The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Scranton 1 Toledo 2Timo Perez homered again and Mike Hessman tripled and singled. Brandon Inge was 0 for 4 with 2 K’s. Virgil Vasquez went 7.1 innings fanning 5 and walking none in allowing 1 run. Francisco Cruceta went 1.2 innings with 2 K’s and no baserunners. Erie 6 Reading 1Wil Rhymes and [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Toledo 6 Columbus 4 Erick Almonte was the star tonight with a 3 for 4 night including 2 doubles. Timo Perez added a homer and a walk. Lauren Gagnier fanned 6 and walked 2 allowing 2 runs in 6 innings. Francisco Cruceta allowed an unearned run in 1.2 innings fanning 2. Akron 6 Erie [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Toledo 4 Syracuse 3 Fernando Seguignol and Erick Almonte had 2 hits each. Aquilino Lopez went 3 innings in his start, striking out 5 against no walks. He allowed 3 hits and 2 runs. Francisco Cruceta allowed 2 hits and a walk in 2 innings while fanning 3. Ian Ostlund struck out [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Syracuse 4 Toledo 5Fernando Seguignol walked twice, homered, and doubled. Freddy Guzman had 2 singles and 2 walks and 3 stolen bases. Anastacio Martinez allowed 3 runs in 5 innings of work. Francisco Cruceta allowed a run in 1 inning on 2 hits a walk and a strike out. Erie 1 Binghamton 10Deik [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Syracuse 1 Toledo 4Erick Almonte homered and doubled. Wilkin Ramirez went 0 for 4 with 4 K’s and is batting .100 since moving to Toledo. Lauren Gagnier allowed just 1 run on 3 hits, 2 walks and 3 K’s in 6 innings. Joel Zumaya, Francisco Cruceta, and Blaine Neal all pitched scoreless, [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Joel Zumaya pitched a scoreless inning fanning 1 batter. He threw 11 pitches, 8 of which were strikes. He’s set to do back to back outings on Monday and Tuesday and if all goes well he’ll be back for the Padres series. On another note, Francisco Cruceta also pitched a scoreless inning striking outtwo. [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veteran left-hander Casey Fossum, who has been successful at Triple-A Toledo, was called up by the Tigers on Tuesday. Fossum takes the roster spot of right-hander Francisco Cruceta, who was designated for assignment.
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Casey Fossum had been tearing up Triple A, so the Tigers decided to designate Francisco Cruceta to make room for him. Cruceta, 26, has only 26 big league innings under his belt. He's been knocked around, and lousy control hasn't helped. Cruceta missed all of spring training with visa issues. The Tigers are the fifth organization seduced by Cruceta's high ceiling (according to Baseball America).
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Detroit Tigers purchased the contract of lefthander Casey Fossum from Triple-A Toledo and designated righty Francisco Cruceta for assignment on Tuesday.
TigerBlog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Tigers are now 0-22 when they score two runs or less after Francisco Cruceta gave up the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to Bobby Crosby last night. It’s unfortunate because Kenny Rogers has had two straight solid starts but for is efforts, he didn’t get a decision in either of [...]
Bless You Boys (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
The Gist: The real Justin Verlander returned but the real Francisco Cruceta undid all of Verlander's stellar work in the Tigers' 6-1 loss to the Twins on Sunday . Verlander's line: seven innings of work, one run, five hits, three strikeouts and four walks. Carlos Guillen was three for four with a double and his fifth homer of the year. The coup de grâce was Cruceta grooving a 3-2, bases-loaded heater...
Baseball By Paul (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Verlander Strong in No-Decision Against Twins The Detroit Tigers bullpen failed Justin Verlander on Sunday afternoon when Francisco Cruceta gave up a grand slam to Jason Kubel in a 6-1 Twins victory. The silver lining for Detroit was that their ace went seven strong innings and did everything he could to set them up for [...]
TigerBlog (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
The Tigers failed to capitalize on both their sweep over the Mariners and their 19 run outburst last night as they dropped the rubber game to the Twins. You have to feel for Justin Verlander in this one because he threw another nice game. Then he had to watch Francisco Cruceta give up a grand [...]
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The curse of Jason Grilli? A couple days after the Tigers had to clear a spot in the bullpen to make room for Francisco Cruceta the Tigers place Denny Bautista on the DL with the ambiguous shoulder tendinitis. He’s expected to be able to throw again in a week. Just ask Fernando [...]
Bless You Boys (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
After a night in which it was discovered that Francisco Cruceta didn't just exist on the side of a milk carton, and would actually take the mound in a major league ballgame for the Tigers, Detroit might - if they dare - have more reason to be hopeful about its relief corps later on this season. Both Fernando Rodney and Joel Zumaya threw well enough in their bullpen sessions yesterday to make the Tigers'...
