Continuing on D-Town Baseballs look at AL Central teams off season moves today we will look at what has been happening in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland could very well be the team to put up the biggest fight against the Tigers in ‘07. They have also been the busiest AL Central team this off season. The Tribe [...]
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Jason Beck has updated his blog pointing out the TV schedule has been posted for Tigers Spring Training. This is for a total of 6 spring training games between ESPN and FSN Detroit. Unfortunately a few of them are day games during the week though some FSND games are weekend games. This makes it 38 [...]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Now that the Tigers are becoming a team that’s getting noticed and some of the players becoming stars in their own right I thought I’d take a minute to throw out some idea’s for commercials. Many sports stars make as much or more than their salary doing commercials and to the degree that there is [...]
Lots of interesting happenings went on over the week around the AL Central (except Chicago..)
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Dayn Perry over at foxsports.com rates the GM’s around the league. AL Central teams placed 3 in the top 10 with the Twins Terry Ryan nabbing 3rd and our own Dave Dombrowski getting 3rd. Phil Rogers at ESPN.com doesn’t [...]
Saturday, January 20, 2007
I was thinking about the starting rotation for the Tigers and how lucky they really were in ‘06 to have a pretty stable rotation. I know they lost Maroth but Zach Miner stepped in and held his own until the very end when Ledezma got a few starts. So having a total of 7 starters [...]
As part of the Baseball Prospectus look at the prospects around all of MLB in their ‘Future Shock’ column they’ve published a look at the Tiger prospects. (A subscription is required and if you don’t have one it is worth it in my opinion.)
There are no real surprises and I published my own look at [...]
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Some Tiger links from this week so far:
Gary Sheffield should be a first ballot HOFer says Dave Studeman at the Hardball Times. The article has him at 28th on the list of all time players in Win Shares Above Bench.
Tigers got a B in the SI American League report card of off season moves. Only [...]
Thursday, January 18, 2007
On 1130 WDFN’s ‘The Stony and Wojo Show’ they interviewed Jim Leyland today. When asked about Neifi Perez he had some interesting answers. Below is a rough non-”word for word” transcript from my co-worker Jamie:
Question: “One of the things you heard alot last year was why are you playing Neifi so much?”
Leyland: “Good question. [...]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I just finished reading an article from the AP on Sheffield and comments he made today about Jim Leyland. It seems that Sheffield is excited to be with the Tigers and this article really got me looking forward to 2007. From the article:
â€Mr. Leyland asked me if I wanted to come to Detroit, and I [...]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
A Tigers related links first:
The Hardball Times sit down with Ernie Harwell about his Audiobook among other topics.
Below are some links from other teams around the AL Central.
Not everyone agrees how to rank Cleveland’s ‘non-prospects’, but they all agree they look pretty good.
Royals signed SS Alex S. Rodriguez to a minor league contract and Keith [...]
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The Free Press is reporting that Tiger relief pitcher Fernando Rodney was signed to a 1-year deal worth $1.05 M. Rodney was eligable for arbitration this year and the Tigers are apparently looking to sign him for a longer period of time.
Fernando had a great 2006 season ending with a 3.52 ERA, 65 SO, 34 [...]
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