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Tigers Spring Training TV Schedule
I see ya teleprompter. ESPN is gonna pick up 3 games.
TV Dates:
March 14 — ESPN
March 19 — ESPN
March 20 — ESPN
March 21 — Fox Sports Detroit
March 29 — Fox Sports Detroit
March 31 — Fox Sports Detroit
April 4 — Vs. Toledo Mud Hens — Fox Sports Detroit
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3 days ago
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3 days ago
Discuss
DTW News and Notes
Let’s start with what remains the most pressing question other than Why is Brandon Inge still a Tiger? and that is, who will be pitching on April 15th in the D against the Pale Hose? Due to a silly opening weekend where the Tigers play 3 games in 5 days, I’m guessing that April 15th will be the first day for the 5th spot in the rotation. Future rotation guys Turner...
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4 days ago
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4 days ago
Talking Baseball
DTW was approached recently with the perfect Valentine’s Day gift…(for you, not her).
Ed Randall is a long time Yankees (booooooo) sportswriter and reporter. He writes a popular baseball blog called Talking Baseball. During his time he’s interviewed a bevy of baseball personalities, including quite a few Tigers (yaaaaaaaaaaay). Recently, he put his interviews...
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9 days ago
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9 days ago
The Point is to Win
Not to make money.
The fallout from the Prince Fielder bomb has been full of back row Joes claiming that this was a terrible signing by the Tigers and forecasting that the Tigers will rue the day they set up Prince Fielder’s off-springs’ off-springs for life. The fatal flaw that I find with these numbers-based analysts is the assumption that the Tigers are concerned...
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15 days ago
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15 days ago
DTW News and Notes
This is not the time of year when hope springs eternal; it is more the time when things seem infernal.
As we all know by now, the Tigers will be doing 2012 without Victor Martinez. As if that isn’t bad enough, the interim between this disaster and the eventual response is being filled with headlines that do anything but inspire (Could Brad Penny be the Tigers’ No. 5 starter...
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19 days ago
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19 days ago
VMart Likely Out for the Year
VMart managed to tear his ACL in off-season workouts…he’s likely out for the year.
Just sat in on the DD conf call (thanks billfer), DD didn’t say anything too unexpected. They just found out over the last few days when VMart called Kevin Rand to tell him about a knee injury. There is a chance that he might be back later in the season. At this point in time...
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26 days ago
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26 days ago
DTW News and Notes
A few notes amid the clearing bowl fog and settling NFL storm.
- JV will be on Conan tomorrow night.
- Mario Impemba won the Michigan Sportscaster of the Year award today. This should look nice on his mantle next to his “World’s Most Patient Man” and “Least Likely to Point Out Grammatical/Journalistic/Fact” awards given out by Kevin in Dallas. Just...
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January 10, 2012
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January 10, 2012
Winding Down 2011
Hello all – hopefully everyone is having a great holiday season and your bowl picks are hitting at better than 55%. Not too much today, just a few notes in case you missed them over the past week or so. (and thanks to a tip from Billfer I think we got a workaround on the rotator)
- Carlos Quentin is headed to San Diego.
- JV will be the cover boy for MLB 2k12 – check out...
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December 31, 2011
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December 31, 2011
2011 Winter Meetings
Your Winter Meetings thread. I’ll update when I can, but I figure we’ll let the comments take care of the breaking news.
Here’s what we already know – Jose Reyes is taking his talents to South Beach. Did you know that they are the “Miami Marlins” now? Isn’t that Jamie Foxx’s team in Any Given Sunday? Rumor is that Buehrle could...
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December 04, 2011
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December 04, 2011
Hot Stove Talk, Part 3
I’m gonna get to the latest in A-Ram and others tomorrow (hopefully), but I wanted to put up a quick note about the Red Sox job. Bobby Valentine beat out Gene Lamont, much to the chagrin of everyone reading this post, Paws, and the Tigers official scorer.
- Maicer Izturis? So who is on the block? Raburn or Kelly? And what’s wrong with Ramon Santiago?
- Octavio...
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November 29, 2011
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November 29, 2011
40-Man Roster Cont’d
Sorry for cutting Wednesday’s post short but Turkey day plans were calling. In any event, to continue the discussion on the Tigers recent roster move, here’s some information on the remaining three prospects added to the 40-man roster:
Tyler Stohr (RHP)
The 25 year-old reliever spent 2011 in Lakeland and Erie. His ERA jumped from 3.25 to 4.21 following his promotion, but he has...
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November 25, 2011
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November 25, 2011
40-Man Roster Prospects
Last week the Tigers set their 40-man rosters in order to protect players from the Rule 5 draft. In addition to the big league club and high-level minor leaguers, the roster includes 5 prospects whose names I mentioned many times throughout last season: Casey Crosby, Matt Hoffman, Tyler Stohr, Avisail Garcia, and Hernan Perez. In this fist-part post, I’ll examine the potential...
