2001 Detroit Tigers season

The 2001 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 101st season and its 2nd at Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers failed to win the AL Central and finished with a 66–96 record, missing the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season.

2001 Detroit Tigers
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record66–96 (.407)
Divisional place4th
Other information
Owner(s)Mike Ilitch
General manager(s)Randy Smith
Manager(s)Phil Garner
Local televisionWKBD
(Frank Beckmann, Al Kaline)
FSN Detroit
(Kirk Gibson, Josh Lewin)
Local radioWXYT (AM)
(Ernie Harwell, Jim Price, Dan Dickerson)
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Offseason
  • December 5, 2000: Randall Simon was signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.[1]

Regular season

Season standings
AL Central W L Pct. GB Home Road
Cleveland Indians 9171 0.562 — 44–36 47–35
Minnesota Twins 8577 0.525 6 47–34 38–43
Chicago White Sox 8379 0.512 8 46–35 37–44
Detroit Tigers 6696 0.407 25 37–44 29–52
Kansas City Royals 6597 0.401 26 35–46 30–51

Record vs. opponents
2001 American League Records

Sources:
Team ANA BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL 
Anaheim —4–54–36–35–45–45–43–64–36–144–157–27–125–410–8
Baltimore 5–4—9–103–41–54–25–23–35–132–71–810–92–77–126–12
Boston 3–410–9—3–33–64–53–33–35–134–53–614–55–212–710–8
Chicago 3–64–33–3—10–913–614–55–141–51–82–75–27–23–312–6
Cleveland 4–55–16–39–10—13–611–814–54–54–32–55–15–42–47–11
Detroit 4–52–45–46–136–13—8–114–154–51–62–54–28–12–410–8
Kansas City 4–52–53–35–148–1111–8—6–130–63–63–64–24–54–38–10
Minnesota 6–33–33–314–55–1415–413–6—4–25–41–81–64–52–59–9
New York 3–413–513–55–15–45–46–02–4—3–63–613–63–411–810–8
Oakland 14–67–25–48–13–46–16–34–56–3—9–107–29–106–312–6
Seattle 15–48–16–37–25–25–26–38–16–310–9—7–215–56–312–6
Tampa Bay 2–79–105–142–51–52–42–46–16–132–72–7—4–59–1010–8
Texas 12–77–22–52–74–51–85–45–44–310–95–155–4—3–68–10
Toronto 4–512–77–123–34–24–23–45–28–113–63–610–96–3—8–10

