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!There was quite a bit of news that trickled out today so let’s roll through it.
Prospecting
It was a day of top 100 lists [...]

A couple weeks back, on June 26th actually, I wrote that the claim of the AL Central being the toughest division in baseball is probably misguided. Since then the Central has been on a roll.
Through the games on the 19th this is what the Central has done:
W L
DET 12 6
CLE 12 8
MIN 11 10
CHI 13 9
KC 10 7

That’s a composite 58 and 40 record, good [...]

For a stat heavy guy, here is a decidely stat-less look at the season ahead…
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As we’re entering the final stretch of spring training, the 2007 predictions are starting to come with increasing regularity. Here’s what today revealed.
Simulatin’
The Replacement Level Yankee Weblog ran a series of Diamond Mind Simulations. He ran 1000 seasons using each of PECOTA, Marcel, Chone, Diamond Mind and ZiPS. I summarized how the [...]

It’s kind of an American League Centric day. This morning I woke up to be greeted by Baseball Analysts annual Two on Two divisional preview of the Central. The hosts select two bloggers, this time it was Brian from Tigerblog and one of my favorite Twins bloggers (the Twins may have the best [...]

Last night Vince Galloro of Exile in Wrigleyville, and I did a chat talking about our respective teams and looking at the upcoming series. The transcript is up on Vince’s site.
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It had to end sometime. The Tigers dropped their first game of the season, and their solo hold on first place. Detroit is now tied with Cleveland at 5-1, but I don’t really think anyone is complaining. The roadtrip saw far more positives than negatives.
Kenny Rogers was hit around, and balls seemed [...]

Well I guess it’s finally time that I give up my prediction for the Tigers season. If you’ve been reading the last couple years, you may remember that I did extensive analysis, player-by-player to predict runs scored and runs allowed to arrive at a final win prediction. That was a lot of work [...]

I’m a pretty big fan of treemaps. I’ve used them here on several occasions to graphically display win shares values. So when I found this tool that treemaps salaries, I just had to share. (hat tip to Catfish Stew) Below is a screenshot of the AL Central.

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Some Detroit Tiger related links from the last few days that you might have missed:

Baseball Analysts on the Central: Aaron Gleeman and the Cheat join Rich and Bryan to break down the AL Central. The consensus was that the Tigers are probably the 4th best team in a pretty good division.
Aaron: Right. Detroit [...]