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November 23, 2011
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November 23, 2011
Justin Verlander for MVP
Vote is coming out today at 2pm, and MLB.tv will have live coverage beginning at 1:30pm eastern.
Rob Neyer would vote Jacob Ellsbury #1 and JV 5th. (When did Neyer move to SBNation from ESPN.com? When did SBNation become a legitimate sports news source?)
Buster Olney writes that JV will get the most first place votes in a year with several deserving candidates, but ultimately...
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November 21, 2011
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November 21, 2011
Hot Stove Talk, Part 2 (and other stuff)
Catching up on a few notes:
- Looks like Gerald Laird may be bringing the party back to the Big D.
- The Tigers are in talks with the Braves about Martin Prado. Ian Casselberry did a great write up on why Prado would be a tremendous fit a few weeks ago here. Prado is coming off of a down here, but in ’07, ’08, and ’09, his OPS+ figures were 121, 117, 119, respectively...
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November 18, 2011
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November 18, 2011
Cy-nanimous
It’s Cy-nanimous!
Justin Verlander, as expected (and yet…you never know how these things will go, do you?) won the 2011 American League Cy Young Award.
Yesterday Justin Verlander was announced as the first unanimous AL Cy Young award winner since Johan Santana did the same in 2006, the year Verlander won the AL Rookie of the Year award. Verlander had already won the oddly...
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November 16, 2011
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November 16, 2011
Hot Stove Talk, part 1
As we tune up for baseball’s other season, let’s review what the Tigers are working with this year.
- Guillen and his $13M will not be back. Though Guillen and Maggs seemingly want to play again in 2012.
- Ordonez and his $10M will not be back. Well, not for more than $5M (I would desperately hope). The Tigers have made no indication of any intent to resign him...
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November 11, 2011
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November 11, 2011
Awards Talk
There’s gonna be more in the coming days, but JV was named the Players Choice Player of the Year for 2011. Besides having the most confusing name, this award is the top award bestowed by an all player vote, and produced for the MLB Network during a slow content period.
It’s not the Cy Young or MVP, but it is setting a nice precedent.
In case you missed it, Alex Avila...
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November 03, 2011
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November 03, 2011
Sabathia Opts Out
CC Sabathia opting out of his contract is certainly not a surprise. The Tigers being mentioned as a suitor is. Sabathia is one of the best around, but I don’t like giving any pitcher long term contracts for that much. Here’s a list of the biggest pitching contracts in MLB history – have any of these worked out? (Thank you Cot’s for the research)
- Sabathia...
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October 31, 2011
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October 31, 2011
World Series Game 7 Thread
Last’s night’s game was so incredible and had enough talking points to fill 19 hours of sports-talk time, which is exactly what is happening right now in the Metroplex. I’d be curious to get everyone’s thoughts.
I really don’t want to see the Cards win another one.
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October 28, 2011
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October 28, 2011
2011: Thank You Tigers
(special thanks to Samara from Roar of the Tigers for allowing us to use her image. Check out her brilliant work here.)
Please add yours…
Thank you Alex Avila for your perseverance.
Thank you Jim Leyland for your class and an abundance of next-morning-talking-material decisions.
Thank you Dave Dombrowski for Delmon Young, Wilson Betemit and Doug Fister.
Thank you Brandon...
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October 17, 2011
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October 17, 2011
Game 2011 Playoffs.11: Tigers at Rangers
So it all comes down to this. Tonight is either the last game–and the last game post–of the season, or it’s the catapult into a deciding game 7 with our best postseason pitcher on the mound I like our chances to take this thing if we can make it to game 7, where the Rangers really don’t want to be facing the preternaturally calm Doug Fister. They really don’t
The...
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October 15, 2011
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October 15, 2011
Game 2011.Playoffs.10: Rangers at Tigers
The Rangers have out bullpenned, out run, and out fielded the Tigers through 4 games of this series. But that’s through 4, and this is a 7 game series. There’s a reason for that.
None of the Tigers losses have been lopsided (tack on runs excluded), and they have had distinct opportunities to win each of those games in the late/extra innings. They just haven’...
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October 13, 2011
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October 13, 2011
Game 2011 Playoffs.9: Rangers at Tigers
Today’s playoff trivia question: Who has the MLB record for the highest single-season playoff BA and OBP (same player)? Answer below.
What a difference a day makes.
The Tigers got where they are on their hitting as much as anything: they had the 4th highest team OPS in the AL, behind Boston, Texas, and the Yankees. But the guys who were doing it all year long had just...
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October 12, 2011
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October 12, 2011
Game 2011 Playoffs.8: Rangers at Tigers
Here’s the thing about a walk-off Grand Slam. It only counts as one win. One win. Same as a sacrifice fly, walk, HBP, bloop single, etc. There’s no momentum in baseball.
In less than 9 hours, 42,000+ screaming, rabid, passionate Detroit Tigers fans are going to erupt when the Tigers charge out of the dugout and take the field. They are going to cheer every Tiger...
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October 11, 2011
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October 11, 2011
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