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!The Tigers announced the bulk of their Arizona Fall League representatives. They are sending Luis Marte, Rudy Darrow, Casey Fien, Zach Simons, [...]

When the Tigers pulled off the Cabrera/Willis trade, Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller were the two key pieces. They had something in common - they slipped to the Tigers due to signability issues. The same thing happened in 2007 with Rick Porcello and the Tigers hungrily snapped him up, and like with the [...]

Toledo 2 Norfolk 1 (11 innings)
Freddy Guzman was 2 for 4 with a walk. Clete Thomas walked twice. Mike Hollimon singled and walked. Chris Lambert pitched 7 innings and allowed 1 run on 5 hits, a walk, and 5 K’s. Clay Rapada, Casey Fien, and Francisco Cruceta went 1.1, 1.2, 1 [...]

Toledo 0 Richmond 3Timo Perez went 2 for 2 with 2 walks. Derek Wathan had the other hit. Anastacio Martinez went 7 innings and allowed 3 runs on 2 walks, 4 K’s, and 2 homers.
Erie DNP
Lakeland - Cancelled
West Michigan 0 South Bend 3Joe Tucker had 2 hits. Mauricio Robles allowed just 1 run [...]

A hodgepodge of all the stuff that went down this week that just didn’t fit anywhere else:
Much ado about a boo
A lot of disgruntled fans did a lot of booing this week. Gary Sheffield received his share when culmination about frustration with his production collided with Sheff being Sheff. That was noisy, but [...]

Dontrelle Willis has completed the Lakeland portion of his program and will start for Toledo on Friday night. Willis worked deep into his last 2 games and only allowed 2 walks.
Dombrowski said the move was made because Tigers minor league pitching coordinator Jon Matlack, minor league performance enhancement instructor Brian Peterson and Lakeland pitching [...]

Norfolk 7 Toledo 6
Kody Kirkland was 2 for 3. Timo Perez doubled and walked 3 times. Brent Clevlen had a 0 for 5, 3 K night. Eddie Bonine allowed 5 runs on 5 hits and no walks in 4.1 innings. Francisco Cruceta fanned 3 in 1.1 innings allowing a walk and [...]

Toledo 8 Louisville 10
Jeff Larish homered twice. Brent Clevlen had 4 hits and was a triple short of the cycle. Dusty Ryan homered picking up his 5th XBH in 4 games at Toledo. But Eddie Bonine allowed 6 runs in 6.1 innings while Clay Rapada and Brian Rogers were each tagged for [...]

Toledo 0 Louisville 11
Jeff Larish went 2 for 4 and Kody Kirkland was 2 for 3. Yorman Bazardo was pounded for 10 runs in 3.1 innings with 8 hits and 4 walks. Francisco Cruceta allowed 2 hits in an inning of work but struck out the side. Casey Fien threw another scoreless [...]

Toledo 3 Indianapolis 0Dusty Ryan went 2 for 4 with a double. Clete Thomas homered. Virgil Vasquez pitched 7 innings or 2 hit ball. Francisco Cruceta and Francis Beltran each pitched scoreless innings.
Reading 6 Erie 10Luis Marte allowed 5 runs on 5 hits and a walk while fanning 4. But only [...]

Take 75 North runs down all of the catching roster moves that took place in the wake of the Pudge Rodriguez trade. The Tigers organizational catching situation has been described as barren, and that’s not quite fair. There are a couple intriguing prospects who are worth following as they will now be tested [...]

Indianapolis 2 Toledo 1Jeff Larish went 2 for 4. Yorman Bazardo went 8 innings with 4 K’s, no walks, and 8 hits in 8 innnings.
Erie 4 Akron 3 (10 innings)Dusty Ryan homered. Wil Rhymes, Jeff Frazier, Ryan Roberson, and Santo De Leon each had 2 hits. Danny Christensen struck out 6 and [...]