Opening Day lineup

Roger Cedeño, rf

Damion Easley, 2b

Bobby Higginson, lf

Tony Clark, 1b

Billy McMillon, dh

Deivi Cruz, ss

Juan Encarnación, cf

Shane Halter, 3b

Brandon Inge, c

Jeff Weaver, p

Notable transactions

Roster
2001 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Game log
Legend
Tigers win Tigers loss Game postponed
2001 Game Log
April (8–15) – home (5–9) – road (3–6)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
1April 3Twins3–2Radke (1–0)Weaver (0–1)Wells (1)2:3240,1040–1box
2April 5Twins9–5 (10)Guardado (1–0)Jones (0–1)3:1220,8360–2box
3April 6@ White Sox10–9 (10)Patterson (1–0)Foulke (0–1)Jones (1)3:3843,9541–2box
4April 7@ White Sox5–3Holt (1–0)Buehrle (0–1)Jones (2)2:3120,2642–2box
5April 8@ White Sox5–3Weaver (1–1)Wells (1–1)Jones (3)2:4919,8873–2box
6April 9@ Twins11–5Radke (2–0)Sparks (0–1)3:0146,1013–3box
7April 10@ Twins8–2Milton (1–0)Perisho (0–1)2:439,1303–4box
8April 11@ Twins12–1Mays (2–0)Mlicki (0–1)2:4711,1493–5box
9April 12Indians5–3Colón (1–1)Holt (1–1)Wickman (3)3:1515,6393–6box
10April 13Indians9–8Sabathia (1–0)Weaver (1–2)Shuey (1)3:2720,3343–7box
11April 14Indians1–0Sparks (1–1)Finley (1–2)2:0323,1194–7box
–April 15IndiansPostponed (rain) Rescheduled for July 28
12April 17White Sox7–4Anderson (1–0)Wunsch (0–1)Jones (4)2:3913,0685–7box
13April 18White Sox6–4Buehrle (1–2)Holt (1–2)Foulke (4)2:4913,1805–8box
14April 19White Sox3–1Wells (2–2)Weaver (1–3)2:3414,5715–9box
15April 20@ Indians5–4Wickman (1–0)Nitkowski (0–1)3:1933,1275–10box
16April 21@ Indians5–4 (11)Reed (1–1)Jones (0–2)3:2742,0685–11box
17April 22@ Indians11–3Burba (2–1)Mlicki (0–2)3:0234,1255–12box
18April 24Orioles8–3Hentgen (1–2)Weaver (1–4)2:4114,1015–13box
19April 25Orioles6–4Roberts (3–0)Sparks (2–0)Kohlmeier (4)2:4818,9195–14box
20April 26Orioles8–2Holt (2–2)Johnson (1–2)2:3718,8246–14box
21April 27Devil Rays4–2Mlicki (1–2)Rupe (1–3)Jones (5)2:4916,4587–14box
22April 28Devil Rays7–3Judd (1–0)Perisho (0–2)3:0318,6667–15box
23April 29Devil Rays6–1Weaver (2–4)Lopez (3–2)2:2716,7698–15box
May (14–13) – home (6–6) – road (8–7)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
24May 1@ Rangers6–3 (10)Patterson (2–0)Zimmerman (1–2)Jones (6)3:0125,6389–15box
25May 2@ Rangers8–4Holt (3–2)Oliver (4–1)Anderson (1)3:0033,82510–15box
26May 3@ Rangers9–4Mlicki (2–2)Helling (1–5)2:4834,05111–15box
27May 4@ Angels7–5Weber (1–0)Murray (0–1)Percival (7)3:1636,69011–16box
28May 5@ Angels11–2Weaver (3–4)Ortiz (3–3)2:4924,75812–16box
29May 6@ Angels3–2Levine (1–1)Patterson (2–1)2:5629,35312–17box
30May 8Rangers5–4Jones (1–2)Crabtree (0–1)3:3621,66213–17box
31May 9Rangers3–2Mlicki (3–2)Davis (2–3)Jones (7)2:5517,93314–17box
32May 10Rangers6–5Patterson (3–1)Zimmerman (1–3)Jones (8)2:5625,30615–17box
33May 11Angels7–6Jones (2–2)Lukasiewicz (0–1)4:1718,81116–17box
34May 12Angels4–1Anderson (2–0)Hasegawa (1–3)2:5322,13317–17box
35May 13Angels14–2Washburn (2–4)Holt (3–3)3:1620,01217–18box
36May 15@ Orioles11–3Ponson (1–3)Mlicki (3–3)3:0733,85317–19box
37May 16@ Orioles3–2Hentgen (2–3)Weaver (3–5)Ryan (1)2:2427,72217–20box
38May 17@ Orioles7–5Sparks (2–2)Roberts (4–3)Jones (9)2:5227,50818–20box
39May 18@ Devil Rays18–2Santos (1–0)Sturtze (1–3)3:0012,13119–20box
40May 19@ Devil Rays10–5Holt (4–3)Lopez (3–4)Patterson (1)2:5913,30420–20box
