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Anibal Sanchez confident he'll find his groove soon in Detroit

August 20th, 2012 6:06 AM
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    • It’s fair to say that the short tenure of Anibal Sanchez in Detroit has been a disaster thus far. Acquired in trade along with Omar Infante last month, Sanchez has given up 18 earned runs in 20.1 innings in his first four starts with the Tigers (an embarrassing 7.97 ERA), and had what was supposed to be his most recent one on Sunday pushed back three days to Wednesday. Sanchez has used that extra time to take bullpen sessions to work on some of his mechanical problems; in particular he says the most basic thing to work on is keeping the ball down.

    It’s obvious from looking at Sanchez’s home run rate with Detroit that he is elevating the ball way too much, as he has surrendered 2.2 per 9 innings after keeping it under 1 for nearly his entire career. There has also been a distinct lack of movement on his fastball, which has resulted in far fewer swings and misses for a pitcher who’s used to relying on strikeouts (7.6 career K/9 rate, down to just 5.8 with the Tigers.

    There’s still time for Sanchez to work out his struggles, as the Tigers are still just 1.5 games behind the first place White Sox in the AL Central and no longer have to worry about the Indians, whose disastrous last month (4-18 since July 26) has knocked them out of contention. Still, the Tigers would like to see some return on their investment soon, and Sanchez would too since he’s due to become a free agent at the end of the year.

    Anibal Sanchez threw a light bullpen Sunday as part of two sessions he’s tossed this past week, which were needed after his scheduled start Sunday was bumped back three days.

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