Tigers vs. angels Game Thread Sept. 8

[gotime909]

so I jinxed Raburn, now he'll go 5-5 with the walkoff HR.

For him to hit a walkoff tonight he'd have to be traded to the Angels....I'm all for this scenario.

 

[hellifino]

He's a career .296/346/491/837 hitter in the second half. (641 OPS career 1st half) Including a 967 OPS in 2011, 900 in 2010, 933 in 2009, and 839 in 2007. You got it backwards. He had one season with a bad second half.

Raburn sucks, deal with it, and the years he had a decent 2nd half he still wound up with a piss poor batting average. why are you sticking up for him?

 

[Cecil]

Is there a reason my posts are disappearing in this thread?

 

[tigermud]

aybar
Iannetta *small sample size
Izturis
Morales
Pujols
Wells

all with a career ave over .300 against JV, that's 6 of their 9 hitters in the lineup tonight. I yi yi please score some runs tonight offense! Score early and score often!

 

[hellifino]

Is there a reason my posts are disappearing in this thread?

for showing bad stats of Raburn, sure he had 3 decent years, but none of them were full years,I think the most was 113 games. smoker only platooned him,and played him against leftys and guys he could hit.

 

[Cecil]

for showing bad stats of Raburn, sure he had 3 decent years, but none of them were full years,I think the most was 113 games. smoker only platooned him,and played him against leftys and guys he could hit.

2007-.304 .340 .507 .847
2009- 291 .359 .533 .891
2010- .280 .340 .474 .814

Raburn has proven he can hit. It's not like Boesch has been having a good season.

 

[kalinecountry]

all this foolish raburn talk.

so raburn hit in the past second halves and averaged 17 homers in about 400 at bats,

this year in a hair under 200 ab's 1 homer .171

raburn blows this year, and starting in lf with a sore quad.

 

[gotime909]

Tiger's will score 8+ runs tonight!!!!

 

[Cecil]

all this foolish raburn talk.

so raburn hit in the past second halves and averaged 17 homers in about 400 at bats,

this year in a hair under 200 ab's 1 homer .171

raburn blows this year, and starting in lf with a sore quad.

I doubt he had a sore quad. The Tigers are famous for under performing players coming up with injuries and going on the DL. This is the same team that put Willis on the DL for anxiety. Raburn has a history of poor first halves and great second halves. Might as well see if he can do something. The alternative is Brennan Boesch.

 

[tigermud]

Well that wasn't a very good start Where the hell was infante going? Tigers run themselves out of the 1st.

 

[kalinecountry]

I doubt he had a sore quad. The Tigers are famous for under performing players coming up with injuries and going on the DL. This is the same team that put Willis on the DL for anxiety. Raburn has a history of poor first halves and great second halves. Might as well see if he can do something. The alternative is Brennan Boesch.

you have a crystal ball? maybe he didn't have a sore thumb to be on the DL either? they say he did, I'm going to believe them and the team writers like Beck over you.

 

[Cecil]

Verlander isn't fooling anyone with these low 90 fastballs in the first inning.

 

[tigermud]

JV needs to stop starting games off with low 90's FB's it's time to mix it up, teams are sitting on him in the 1st innings.

 

[manchild98]

JV getting touched up early...looks like Max yesterday. Hopefully he'll shut them down the rest of the way.

 

[tigermud]

JV can't get these guys out, 3 runs is all there going to need, games over folks.

 

[kalinecountry]

JV needs to stop starting games off with low 90's FB's it's time to mix it up, teams are sitting on him in the 1st innings.

they are hitting his fastball, and slider early,

 

[tigermud]

they are hitting his fastball, and slider early,

His game plans have become predictable.

 

[manchild98]

Wow, just wow. KC game for JV all over again.

 

[tigermud]

Vernon Wells now hitting .381 career off JV

 

[27tigers]

Verlander over the last month has mid-90s striaght as an arrow fastballed his way right out of Cy Young contention.