Spring Training

credit Roger DeWitt
Miller Time
John Sickels has another prospect smackdown, this time it is Andrew Miller vs. Adam Miller. Sickels gives a very slight edge to Adam Miller.
Maybe a SLIGHT edge on intangibles for Adam Miller, Andrew gets a slight edge on tools, Adam gets a slight edge on current polish and performance, even on [...]

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So far the Tigers spring season is off to a pretty good start, even considering the last 2 losses. Specifically the pitchers seem to have picked up right where they left off (minus the fielding errors) in 2007. Sure, the 5.37 ERA might not look impressive on the surface, but if you look [...]

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What with the game on TV and everything today, I thought a game thread would be in order. Those lucky (or perhaps unlucky given the current economic condidtions) enough to be not working this afternoon can catch the game on ESPN at 1:15. I’ll be at work and looking forward to catching the [...]

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For, lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of the singing of birds is come,
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. - Song of Solomon 2:11-12
Play Ball!
It seemed only appropriate to channel Ernie Harwell with the first radio broadcast of the [...]

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So while yesterday was the exhibition to the exhibition season, this one was against the New York Mets, a bona fide big league club. And the Tigers won. Mack Avenue Tigers has the wrap-up so I won’t duplicate it here. I will just point out good games for Marcus Thames, Curtis Granderson, [...]

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I know it was an only an exhibition before exhibition season, but it still resulted in a game, with 9 innings, and live pitching - and a boxscore. That’s right, fresh stats are fresh stats, even if they are irrelevant.
But let’s work our way through it anyways.
What’s not to like about Granderson [...]

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You guys were too kind last week, so I’m doing this video thing again. In episode 2 of Detroit Tigers Weblog TV I highlight what I think will be the most interesting position battle in Lakeland this year.
Watch: Detroit Tigers Weblog TV - Episode 2 (9 Mb, 4:14)
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This is what a month old ice sculpture looks like
I was getting jealous of all the reporters and photographers down there in Lakeland taking in baseball and sun and palm trees. So I did the best I could and went to Comerica Park today to take pictures of ice sculptures…Leftover from Tigerfest…Which was a [...]

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photo from Det News
I’m pretty sure I won’t be doing this every day, but for the time being there is enough interesting stuff coming out…
Men looking at other men
Nothing like spring training to encourage men to comment on other men’s physiques. In the case of Todd Jones he dropped a few pounds. In [...]

PFP
The first day of spring training every year brings pitchers fielding practice. Today was no different, except for the fact that there were 50 media assembled to see if the Tigers pitchers could throw the ball to third base. Now let’s move on.
credit: Roger DeWitt
They wear many hats
That section headline reminds [...]

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With pitchers and catchers reporting on the 15th, I thought I would try out the first (and depending on feedback perhaps only) edition of DTW-TV.
It is me talking into a camera pretty much off the cuff. I make up for the lack of production quality with a lack of insight so it should be [...]

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