Tiger double digit HR’s

[Roger King]

Tonight, Dingler became the 6th Tiger to reach double digits in home runs this season.  3 more Tigers will also get there with one more home run.  Keith, Perez & McKinstry each have 9. 

Have the Tigers ever had 9 players hit 10+ HR’s in a season?   If it happened, it feels like it would’ve been in that Miggy-JD-V-Mart era I think. 

Of course, before sending… I looked up the 1984 team. They had 8 guys with 10+.  So did the 1987 team. Same with 2006.  

I also just skimmed the 1991–93 rosters because of course they had Cecil, Tettleton, Deer and other guys like Fryman and Sweet Lou who easily hit double digits. But the high mark for those teams looks like 7.  

The AL championship team of 2012 had just 6. But there were 8 on the 2013 team. 

Anyway, just some quick skimming there…

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[Michael Borshuk]

Great question! My mind immediately went to the 1986 team (with their all-20-homer-hitting infield) but they only had 8. The 1985 team also had 8. 

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[Michael Borshuk]

The 1999 team had ten players in double digits for home runs. Would have been 11 if my least favorite Tiger manager of the past 30 years had hit 1 more. 

[Peter Welch]

2017 Tigers had 9 guys who hit 10+ homers.

Surprisingly, the woeful 2019 Tigers (47-114) had 9 guys who hit 10 or more homers.  What a balance lineup!

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[Roger King]

2017 makes sense because they still had JD Martinez, Upton, Kinsler, etc. until the trade deadline. But 2019? 

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[Cal Lord]

In 1986 the Tigers had a whole infield with 20 homers. Which hadn’t been done before and not sure if it has been done since.

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[Tanvir Shaikh]

What stats did you use, Peter? Because Baseball Reference shows 8 with double-figures:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2019.shtml

Jody Mercer, according to the above, was 9th with 9, and Brandon Dixon led with 15, so the 2019 Tigers were indeed balanced but in a bad way.

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[Peter Welch]

Sorry, my mistake, it was 8 in 2019.  That's still surprising for such a terrible team.

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[Peter Welch]

I don't think it has.  Several teams with 4 of the 5 infield positions with 20 or more homers, but not all 5 positions.

There's usually some weaker-hitting player at one of the infield spots (usually catcher, SS or 2B).

2009 Yankees were close (Posada, Texeira, Cano, A-Rod), but Jeter was just short with 18 homers.

The 5 infielders with 20 or more homers on the '86 Tigers were Parrish, Evans, Whitaker, Trammell and Coles.

3rd base was usually such a sinkhole for the Tigers' in the 1980s, so getting 20 homers out of Coles at 3B was a rarity.

 

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[Tanvir Shaikh]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM Peter Welch <pw...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, my mistake, it was 8 in 2019.  That's still surprising for such a terrible team.

Indeed, it wasn't that long ago, yet I barely remember several of them.

The top five HR leaders on that team didn't have a defined position: 

1. Dixon -- listed as a 1B, but played 9 positions, including pitcher
2. Ronny Rodriguez -- he was worth a shot, but turned out to be a AAAA player
3. John Hicks -- was our primary catcher, but barely
4. Niko Goodrum -- was our WAR leader among position players with 1.5 (!)
5. Miggy -- played 80% DH

That team was bad.

-Tapu

[Peter Welch]

Ronny Rodriguez (who swung at more pitches out of the strikezone than Javy Baez) was 2nd to Dixon with 14 homers.   John Hicks was 3^rd with 13.

Nick Castellanos was leading the Tigers with 11 homers at the time he was traded to the Cubs at the deadline (for Alex Lange and Paul Richan).  Nick ended up with 27 homers overall. He went on a tear and hit 16 with the Cubs in 51 games.  Castellanos looked like he was mailing it in with the Tanking Tigers by the time he was traded.  He looked miserable.  He woke up with the Cubs and single-handedly carried their offense in August and September that year.  Nick blamed Comerica Park for taking away his power.  I guess going from Comerica to Wrigley probably helped him.

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[Michael W]

The 1986 team just missed.  Eight players with at least 12, and one with 8.

Michael 

[Paul Meloche]

Good call, Cal. Evans, Whitaker, Trammell, Parrish, and Coles all had between 20-29 homers that season. Evans had 29 and the other four all had between 20 and 22.

 

The Tigers lineup that year was really good, particularly if John Grubb was the DH, but they didn't have a really strong bench. I also remember Dave Collins getting a lot of ABs and I don't think he was that good (no power, didn't walk much). Still, with the SP that Tigers had and that lineup I'm surprised they couldn't finish with more than 80-something wins. I feel like the pen might have let them down in a lot of games.

