Congrats to the Detroit Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate, the Toledo Mud Hens, for clinching the Western Division of the International League for the 3rd year in a row.
Virgil Vasquez pitched the team to a win against the Indianapolis Indians. Vasquez has continued to be strong for Toledo after being optioned back to Toledo and pitching [...]
I spent today down at Comerica Park watching the Tigers play the Yankees. Besides being a good match up, and another must win, the game featured another strong outing by the Tigers bullpen. At the beginning of the season this was a rare sight and widely thought to be the only chink in the [...]
I’m pretty late on this one and didn’t even hear the news myself until I was on my way home for the day, but the top Tiger prospect and one of the top prospects in all of baseball was promoted to the big leagues.
Cameron Maybin has spent the last week with the Double-A Erie [...]
The Detroit Tigers signed a few notable draft picks today and didn’t have a problem opening up their pocket books while doing it. Starting off the day it was announced that first round draft pick Rick Porcello was signed to a huge $7.3M four-year major league contract, “the biggest ever guaranteed to a high school [...]
Joel Zumaya made his first appearance on the mound today since May 1st. This was a previously scheduled outing with the Toledo Mudhens against the Norfolk Tides.
He was limited to 18 pitches (11 of which were strikes) and appeared to have his velocity which ranged from 92-95 mph on the fastball. He threw mostly fastballs [...]
The Free Press is reporting that Jair Jurrjens will get the start Wednesday against the Indians. Jurrjens has spent the year with the Tigers Double-A affiliate the Erie Seawolves and lately been pretty dominant and has not pitched at the Triple-A level. For Erie Jair has posted a 7-5 record and 3.20 ERA. His last [...]
This is a big week for the healing Tigers as Joel Zumaya and Andrew Miller are set to make rehab appearances in Toledo. Their rejoining the team could be key with a tough schedule where 13 of the next 14 games are against Cleveland or the Yankees, both knee-deep in either the wild-card and divisional [...]
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Ken Rosenthal mentioned today that Detroit needs to look at taking the $3M buyout for the ‘08 season for Pudge Rodriguez.(hat tip MLB Trade Rumors for this link). According to Rosenthal:
Tigers might want to think twice about exercising Ivan Rodriguez’s $13M option for next season. Rodriguez turns 36 on November 30th and since the all-star [...]
Saturday, August 11, 2007
After getting beaten up pretty bad by one of the more anemic offenses out of Oakland the Tigers made numerous roster moves to patch up a shaken bullpen. The team optioned Jordan Tata and Macay McBride to Toledo replacing them with Eulogio De La Cruz and Aquilino Lopez. Eulogio will only be with the team [...]
Andrew Miller has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to a pulled hamstring. To fill the roster slot, but not the starting rotation slot, Detroit recalled Fernando Rodney. This makes the second Tiger starter in a single week to be placed on the disabled list after Kenny Rogers injured his elbow.
No word yet [...]
More properly said; Andrew Miller’s inexperience is the only thing holding him back from being a #1 or #2 pitcher for just about any team in the major leagues. What has been known about Andrew Miller from the moment that he was drafted last year is that he is an incredible talent and he already [...]
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