, though he was told he couldn't protest the game. "I wasn't given anything official in terms of whether I was right or wrong," he said. "I know there was a lot of discussion in New York about it, though."

? Joakim Soria threw for a second consecutive day Sunday as he continues his way back from a left oblique strain that landed him on the DL two weeks ago. "The last three days, he has trended upward quite a bit," Ausmus said.

? Justin Verlander will get an extra day of rest before he makes his next start. After some discussion about moving him up to face the Yankees on Thursday at Comerica Park, he'll instead face the White Sox on Friday night in Chicago.
 
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