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[Michael W]

The league was pretty balanced that year.  The Tigers won 87, and the league-high was 95 from the Red Sox.  So we were right in the mix, but not quite on top.

Michael

[Peter Welch]

Their bench was pretty weak:  Dave Collins, Tom Brookens, Pat Sheridan, Dave Bergman (who only had 80 OPS+) and Mike Heath weren't very good.  The Tigers' best bench player was backup catcher Dwight Lowry, who hit .307 with a .785 OPS after replacing the injured Lance Parrish.

Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon also had below-average seasons.  Herndon only hit 8 homers.  Lemon hit 12 homers.  They both were below 100 OPS+.  I think Lemon had some injuries.  Kirk Gibson hit 28 homers but missed some time with injuries as well.

Lance Parrish also missed the last 2+ months of the season and only played in 91 games.  He hit 22 homers in those 91 games.  Losing Parrish really hurt.

Parrish left the Tigers for the Phillies as a free agent after that season.  He had chronic knee and back problems that wore him down and was never really the same hitter as he was with Detroit, but I still wanted the Tigers to re-sign him at the time.  The Tigers got lucky that rookie catcher Matt Nokes hit 32 homers the year after Parrish left (Nokes and Heath combined for 40 homers in 1987).  Nokes was never as good defensively as Parrish and never hit as well as he did as a rookie.  (The Tigers had a good catching prospect in their system named Chris Hoiles at the time, but the Tigers traded Hoiles to the Orioles to rent Fred Lynn in September 1988.  Lynn was near the end of his career and Hoiles went on to be a good-hitting catcher for several years with the O's).

The pitching staff was also so-so.  Petry and Terrell were below average and Tanana was mediocre.  Morris was the only above-average starter.  The Tigers' starters after Morris had really low strikeout rates.  They gave up a ton of contact.   Eric King and Randy O'Neal both spent some time in the rotation.

Willie Hernandez started losing his effectiveness that year and would blow several leads.  The rest of the bullpen was kind of "meh".

The AL East was really tough back then.  If there had been a Wild Card the '86 Tigers still might have made the playoffs.

Peter

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[Mark Pattison]

The 2004 team had 11 members in the 10-homer club:

Carlos Pena, 27

Carlos Guillen, 20

Eric Munson, 19

Ivan Rodriguez, 19

Rondell White, 19

Craig Monroe, 18

Dmitri Young, 18

Omar Infante, 16

Brandon Inge, 13

Bobby Higginson, 12

Marcus Thames, 10

The only regular who didn't get into double digits was center fielder Alex Sanchez, who hit just two.

Detroit as a team it 201 homers that season. It wasn't a great team, but at 72-90, a far sight better than the 43-119 club that preceded it. Dombrowski spent heavily that year to get the Tigers to mediocrity after the embarrassing 2003 campaign.

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[Paul Meloche]

Thanks for the deep dive. I think my perception of the rotation was skewed a bit since I knew Morris had a really good year and Eric King was pretty good as a sometimes 5th starter, but I didn't remember Tanana/Petry/Terrell being thoroughly mediocre. Maybe because my memory of Tanana was always consistent #2-3 starter and Terrell had the near no-hitter that year.

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[Paul Meloche]

For not being a very good team overall, I have fond memories of the 2004 group. Probably because of the new faces after the 2003 disaster and that the team had a 30 game improvement YoY so they were a good watch for that reason. Also, I think the offense was definitely the highlight that season - from my memory the pitching wasn't that great either starting or out of the pen.

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[Smith, Bradley]

Fun question. Get to try to think back through all those Tiger rosters.

Here's a question for you—answer is below. Who was the first Tiger to hit 10 or more home runs in a season? 

I've made a little list here of the Tigers' progressive record for most players with 10 home runs in a season.

1901—1919:  0

1920: 1 (Bobby Veach 11)

1921: 3 (Heilmann 19, Veach 16, Cobb 12)

1929: 5 (Dale Alexander 25, Marty McManus 18, Heilmann 15, Gehringer 13, Roy Johnson 10)

1937: 5 (Greenberg 40, Rudy York 35, Gee Walker 18, Gehringer 14, Pete Fox 12)

1951: 5 (Vic Wertz 27, Pat Mullin 12, Dick Kryhoski 12, Hoot Evers 11, Bud Souchock 11)

1953: 5 (Ray Boone 22, Bob Nieman 15, Walt Dropo 13, Jim Delsing 11, Souchock 11)

1955: 5 (Kaline 27, Boone 20, Frank House 15, Bill Tuttle 14, Delsing 10)

1956: 6 (Charlie Maxwell 28, Kaline 27, Boone 25, Harvey Kuenn12, Earl Torgeson 12, House 10)

