Monday, December 31, 2007
2007 seemed to me to be a barrage of base stealing attempts and hit and runs put on by Tiger manager Jim Leyland. I say ’seemed’ since before looking into the statistics I didn’t have any proof that this was the case. Maybe it was just all the hit and runs called for by [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Tigers signed Dontrelle Willis to a 3-year extension today before he ever even set foot on the mound for Detroit. In fact, as he was being interviewed he was getting the tour of Comerica Park:
Willis took a tour of the ballpark, including the home clubhouse. After he walked down the tunnel to the dugout, [...]
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Last year Jim Leyland tried out something new by using a platoon at the lead off spot. The player that was leadoff depended on the starting pitcher for the opposing team wherein Curtis Granderson hit first against RHP’s and Pudge Rodriguez hit first against LHP’s. This was due to Grandersons’ well documented inability to hit [...]
Sunday, December 16, 2007
If you were curious as to where the prospects the Tigers gave up for D-Train and Miguel Cabrera would place within the Marlins organization, John Sickels released the Marlins top 20 prospect list. He released the Tiger prospect list last week which looked pretty bare due to the Marlins trade but also due the trade [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tonight is the deadline for the Tigers to tender contracts to arbitration eligable players. This morning they had seven players eligable for arbitration: Tim Byrdak, Miguel Cabrera, Chad Durbin, Nate Robertson, Bobby Seay, Marcus Thames and Dontrelle Willis.
Hasn’t been much movement up to this point on the key players but two moves were made:
Tigers [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
When the Twins traded a PTBNL for Craig Monroe the deal was contingent on the Twins signing him. They did just that by signing him to a single-year for around $3.82M which, as Mr. Christensen points out, is a 20% pay cut.
Pretty surprising move as they don’t appear to have a major need in the [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Wow, what a difference a month makes. A month ago the Tigers had a number of strong players in the farm system including Cameron Maybin, Andrew Miller, Jair Jurrjens, Gorkys Hernandez and Dallas Trahern, among others. Now the system is looking a bit more bare. Rating the Detroit system was likely a major challenge for [...]
Saturday, December 8, 2007
The ZiPS projections for the Detroit Tigers 2008 season were released this morning. They are a bit more pessimistic than I had expected and there are worries about depth and the impact injuries would have:
Pretty clearly, the Tigers are one of the AL’s Big 5, but I think they’re probably still 5th, for the simple [...]
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I received my copy of the Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008 yesterday. This is the first year I’ve purchased it and did so mainly to read the article by fellow blogger Bill Ferris on Tiger GM Dave Dombrowski. Needless to say it was the same great commentary that you’ve come to expect on the Detroit [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Earlier today it was announced that Detroit had traded for Freddy Guzman with the Player to be Named Later (PTBNL). Well, now is later and the player is Chris Shelton. Certainly there is no shock with this move but Shelton retains many fans in this town. The writing was on the wall as he was [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Tigers released their 2008 Spring Training schedule. The Detroit Free Press has a better view of the games but nothing really exciting.
I’m looking at going to a few games down there this year but there are not many prospects left to look at. Detroit faces Division rivals Cleveland early on so neither team will [...]
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