– Things seem to be moving pretty slowly in Orlando. I still feel that Ordonez is their #1 target, but the always scheming Scott Boras may be waiting for Crawford to rake (and decrease OF supply) before starting a bidding war for Maggs. I like Maggs, but not at what the Red Sox are likely to offer him. I’d rather take our chances with the kids, and look to make a move at the deadline if we’re in the hunt.
– Crawford’s current asking price may be too much for the Tigers.
– Joaquin Benoit was named the comeback player of the year. Yay. But that usually means that he was injured, or not very good the year before. Have I mentioned that I’m not crazy about the Benoit deal?
– Look for Figaro to be in an alternate Tigers uni next year.
– Did you know that the Tigers had the fewest LH starts by an AL team last year? Stephen – remember the guy that had most of them for us?
Stephen: left-handed starts? It wasn’t Inge, he was too busy setting the all-time Tiger strikeout record.
🙂
FWIW, Alan Trammell was comeback player of the year in 1983. Better that for Benoit than “former Major Leaguer”
Point taken.
Konerko gets 3/$37.5M. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101208&content_id=16279452&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Most LH starts in 2010 for the Tigers: Dontrelle Willis – who happened to have a lower ERA than Bonderman, and allow a lower opponent’s AVG than Porcello.