Will Burchfield
Sports Writer at Audacy.com
Sportswriter, 97.1 The Ticket. BBWAA. Catch a kid on Fox 2’s SportsWorks and Lions Gameday Live. Self-inducted into Wiffleball HoF.
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1 week ago |
audacy.com | Will Burchfield
Sometime last Sunday afternoon, Justin Verlander laid eyes on a box score from Detroit: "Less than 100 pitches, 13 punchies. It's like, holy sh*t. I love good pitching. I needed to go watch some of the game." So he cued up the highlights of Tarik Skubal's first real masterpiece: a two-hit shutout with 13 strikeouts and no walks topped off by a very Verlander-like heater. Typically, Skubal said with a laugh, he's the one going back to watch Verlander. "Yeah, how many years has he played? 18? 20?
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1 week ago |
audacy.com | Will Burchfield
Five days ago, Matt Vierling returned to the Tigers. Now he's back on the shelf. The Tigers have placed Vierling on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder inflammation after he missed most of spring training and the first two months of the season with a strained rotator cuff in the same shoulder. "We need to obviously take care of this, given the injury that he just went through," A.J. Hinch said Tuesday before the Tigers' second of three games against the Giants.
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1 week ago |
audacy.com | Will Burchfield
Five years ago on Twitter, DJ Reader shared a piece of wisdom that he reiterated last March when he signed a two-year, $22 million deal with the Lions: "Don't let others paint the picture of what you see in the mirror." So nah, Reader said last week, there was nothing validating about the Lions picking up the second year of his contract when they could have cut him loose to save against the cap. "Just the team winning was validating," he said. "Again, that quote is me through and through.
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2 weeks ago |
audacy.com | Will Burchfield
If you only consider the statistics, you might have seen Sam LaPorta's second NFL season as a step back. LaPorta himself saw it as a step forward. He was a key cog in a historically good offense and a main contributor on a team that won 15 games. That's not what LaPorta heard for most of this offseason -- and likely for part of last season, too.
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2 weeks ago |
audacy.com | Will Burchfield
A mountain of a man, Penei Sewell is almost impossible to move. When Pro Football Focus released its annual ranking of the best players in the NFL age 25 or younger, Sewell didn't budge from the top spot. Which presents a bit of a challenge for the star right tackle in year five of his career: How does he get better? "Personally, I wanted to get stronger, definitely at the point of attack, both run game and pass game," Sewell said Thursday as the Lions continue offseason workouts.
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So, where do #Tigers play Matt Vierling when he returns? A.J. Hinch: "If you asked me two weeks ago, I would've said CF. Now you ask me after last night and I’m gonna say, well, maybe not so much. Maybe RF and 3B. We’re starting to develop a roster that has a lot of options."
Baez on playing CF: "I knew I was going to be really good at it, because that’s my natural position when I was a kid. And now that I’m playing it, I’m like, 'I told you! I could play!' "I can track the ball pretty good, so just let them hit it out there. I will catch it."
Javy Baez, El Mago, has come back to life for Tigers: https://t.co/RsClK7rXuF
"You refuse to let Hank leave," said Ragnow. "I haven’t played in this league without Hank and I don’t plan on doing it." "Yeah, he's not going nowhere," said Sewell. In the end, they were right. Michigan is home for Fraley, and Detroit is "where I wanted to be."
After interviewing with Seahawks, family and "a special room" kept Hank Fraley home with Lions: https://t.co/ePN1iu64xK