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Tigers All Time Leaders – Through 2025

tigersTo paraphrase from a famous movie, the one constant through all the years has been baseball.  As we head into 2026, we continue our look at the all-time leaders in both offensive and defensive categories for all 30 teams. Today, we take a deeper dive into the Detroit Tigers.

The Tigers began life in 1894 as part of the Western League and became a charter franchise of the American League in 1901, making them the oldest one city, one name franchise in the American League.  I’ve seen 286 players wearing the Tigers uniform in the 65 of their games that I’ve attended live, including the second game ever, and my first game, at the new Comiskey Park and home games at both Tiger Stadium and Comerica Park.

Home Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 9
Nick Castellanos 4
Ryan Raburn 3
Jhonny Peralta 3

Hits

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 30
Nick Castellanos 19
Ryan Raburn 19

Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 19
Ian Kinsler 11
Nick Castellanos 10
Austin Jackson 10

RBI

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 22
Ryan Raburn 13
Nick Castellanos 11

Doubles

Name Total
Jose Iglesias 5
Miguel Cabrera 4
Ian Kinsler 4
Alex Avila 4

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Welcoming An Old Friend

After a good run, although against some of the dregs of the major leagues, put them back over .500 and only four games behind the NL Central leading Reds, the Cubs moved from sellers to buyers, making a move this afternoon to re-acquire Jeimer Candelario from the Nationals.  Candelario made his debut with the Cubs back in 2016, earning a World Series ring for his five-game effort.  With the Cubs looking to repeat as champions, he was traded the following July to the Tigers for the immortal Alex Avila and Justin Wilson.

Six years later, he returns, in exchange for lefty pitcher D.J. Herz and shortstop Kevin Made.  Both have a good shot at sticking in the big leagues, but are from the second tier of Cub prospects.  I guess if you find yourself just four games back at the trading deadline, you have to go for it, but odds of the Cubs 1) making the playoffs and 2) doing anything even if they happen to sneak in are extremely low.  Since it doesn’t appear that they gave up too much for him, I guess you can live with this move.  But if a losing streak comes up now that the Cubs are facing upper division teams again, you have to wonder if it was worth it.

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Tigers All Time Leaders – Through 2019

tigersWith baseball now officially on its way back after the corona virus, I thought it would be an interesting time to look back at the all time leaders in both offensive and defensive categories for all 30 teams. We continue today with the Detroit Tigers.

The Tigers began life in 1894 as part of the Western League and became a charter franchise of the American League in 1901, making them the oldest one city, one name franchise in the American League.  I’ve seen them play 55 times, including the second game ever, and my first game, at the new Comiskey Park.

Home Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 8
Nick Castellanos 4
Ryan Raburn 3
Jhonny Peralta 3

Hits

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 26
Nick Castellanos 19
Ryan Raburn 19

Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 17
Ian Kinsler 11
Nick Castellanos 10
Austin Jackson 10

RBI

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 20
Ryan Raburn 13
Nick Castellanos 11

Doubles

Name Total
Jose Iglesias 5
Miguel Cabrera 4
Ian Kinsler 4
Alex Avila 4

Triples Continue reading →

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Bad Jersey Choices

Last fall, while waiting outside Wrigley Field to get in for the World Series, I saw a young gentleman wearing an Arismendy Alcantara jersey and thought, wow, what a colossal mistake this man has made.  I thought about starting a Tumblr/Twitter account to track poor jersey choices, but never really got around to it.  As this season has gotten underway, I’ve kept an eye out for instances of people who really should have put more thought in to their apparel purchases.

On the north side of town, it has been a total strikeout.  Seeing how everyone has renewed their jersey purchases with the World Series championship, there is just a sea of Rizzos, Bryants, and, of course, Rosses.  On the south side of town, I finally hit paydirt on Sunday, when I came across someone who was so enthralled by last year’s signing of broken down catcher Alex Avila, that he went out and bought the jersey.  A long lasting tribute to a one-season player who spent much of his time here on the disabled list.

