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2011

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Winding Down 2011

31.12.2011

Hello all – hopefully everyone is having a great holiday season and your bowl picks are hitting at better than 55%.  Not too much today, just a few notes in case you missed them over the past week or so.  (and thanks to a tip from Billfer I think we got a workaround on the [...]

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2011 Winter Meetings

05.12.2011 38 comments

Your Winter Meetings thread.  I’ll update when I can, but I figure we’ll let the comments take care of the breaking news. Here’s what we already know – Jose Reyes is taking his talents to South Beach.  Did you know that they are the “Miami Marlins” now?  Isn’t that Jamie Foxx’s team in Any Given [...]

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Hot Stove Talk, Part 3

30.11.2011 9 comments

I’m gonna get to the latest in A-Ram and others tomorrow (hopefully), but I wanted to put up a quick note about the Red Sox job.  Bobby Valentine beat out Gene Lamont, much to the chagrin of everyone reading this post, Paws, and the Tigers official scorer. – Maicer Izturis?  So who is on the [...]

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40-Man Roster Cont’d

25.11.2011

Sorry for cutting Wednesday’s post short but Turkey day plans were calling. In any event, to continue the discussion on the Tigers recent roster move, here’s some information on the remaining three prospects added to the 40-man roster: Tyler Stohr (RHP) The 25 year-old reliever spent 2011 in Lakeland and Erie. His ERA jumped from [...]

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40-Man Roster Prospects

23.11.2011

Last week the Tigers set their 40-man rosters in order to protect players from the Rule 5 draft. In addition to the big league club and high-level minor leaguers, the roster includes 5 prospects whose names I mentioned many times throughout last season: Casey Crosby, Matt Hoffman, Tyler Stohr, Avisail Garcia, and Hernan Perez. In [...]

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Justin Verlander for (edit: IS) MVP

21.11.2011 4 comments

Vote is coming out today at 2pm, and MLB.tv will have live coverage beginning at 1:30pm eastern. Rob Neyer would vote Jacob Ellsbury #1 and JV 5th.  (When did Neyer move to SBNation from ESPN.com?  When did SBNation become a legitimate sports news source?) Buster Olney writes that JV will get the most first place [...]

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Hot Stove Talk, Part 2 (and other stuff)

18.11.2011 11 comments

Catching up on a few notes: – Looks like Gerald Laird may be bringing the party back to the Big D. – The Tigers are in talks with the Braves about Martin Prado.  Ian Casselberry did a great write up on why Prado would be a tremendous fit a few weeks ago here.  Prado is [...]

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Cy-nanimous

16.11.2011 8 comments

It’s Cy-nanimous! Justin Verlander, as expected (and yet…you never know how these things will go, do you?) won the 2011 American League Cy Young Award. Yesterday Justin Verlander was announced as the first unanimous AL Cy Young award winner since Johan Santana did the same in 2006, the year Verlander won the AL Rookie of [...]

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Hot Stove Talk, part 1

11.11.2011 9 comments

As we tune up for baseball’s other season, let’s review what the Tigers are working with this year. – Guillen and his $13M will not be back.  Though Guillen and Maggs seemingly want to play again in 2012. – Ordonez and his $10M will not be back.  Well, not for more than $5M (I would [...]

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Awards Talk

03.11.2011 7 comments

There’s gonna be more in the coming days, but JV was named the Players Choice Player of the Year for 2011.  Besides having the most confusing name, this award is the top award bestowed by an all player vote, and produced for the MLB Network during a slow content period. It’s not the Cy Young [...]

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Sabathia Opts Out

31.10.2011 14 comments

CC Sabathia opting out of his contract is certainly not a surprise.  The Tigers being mentioned as a suitor is.  Sabathia is one of the best around, but I don’t like giving any pitcher long term contracts for that much.  Here’s a list of the biggest pitching contracts in MLB history – have any of [...]

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World Series Game 7 Thread

28.10.2011 11 comments

Last’s night’s game was so incredible and had enough talking points to fill 19 hours of sports-talk time, which is exactly what is happening right now in the Metroplex.  I’d be curious to get everyone’s thoughts. I really don’t want to see the Cards win another one.

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