Tigers Batting Order

I kind of like this one:

Granderson
Polanco
Cabrera
Ordonez
Guillen
Sheffield
Rodriguez
Jones
Renteria

Thoughts??

I like this one:

Renteria
Polanco
Cabrera
Ordonez
Guillen
Sheffield
Granderson
Pudge
Jones

6 Runs per game lineup!
From detroittigersweblog

A couple weeks ago D-Town Baseball took the Bill James projections for 2008 and crammed them into the Baseball Musings lineup optimizer. Well, now that the Tigers lineup is drool-worthy I figured it would be worth updating.

One of popular iteration of the lineup is:

1. Granderson
   
2. Polanco
   
3. Cabrera
   
4. Ordonez
   
5. Sheffield
   
6. Guillen
   
7. Renteria
   
8. Rodriguez
   
9. Jones
   

Such a lineup would yield 5.831 runs per game. Tantalizing. Even the worst ordering of players (Pudge leading off) would produce 5.601 runs per game. The best lineup you ask? That would be 5.970 runs per game. As for the configuration - and I know this would never happen - is:

1. Sheffield
   
2. Cabrera
   
3. Polanco
   
4. Granderson
   
5. Ordonez
   
6. Jones
   
7. Guillen
   
8. Rodriguez
   
9. Renteria
   

Regardless it’s a substantial upgrade from what Eric had found earlier where the lineups ranged from 5.224 to 5.578 runs per game.

from http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/LineupAnalysis.py
Best Lineups Runs per Game

5.970	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Ordonez	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.970	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Granderson	Ordonez	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.967	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Guillen	Jones	Renteria
5.966	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Granderson	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Guillen	Jones	Polanco
5.966	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Ordonez	Guillen	Jones	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.966	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Granderson	Ordonez	Guillen	Jones	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.965	Sheffield	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Ordonez	Jones	Polanco	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.965	Sheffield	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Ordonez	Jones	Renteria	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.963	Cabrera	Ordonez	Polanco	Granderson	Sheffield	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.963	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Ordonez	Guillen	Granderson	Jones	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.963	Ordonez	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Sheffield	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.963	Cabrera	Ordonez	Renteria	Granderson	Sheffield	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.963	Sheffield	Ordonez	Polanco	Granderson	Cabrera	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.963	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Ordonez	Guillen	Granderson	Jones	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.963	Ordonez	Cabrera	Renteria	Granderson	Sheffield	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.962	Sheffield	Ordonez	Renteria	Granderson	Cabrera	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.962	Sheffield	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Polanco	Jones	Renteria
5.962	Sheffield	Ordonez	Polanco	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Jones	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.962	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Ordonez	Guillen	Jones	Granderson	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.962	Sheffield	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Renteria	Jones	Polanco
5.961	Sheffield	Ordonez	Renteria	Cabrera	Guillen	Granderson	Jones	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.961	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Ordonez	Guillen	Jones	Granderson	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.960	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Guillen	Jones	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.960	Sheffield	Ordonez	Polanco	Cabrera	Guillen	Jones	Granderson	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.960	Cabrera	Ordonez	Polanco	Granderson	Sheffield	Rodriguez	Guillen	Jones	Renteria
5.960	Cabrera	Sheffield	Polanco	Granderson	Ordonez	Jones	Guillen	Rodriguez	Renteria
5.960	Sheffield	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Ordonez	Guillen	Rodriguez	Jones	Renteria
5.960	Ordonez	Cabrera	Polanco	Granderson	Sheffield	Rodriguez	Guillen	Jones	Renteria
5.960	Sheffield	Cabrera	Renteria	Granderson	Guillen	Jones	Ordonez	Rodriguez	Polanco
5.960	Sheffield	Ordonez	Renteria	Cabrera	Guillen	Jones	Granderson	Rodriguez	Polanco

Our lineup is gonna rock!

GO TIGERS!

gogetemtigers wrote:

from http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/LineupAnalysis.py

Spoiler:

My kind of post! I wish I could manage, I WOULD go with that "most ideal" lineup. Since that's not conventional, here's mine:

Granderson
Polanco
Ordonez
Cabrera
Sheffield
Guillen
Renteria
Jones
Rodriguez

Also, we need 6.17 runs per game! I want 1000 runs!

Sounds good to me Catbox

catbox_9 wrote:

gogetemtigers wrote:

from http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/LineupAnalysis.py

Spoiler:

My kind of post! I wish I could manage, I WOULD go with that "most ideal" lineup. Since that's not conventional, here's mine:

Granderson
Polanco
Ordonez
Cabrera
Sheffield
Guillen
Renteria
Jones
Rodriguez

Also, we need 6.17 runs per game! I want 1000 runs!

You can use that link and enter your data to see the runs results. It is a neat tool.
http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/LineupAnalysis.py

Hey, that's cool!

1,000 Runs! SWEET!

catbox_9

My kind of post! I wish I could manage, I WOULD go with that "most ideal" lineup. Since that's not conventional, here's mine:

Granderson
Polanco
Ordonez
Cabrera
Sheffield
Guillen
Renteria
Jones
Rodriguez

Also, we need 6.17 runs per game! I want 1000 runs!

Runs per game for above lineup: 5.832.

Oh Yeah!

OUR LINE UP IS THE BEST!

Data used in analyser

Player0=Granderson
OBA0=+0.359
Slug=+0.523

Player1=Polanco
OBA1=+0.360
Slug1=+0.423

Player2=Ordonez
OBA2=+0.383
Slug2=+0.517

Player3=Cabrera
OBA3=0.411
Slug3=0.579

Player4=Sheffield
OBA4=+0.384
Slug4=+0.488

Player5=Guillen
OBA5=+0.368
Slug5=+0.466

Player6=Renteria
OBA6=+0.359
Slug6=+0.421

Player7=Jones
OBA7=0.332
Slug7=0.433

Player8=Rodriguez
OBA8=+0.316
Slug8=+0.431

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

catbox_9 wrote:

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

So, basically you can't screw up the lineup?

