Bryan Holaday, until 2014, had spent his cup of coffee so
far with the Tigers. He was drafted by
the Tigers out of Texas Christian University after the 2010 College World
Series. He is a catcher and in 2010 he
was a .220 hitter in 44 games at Lakeland.
In 2011 he was moved up to Erie and hit .242. Last year he spent most of the time in Toledo
where he was a .240 hitter with 2 homers in 75 games. He caught 34% of the runners but is about
average for his fielding percentage.
Last year he also got into 6 games for the Tigers. His degut was against Cleveland on June 6th. He was the starting catcher and went 1 for
4. His hit came in the 5th
against Jeanmar Gomez. He hit a single
to left to advance Johnny Peralta to third.
Bryan scored after moving to third on a Quentin Berry double and then
Ramon Santiago’s ground out. In his six
games he was 3 for 12 with a sacrifice and scoring 3 runs. With Gerald Laird gone to the Braves It was
thought that Bryan would get more play in 2013 with the Tiges. He did.
He went from 6 games in 2012 to 16 games in 2013. He got 8 hits in those 16 games. He was the Toledo Mud Hens starter for the
2013 season. The Tigers have let Bryan
Pena go before 2014 so Bryan Holaday was the Tigers back up behind Alex Avila. He had his biggest year to date in 2014 getting
in 62 games with a .266 OBP and defensively he was a .981 fielding percentage
with 30% of base runners caught by Bryan.
Our starter, Alex Avilla, has a .327 OBP and a .995 fielding percentage
and 34% of base runners are caught by Alex.
Bryan’s challenge for 2015 will be James McCann. James is a 24 year old backstop who played at
AAA Toledo last year and had a .343 OBP with a .993 fielding percentage and 42%
of the would be base stealers caught by James.
There will be a drop all around for James in the majors but that might
put him right in the range of Bryan.
Dickie Noles played fewer games for the Tigers than Bryan
Holaday has. Dickie was a pitcher for
11 years in the majors. His career
started in 1979 with the Philadelphia Phillies where he went 3 and 4 as a
starter. He spent three years with
Phillies and was part of the World Series Championship for the Phils in
1980. He was traded to the Cubs in 1981. He had his most wins in 1981 when he was
10-13 with a 4.42 ERA. He was with the
Cubs until being traded in mid 1984 to the Rangers where he stayed thru
1985. He was splitting time between a
starter and the bull pen by now. After
spending 1986 in Cleveland and half of 1987 back with the Cubs he was “loaned”
to the Tigers in September 1987. He got
into 4 games and recorded 2 saves in the 4 games with a total of 2 innings
pitched. In October, the Tigers returned
Dickie to the Cubs. The Cubs granted him
free agency and he signed with the Baltimore Orioles for 1988 and would end his
career in 1990 with back with the Phillies.
His career record was 36-53 with a 4.56 ERA and 11 saves. Today he councils Phillie players about drug
and alcohol abuse.
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