41May 20@ Devil Rays10–2Wilson (2–5)Mlicki (3–4)2:3913,51220–21box
42May 22@ Indians3–0Weaver (4–5)Colón (4–4)Jones (10)3:0035,36221–21box
43May 23@ Indians4–3Wickman (2–0)Borkowski (0–1)3:1136,80421–22box
44May 24@ Indians8–5Burba (7–2)Santos (1–1)Wickman (8)3:1036,29521–23box
45May 25White Sox8–4Lowe (2–0)Jones (2–3)3:0821,05321–24box
46May 26White Sox8–0Buehrle (2–3)Mlicki (3–5)2:3925,88121–25box
47May 27White Sox3–2Barceló (1–0)Patterson (3–2)Lowe (1)3:5517,35521–26box
48May 28Indians12–6Sparks (3–2)Finley (4–4)2:5624,61522–26box
49May 29Indians6–4Shuey (4–1)Murray (0–2)Wickman (10)3:2021,40422–27box
50May 30Indians8–4Wright (1–0)Holt (4–4)Wickman (11)3:3118,35922–28box
–May 31@ White SoxPostponed (rain) Rescheduled for September 4
June (10–17) – home (8–5) – road (2–12)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
51June 1@ White Sox3–0Buehrle (3–3)Mlicki (3–6)Foulke (10)2:3419,84022–29box
52June 2@ White Sox5–3Wells (4–5)Weaver (4–6)Foulke (11)2:3023,91522–30box
53June 3@ White Sox9–6 (10)Howry (3–2)Jones (2–4)3:1719,44622–31box
54June 5@ Red Sox4–3 (18)Wakefield (3–0)Borkowski (0–2)5:5232,81422–32box
55June 6@ Red Sox7–3Mlicki (4–6)Castillo (5–4)Anderson (2)3:1432,79423–32box
56June 7@ Red Sox8–1Wakefield (4–0)Santos (1–2)Arrojo (5)2:5932,13223–33box
57June 8Brewers9–4Weaver (5–6)Rigdon (3–4)3:2327,77024–33box
58June 9Brewers6–5Anderson (3–0)Leskanic (2–3)2:5226,27625–33box
59June 10Brewers8–3Wright (5–4)Holt (4–5)2:5123,07025–34box
60June 12Pirates13–3Ritchie (1–8)Mlicki (4–7)2:4115,91925–35box
61June 13Pirates6–3Weaver (6–6)Beimel (2–2)Anderson (3)3:0417,63926–35box
62June 14Pirates6–4Sparks (4–2)Arroyo (3–5)Anderson (4)2:4517,30527–35box
63June 15@ Diamondbacks5–2Holt (5–5)Brohawn (1–3)Anderson (5)2:5931,68328–35box
64June 16@ Diamondbacks3–1Ellis (6–2)Blair (0–1)Prinz (6)2:4435,02828–36box
65June 17@ Diamondbacks8–3Schilling (11–2)Mlicki (4–8)2:3439,76028–37box
66June 18Yankees10–1Clemens (9–1)Weaver (6–7)3:0329,36528–38box
67June 19Yankees7–1Sparks (5–2)Keisler (1–2)2:2024,17129–38box
68June 20Yankees5–2Holt (6–5)Hernández (0–1)Anderson (6)3:1823,61830–38box
–June 21YankeesPostponed (rain) Rescheduled for July 18
69June 22Twins5–4Jones (3–4)Wells (5–3)3:0128,28231–38box
70June 23Twins10–9Patterson (4–2)Carrasco (3–3)Jones (11)3:1828,93532–38box
71June 24Twins14–5Milton (8–3)Sparks (5–3)3:0427,02432–39box
72June 25Twins6–3Mays (9–5)Holt (6–6)Hawkins (17)2:4322,30232–40box
73June 26@ Royals12–5Reichert (7–6)Blair (0–2)2:3913,96632–41box
74June 27@ Royals5–4Hernández (2–2)Jones (3–5)2:5015,20732–42box
75June 28@ Royals9–2Durbin (6–6)Weaver (6–8)2:3922,23932–43box
76June 29@ Twins3–2Wells (6–3)Murray (0–3)Hawkins (19)2:4121,31232–44box
77June 30@ Twins3–2Mays (10–5)Holt (6–6)Guardado (3)2:1234,46032–45box
July (14–13) – home (9–5) – road (5–8)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
78July 1@ Twins8–3Santana (1–0)Blair (0–3)2:4121,03132–46box
79July 3Royals8–4Lima (2–2)Durbin (6–7)2:5523,82433–46box
80July 4Royals6–4Weaver (7–8)Bailey (1–1)Anderson (7)3:2227,11534–46box
81July 5Royals7–1Sparks (6–3)Wilson (2–1)2:2022,28135–46box
82July 6Cubs15–9Heredia (2–0)Nitkowski (0–2)3:4939,90635–47box
83July 7Cubs10–6Lieber (11–4)Blair (0–4)3:0939,69735–48box
84July 8Cubs9–6Jones (4–5)Heredia (2–1)Anderson (8)2:5938,72936–48box
