Tiger Card Tuesday- Jake Rogers

Last night in Arlington, Texas, my Detroit Tigers beat the Rangers, 7-2, partly due to catcher Jake Rogers,  who had two hits, including his club best 10th HR. 

🐅⚾️ Jake was born in Canyon, Texas, and had plenty of family and friends cheering him on.

🐅⚾️ Today's Tigers Card Tuesday! subject was acquired by the Tigers in the 2017 Justin Verlander trade with the Houston Astros, and is in his 3rd season with the Detroit. 

😡 Jake is a good catcher, who's battled injury, including the entire 2022 season. 

🐅⚾️ The Tigers have been very inconsistent at the catcher position since the James McCann days, and it's good to see Jake returning, and, although he's struggling at the plate batting average wise, his defenive caught stealing percentage is just a tick under the league average, at .21%.

5️⃣7️⃣%... In 2021, in 35 games, Jake's caught stealing was an amazing 57%, w/ a fielding percentage of .997%!

🐅⚾️ Tigers fans are hoping that he continues to improve in the second half, and that by 2024, he'll be one of the best defensive backstops in the big leagues. 

🐅⚾️ Heck, he may even be an All-Star before his career is over.

Have a fantastic week, and, as always,  let's Play BALL! ⚾️

Tigers Card Tuesday- Miggy Goes 3/3

A quick Tigers Card Tuesday! post in honor of the great Miguel Cabrera going 3/3 today, collecting his 1,135th career extra base hit, moving him into 15th place.

      🐅  2023 Topps Heritage #151 🐅

🐅⚾️ Miggy hasn't had the best of times this season, which make for games like this, albeit in a loss, fun to watch.

🐅⚾️ Miggy's 3 knocks give him 3,107 in his career, and shot his batting average up to .196 (.167 before).

Have a great night, sweet dreams, and as always,  Play BALL! 🐅⚾️

Blog Bat Around- Alphabet Challenge

Here's my entry into Nacho Grande's Blog Bat Around.

J- Jon Jay

O- Orestes Destrade

H- Hank Aaron

N- Nellie Fox

S- Sandy Koufax

 

B- Brennan Boesch

I- Jose Iglesias

G- George Sisler

L- Chet Lemon

E- Earl Averill

A- Tony Armas

G- Charlie Gehringer 

U- Cecil Upshaw

E- Eldon Auker

B- Matthew Boyd

A- Jesus Alou

S- Sixto Lezcano

E- Luke Easter

B- John Boccabella 

A- Aaron Judge

L- Buck Leonard

L- Larry Sheets

B- Bill Freehan 

L- Lamarr Hoyt

O- Ed Ott

G- Hank Greenberg

Really had fun with this, and I hope you'll join in.

Have a wonderful Wednesday,  and, as always,  Play BALL! ⚾️

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope ya'll are having a terrific Valentine's Day!

     From the Detroit Tigers                 Twitter Page...Yeah, BOYD! 

Happy Baseball Birthday! The BOYD is back!

HappyBaseballBirthday! wishes go out to my favorite big league pitcher, Matthew Boyd! 

4️⃣8️⃣ Matthew has resigned with my beloved Detroit Tigers, after spending a year away in the San Francisco Giants organization and then pitching for the Seattle Mariners on September of 2022.

🐅⚾️ As Matthew is my favorite big league hurler, I certainly didn't stop collecting his baseball cards, and last month I hit the 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ unique card mark on Trading Card Database.

🐅⚾️  A special shout out to my friend Michael Miller, for surprising me in January with the above autographed photo of Matthew...thanks, again, appreciate you thinking about me.

⚾️ I'm not sure what to expect when 2023 Topps is released in a couple of weeks, but I'm sure hoping that Matthew has a Mariners card, because I'm hoping that means he gets in Topps Update at the end of the year. 

Here's to hoping the winter wisks by fast, so we get the 2023 season off and running! 

Happy Birthday, Matthew! 

Play BALL! 

Tigers Card Tuesday- Topps Living Set Cecil Fielder

Wednesday is Topps Living Set Day, and so I thought I'd make a quick post for Tigers Card Tuesday! on the last Detroit Tigers player to be added to the set.

Cecil Fielder, a.k.a. BIG Daddy! 

Cecil is the-

19th different Tigers player in the set, and my 19th Tigers Card.

The 14th different Tigers position player//batter in the set. 

The logo in the bottom left is the 3rd different Tigers logo to be used in the set.

As February arrives, we're just a few weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Tiger Town Spring Training in Lakeland, and I'm hoping we'll see another Detroit player in the Living Set.

Have a great week! 

Play BALL! 🐅⚾️ 

2023 Hall of Fame Ballot

Another year has passed, an that means another Hal 9f Fame announcement.

For me, if I could vote, these are the ballplayer that I believe belong in the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. 

• Todd Helton

• Jeff Kent

• Scott Rolen

• Jimmy Rollins

• Gary Sheffield

• Mark Buehrle

Happy Hall of Fame Day....Play BALL! 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all you great bloggers put there.

Here's a Turkey Red card of Matthew Boyd, because, well, why not.

Have a great day of food, family, and football, Play BALL! 🦃

Tigers Card Tuesday- 2022 Topps Archives- 500 Miggy Card

I haven't been able to purchase any 2022 Topps Archives, so I went to eBay to get today's pick for Tigers Card Tuesday! 

           2022 Topps Archives #308, 

           Miguel Cabrera 500th HR

        
🐅⚾️ Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th big league HR in Toronto, last August, and the photo of him coming back out of the Tigers dugout...on the road, to a cheering crowd is one of my favorite images from what was another dismal season in the Motor City. 

🐅⚾️ Miggy was the Tigers best player in the first half this season, but another injury slowed down the future HOFer...2023 will be his last year in the big leagues. 

3️⃣0️⃣8️⃣8️⃣/5️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ Miggy sits at 3,088 career base hits, and 507 HRs after the 2022 season. Id like to see the big fella get to 520 dingers in his last go around, and he'll be well over 3,100 base knocks. 

Have a great week! 

Tigers Card Tuesday- Go Vote!

Today is Election Day across America, and I hope that you're going to exercise your Right To Vote!, no matter if you're a Blue, Red, Purple, or Green voter.

🗳 The Contemporary Era ballot was released yesterday, and once again, I really don't understand how these ballots are made up.

The Contemporary Era is supposed to consist of players from 1980, and after, yet, Lou Whitaker, the 1978 American League Rookie of the Year, isn't on the ballot. 

🐅⚾️ Lou played for the Tigers from 1977-95, was the best 2nd Baseman in the A.L. during the majority of the time, and his record setting teammate 

Alan Trammell, is already in the HOF.

The HOF/BBWAA continue to infuriate, baffle fans, but at least voters got it right in voting for Whitaker as the ROY in 1978.

🎖 Lou received all 21 First Place votes, beating out some guy named Paul Molitor, who got 3 votes, and is also in the HOF.

Topps certainly got it right when they came out with card #704, 1978 Rookie 2nd Baseman, however...

...why is Lou's 1979 Topps card missing the Rookie Cup logo?🏆

As far as the 2022 ROY, I'd go with Mariners Rookie CFer Julio Rodriguez.

⚾️ Well, I'll be heading out soon to vote, and, as I mentioned at the start, no matter what your opinions are, please go out and vote, it's very important that our voices are heard! 

🌞 It's a beautiful day here in SW Michigan, high in the mid 50s, and I hope you are having a good weather day were you are.

It's officially Hot Stove time in baseball, and, remember, it's always gonna be a great time to go out and Play BALL! ⚾️