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November 2010

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2010 Minor League Wrap, Part 1: Pitchers (by Nick D)

29.11.2010 1 comment

This is the first of a two part series composed by DTW member Nick D.  Look for Nick to cover the minors in detail in the upcoming season(s). As any Detroit Tigers fan knows, most of the organization’s top prospects spent a significant amount of 2010 wearing the Old-English “D”. Names like “Rhymes”, “Boesch”, “Jackson”, [...]

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More on Victor Martinez

25.11.2010 12 comments

Despite this guy’s negativity, I really like the deal for a number of reasons.  (You really should check out that link if you want to see a good example of how to poorly build  an argument). 1) Other than his injury year of 2008, he’s had a WAR of 3.9 or higher (see Fangraphs here) [...]

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News & Notes: 11-23-10 The Victor Martinez Edition

23.11.2010 19 comments

Lots of stuff to get to… - Rumor is that Tigers and Victor Martinez are close to 4 yrs/$50M.   Terry Francona is already weighing in on the loss of Martinez. – Tigers declined arbitration on Bonderman, Seay, Laird, Damon and Ordonez, and thus forego any compensation picks if any of these players are signed by [...]

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News & Notes: 11.20.2010

20.11.2010 7 comments

- DD’s latest interview infers that a big bat is top priority now. – Ni was sent down, and Alberto Alburquerque (not to be confused with “Albuquerque”) signed to minor league deal and added to the 40. – Ordonez news – Boras is already doing his thing, and Jason Beck thinks this means that Maggs will [...]

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Tigers sign Benoit (and Adam Dunn talk)

17.11.2010 22 comments

3 years at $16.5M is a hefty price tag for a setup guy who has really only had three good years over his 8 year career.  Benoit had a sick .68 WHIP last year with 75 Ks in 60.1 IPs.  Problem is, that he’s never had a WHIP lower than 1.17 in any of his [...]

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News & Notes: 11.15.10

16.11.2010 6 comments

Welcome to the Hot Stove – the GM meetings began today. AJax has a nice showing in Rookie of the Year voting, but hats off to Feliz.  Feliz took 20 of the first place votes, with Jackson receiving the other 8. Casper Wells gets hot in the Dominican Winter League, then tweaks his knee. If [...]

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Cabrera Wins Silver Slugger Award, and Hot Stove Talk (really Victor Martinez talk)

12.11.2010 15 comments

Miguel Cabrera won his third Silver Slugger award today, and joined Albert Pujols in the distinction of winning it at three positions (remember he predominantly played OF for the Marlins when he first came up). But on to the more pressing issues at hand: The Tigers are being routinely mentioned as the team most who [...]

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2010 Offseason: Outfield (and DH)

09.11.2010 9 comments

With SS and 3B done, OF and Catcher remain the biggest needs for the boys.  I think it is safe to say that AJax will be starting in center, and the corner positions are up for grabs. In May and June of last year, Boesch in Left and Maggs in Right helped to form a [...]

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2010 Offseason: The 2011 Rotation

07.11.2010 3 comments

Here’s what I see as set in stone, and what’s on the books for 2011: 1) JV – $12.75M 2) Scherzer – $~1.5M, arb eligible 3) Porcello – $1.536M, club option 4/5) Galarraga – under club control, but note that he’s Super-2 eligible thanks to a rather generously low hurdle this year (2 yrs, 122 [...]

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Sparky Anderson Passes Away

04.11.2010 5 comments

My baseball consciousness arose in the mid-80′s, and Sparky was Tiger baseball.  I consider myself fortunate. I’d love for some of you to share your favorite Sparky memories.

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2010 Offseason: Catcher

04.11.2010 3 comments

(shout out to Vince in MN) Yorvit Torrealba: 32/.271/.343/.378 Victor Martinez: 31/.302/.351/.493 A.J. Pierzynski: 33/.270/.300/.388 John Buck: 30/.281/.314/.489 Alex Avila: 23/.228/.316/.340 Buck is the cream of the crop, but he’s going to be pursued by quite a few teams, and 30 may be a little old for the long term deal that I’m guessing he’ll [...]

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2010 Offseason: SS

01.11.2010 21 comments

I write this amidst a backdrop of Edgar Renteria headlines…Did you know that Thursday was his first 3 RBI game of the season… The short list for 2011 SS starts and ends with Jhonny Peralta.  The Tigers are sitting on a $7.25M club option, but they are leaning towards declining it (there is a $250k [...]

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