Ryan Ford
Deputy Sports Editor at Detroit Free Press
Former Freep designer, now deputy editor for @freepsports. 2021 NSMA Michigan Sportswriter of the Year. Proud Cat Dad, Wazzu alum. (Go Cougs, right meow.)
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
How do we measure team success in MLB? Put another way … how can we tell just how good these Detroit Tigers are? Wins and losses? That’s one way: The Tigers’ four-game series win this weekend against the Angels put them at 22-13, tops in the American League … but only tied for third in the majors (with the Giants at 22-13 and behind the Padres at 22-11 and the Dodgers at 23-11). Run differential?
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
Skubal has allowed only two earned runs in his last four starts, totaling 24 innings. Skubal currently ranks first in our 2025 Cy Young power rankings. After everything that Tarik Skubal did last season — leading the American League in ERA, strikeouts and wins, getting the Detroit Tigers back to the postseason for the first time in a decade and, of course, winning the AL Cy Young Award — it’s sometimes hard to not to set unrealistic expectations for the 28-year-old in his sixth MLB season.
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1 month ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
Ah, mid-April — time for showers, tax-company commercials and, yes, the annual warning across baseball: Small sample sizes may be misleading. Casey Mize, after all, entered Sunday’s start in Minnesota on pace to go 32-0 with 196 strikeouts and a 0.77 ERA this season. A couple rough innings brought those digits down to 22-10, 160 and 2.60. Still good, in a still-a-small-sample-size sort of way, but maybe not enough to pry the AL Cy Young Award from Tarik Skubal.
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1 month ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
It’s the torpedo bats, right? Has to be the torpedo bats. That weirdly shaped lumber (designed by a former Michigan professor) is why the New York Yankees, arriving at Comerica Park Monday for a three-game series (albeit one starting a little earlier than planned) against the Detroit Tigers, have crushed 25 homers in their first nine games, right?
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1 month ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
Opening Day — that’s today, by the way, with the Detroit Tigers on the road against the L.A. Dodgers — is about hope, and joy, and about things being better than they were the year before. I’m living proof of that.
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