85July 12@ Cardinals7–5Weaver (8–8)Kile (9–7)Anderson (9)3:1435,55437–48box
86July 13@ Cardinals4–1Sparks (7–3)Matthews (3–4)2:3238,66738–48box
87July 14@ Cardinals3–2Morris (11–5)Lima (2–3)Kline (3)2:3647,17638–49box
88July 15@ Reds8–5Blair (1–4)Nichting (0–3)Anderson (10)3:0724,71939–49box
89July 16@ Reds9–1Davis (2–1)Pettyjohn (0–1)2:2819,75739–50box
90July 17@ Reds3–1Weaver (9–8)Reitsma (4–9)Anderson (11)2:5819,93340–50box
91July 18Yankees8–5Clemens (13–1)Sparks (7–4)Rivera (32)2:4914,80040–51box
92July 18Yankees12–4Santos (2–2)Lilly (3–3)3:1133,21641–51box
93July 19Yankees11–2Lima (3–3)Pettitte (9–6)2:3835,32042–51box
94July 20@ Indians7–3Holt (7–7)Westbrook (2–2)3:0342,52043–51box
95July 21@ Indians8–4Nagy (4–3)Pettyjohn (0–2)2:3142,31643–52box
96July 22@ Indians6–3Colón (9–7)Weaver (9–9)3:0742,46243–53box
97July 24@ Yankees5–3Pettitte (10–6)Sparks (7–5)Rivera (33)2:5834,51943–54box
98July 25@ Yankees4–2Witasick (7–2)Lima (3–4)Rivera (34)2:4034,48043–55box
99July 26@ Yankees14–8Mendoza (7–2)Holt (7–8)3:1345,22143–56box
100July 27Indians7–4Colón (10–7)Pettyjohn (0–3)Wickman (18)2:5739,50443–57box
101July 28Indians6–4Báez (1–0)Murray (0–4)Wickman (19)3:0927,64343–58box
102July 28Indians4–2Weaver (10–9)Woodard (1–1)Anderson (12)2:4434,91644–58box
103July 29Indians8–3Sparks (8–5)Burba (9–8)2:3832,91845–58box
104July 31Mariners4–2Lima (4–4)Sele (12–3)Anderson (13)2:2430,02246–58box
August (9–20) – home (4–11) – road (5–9)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
105August 1Mariners7–1Abbott (11–2)Holt (7–9)3:0123,84746–59box
106August 2Mariners2–1Piñeiro (2–0)Pettyjohn (0–4)Sasaki (35)2:2327,09746–60box
107August 3Athletics2–1Hudson (13–6)Weaver (10–10)2:2530,07146–61box
108August 4Athletics10–1Zito (7–7)Sparks (8–6)2:2928,33146–62box
109August 5Athletics4–1Lidle (6–5)Lima (4–5)Isringhausen (20)2:1826,62646–63box
110August 6Athletics6–3Vizcaíno (1–0)Patterson (4–3)Isringhausen (21)3:0621,83046–64box
111August 7@ Rangers7–3Perisho (1–2)Venafro (4–3)2:4426,62147–64box
112August 8@ Rangers19–6Patterson (5–3)Venafro (4–4)3:2630,01648–64box
113August 9@ Rangers7–3Helling (9–9)Sparks (8–7)3:0827,65248–65box
114August 10@ Royals7–3Byrd (5–5)Weaver (10–11)Stein (1)2:3822,10748–66box
115August 11@ Royals4–1George (1–3)Lima (4–6)Hernández (21)2:0426,94348–67box
116August 12@ Royals6–4Suppan (6–10)Pettyjohn (0–5)Hernández (22)2:3117,81148–68box
117August 14Angels7–1Washburn (10–6)Cornejo (0–1)2:5224,08248–69box
118August 15Angels5–1Perisho (2–2)Holtz (0–1)2:3320,85349–69box
119August 16Angels4–2Schoeneweis (10–8)Weaver (10–12)Percival (34)2:3722,14149–70box
120August 17Royals4–2Lima (5–6)George (1–4)Anderson (14)2:1230,21450–70box
121August 18Royals8–4Suppan (7–10)Nitkowski (0–3)2:5031,89750–71box
122August 19Royals4–3Cornejo (1–1)Durbin (7–12)Anderson (15)2:1726,89851–71box
123August 20@ Mariners4–1Sparks (9–7)García (15–5)2:2245,97252–71box
124August 21@ Mariners4–1Sele (13–4)Weaver (10–13)Sasaki (40)2:2045,03652–72box
125August 22@ Mariners16–1Abbott (13–3)Lima (5–7)2:5745,81452–73box
126August 23@ Mariners5–1Piñeiro (3–0)Redman (2–5)3:1045,06352–74box
127August 24@ Athletics8–4Cornejo (2–1)Hudson (14–7)3:2041,64653–74box
128August 25@ Athletics6–1Zito (10–8)Sparks (9–8)2:4524,23653–75box
