August 2003

Diamond Mind simulated a World Series of the ’62 Mets vs. ’03 Tigers. The good news is the series went 7 games, the bad news is the Tigers lost.

Wil Ledezma’s stint as a starteris over. Shane Loux will take his spot in the rotations. This follows fellow rule 5′er Matt Roney’s demotion to the bullpen. Nate Robertson, acquired in the Redman deal, was called up to take Roney’s spot. To make room for Robertson, Chris Mears was sent back to Toledo.

Tigers first round pick Kyle Sleeth finally signed. He’ll start pitching in the instructional leage in the fall. Apparently he needed a break anyways. “‘I had a heavy workload this year. We didn’t have a closer and I had to throw 120 pitches in a lot of games.’ “ Hmmm. I love hearing that our [...]

From the Detroit News: “Selig believes last year’s new owners-players agreement, which raises the luxury tax on free-spending ballclubs — returning money to smaller-market clubs — will help, he said, to ‘level the playing field’ for teams such as Detroit. “ Detroit’s revenue problems have nothing to do with being a small market club. Detroit’s [...]

Since my June month in review was pretty well received, I thought I’d do another one for July. Unfortunately, ESPN’s sortable stats don’t look like they include the July 31 games yet, so we’re actuallly looking at the month minus one day. And seeing as I’m off on a road trip to visit Great Amercian [...]