January 2007

What a change from the last couple years when the Tigers were scrambling to get games on TV. This year the Tigers have ensured that all but one game will be televised - and they did it before the end of January. Last year they were still adding games in mid April.
Fox Sports [...]

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Athletics Nation interviews Billy Beane. Beane comments on the ALCS and the Tigers:
Blez: You mentioned the series against the Tigers. I felt as though the Tigers changed their fundamental batting approach and sort of gave the A’s a taste of their own approach in being very patient with our starters. The [...]

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The Daily Fungo interviews Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey. It’s a very interesting listen, and I think it’s great that Petroskey took the time for a blogger/podcaster.
Keith Law ranks the minor league systems. Detroit ranks a respectable 11th. (Insider).
The Gary Sheffield deal kept them out of the top 10, but Cameron Maybin [...]

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Detroit Tigers play-by-play announcer Dan Dickerson was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his much-shorter-than-normal offseason to chat with me. We discussed 2006, the Magglio Ordonez call, and the outlook for 2007.
DTW: 2006 was a special season for everyone involved with or rooting for the Detroit Tigers. Was the [...]

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This, that, and the other…

The big news in baseball is the impending exclusive deal for the Extra Innings package with DirecTV. Here is a roundup of what some columnists are saying. Living in Southeast Michigan this isn’t a big deal to me. But with the Tigers surge in popularity I’m sure there [...]

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After taking a look at how hitters did as plate appearances grew longer, it seemed easy enough to see how the pitchers fared.
I decided to take a look at two Tigers with contrasting styles, Jeremy Bonderman and Kenny Rogers

The MLB 2006 norm was for OBPs to start increasing once the plate appearance went beyond 4 [...]

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Short and sweet…

Sam swung by Tiger Stadium and as usual performed photographic wonder-ness.
Bryan Smith has his top 75 prospect list up. Cameron Maybin is at #8 and Andrew Miller #12.
Interesting article in the Washington Post on Nook Logan. Logan talks about the difficulties of losing his starting gig in Detroit.
Brian and [...]

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The Tigers took a big gamble this year by moving TigerFest to Comerica Park. Things were looking up with a generally mild winter, right up until this cold snap. While the event was a smashing success from a ticketing standpoint, most reviews suggest that if you’re going to host 12,000 people in January, [...]

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We’re over the hump of the offseason and news is flowing now. So these link posts might get to be more frequent.

You’ve probably seen this, but Brian from Tigerblog interviewed Ernie Harwell for The Hardball Times. He did an excellent job with the interview so make sure to check it out (if you [...]

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It seems like just a few days ago that the Tigers agreed to a one year contract with Fernando Rodney. Well it was just a few days ago. That contract is gone and has been replaced by a shiny new 2 year contract. I haven’t found terms yet, but I’ll update when [...]

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Eric picked this up early on, and I saw the comments posted on MotownSports as well. Jim Leyland was interviewed today on the Stoney and Wojo show on WDFN. Mike Stone asked Jim Leyland, “what does Jim Leyland see in Neifi Perez that we as fans and media members don’t?” The response [...]

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