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

So, basically you can't screw up the lineup?

Worst Lineups Runs per Game123456789

5.601	Rodriguez	Renteria	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.602	Rodriguez	Polanco	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Polanco	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Renteria	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Renteria	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Polanco	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Polanco	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Jones	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Renteria	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.605	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Renteria	Polanco	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.605	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Polanco	Renteria	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.606	Rodriguez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Jones	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.606	Rodriguez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Jones	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.607	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Renteria	Polanco	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Polanco	Renteria	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Guillen	Sheffield	Polanco	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.609	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Guillen	Sheffield	Renteria	Cabrera	Granderson
5.610	Rodriguez	Renteria	Sheffield	Polanco	Jones	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.610	Rodriguez	Polanco	Sheffield	Renteria	Jones	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Renteria	Sheffield	Polanco	Jones	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Polanco	Sheffield	Renteria	Jones	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Polanco	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Renteria	Polanco	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Polanco	Renteria	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Polanco	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Renteria	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Renteria	Polanco	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

So, basically you can't screw up the lineup?

I don't think so! Just don't rest Cabrera for days at a time to play Inge!

gogetemtigers wrote:

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

So, basically you can't screw up the lineup?

Worst Lineups Runs per Game123456789

5.601	Rodriguez	Renteria	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.602	Rodriguez	Polanco	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Polanco	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Renteria	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Renteria	Sheffield	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.603	Rodriguez	Polanco	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Polanco	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Jones	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Renteria	Guillen	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.604	Rodriguez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.605	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Renteria	Polanco	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.605	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Polanco	Renteria	Sheffield	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.606	Rodriguez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Jones	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.606	Rodriguez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Jones	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.607	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Guillen	Polanco	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Renteria	Polanco	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Guillen	Polanco	Renteria	Ordonez	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Renteria	Guillen	Sheffield	Polanco	Cabrera	Granderson
5.608	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Guillen	Renteria	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.609	Rodriguez	Jones	Ordonez	Polanco	Guillen	Sheffield	Renteria	Cabrera	Granderson
5.610	Rodriguez	Renteria	Sheffield	Polanco	Jones	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.610	Rodriguez	Polanco	Sheffield	Renteria	Jones	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Renteria	Sheffield	Polanco	Jones	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Polanco	Sheffield	Renteria	Jones	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Polanco	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Renteria	Polanco	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.611	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Polanco	Renteria	Guillen	Ordonez	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Renteria	Jones	Sheffield	Polanco	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Guillen	Ordonez	Polanco	Jones	Renteria	Sheffield	Cabrera	Granderson
5.612	Rodriguez	Jones	Sheffield	Renteria	Polanco	Ordonez	Guillen	Cabrera	Granderson

Moral of the story:
Don't lead off Pudge!

With this group of batters we can look at an average of 5.612 to 5.970 runs per game! No matter how you mix them up!

WOW!

catbox_9 wrote:

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

This is a fun thought. If everyone matched their career highs (I'm dreaming, but still), we could really be crazy:

7.166 runs per game!! That's 1160 runs!

2003 Tigers gave up 928 runs. Score 1160 and give up 928 and you'll be expected to go 97-65.

Our pitching is nowhere near 2003 bad! Last year we gave up 797 runs.

Let's be more realistic and say we score the 944 runs the original post is projecting and give up 797 we'd go 93-69. That will probably get us in the playoffs. If we can up the ante to 1000 runs we'll win 98 games allowing 797 runs.

(All those W-L projections are based on the Pythagorean W-L estimator).

So, basically you can't screw up the lineup?

I don't think so! Just don't rest Cabrera for days at a time to play Inge!

Definitely a WORST CASE scenario!! lol

GO TIGERS!

yeah.....go tigers.

How original.

Tigers' Leyland juggles lineup options
Lynn Henning / The Detroit News

How will Jim Leyland manage what appears to be an abundance of offensive talent in 2008?

There's still plenty of time for the Tigers manager to decide ahead of the season opener against Kansas City on March 31 at Comerica Park.

He must somehow figure out where to ideally place in his order the likes of Curtis Granderson, Placido Polanco, Gary Sheffield, Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Guillen, Edgar Renteria, Jacque Jones and Pudge Rodriguez.

"Everybody's making way too much of it," Leyland said this week as he prepared to join the team for this weekend's TigerFest and for the caravan that hits the road Sunday. "It's pretty obvious how it looks. I don't think it's going to be anything mind-boggling.

"Everybody in Detroit pretty much has the same lineup I have."

Leyland understands that most armchair managers will have center fielder Granderson at leadoff, followed by second baseman Polanco.

Batting third will be either the incumbent, Sheffield (designated hitter), or Cabrera, the 24-year-old slugging third baseman. Ordonez (right field) should remain at cleanup, with either Cabrera or Sheffield batting fifth, at least on most days.

Guillen, who is moving to first base, most likely will be Leyland's regular choice at the sixth spot. The team's new shortstop, Renteria, is expected to bat seventh, just ahead of Jones, the new left fielder, and two spots ahead of Rodriguez, Detroit's catcher who will assume the unusual status of being a No. 9 hitter destined for the Hall of Fame.

"There's no secret to it," Leyland said of his batting order, which some observers believe is capable of producing 1,000 runs in 2008, an astounding number only seven big-league teams have reached in a single season. "I just haven't made a decision yet on how I'm going to hit those three guys in the middle. I'm not sure about that yet."