In 2023 the Tigers had 16 different pitchers start a game. In 2013 the Tigers had just 6. Talk about a lucky year when no one got hurt or was ineffective. Wow!
Verlander 34, Fister 32, Scherzer 32, Sanchez 29, Porcello 29, & Jose Alvarez 6
I remember years ago while I was attending a spring training game that Skeeter Barnes was playing third base and failed to field a simple ground ball. Folks in the crowd were yelling "See you in Toledo."
I certainly hope the Tigers are smart enough not to trade much of their strength in the pitching department so that it becomes a weakness. I would think that adding a couple of free agent bats would be a much better way to go. Who that would be......I have no idea but don't trade your strength into a weakness.
I was thinking yesterday during the game about how, if Juan Gonzalez would've been happy to stay in Detroit and had the numbers that he had while in Texas, he could've had some kind of ceremony upon his retirement. As it was, he is remembered in Detroit about like that pimple you had on your butt in junior high..............
Haven't been to Comerica since the September 2018 honor game of the '68 Tigers.
BTW, The Tigers can still win 100 games..........but the streak has to start today. 🙂