Tigers' World Baseball Classic Update

Globally, 1984 is probably best known as the title of George Orwell’s classic novel. But the year has a different significance in everyone’s heart. For the history buff it was the year Reagan won the presidential election by a landslide over Walter Mondale. In 1984 the music lover saw Bruce Springsteen release Born in the USA, Prince release Purple Rain, and Michael Jackson win 8 Grammys. For the weird-useless-trivial knowledge guru, 1984 was the year John DeLorean was acquitted of cocaine charges. And, most importantly for this site, sports fans saw Los Angeles host the Summer Olympics, the first 64 team Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, and… drum-roll please… The Detroit Tigers win the 1984 World Series.

So what better do 3 guys who grew up in the Detroit area have to do but write about and discuss the current Tigers squad in hopes that they can bring the Glory Days back to Motown. Here’s to this year’s team Restoring the Roar of 1984!

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Tigers' World Baseball Classic Update

With four of the Tigers stars playing for Venezuela in the WBC, only Carlos Guillen has produced notable numbers in the opening round of the WBC. Guillen is hitting .286 with two HRs in seven plate appearances. While his teammates Miguel Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez have been blanked in their two games with nine and seven ABs, respectively. Armando Galarraga has a 4.50 ERA after starting the first four innings of in Sunday’s game which VEN lost to the USA 15-6. Curtis Granderson is batting a solid .333 with 2 SBs for the USA.

Tigers’ Minor Leaguer Andrew Graham is hitting .667 with 2 runs scored in his one game playing for Australia and pitching prospect Fu-Te Ni, playing for Chinese Taipei, let up 3 hits and a run in his 1 IP.

Aside from Guillen and Granderson, the Tigers have lot of work to do if the WBC is any indication of regular season performance. Cabrera and Ordonez, this means you.