Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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| Phil Coke: Sweet revenge after bitter regular season |
posted by Pat Caputo at
9:59 PM
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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2 Comments:
Pat, Dirks has been a nice draft pick. He plays an average outfield and if he hits 270 he will provide value. Most importantly he not up for Arb for awhile. So that saves the Tigers $$$$ to be spent elsewhere.
I don't really have a problem with JL except JL 3B theory. His theory has to be one of the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. When you have speed on the base path and they can make quit easy send them home because the throw to the plate will also advance the runners. Even if you have Miggy coming up because he hits roughly 34% of the time with runners in scoring position but he gets out 65% of the time. Of the 34% of the hits he gets, only a 10% of his 34% hits go for extra base hits. So the success rate of scoring more than one run is 3.4% out of a hundred. It gets worst when Miggy has the base loaded, he hit 200 so the success is 2%. If he is the best hitter in baseball you have, the success rate for the other hitters are much lower. I do not, though, have a problem stopping your slow runners on the team.
JL loves to go against the odds.
Good article, Book, good candidates.
However, think you're leaving out one of the best stories. The starting pitchers have really come up strong down the stretch and into the playoffs.
JV is of course the premier pitcher in the league and has performed superbly in the playoffs, can't blame fans for taking for granted.
Fister, Sanchez and Scherzer have come on strong at end of season to complete probably the best starting pitching in the playoffs.
Their combined SOs in the last few games have been exemplary. These SOs take the pressure off a fragile defense.
Man, Fister at $508,000 salary is bargain basement.
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