1961: 6 (Colavito 45, Cash 41, Kaline 19, Billy Bruton 17, Dick Brown 16, Jake Wood 11)

1962: 8 (Cash 39, Colavito 37, Kaline 29, Chico Fernandez 20, Bruton 16, Steve Boros 16, Dick Brown 12, Dick McAuliffe 12)

1965: 8 (Cash 30, Willie Horton 29, Kaline 18, Don Demeter 16, McAuliffe 15, Don Wert 12, Gates Brown 10, Bill Freehan 10)

1968: 8 (Horton 36, Cash 25, Freehan 25, Jim Northrup 21, McAuliffe 16, Wert 12, Mickey Stanley 11, Kaline 10)

1969: 9 (Horton 28, Northrup 25, Cash 22, Kaline 21, Freehan 16, Stanley 16, Wert 14, Tom Tresh 13, McAuliffe 11)

1999: 10:  (Dean Palmer 38, Tony Clark 31, Damion Easley 20, Juan Encarnacion 19, Gabe Kapler 18, Karim Garcia 14, Deivi Cruz 13, Bobby Higginson 12, Frank Catalanotto 11, Luis Polonia 10)

2004: 11: (Carlos Pena 27, Carlos Guillen 20, Ivan Rodriguez 19, Eric Munson 19, Rondell White 19, Dmitri Young 18, Craig Monroe 18, Omar Infante 16, Brandon Inge 13, Higginson 12, Marcus Thames 10)

Brad

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Fun question. Get to try to think back through all those Tiger rosters.

Here's a question for you—answer is below. Who was the first Tiger to hit 10 or more home runs in a season? 

I've made a little list here of the Tigers' progressive record for most players with 10 home runs in a season.

1999: 10:  (Dean Palmer 38, Tony Clark 31, Damion Easley 20, Juan Encarnacion 19, Gabe Kapler 18, Karim Garcia 14, Deivi Cruz 13, Bobby Higginson 12, Frank Catalanotto 11, Luis Polonia 10)

The Randy Smith All-Stars!!

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[Peter Welch]

Tanana was league average in '86 (he had a 100 ERA+, 4.19 ERA) so I guess he wasn't too bad for a #3-#4 type starter.  He was fun to watch pitch, though.  

Terrell had a 91 ERA+, 4.56 ERA, so a bit below average, but not horrible.  Terrell was a workhorse (9 complete games).  He was the kind of pitcher who could have a couple of good starts then get blown up, which kept his ERA higher.  He only averaged 4 Ks/9 in his career.  I'm not sure you see too many pitchers today with that low of a K rate (of course, hitters strike out more these days).  Terrell wasn't missing many bats. 

I was annoyed the Tigers traded Howard Johnson for Terrell (because HoJo had some big offensive years with the Mets), but Terrell ate a lot of innings for Tigers in the mid/late-80s and stayed relatively healthy, which has value (and, of course,  he later had a 2^nd stint with the Tigers to finish out his career).

Petry had a 4.66 ERA (89 ERA+) in 20 starts.  Had 56 Ks and 53 walks in 116 IP.   I think he started having a lot of arm problems then.  All those Roger Craig splitters caught up with him.  He was never really the same pitcher after 1985.

Hernandez had the infamous meltdown game in August that year where he gave up a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 9^th to Dick Schofield as the Angels scored 8 in the 9^th to win 13-12.  I stayed up late listening to that game on the radio on a Friday night.  Ugh!  Sparky had to bring in Hernandez because Randy O'Neal had already given up 4 runs in the 9th.  Sparky probably thought he could get O'Neal some work with an 7-run lead.

The Tigers lost 5-4 to the Angels again the next day on a walkoff 2-run homer by Doug DeCinces against Bill Campbell.  The Tigers had taken a 4-3 lead in the 8^th on a Darrell Evans solo shot (his 2^nd homer of the game), but Campbell couldn't hold it in the 9^th after getting the Angels out in the 8th.  Sparky probably didn't want to bring in Hernandez again after his meltdown the previous night. 

That was a rough series as the Tigers lost all 4 to the Angels and pretty much eliminated them from contention in '86 (they were 7 games behind 1^st going into that Angels series, but still had a glimmer of hope).  The Angels won the AL West that year with 92 wins.  The Tigers actually went 18-11 the rest of the way after that, including 2 5-game winning streaks.  They ended up 8.5 behind the 1^st place Red Sox (the Bill Buckner Sox...LOL!).

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[Peter Welch]

I would have guessed Cobb (after they livened up the ball), but I see it was Veach.

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[Michael W]

Great list Brad, thanks.

