Monday, July 01, 2013
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| Jim Leyland, Tigers: Trying to figure it out |
posted by Pat Caputo at
1:18 AM
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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4 Comments:
Not as good as advertised? Well gee Book, guess who the drum major was when the season started? That would be you. At least you're starting to get a little bit more objective these days. Ever notice the older people get, the less fascination they have with koolaid?
Yup,
Oddly enough this team does look like a World Series team, because this is exactly how they looked in the 2012 World Series against San Fran.
No offense - like sleeping giants thinking they don't have to wake yet because they feel they can stomp on the tiny invaders at will, and they just don't have any will right now.
They're sleeping in this year.
It's almost a bother for them to have to trod out onto the field to defend each inning.
The Miggy and Prince show. Only Scherzer on the mound seems to spark any offense.
It's such a puzzle. And seemingly such a waste.
The All Star break is just around the corner and meat of this team has their bags already packed.
But one sweep against a weaker opponent - perhaps it will be Toronto in their own dome on Canada Day today. A cool and wet July 1st.
Maybe not. Cool wet days are just right for sleeping in when you're a team of giants.
This is baffling ... most don't know that the Tigers, a good hitting team, are ranked 29th in scoring from the 7th inning in.
Leyland has two biases that I believe hurt the team. He leaves pitchers in too long. I think his bias is that he wants one more out to save the relievers. Then it's bang, bye bye.
Secondly he seems to put several botom players in a game at once, thinking "if we win this one, we're golden, we have rested the team and won".
Both of these biases are related to rest.
He's a darn good manager but hasn't adopted sabermetrics.
But he can't hit for the players. Again this late game lack of hitting just doesn't make stat sense.
Geeze Pat....at it again. Ready to point out the obvious and ready to jump on that negativity bandwagon. Hmmm....the Tigers have won 4 in a row. Pitching has settled down and that lineup is hitting again. How about taking some of that dormant brain power and try to figure that one out. In a state that's in the dumps and needs something to feel good about for living here,I don't believe we need gloom and doom.
I bet if you were watching the Mayflower embark, you'd probably be shouting....don't go!...you'll probably die!
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