March 2004

Now that Jeremy Bonderman has a year under his belt most Tiger fans are curious as to what this year will bring. While Bonderman did give up runs last year, his defense didn’t help him at all. Also, his strike out rate of 6 per 9 innings was impressive, and not just [...]

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The Tigers have signed Ugueth Urbina and outrighted Matt Anderson to Toledo. Details of the contract are being withheld until a physical is completed. During the offseason I was against this signing. However, between Anderson’s failure, and Fernando Rodney’s injury the Tigers didn’t have a solid option to close games. [...]

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The Toronto Star takes a look at Dave Dombrowski.
Some threads linking these young execs, as described in a recent USA Today feature story, seem to be an Ivy League (or other eastern elite) education and a non-playing background. They and the next generation of GMs are described as bringing a refreshing, outside-the-box view to [...]

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The Tigers assigned 10 players to minor league camp today. Cody Ross and Matt Roney were assigned to Triple A. Wil Ledezma is headed to Erie. Other players assigned to minor league camp include Ben Petrick, Marcus Thames, Brent Abernathy, Pablo Ozuna, Craig Dingman, Chris Mears, and Brian Schmanck.
This leaves [...]

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Scott at The Cutoff Man has a list of the first 16 cuts for the Tigers. Rob Henkel and Nook Logan are headed to Toledo. Don Kelly, Ryan Raburn, Kenny Baugh, Preston Larrison, and Roberto Novoa are all headed to Erie.
I’m a little surprised to see Baugh headed back to [...]

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Aaron Gleeman, Alex Belth and others have teamed up to create a new website called The Hardball Times. One of their first features is a llook at the Tigers

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This one is at Mlive.com and is called The Cutoff Man: Weblogs

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Here’s another Detroit Tiger themed blog calledEye of the Tigers. It looks pretty good, so check it out. His latest post looks at Tiger draft possibilities.

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Perusing the interesting Tiger stories of the last week…
Nate Cornejo’s strike out pitch?Cornejo wants to strike out more people this year, and is working on a splitter to help him. out. Nate’s K-rate has been well documented and it’s nice to see he recognizes the problem.
I didn’t really have a strikeout pitch, [...]

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Note: I screwed up the table at the bottom the first time I posted this, and as a result my conclusions were screwed up. I have since revised these numbers. Thanks to Nate for pointing this out.
Here is the fourth installment of my Tigers’ previews. Part 4 will tackle the [...]

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An excellent article by Lynn Henning. Lynn advocates keeping Sanchez out of the leadoff spot, keeping Chris Shelton, and here’s the kicker:
Keep it simple. Keep it statistical. Trammell is intuitive, but he must be careful about playing too many hunches. This game is a science dependent upon statistical precedence. It doesn

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