Lee Panas

I blog about the Detroit Tigers, sabermetrics and baseball in general. Author of Beyond Batting Average, researcher and lecturer at Brandeis University.

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@STLewis19 @baseballinpix Looks closer to 30 than 16.

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@BeschlossDC Yes, I was 13 years old and it felt exciting and historic. That was all we heard about for two years and it was almost all positive. The 250th anniversary does not seem special at all. It just feels like a forced celebration centering on one person.

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6/16/1976: Fidrych 6th consecutive CG, 5-1, 1.86
Tigers score 2 in 9th to win it 4-3. Single by Dan Meyer, single and steal for Alex Johnson, game-winning single by Mickey Stanley. https://t.co/z7gBm8W0K1

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Colt Keith is 26th Tiger to hit 3 hrs in game.
Last to do it: Carpenter 2025, V. Martinez 2016
Multiple times: C.Fielder (3), Cabrera (2), Colavito (2), Higginson (2) https://t.co/qobkFGCbOB

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6/11/1976
Det 4 Cal 3
Fidrych 5th consecutive CG to start career, 2.03 ERA. Walk off win for Tigers, Ron Leflore singles, comes around on two errors and single by Alex Johnson.
https://t.co/PMvIi5hBcA

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@mike_piacenza @JoeJersey10 Yeah, I see that kind of argument all the time and it's silly. Bench and Munson would be very different athletes and baseball players if they were born later.

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It's to hard to have the "biggest win of the year" when you are 10 games out, but this one felt like it!

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@NormanDoering2 @Scaramucci pretty much.

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@TheMeowRevolutn @OleTimeHardball According to the written rules, character and integrity do count. I would put him in, but it's not true that what he accomplished on the field is all that matters.

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@VinnysCorner1 Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell

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The Tigers June boon continues.

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@Shadow1117 @GlobeBobRyan But then he would have to explain to them what a typewriter is.

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@DetroitTigersPR Those are some super aribitrary cutoffs there! Why 65 and 36?

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June 5, 1976: Fidrych with an 11-inning complete game 3-2 victory over the Rangers. Blyleven also went the distance. No specialty relievers or extra inning base runners necessary. It was the Bird's 3rd win and he lowered his era to 1.64. https://t.co/aIVI7q6qKH

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@ChrisBrown0914 Which is what their record should be based on baseruns for and against. It's all in the sequencing. Whether it's bad luck or bad baseball, poor situational hitting and pitching is killing them

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According to baseruns (the # of runs a team should have scored/allowed based on H, BB, HR, etc), the Tigers should have scored 4.05 runs per game and allowed 4.09. That would be a 28-29 record. Bad sequencing on both sides of the ball. https://t.co/x25qQsIFI8

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@ebajek85 Hitting is indeed a problem, but there's been a few games recently where they did some hitting and the bullpen still blew it.

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I think the bullpen problem is killing them more than the offense now.

[Chris Brown @ChrisBrown0914]

Blow half that many and they’re 29-29…

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@GregEno @ehleftisright Now you are seeing a team which overachieved for a year and now has been underachieving for the past year. Same manager and mostly the same players. So, how do you evaluate the manager?

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@GregEno Everything matters, but I think the coach/manager means less in baseball than in other sports. So, much of baseball is up to individuals - batter versus pitcher whereas there is a stronger team element to everything that happens in other sports.