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Minor (league) adjustments
A look at Glennn Ezell and the minor league development team which included a head doctor.

Curtis Granderson and Francisco Cruceta could both be in Detroit soon | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
I’d guess that Cruceta would need about 4 days on a minor league assignment if everything goes right. And Beltran [...]

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Detroit Tigers Thoughts: Offensive Stats against Pitchers
Taking a look at ba/obp/slg against the Tigers arms
(tags: pitching)

Lima Time Is Over: A Sad Good Night For Jose Lima
Jose Lima’s baseball career might finally be over
(tags: jose-lima)

Saber-Scouting Porcello Report 2
Yeah, the kids is that good. Ready to contribute now at the big league level.
(tags: rick-porcello)

The Official Site [...]

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Beantown West: Bloggers Leave Moms’ Basements, Get Free Dodger Dogs
The Dodgers invited a group of bloggers for a night in a suite and some conversation with Ned Colleti, Frank McCourt, and Tommy Lasorda.

D-Town Baseball › Breaking down Clete Thomas with pitch f/x
Pretty much what the title implies
(tags: clete-thomas pitchfx)

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Boos taste sweet to Renteria - BostonHerald.com
Renteria was excited by the boos he got at Fenway. Umm, if you’d just told us we could have booed you in Comerica too. It just didn’t seem proper, what with you being the new guy and you not being named Grilli.
(tags: edgar-renteria)

Frustrated Kenny Rogers runs [...]

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“WTF GRILLI” t-shirt
Great moments in T-shirt history
(tags: jason-grilli)

Beck’s Blog: How the ‘95 Reds recovered
Nice research by Jason Beck that should show the season isn’t actually over yet.

Gary Sheffield encourages skidding Miguel Cabrera during 1-on-1 talk | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Sheffield showing some veteran leadership.
(tags: miguel-cabrera gary-sheffield)

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Evaluation of SI.com’s Baseball’s Top 20 Young Pitchers for 2008
A look at mechanics for the top 20 SI pitchers. Thumbs up for Verlander, thumbs down for Bonderman. It’s kind of the opposite of what Will Carroll has said (though he hasn’t been really harsh on Justin).

Batter’s Box Interactive Magazine - Franchising, 2008 Edition: [...]

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Some of my Tiger blogging brethren have clever names for their link round up posts, like Bless You Boys “Like Stripes on the fur coat of a Tiger” or Mack Avenue Tigers “Bunt Singles” or Roar of the Tigers “Pug Marks.” Here’s my foray and we’ll call it Junkballing:

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Gammons: Graprefruit League’s 8 to watch
Number 1 is Miguel Cabrera. Quite the bummer that Gammons’ stuff is Insider.

Statheads and True Wins
Joe Posnanski is my hero. A rebuttal to the “we don’t need any of these new fangled stats” arguments.

ESPN Page 2 - Page 2: You can keep your fancy stats
One of those [...]

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Heyman’s Sabathia Suitors
Do the Tigers have a chance at Sabathia as a free agent?

Shoe color about the smallest change for Dontrelle Willis - Big League Stew… - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
Dontrelle’s new kicks. Plus, check out Big League Stew. Very cool blog.

Detroit Tigers Thoughts: Roster Projection Update - 3/4/08
Projecting all the rosters in [...]

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Statistically Speaking | MVN - a statistical and sabermetric baseball blog » Blog Archive » 2007 Sabermetric Year in Review: Detroit Tigers
Pizza Cutter previews the Tigers

Comeback-driven Matt Mantei might have to call it quits with injury | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Mantei was going to be a very long shot anyways, but I was rooting [...]

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