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Featured Posts. Blog Categories. Spring Training. Eyes on Mize. Pitching Prospects. Tigers Top Spotlight On. Jul 30 Jul 24 Jun 4 May 6 May 3 Apr 30 Apr 25 Apr 24 Apr 17 Apr 16 Many statistics and sometimes, especially for fielding evaluation, anecdotal information will be considered. For hitters, some of the statistics I consider are:.

Travis Fryman Tony Phillips Lou Whitaker Cecil Fielder Alan Trammell Not surprisingly, there are no pitchers on this list. The decade All Star team is listed in Tables 1 and 2 below and player profiles follow. Source: Baseball-Reference. Player Profiles. C Mickey Tettleton. Mickey Tettleton was acquired from the Orioles after the season for pitcher Jeff Robinson. He paid immediate dividends in Detroit slugging 31 home runs and reaching base at a.

He captured the attention of Detroit fandom that year with seven home runs in seven days including two over the roof in Tiger Stadium from June June Froot Loops had an on-base percentage of. He walked in Along with his slugging and on-base skills, the Oklahoma native was famous for the chaw of tobacco in his cheek and his unique straight legged batting stance with his bat held parallel to the ground before initiating his powerful swing.

After playing for the Blue Jays with little success from , Cecil Grant Fielder then spent the next year playing regularly and crushing home runs for Japan's Hanshin Tigers. He was then signed by the Detroit Tigers after the season and provided a much bigger return than anybody could have reasonably expected.

He hit home run numbers 50 and 51 on the last day of the season in Yankee Stadium to become only the 11th player in major league history reach 50 and the first one since Reds Outfielder George Foster in The only other Tiger to reach that mark was Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg who clubbed 58 four sackers in Fielder never quite reached those lofty numbers again, but he continued to display impressive power leading the league with 44 homers and RBI in He then added 35 home runs and again led the league with RBI in From , Fielder hit home runs which was more than any player in baseball.

According to writer Bill Dowd, Fielder gave a lot of credit to manager Sparky Anderson for his new found success in Detroit: "He was like my dude, man. When he died, I cried. I remember giving a speech in Detroit and I started to talk about him and I just cried. He was so important to my development and for building up my confidence. In the Bill James Handbook , James estimated that Whitaker was the second best player not in the Hall of Fame and not currently on the ballot.

One has to go back to the 19th Century to find the best one - shortstop Bill Dahlen. The sentiment that Whitaker is one of the biggest Hall of Fame snubs is not new. In fact, it is almost universally shared by the sabermetric community.

Whitaker may have lost a step defensively by the time the s came around, but he lost nothing offensively. The improvement came from an increase in power one homer every 25 at bats in the 90s versus one homer every 37 at bats in the 80s and walk rate His performance by four age breakdowns is also interesting:. SS Alan Trammell. Hall of Fame entry was a long time in coming for Trammell, but it was well deserved.

The argument was always that he was better than half the shortstops in the Hall of Fame. Trammell peaked in the 80s and did not age quite as well as his keystone partner Lou Whitaker and was frequently injured in his 30s, but he still had some strong years left. In , he finished fourth in the American League in batting average.

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