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<blockquote data-quote="audiolife" data-source="post: 4266289" data-attributes="member: 541383">From Fox sports biggest dissappointments--------&quot;3. Toothless TigersPlacido Polanco and the Tigers aren&#039;t striking fear in pitchers yet. (Duane Burleson / Associated Press)A funny thing happened on the way to 1,000 runs: They actually started playing the games. With the arrivals of Miguel Cabrera and Edgar Renteria, it became de rigueur for baseball&#039;s talking bobbleheads to throw out the 1,000-run figure in any preseason assessment of Detroit. After being held to five total runs in a three-game sweep at the hands of the Royals, that 1K prospect now looks slightly unrealistic. Curtis Granderson is on the DL with a broken hand. Cabrera sat out Thursday with a quad injury. Gary Sheffield tore a tendon in his finger in the series finale. But injuries aside, the other troubling sign for the Tigers is the team&#039;s serious on-base percentage limitations. Pudge Rodriguez, coming off a .294 OBP season, has reached base once in his first 12 plate appearances. Placido Polanco may have had a career year last year, hitting .341, but he walked only 37 times in over 600 plate appearances, hardly ideal for a No. 2 hitter. He has one hit and no walks in his first 14 at bats in &#039;08 for a tidy .071 OBP. In the last eight seasons, new left fielder Jacque Jones (0-for-7 to start the season) has averaged 108 whiffs and only 35 walks. Utility man Brandon Inge has a .304 career OBP. And throw in the fact that the last time Renteria played in the AL, he had one of the worst seasons of his career, and it&#039;s safe to say the Tigers will not be pushing across 995 runs in their remaining 159 games&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="audiolife, post: 4266289, member: 541383"] From Fox sports biggest dissappointments-------- "3. Toothless Tigers Placido Polanco and the Tigers aren't striking fear in pitchers yet. (Duane Burleson / Associated Press) A funny thing happened on the way to 1,000 runs: They actually started playing the games. With the arrivals of Miguel Cabrera and Edgar Renteria, it became de rigueur for baseball's talking bobbleheads to throw out the 1,000-run figure in any preseason assessment of Detroit. After being held to five total runs in a three-game sweep at the hands of the Royals, that 1K prospect now looks slightly unrealistic. Curtis Granderson is on the DL with a broken hand. Cabrera sat out Thursday with a quad injury. Gary Sheffield tore a tendon in his finger in the series finale. But injuries aside, the other troubling sign for the Tigers is the team's serious on-base percentage limitations. Pudge Rodriguez, coming off a .294 OBP season, has reached base once in his first 12 plate appearances. Placido Polanco may have had a career year last year, hitting .341, but he walked only 37 times in over 600 plate appearances, hardly ideal for a No. 2 hitter. He has one hit and no walks in his first 14 at bats in '08 for a tidy .071 OBP. In the last eight seasons, new left fielder Jacque Jones (0-for-7 to start the season) has averaged 108 whiffs and only 35 walks. Utility man Brandon Inge has a .304 career OBP. And throw in the fact that the last time Renteria played in the AL, he had one of the worst seasons of his career, and it's safe to say the Tigers will not be pushing across 995 runs in their remaining 159 games" [/QUOTE]

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