129August 26@ Athletics7–6Tam (2–3)Perisho (2–3)Isringhausen (26)3:1327,91553–76box
130August 28White Sox8–6Embree (1–3)Patterson (5–4)Howry (5)2:5919,12953–77box
131August 29White Sox8–3Glover (4–1)Redman (2–6)3:1921,99853–78box
132August 30White Sox3–1Cornejo (3–1)Buehrle (12–7)Anderson (16)2:0424,36454–78box
133August 31@ Blue Jays4–3Sparks (10–8)Borbón (2–4)Anderson (17)2:4922,38355–78box
September (9–14) – home (3–4) – road (6–10)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
134September 1@ Blue Jays3–1Lyon (4–2)Weaver (10–14)Plesac (1)2:1322,05255–79box
135September 2@ Blue Jays11–0Loaiza (10–11)Lima (5–8)2:3924,14655–80box
136September 4@ White Sox10–1Buehrle (13–7)Cornejo (3–2)2:41N/A55–81box
137September 4@ White Sox4–0Lowe (7–4)Pettyjohn (0–6)2:3113,26555–82box
138September 5@ White Sox5–3Wright (3–2)Sparks (10–9)Foulke (37)2:4514,57655–83box
139September 6@ White Sox6–2Weaver (11–14)Garland (6–6)3:2713,60256–83box
140September 7Blue Jays2–1Lyon (5–2)Lima (5–9)Koch (31)2:2028,08356–84box
141September 8Blue Jays4–3Murray (1–4)Halladay (3–2)Anderson (18)2:4529,15857–84box
142September 9Blue Jays6–3Carpenter (10–11)Cornejo (3–3)Guardado (6)2:5624,65257–85box
143September 10Twins3–2Mays (15–13)Pineda (0–1)2:4819,45657–86box
–September 11TwinsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 2
–September 12TwinsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 3
–September 13TwinsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 4
–September 14RoyalsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 5
–September 15RoyalsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 6
–September 16RoyalsPostponed (9/11 attack) Rescheduled for October 7
144September 18@ Twins8–3Radke (13–9)Weaver (11–15)2:4810,87857–87box
145September 19@ Twins6–2Sparks (11–9)Milton (14–6)2:2810,15758–87box
146September 20@ Twins3–0Mays (16–13)Lima (5–10)2:079,75458–88box
147September 21@ Red Sox5–2Fossum (2–1)Murray (1–5)Urbina (21)2:3330,90558–89box
148September 22@ Red Sox4–3Pettyjohn (1–6)Arrojo (5–4)Anderson (19)3:0530,87159–89box
149September 23@ Red Sox12–6Weaver (12–15)Nomo (12–9)3:0431,33360–89box
150September 24@ Royals4–2Sparks (12–9)Suppan (9–13)Anderson (20)2:3412,15261–89box
151September 25@ Royals6–4Lima (6–10)George (4–6)Anderson (21)2:4711,16062–89box
152September 26@ Royals8–6Stein (6–8)Murray (1–6)Hernández (25)3:0511,09762–90box
153September 27@ Royals8–7MacDougal (1–0)Cornejo (3–4)Hernández (26)3:3511,97862–91box
154September 28Red Sox4–1Weaver (13–15)Nomo (12–10)Anderson (22)2:5432,45363–91box
155September 29Red Sox7–2Sparks (13–9)Kim (0–2)2:2530,08964–91box
156September 30Red Sox8–5Castillo (9–9)Lima (6–11)Urbina (23)3:1529,22964–92box
October (2–4) – home (2–4) – road (0–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveTimeAtt.RecordBox
157October 2Twins5–0Radke (14–11)Murray (1–7)2:2011,94164–93box
158October 3Twins9–5Cornejo (4–4)Fiore (0–1)2:3912,31865–93box
159October 4Twins5–4Carrasco (4–3)Anderson (3–1)Guardado (10)2:4415,45465–94box
–October 5RoyalsPostponed (rain) Rescheduled for October 6
160October 6Royals8–3Suppan (10–14)Weaver (13–16)Hernández (28)2:50N/A65–95box
161October 6Royals2–1Sparks (14–9)George (4–8)1:5618,88466–95box
162October 7Royals10–4Stein (7–8)Lima (6–12)2:1419,26166–96box

