Why can’t this Tigers team sustain any momentum? Miguel Cabrera seemingly got the Tigers on the path to victory tonight during the ninth with his opposite-field shot. Instead, the Tigers hacked away at Kerry Wood’s offerings — despite Placido Polanco leading off the inning with a four-pitch walk. Infuriating.

Here’s a nugget from Baseball-Reference.com: On this [...]

Tigers fans are doing what they can to forget 2008, if they haven’t banished it from memory altogether. But seeing as things are looking much better (at the moment) for the 2009 club, let’s savor these moments even more by looking back on Fungo entries from April 21, 2008:

Jim Leyland on ESPN’s PTI “Five Good [...]

The Skinny:

7-5, Tied for 1st Place in A.L. Central with Chicago and Kansas City
Streak: W2
Home Record: 4-1
Road Record: 3-4

Streaks:

Last 10 Games: 7-3
Last 5 Games: 3-2

Who’s Hot from the Past Week:

Josh Anderson: .545 avg., .615 OBP, .818 SLG, 4 RBI, 2 SB
Miguel Cabrera: .455 avg., .478 OBP, .591 SLG, 10 H, 1 HR, 2 RBI
Gerald Laird: [...]

The Skinny:

4-3, 1st Place in A.L. Central, .5 games ahead of Chicago
Streak: W3
Home Record: 3-0 / Road Record: 1-3

Who’s Hot:

Miguel Cabrera: .520 avg., .586 OBP, .960 SLG, 3 HR, 10 RBI
Placido Polanco: .346, .393 OBP, .462 SLG
Gerald Laird: .318, .400 OBP, .455 SLG
Brandon Inge: .304, .448 OBP, .870 SLG, 4 HR, 7 RBI
Who’s Not:

Carlos Guillen:.182, [...]

Placido Polanco #14

Height: 5′ 10″ | Weight: 195
2008 Stats: .307 – 8 HR – 58 RBI

Like most of his teammates, Placido Polanco struggled at the outset of the 2008 season. The usually fast-starting second baseman – he has a .307 average for April spanning 2006-08 – was expected to pickup the slack at the top [...]

If you’ve been a long-time Daily Fungo reader, you know that I’ve posted a semi-regular series called The Non Sequiturs. More recently I’ve posted similar items under the Wednesday Walewanders banner (or Friday Fungoes, Three for Thursday, etc.). You may ask: What’s the difference? Truth is, there isn’t any. Just thought I’d come clean on [...]

For the first time in three months (no joke), it’s raining here. We’ll stay warm and dry as we rollout another set of Walewanders:

Remember when the Tigers announced that one of the coaches hadn’t decided to return for 2009? Whatever happened with that?

Almost a year ago, the Tigers acquired Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera [...]