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Tigers All Time Leaders – Through 2015

tigersWith 2 months until baseball in Chicago returns, I thought it would be interesting to look at the all time leaders in both offensive and defensive categories for all 30 teams. We continue today with the Detroit Tigers.

The Tigers began life in 1894 as part of the Western League and became a charter franchise of the American League in 1901, making them the oldest one city, one name franchise in the American League.  I’ve seen them play 38 times, including the second game ever, and my first game, at the new Comiskey Park.

Home Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 5
Ryan Raburn 3
Jhonny Peralta 3

Hits

Name Total
Ryan Raburn 19
Austin Jackson 15
Brandon Inge 15

Runs

Name Total
Miguel Cabrera 13
Austin Jackson 10
Ryan Raburn 9
Brandon Inge 9

RBI

Name Total
Ryan Raburn 13
Miguel Cabrera 10
Tony Clark 9

Doubles

Name Total
Alex Avila 4
Ryan Raburn 3
Brandon Inge 3
Johnny Damon 3

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Wilted Flowers

TFlowThe White Sox made another move behind the plate yesterday, declining to offer Tyler Flowers a contract for the 2016 season and making the veteran a free agent.  Flowers, acquired in the 2008 trade that sent Javier Vazquez to the Braves, became the starting catcher in 2013 after A.J. Pierzynski left as a free agent.  In his three seasons as the primary receiver, he failed to post an OPS over .700 while the White Sox averaged over 91 losses.

There is still a small possibility that Flowers could return, though it seems unlikely.  As a free agent, he can resign with the White Sox at a smaller salary than he would be entitled to through the arbitration process.  However, early reports from Bruce Levine claim that the White Sox will move quickly on shoring up the catching situation once Flowers is officially off the roster.  Combined with the signing of Alex Avila last week, the White Sox are starting to look like a much different team heading into 2016.

Flowers’ numbers in a White Sox uniform, both for games I attended and overall, were:

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Remaking The White Sox… Again

Alex-AvilaRick Hahn made his first move in remaking the White Sox for 2016 by replacing Geovany Soto, who signed with the Angels a day earlier, with Alex Avila, the former Tigers backstop.  Injuries have sapped much of Avila’s offensive production the last few years, culminating in a .191 average in only 67 games last season.  Defensively, though, he remains top notch and should provide an upgrade over both Soto and incumbent starter Tyler Flowers.

The obvious hope is that the White Sox medical team, led by Herm Schneider, can keep Avila on the field, allowing him to regain some of the offensive stroke that has been missing in recent years.  In doing so, Hahn must hope that he has plugged the whole behind the plate that has plagued the White Sox since A.J. Pierzynski left as a free agent following the 2012 season.

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2010 Final Batting Leaders

An ultimately disappointing season did have some offensive fireworks.  Following up on our midseason look, here are the final stat leaders in games I attended this year.

 

Home Runs
Name TOtal
Paul Konerko 17
Carlos Quentin 8
Alex Rios 6
Andruw Jones 5
Gordon Beckham 4
Alexei Ramirez 4

 

Hits
Name TOTal
Paul Konerko 48
Juan Pierre 46
Alex Rios 43
Alexei Ramirez 40
Carlos Quentin 32

 

Runs
name total
Paul Konerko 31
Alex Rios 25
Juan Pierre 23
Carlos Quentin 22
Gordon Beckham 19

 

RBI
Name total
Paul Konerko 35
Carlos Quentin 28
Alex Rios 21
Juan Pierre 17
Andruw Jones 17

 

Doubles
Name total
Alex Rios 9
Carlos Quentin 7
A.J. Pierzynski 7
Mark Teahen 7
Alexei Ramirez 6

 

Triples
name Total
Jeff Baker 2
15 tied with 1

 

Batting Average (> 15 AB)
Name Total
Johnny Damon 0.500
Alex Avila 0.389
Shin-Soo Choo 0.375
Paul Konerko 0.366
Mitch Maier 0.350