I'm amazed at the 1999 and 2004 Tigers.  I'm sure I knew about the records at the time, but I have blanked those teams out of my memory.  I would never have come up with Rondell White for one of these lists. but he was a good player in his day.

Even more interesting to see the power from the '69 Tigers in the heart of the pitching-favorable era.

Michael

[Jason Rice]

I think we can all agree that 2005 was even worse than this.

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[Michael W]

It looks like part of the story in 2004 is a high home-run season for the whole majors.  The Tigers hit 201 homers but were only the 10th highest team in homers.  In fact 17 teams hit at least 182 homers, compared to 14 in swing-for-the-fences 2024, or just 12 in "juiced ball" 1987.  

Michael

[Roger King]

How about Luis Polonia hitting 10 home runs on that 1999 team? Talk about blocking something out :-)

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[Tanvir Shaikh]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM Peter Welch <pw...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Tanana was league average in '86 (he had a 100 ERA+, 4.19 ERA) so I guess he wasn't too bad for a #3-#4 type starter.  He was fun to watch pitch, though.  

Indeed.  Many of us undoubtedly remember that Tanana pitched the 1-0 clincher on the final day of the 1987 regular season against the Blue Jays.  

I think I'd mentioned it on this list before, but one of the worst swings I'd ever seen was Tanana against Roberto Kelly of the Yankees and elsewhere, with Kelly swinging at a pitch that seemingly would have hit him on the hands if he had connected.  In the Internet era though, I've seen other similarly-bad swings.

I still use Tanana as the poster child for pitchers who redefined themselves, remembering from his baseball card that he was a strikeout pitcher in his early years.

 

Terrell had a 91 ERA+, 4.56 ERA, so a bit below average, but not horrible. 

Also, during his best years, I recall that Terrell had crazy home/road splits.  He was Cy Young at Tiger Stadium, in the caricature in my head.

 

I was annoyed the Tigers traded Howard Johnson for Terrell (because HoJo had some big offensive years with the Mets)

Indeed, and we were just talking yesterday about how 3B was a sinkhole during that time.  On the other hand, living in upstate NY during that time, I saw HoJo uncork a number of throws into the 1B stands...

-Tapu

[Michael Borshuk]

Tapu wrote:

Also, during his best years, I recall that Terrell had crazy home/road splits.  He was Cy Young at Tiger Stadium, in the caricature in my head.

I also have this caricature in the nostalgia I have for the Tigers of my teenage years: that Walt was a secret weapon at home. I seem to recall reading something from the time that suggested "the long grass" at Tiger Stadium helped him because he threw heavy sinking pitches that induced ground balls. And, of course, had Trammell and Whitaker behind him. 

I wonder if his groundball stats or the DPs he induced were actually that much better than league average at home. 

 

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[David Panian]

Looking at Terrell's career splits, he did have much better results at Tiger Stadium than most other places. Opposing batters had a .686 OPS against him in Detroit with a .257 batting average on balls in play. For comparison, at stadiums where he made at least four starts, these were the places where he had a lower OPS or BABIP:

OAK: .683 OPS/.290 BABIP

HOU: .644/.258

ATL: .587/.212

New CHW: .537/.235

NYY: .743/.254

STL: .693/.235

It's interesting that he did well in the Astrodome with its Astroturf supposedly helping ground balls get through the infield faster, but maybe he was good at inducing fly balls there. I seem to recall it was a difficult place to hit homers.

Baseball Reference's splits include ground ball double plays, but those seem to track with where he pitched most frequently. It doesn't have a rate.

Terrell never pitched against the Tigers, so all of those Tiger Stadium stats are from when he pitched for the Tigers. The Yankee Stadium stats include his time with the Yankees.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=terrewa01&year=Career&t=p

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[Michael Borshuk]

I forgot to mention that I also have vivid memories of Terrell being funny in post-game interviews (e.g. threatening to sue Dan Petry after taking a fall at Peaches's house) and smoking in the locker room after starts (!).

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[David Panian]

And eating fried chicken after games! One of the Detroit columnists, probably Mitch Albom, mentioned that once. Things sure have changed in players' fitness awareness in the past 40 years.

I actually kinda like that visual of Terrell sitting at his locker, maybe in his uniform pants and wearing whatever T-shirt was under his uniform shirt, with a cigarette in one hand, a fried chicken drumstick in the other and maybe a can of beer somewhere in his locker. That just feels like the epitome of the old-school ballplayer.

David

[Paul Meloche]

If Terrell didn’t grant an interview like that he definitely should have. 

Paul M.

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[Peter Welch]

Funny how some of the "fatter" players lost a bunch of weight after they retired.  They didn't lose weight while they were actually playing.  CC Sabathia and Bartolo Colon, for example.  They are much thinner now.  

Peter

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