Remember Nook Logan? or Alex Sanchez?

[theroundsquare]

in my mind 19 is always the number given to disposable players.  i was surprised that anibal sanchez wore it for as long as he did

EDIT:  I see that Anibal Sanchez wore it with the Marlins before the trade

Edited November 7 by theroundsquare

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, theroundsquare said:

in my mind 19 is always the number given to disposable players.  i was surprised that anibal sanchez wore it for as long as he did

EDIT:  I see that Anibal Sanchez wore it with the Marlins before the trade

Speaking of disposable numbers, but for indispensable players, here at the 5:00 mark is Trammell wearing #69 in spring training in 1977.

Whitaker is spotted at 2:30, but I can't make out his number. Parrish is already in his #13 at 6:37.

Bittersweet seeing so much of Fidrych in that, as it would have been just weeks or even days before his injury.

 

[Zakk_Wylde]

On 11/7/2025 at 3:03 PM, lordstanley said:

Speaking of disposable numbers, but for indispensable players, here at the 5:00 mark is Trammell wearing #69 in spring training in 1977.

Whitaker is spotted at 2:30, but I can't make out his number. Parrish is already in his #13 at 6:37.

Bittersweet seeing so much of Fidrych in that, as it would have been just weeks or even days before his injury.

 

 

 

 

 

Man you are amazing!!!! how did you find those videos of Sanchez and Logan?!?!  To scrub out the exact spots.  So cool to see full 2004-2005 games as well. I know the Tigers didn't win a lot in those days but those are very nostalgic years for me.   Man I still can't believe you found those.

 

How did you come up with those videos????

 

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

 

How did you come up with those videos????

 

It was fun! Brought back memories as I went deeper down the rabbit hole 

- Looked up their stats to confirm Sanchez was with the Tigers in 2003-2004 and Logan 2004-2005

- typed “Detroit Tigers 2003”, and separately “Detroit Tigers 2004” and “Detroit Tigers 2005” into YouTube. That yielded maybe 10, or a dozen, game broadcasts from those years total

- then Googled to see whether Logan or Sanchez played in the selected game. As one example: Detroit KC April 4, 2005 boxscore. If the answer was yes, could look up the play by play under box score to see when Logan or Sanchez got on base. Could quickly skip through the broadcast to get to the relevant at bats

- got lucky in that the relatively small number of videos yielded a good mix of bunts, baserunning and even a homer in which they featured 

[Arlington]

This just popped up on my Facebook reels.  Imagine we used to root for these guys and hope they would win...  

The Tigers rallying and scoring 13 runs in the top of the 9th against Texas.  8/2001

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CaYCqMbcz/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Edited Wednesday at 02:20 AM by Arlington

[oblong]

I saw that one today too 

[Tiger337]

There were posters freaking out in this forum because the Tigers let their "two best players" go after 2003 - Randall Simon and Juan Acevedo.  

[Zakk_Wylde]

13 hours ago, lordstanley said:

It was fun! Brought back memories as I went deeper down the rabbit hole 

- Looked up their stats to confirm Sanchez was with the Tigers in 2003-2004 and Logan 2004-2005

- typed “Detroit Tigers 2003”, and separately “Detroit Tigers 2004” and “Detroit Tigers 2005” into YouTube. That yielded maybe 10, or a dozen, game broadcasts from those years total

- then Googled to see whether Logan or Sanchez played in the selected game. As one example: Detroit KC April 4, 2005 boxscore. If the answer was yes, could look up the play by play under box score to see when Logan or Sanchez got on base. Could quickly skip through the broadcast to get to the relevant at bats

- got lucky in that the relatively small number of videos yielded a good mix of bunts, baserunning and even a homer in which they featured 

 

Man thats amazing that you did that much legwork to satisfy my insane request.  Thank you, you are very much appreciated!!

[Zakk_Wylde]

12 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

There were posters freaking out in this forum because the Tigers let their "two best players" go after 2003 - Randall Simon and Juan Acevedo.  

I remember very vividly, there was talk of trading DMitri Young in 2003, and somebody from this board, I wish I could remember who, started a thread titled "If Dmitri Young is gone, I'm gone." implying that if Young got traded away, he'd give up on being a Tigers fan.   Then Dmitri Young turned into hot garbage and eventually was released in 2006, while the rest of the team was on a tear making their first playoff run in decades.   But that "If Dmitri Young is gone" thread just kept getting bumped in 2006 so that the initial post would be taken out of context.   Ehhh it was pretty funny for me at the time anyway! hehe

[oblong]

What I like about this thread is, despite what we may bitch about day to day during the season... it was much much worse.  We evolved to first world problems.

[Zakk_Wylde]

5 hours ago, oblong said:

What I like about this thread is, despite what we may bitch about day to day during the season... it was much much worse.  We evolved to first world problems.

 

Absolutely.  Just think, once upon a time, our stars were Dmitri Young and Bobby Higginson .. Our big hope was exciting prospects like Kyle Sleeth and Kenny Baugh.  Did either of them ever make it up to the majors?   Of course we had some exciting  up and coming pitchers like Jeremy Bonderman.    

My point is, we had to have fun wherever we could find it.  Watching Nook Logan and Alex Sanchez constantly  bunt for base hits made for entertainment during dark times.

Then of course we got Pudge and Magglio, and Verlander and Granderson emerged from the farm, and by 2006 things started to get fun for real.

I'll never forget Chris Shelton's ridiculous start.  Literally hitting like he's Babe Ruth, until a few months into the season  when the rest of the league figured him out, and he didn't even finish the year on the major league roster.

This  board made those days a lot of fun.  And I wish a lot more of the old posters would resurface.  Whatever happened to DaYooper?  Yoda?  etc  Miss you guys wherever you are!

[lordstanley]

20 hours ago, Zakk_Wylde said:

 

Absolutely.  Just think, once upon a time, our stars were Dmitri Young and Bobby Higginson .. Our big hope was exciting prospects like Kyle Sleeth and Kenny Baugh.  Did either of them ever make it up to the majors?   Of course we had some exciting  up and coming pitchers like Jeremy Bonderman.    

My point is, we had to have fun wherever we could find it.  Watching Nook Logan and Alex Sanchez constantly  bunt for base hits made for entertainment during dark times.

Then of course we got Pudge and Magglio, and Verlander and Granderson emerged from the farm, and by 2006 things started to get fun for real.

I'll never forget Chris Shelton's ridiculous start.  Literally hitting like he's Babe Ruth, until a few months into the season  when the rest of the league figured him out, and he didn't even finish the year on the major league roster.

This  board made those days a lot of fun.  And I wish a lot more of the old posters would resurface.  Whatever happened to DaYooper?  Yoda?  etc  Miss you guys wherever you are!

I remember feeling like a bit of an imposter in 2006 after joining the board mid-season of that year. Because while I was a diehard Tigers fan since the mid-70s, I drifted away from following the Tigers closely from around 1995-2005. I knew the main storylines, but certainly didn't suffer through the day to day struggles. I don't think I was alone in that. 2006 brought a whole generation back, it felt great to care about the Tigers again. 

Edited Thursday at 07:05 PM by lordstanley