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2008

Detroit Tigers Weblog 2008 Year in Review

31.12.2008 25 comments

A look back at the year that was here at Detroit Tigers Weblog: January Debunking the theory that long grass helped Trammell’s defense Curtis Granderson stops by for an interview Talking Tigers prospects with Jonathan Mayo Nate Robertson gets 3 year deal Miguel Cabrera becomes very rich Jose Canseco is scum ball, Ordonez gets implicated [...]

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Tigers 2009 WAR Projections – Pitchers

31.12.2008 12 comments

Earlier in the week I posted my wins above replacement projections for the Tigers 2009 lineup. Today I turn my attention to the men on the mound. For the projections I used the Marcel 2009 FIP projection for pitcher ERA (available at Fangraphs). In terms of innings pitched, I used some judgment. I penciled in [...]

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Tigers WAR Projections

28.12.2008 20 comments

It seems as if calculating wins above replacement, or WAR, has become the cool thing to do this offseason. We’ve delved into WAR here in the past when evaluating contracts. Now Fangraphs has made WAR available to the masses. Detroit Tiger Tales has already taken a look at the 08 Tigers numbers. And now a [...]

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Potential DTW downtime

26.12.2008 3 comments

I just wanted to give a quick heads up that at some point over the next 24-48 hours you may experience some DTW downtime. I’m moving my site to a new hosting company and that would be the root cause. I could either break something (frighteningly likely) or there could be some funniness as the [...]

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Prices are dropping, but will it matter?

21.12.2008 26 comments

Buster Olney weighs in on how the economy is impacting team spending: Throughout baseball, budgets are being downsized from week to week to reflect the latest read on the economy, and what you are about to see — once the smoke clears from the Sabathia and Burnett and Teixeira news conferences — is a stunning [...]

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Detroit Tigers Weblog Live 12.18.08

18.12.2008 35 comments

The next edition of Detroit Tigers Weblog Live will be tonight at 10 p.m. You can check back at this here post tonight, or get the show on the ustream.tv site. There isn’t a lot of news to cover at this point, so I plan to hit on the Matt & Misty May Treanor speculation, [...]

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links for 2008-12-16

16.12.2008 42 comments

Everett signs with Tigers for $1M, will get most of the starts | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press The Everett signing finally became official. Dombrowski said that Everett will get the majority of the starts at shortstop. I'd guess majority would probably be 60-70%. The Spot Starters » Yorman Bazardo » What A Bummer Remember [...]

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Granderson talks to Tiger Tales

16.12.2008 1 comment

Lee Panas of Detroit Tiger Tales recently interviewed Curtis Granderson. Lee asked several thoughtful questions and Granderson responded with some pretty thoughtful answers. My favorite was an exchange about Granderson’s defense last season: TT: In the past, you have indicated that you take pride in your defense and that you have worked hard on that [...]

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Help a centerfielder out

14.12.2008 3 comments

Official Tiger of DTW and Billfer, Curtis Granderson, will be hosting his second annual charity basketball game. The game supports the Grand Kids Foundation, which in turn supports Michigan’s Inner City schools.

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Detroit Tigers Weblog Live 12.12.08

12.12.2008 31 comments

Wrapping up the winter meetings… In this episode I talk of disappointment with the Matt Joyce trade and why I don’t think Edwin Jackson is the guy to get. I also talk about how James Skelton shouldn’t have been left exposed in the Rule 5 draft. I speculate about whether or not the failed auto [...]

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Winter meetings end with a bang (my head against the wall)

11.12.2008 82 comments

Things started out so promising with the acquisitions of Gerald Laird and Adam Everett. And they end so disappointingly with the loss of James Skelton and Matt Joyce. To be fair the Skelton thing was set in motion weeks ago when the Tigers chose not to protect a young athletic lefty catcher with a 416 [...]

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Winter Meetings – Heading to Day 4

11.12.2008 40 comments

On the last day of the Winter Meetings things shift a little bit to the Rule 5 draft. Okay, not everything shifts to that, but it will be the focus in this here blog post. A quick rule 5 primer is that teams can’t bury players in the minors forever. Eventually they have to add [...]

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