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Tigers Sign Octavio Dotel
The Tigers are wrapping a one year deal for right handed relief pitcher Octavio Dotel. Details (when we know) and analysis (when I have time) will be coming soon.
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December 08, 2011
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Tigers Quiet at Winter Meetings
Outside of signing Ramon Santiago to a two-year deal, the Tigers have been fairly quiet this winter. I haven’t seen anything official but it looks like the Tigers aren’t going to be a mover or a shaker at this years winter meeting. Rather then signing a second baseman, it sounds like they’re going to go [...]
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December 06, 2011
Justin Verlander Wins MVP
This was a pleasant surprise. Justin Verlander was very deserving and I think this was as much a symptom of the late season collapse by the Red Sox then anything with the voters penchant towards excluding pitchers. In a bizarre vote, Verlander took thirteen of the 28 first place votes but he also got an [...]
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November 22, 2011
Justin Verlander Wins Cy Young
It’s been seventeen years, but the Tigers have a Cy Young winner. As expected, Justin Verlander was the unanimous choice for the award and he took every first place vote. Jered Weaver came in second place, James Shields came in third and CC Sabathia was in fourth place. The last award of the season is [...]
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November 15, 2011
Second Baseman Going Fast
One of the Tigers biggest needs this off season is to fill the hole at second base. Aaron Hill was one of the names thrown and he’s now re-signed with the Diamondbacks and Jamey Carroll signed with the Twins. So there’s little surprise that Jon Paul Morosi broke a story that the Tigers were looking [...]
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November 15, 2011
Tigers Organizational All Stars
MiLB.com has kicked off their organizational All Stars series and the Tigers review went live over the weekend. The Tigers farm system is still pretty thin from all of the trades they’ve made since their last World Series appearance in 2006 but there’s still a few people to get excited about. I mentioned Brandon Douglas [...]
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November 07, 2011
Filling the Holes
Alright, free agent season is upon us. The Tigers were a couple of wins away from a World Series appearance and most of their key players will be back this year. Still, Dave Dombrowski has some work to do because the Tigers had some serious holes come playoff time. Let’s take a look….. Catcher – [...]
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November 05, 2011
Alex Avila Wins Silver Slugger
The Silver Slugger awards were handed out last night the Tigers had just one winning. Alex Avila walked with his first (hopefully of many) with a surprisingly good year at the plate. He was ninth in the American League in WAR (5.4) and eighth in the American League in OPS (.895). The last time an [...]
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November 03, 2011
Tigers Trivia Challenge – Rules, Tips and Prizes
Alright, baseball ended last week but I want to try to keep it alive. If you’re a fan on my Facebook page, you’ve probably seen the trivia questions I’ve been posting. Well, now it’s time to get serious. Beginning Monday, November 7, I’m going to kick off an off-season long trivia contest that will include [...]
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November 02, 2011
Tigers Come Up Short in Gold Glove
No Tigers won a gold glove this year despite the fact that one was very deserving and another you could have made a major argument for. Matt Wieters won at catcher and while I can live with that I do think Alex Avila has a great season behind the plate. WAR doesn’t really spell it [...]
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November 02, 2011
Tigers Unlikely to Get Free Agent Compensation
The list of Type A and Type B free agents was put out today and while this shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, there’s not many Tigers on the list. The Tigers have no Type A free agents and the lone Type B free agents are Wilson Betemit and Magglio Ordonez. I highly doubt Magglio [...]
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October 31, 2011
2011 Tigers Review – Austin Jackson
What’s his Grade – I give Austin Jackson a “C.” This is probably higher then most people might have thought but buried in Jackson’s low batting average were some optimistic signs. Yes, he only hit .249 (I wonder who could have predicted that) but he turned some of those doubles into home runs a little [...]
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October 31, 2011
Player Reviews and Tiger Trivia
This week I plan on doing a review of each of the Tigers. I’m going to take a little bit of a different approach so be sure to give me some feedback on what you like and don’t like. First up will be Austin Jackson. Look for him tomorrow or Tuesday. Also, I’m doing some [...]
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October 30, 2011
Tigers Pick Up Option on Jose Valverde
Not to get too personal, but I went through a divorce late 2010/early 2011 (this is a segue so bear with me). In the divorce, I got to keep the house. While there were some personal reasons I wanted to keep it (I like it and it’s the only house my son has ever lived [...]
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October 29, 2011
Closing the Door on the 2011 Tigers
Man, it’s been a while since I wrote. Sadly, I really have no excuse other then I’ve gotten out of the habit. Work has slowed down a bit this past month and it almost seemed like I was more busy enjoying the season then I felt like writing about it. This year I went to [...]
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October 24, 2011
Tigers Get Yankees In ALDS
Well, the playoffs are finally set.. The Rangers won six straight to match the Tigers four straight wins down the stretch and they get home field so the Tigers get the Yankees in the first round beginning Friday. The Rays completed their incredible comeback and they’ll face the Rangers in the first round Friday afternoon. [...]
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September 29, 2011
Next Stop – ALDS
The Tigers beat the Athletics last night and for the first time in 24 years, Detroit has a division championship. Back in 1987, I was starting my junior year in high school and those last couple of weeks of that season were about as exciting as you can get. This time around, the Tigers still [...]
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September 17, 2011
Looking Ahead
It’s been a nice six days for Tigers’ fans. After back to back sweeps over the White Sox and Indians, the Tigers now sit nine games ahead of the second place White Sox and they’re eight ahead in the loss column. With their magic number at 12, the Tigers would need a complete collapse coupled [...]
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September 08, 2011
Tigers and Win Probability Added
August is typically one of my busier months with the CPA practice. Combine that with being a full time dad half the time, my writing time has diminished. It basically goes in spurts. Anyway, I took a break and decided to go to Fangraphs to look at the Tigers Win Probability Added figures. For those [...]
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August 20, 2011
Scherzer Steps Up
This three game series with the Indians is off to a lot better start then last week’s at Cleveland. Max Scherzer got the better of an impressive pitching duel between he and Josh Tomlin as the Tigers took game one at Comerica Park. After 129 pitches, Scherzer left the game with a 2-1 lead in [...]
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August 20, 2011
Tigers Trade for Delmon Young
I don’t think I’ll be able to get to this tonight so I’ll write more tomorrow, but the Tigers traded for Delmon Young. They gave up Cole Nelson and player to be named later. Interesting move.
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August 15, 2011
Nice Comeback
After the Tigers were down 5-0 last night, even I tuned them out for a bit. Of course with the help of my EPSN Sportscenter iPhone app, I was able to more easily keep tabs on the Tigers as they came back from that deficit. Scherzer gave up five runs in the second but the [...]
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August 14, 2011
Indians Take Round One
The Tigers have a big couple of weeks as they started a road series against the Indians last night (with a loss) and then they have them at home next weekend. They’re off to a bad start in this series, but if they can win both of those series, they can push the Indians down [...]
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August 10, 2011
Tigers Trade and Jacob Turner Loses In Debut
Tigers top prospect Jacob Turner made his major league debut while the Tigers shuffled their roster after their trade with the Mariners. He took the loss but you can’t be too disappointed with how he pitched. He started off with four shutout innings before he gave up a run in the fifth then got charged [...]
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July 31, 2011
Turning the Corner
After getting hammered by the Mets on June 28, Rick Porcello has had five straight solid starts in the month of July and he appears to be turning the corner in his development. He won all five of his starts, pitched at least six innings in all but one of those starts and he gave [...]
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July 30, 2011
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