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Brandon Inge7918934.180015
Tony Clark126428123.2871675
Damion Easley154585146.2501165
José Macías137488131.268851
Deivi Cruz110414106.256752
Bobby Higginson147541150.2771771
Roger Cedeño131523153.293648
Juan Encarnación120417101.2421252
Shane Halter136450128.2841265
Robert Fick124401109.2721961
Wendell Magee9020744.213517
Randall Simon8125678.305637
Ryan Jackson7911825.212211
Dean Palmer5721648.2221140
Javier Cardona469625.260110
Billy McMillon20343.08814
Eric Munson176610.15216
Jarrod Patterson134111.26824
Chris Wakeland10369.25026

Note: pitchers' batting statistics not included

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Steve Sparks35104.01493.65116
Jeff Weaver33229.113164.08152
Chris Holt30151.1795.7780
José Lima18112.25104.7143
Dave Mlicki1581.0487.3348
Nate Cornejo1042.2447.3822
Adam Pettyjohn1665.0165.8240

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Víctor Santos332203.3052
Danny Patterson605413.0627
Heath Murray401706.5442
Matt Anderson6231224.8252
Todd Jones4545114.6239
C. J. Nitkowski560305.5638
Matt Perisho302305.7219
Dave Borkowski150206.3730
Luis Pineda160104.9113
Adam Bernero50007.308
Kevin Tolar90006.7511

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Toledo Mud Hens International League Bruce Fields
AA Erie SeaWolves Eastern League Luis Pujols
A Lakeland Tigers Florida State League Kevin Bradshaw
A West Michigan Whitecaps Midwest League Brent Gates
A-Short Season Oneonta Tigers New York–Penn League Gary Green
Rookie GCL Tigers Gulf Coast League Howard Bushong

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References
  1. "Randall Simon Stats - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  2. Todd Jones Statistics Archived 2010-07-03 at WebCite Baseball-Reference.com
  3. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
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