Article looks at several players on the Tiger roster some who have no chance but it was fun reading through some of the numbers per player. A few pasted below…Tork an All Star…who saw that possibility coming?
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Dillon Dingler: No line (Pasted as it is good to see how stacks up compared to other AL catchers)
Not only is Dingler is the only AL catcher hitting above .300 (at .301 after going 6-for-12 against the Angels over the weekend), he’s the only backstop topping even .280, despite striking out 28 times. Unfortunately for him, his path to the Midsummer Classic is likely pretty well blocked by the fan vote — with Adley Rutschman (last year’s starter) and Salvador Perez likely to dominate the vote despite their (for now) sub-.700 OPSes — and the player vote, with Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh leading the AL in homers (12). Oh, and the fact that he has yet to walk — not once — in 94 trips to the plate. (And his 94 PAs are hardly a small sample size — more than twice the appearances of the No. 2 hitter with no walks, Seattle’s Victor Robles.)
Spencer Torkelson: 2-1
Just six weeks after he won a spring training battle for one of the Tigers’ final roster spots, Tork has arguably been the AL’s best first baseman. He’s second in OPS (.889, behind Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Aranda at .975), second in bWAR (1.2, behind Aranda’s 1.4) and first in fWAR (1.2, ahead of Aranda at 0.9), all while hitting 10 homers — as many as he had all of last season, and good for third in the AL.
Reese Olson & Casey Mize: 50-1
A 1.45 ERA with 22 strikeouts and just seven walks over his past three starts (covering 18⅔ innings and including Sunday’s gem) gets Olson on this list; his ERA (3.03) is just 19th among AL starters with 30 innings thrown, but his strikeouts (40) are tied for 11th and he has allowed just one homer (and none since March 29). The big knock, though: 17 walks issued, seventh-most in the AL.
The case for Mize, meanwhile, features the inverse stats: a 2.70 ERA that’s 14th among AL starters, thanks to just nine walks (tied for 12th) and 27 strikeouts (tied for 41st). A sustainable All-Star case? Maybe not. But a sub-3.00 ERA and double-digit wins (he’s already at five) could speak louder than the peripherals come early July.