If you’re new here and like what you see, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Need more info on what subscribing entails? Here’s a primer. Thanks for visiting!PREGAME: Ah, good old game 81. The halfway point in the season. The point at which we can just multiply [...]

PREGAME: Once upon a time the Tigers were within one game of .500. With the team playing good baseball I figured that by the end of a 3 game series with the Twins (who weren’t the streaking Twins we see now) that they’d be well on their way to a winning record. [...]

PREGAME: Ooohhh, subplots abound. There’s that whole Jim Leyland quitting on the Rockies thing, but he’s already made his one statement about that. Plus there is that Jason Grilli commenting on team chemistry thing, and the fact that he pitches awful at Comerica Park.
Of more concern though are the Tigers simultaneous marches [...]

So maybe adding Gary Sheffield to the lineup won’t disrupt chemistry. Maybe the winning streak coinciding with Sheffield on the DL was coincidence and maybe he isn’t a cancer. And just maybe, the guy can still play.
I was amazed at the number of people who thought there was causation in that Sheffield being [...]

PREGAME: The teams have a 12 hour turnaround for today’s game. It will be Nate Robertson and Todd Wellemeyer, both of who I would guess didn’t stick around for the end of last night’s tilt.
Wellemeyer has a 3.67 ERA for the season and he’s striking out a little more than 2 batters for [...]

I didn’t get a chance to touch on this last night because I had left for the game when the news hit. The Tigers traded Denny Bautista for Pittsburgh minor leaguer Kyle Pearson. With Bautista DFA’d the Tigers had 10 days to find a home for him. In exchange they get AA [...]

PREGAME: It’s Kyle Lohse and Armando Galarraga tonight. You know which Tigers like hitting against Lohse? All of them.
Meanwhile, here’s hoping that Galarraga can nail down that All Star game invitation.
And here’s really hoping the rain drops hold off so they can get this one in, cuz I’ll be there.
STL @ DET, [...]

The oblique problem isn’t going away for Brandon Inge and he is now on the DL. Dane Sardhina’s contract was purchased from Toledo and he’ll back-up Pudge Rodriguez. I’d guess that Sardhina wouldn’t be put into the rotating catcher situation that Inge was in.
This will certainly limit some of Jim Leyland’s flexibility when [...]

Toledo 12 Syracuse 2Matt Joyce enjoyed himself tonight with a grand slam, a three run homer, and a single. All the starters did well tonight with 7 of the 9 having multiple hits. Virgil Vasquez allowed 2 runs on 2 homers over 8 innings while fanning 5.
Erie 2 Trenton 6Kody Kirkland picked up [...]

PREGAME: The Tigers welcome in the St. Louis Cardinals for their annual trip to Comerica Park (seriously, why do the Tigers never play at Busch?). It also marks the third consecutive series for the Tigers against a sainted city (the others being San Diego and San Francisco for those with uber short [...]

Toledo 4 Syracuse 3
Fernando Seguignol and Erick Almonte had 2 hits each. Aquilino Lopez went 3 innings in his start, striking out 5 against no walks. He allowed 3 hits and 2 runs. Francisco Cruceta allowed 2 hits and a walk in 2 innings while fanning 3. Ian Ostlund struck out [...]

UPDATE: Sheffield has been reinstated and Larish has been optioned to Toledo.
There’s been no official word from the Tigers yet, but it appears that Gary Sheffield is Detroit bound. According to the Lakeland Ledger, Sunday’s game was Sheffield’s last rehab outing and he left to join the team.
During Sheffield’s rehab stint [...]