Players

Well there’s some happy news at least as the Tigers have agreed to terms with Rick Porcello. Porcello of course is the Tigers first round draft choice, who despite being the top high school pitcher in the draft, slid to the Tigers at 27 due to those “signability issues” that Tigers fans have become [...]

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A mishmash of things I’ve been meaning to comment on…
Craig Monroe
I’ve read and heard much lamenting that Leyland is being too loyal to Craig Monroe. That was called for at the end of June, but it’s not really called for now. Monroe had lost his starting job prior to the Marcus Thames [...]

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Curtis Granderson launched a MySpace page during spring training and it got to be pretty popular. Only trouble is that this weekend while Grandy was hitting homers and taking away others, his page was deleted. With that went all 28,000 friends he had amassed. So clearly he’s a little lonely now.
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The Ryan Raburn roster spot mystery has been cleared up. He’ll take Neifi Perez’s spot as Perez was suspended 25 games by MLB for use of a banned stimulant. This is according to WXYT.
So first it was Alex Sanchez, and now Neifi Perez getting nabbed by drug screens. I really didn’t see this [...]

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Vote often, like as often as you can.

You can vote online or by texting VOTE to 36197. Polls stay open until 6pm ET on Thursday.

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On Sunday, June 24th Andrew Miller took center stage on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and promptly pitched 6 shut out innings. Miller only allowed 4 hits and 2 walks and was never really threatened. Was this a dominant performance by a young stud pitcher, or just another day at the office for the [...]

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Not much in the way of good news for the Tigers today with Vance Wilson undergoing surgery and Roman Colon undergoing suspension.
Vance Wilson
So Vance Wilson finally gets a multi-year deal, and he’s going to spend the bulk of it on the DL. After spending 2 1/2 months trying to rehab his elbow, he underwent [...]

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Reuters
I wish I could type up something poetic or dramatic or chuck full of literary goodness. I don’t really have that in me, and I don’t think I could muster it right now anyways. But watching this unfold was a thing of beauty. Justin Verlander was good in the first inning, and [...]

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Yeah, I’m kind of late on this, but the news came down during my journey home from Cleveland.
The Mesa signing was kind of a mystery at the time. I guess the Tigers were hoping to get some better than replacement level bullpen depth. What they got was a whole lot less. I [...]

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It’s a refrain that has been uttered by Tigers fans over and over again. This time it is a quote from Jim Leyland. Leyland was responding to questions about Marcus Thames playing 3 straight days and said:
“It’s an attempt to get some production in the lineup,” manager Jim Leyland said Thursday, before the Tigers’ [...]

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Jose Mesa has been an unmitigated disaster as a Detroit Tiger. I couldn’t figure out why the Tigers signed Mesa in the first place, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why he’s still wearing the English D.
Somewhat surprisingly Mesa was actually effective in 9 of his appearances retiring the one [...]

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