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See Casper Wells and Andrew Oliver in action
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Sorry for the late notice, but the Arizona Fall Leauge Rising Stars All Star game is tonight and is being televised. You can catch it on the MLB Network. If you don’t have the MLB Network the game is being streamed online. The Tigers are being represented by Casper Wells and...
Tigers announce bevy of roster moves
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The Tigers made a handful of roster moves today to prepare for the offseason. They are:
Mike Hollimon was outrighted to Toledo
Marcus Thames and Matt Treanor have been removed from the roster and are now free agents
Jeff Larish and Joel Zumaya have been reinstated from the disabled...
Free Agent Filing Begins
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Now that the World Series is over the 15 day free agent filing period is underway. The period gives teams an “exclusive” negotiating window in which players can talk to other teams, but not talk contract parameters. So we won’t know exactly what will happens with the Tigers quartet...
Inge has his surgery
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The Detroit Tigers announced third baseman Brandon Inge underwent surgery on Tuesday to address the chronic patellar tendinitis in both of his knees that plagued him throughout the 2009 season, a procedure performed by Dr. Stephen Lemos at the Detroit Medical Center.
Roster Cutting
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With the end of the 2009 season looming, the Tigers have some roster cutting to do. They currently have 44 protected players between the 40 man roster and disabled lists. They have to get that number down to 40 in the short term and well under 40 eventually to protect minor leaguers.
Comerica is not doubles friendly
11 days ago by
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Why is it that people keep insisting that Comerica Park is a great park for doubles? Is it the large centerfield? The huge-mongous gaps between the outfielders? I just don’t know but it just ain’t true but now even the general manager is saying it.
Sizemore needs surgery
12 days ago by
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The early encouraging returns on Scott Sizemore’s broken tibia have been replaced with a cringe inducing MRI report. During his examination today, it was determined that the injury will require surgery.
Sizemore told John Lowe and the Freep:
“The torn tendons cause instability...
Tigers not tapped out? In on Chapman?
12 days ago by
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There are a lot of unknowns heading into the Tigers offseason, but one constant assumption has been that the Tigers are working on a limited budget. The only dispute has been how limited. Now there may be reason to doubt that assumption as the Tigers have interest in Cuban southpaw...
Sizemore leaves AFL game with injury
16 days ago by
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Scott Sizemore, the heir apparent at second base left today’s game in the first inning due to an injury. He was trying to turn a double play when a hard slide by Danny Espinosa caused both players to exit. What we know right now is that Sizemore’s injury is to his left leg but I [...]
Much ado about Carlos Guillen
17 days ago by
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Jason Beck caught up with Carlos Guillen late last week and a maelstrom was the result. Guillen wasn’t happy with the way Jim Leyland handled things at the end of the year. Leyland explained his side. The two talked. Leyland says everything is fine. Guillen isn’t saying much else...
Desert Update: Sizemore Shines
18 days ago by
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The Tigers representatives in the Arizona Fall League now have a week under their belts. Since the opener most have handled the challenge quite well so far with your likely 2010 second baseman Scott Sizemore leading the way.
Quantifying Lloyd McClendon
20 days ago by
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It’s no secret that the Tigers offense was far from satisfying this year. It was the second year in a row that the offense seemed to perform below expectations, after having a huge season in 2007. Naturally suspicions and fingers start to point towards the hitting coach. Is the criticism...
Quantifying Gerald Laird
24 days ago by
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Laird's difficulties with the bat make him a liability at the plate and he was 16.9 runs below average with the bat (about 1.5 wins - or losses in this case) and with a positional adjustment Laird is about 1 win above a replacement level player. Add in his defense though and his...
AFL Season kicks off
25 days ago by
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The Arizona Fall League started today. The Tigers had quite a few representatives in today’s effort, a game that saw the opposition hang 17 runs on the board.
I guess the bad news first, the Tigers had 3 pitchers in today’s game. Scot Drucker started and allowed a run in...
links for 2009-10-13
25 days ago by
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Fire Jim Leyland: Graphic Value: Offense
Looking at who contributed what to the Tigers offense – with graphs!
Prospect Profile: Alex Avila – Minor League Ball
Sickels reviews Avila
Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog: Saber Correct Tigers, Efficient Athletics
The Tigers...
The 9th Inning – 2009 Edition
28 days ago by
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Long time readers of this site remember a feature called the Inning Report. Reader Sam Hoff would break down the season into 18 game segments or “innings.” Why 18 game? Because there are 9 18 game segments in a season. Tuesday’s game against the Twins completed not only the...
Tigers retain 5 coaches, not Van Slyke
28 days ago by
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I had been expecting an announcement about the coaching staff, but this wasn’t it . The Tigers invited 5 of their 6 coaches back for the 2010 season, but Andy Van Slyke is pursuing other other options.
In addition to coaching first base and catching the ceremonial first pitches...
The Dombrowski Presser
October 08, 2009 by
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Dave Dombrowski met with the press today and fielded questions for about an hour. Jaosn Beck, Tom Gage, and John Lowe had it covered. There is enough there to warrant about 6 posts worth of further explanation. But until that happens...
What’s next at DTW
October 07, 2009 by
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It's the end of the season. A time to say thank you and a time to look at what's to come.
Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins postgame
October 06, 2009 by
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Congratulations to the Minnesota Twins and their fans. You have to hand it to a team that finished the season 17-4 (and the Tigers were responsible for 3 of those 4 losses) without their second best player. They went out and took the division from the Tigers. They went down 3 runs...
Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins continued
October 06, 2009 by
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Game 2009.163: Tigers at Twins
October 05, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Of all the years for MLB to do away with their asinine coin-flipping scenario for deciding home field advantage for tiebreaker games. Of course if the Tigers could have managed 1 more win at some point they wouldn’t even be in this situation. But this situation isn’t so...
Miguel Cabrera screwed up
October 05, 2009 by
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Miguel Cabrera had a pretty crappy Friday night, and it just isn’t ending – nor should it. Cabrera screwed up big time and is deserving of the bulk of the criticism that he is receiving today. Whether it was a lapse of judgment or a habitual problem remains to be seen but getting...
Miguel Cabrera and speculation
October 04, 2009 by
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Miguel Cabrera had an awful night at the plate on Friday. Miguel Cabrera had an awful night at the plate on Saturday. The difference between the two nights is that his face was cut and bruised on Saturday. This was quite noticeable to the media before the game and it elicited questions...
Game 2009.162: White Sox at Tigers
October 04, 2009 by
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PREGAME: Well here we are. Game 162. Will there be an ALDS Game 1 or a Game 163 or is this it? We all know the deal, the Tigers haven’t been out of first place since May 9th. Yet way too eerily much like 2006 the Tigers could find themselves looking up at the Twins [...]
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