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!Well I guess it’s finally time that I give up my prediction for the Tigers season. If you’ve been reading the last [...]

Okay, so it isn’t opening day eve if you’re a White Sox or Indians fan. But we’ll look past that little fact for now…
The Bird
Detroit Tiger Tales is hopping on the diary theme. This one takes a look at Mark “the Bird” Fidrych’s magical 1976 season. Here’s the first paragraph of the first [...]

Over the last few weeks of spring training, I

Over the last few weeks of spring training, I

There were several Detroit Tiger mentions over the last two days, and many of them included references to Joel Zumaya.
The Free Press had a piece on Zumaya’s new curveball/slider.
“My curve can be a slider,” he said. “If I throw it from over the top, it’s a curve with a 12-to-6 break. If I lower my [...]

Roster Issues
I’ve said pretty much all I have to say about the Carlos Pena release in that I don’t like how the roster sets up. Knobler’s blog today didn’t make me feel any better
Leyland raved again after the game about Ramon Santiago. Santiago is very likely to make the opening day roster, in part [...]

The Tigers still have 45 players in camp, so there are a couple of sizable cuts coming.  The next one will probably be before the end of the week.  Until then, here are some items of note:
The rotation is set - sort of
Jim Leyland had already decided that Kenny Rogers would take the first turn, [...]

A couple of looks at the 2006 season from fellow baseball bloggers…
Simulation
The Replacement Level Yankees Weblog has run 1000 seasonal simulations using 3 different projection systems: ZiPS, PECOTA, and Diamond Mind. With each of the 3 systems, Detroit was projected in 4th place, with approximately a 500 record.
Diamond Mind was the biggest [...]

The Boys are Back in Town

Detroit AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Granderson, CF 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 .364
Guillen, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250
Santiago, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 .281
Ordonez, RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 .222
Taylor, RF 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .379
Young, D, DH 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 .429
Pena, 1B 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 .194
Inge, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 .308
Gomez, LF 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 .317
Wilson, C 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 .400
Peterson, B, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Infante, 2B 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 .455
How about that lineup? It’s nice to see some regular names in there. Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordonez saw their first action since Venezuela was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. The game [...]

Over the last few weeks of spring training, I

Two national publications came out at the end of last week and said that the Tigers could be good this year. Now they didn’t say the Tigers would be good, just that they could be good.
First Baseball Prospectus’ Tigers notebook had this to say:
But is the ridicule justified this year? The AL Central isn