While today was officially “Pitchers and Catchers report” day, it was just that. Reporting day. The official workouts don’t begin until tomorrow. Still, the players and beat writers are all in town so the stream of news has started to flow.
The links to the stories are below with my comments to follow:
The Ultimate Pistons Experience – Need4Sheed.com I posted the link to the contest a while ago, but the winners went to the game this week. The Pistons org hooked up the blog with a suite, a tour, and all kinds of goodness. Very, very cool for the most passionate of fans. Dan Agonistes: The Traffic … Continue reading links for 2008-02-08
Baseball Prospectus has released it’s 2008 player projection system known as PECOTA. What’s available at this point isn’t the full results of the system, just the weighted mean. PECOTA offers projections across a spectrum which are available on the player cards which will be forthcoming. What we have now is the middle. PECOTA is premium … Continue reading The 2008 PECOTA’s are here
For the last few seasons, sabermetrician Tom Tango has conducted a defensive survey called The Fans Scouting Report. I’ve mentioned it in the past, and I’m sure that some of you participated. Essentially fans rate players on a variety of traits. I’m not going to rehash how the Tigers did because Lee has covered that … Continue reading Optimal Sub
Click on an image for a larger version I attended Curtis Granderson’s charity hoops game last night, and it would have to be considered a success. According to Jon Paul Morosi there were over 1700 fans in attendance at Avondale High School. The game featured the Detroit All Stars coached by Granderson against the Flint … Continue reading Granderson’s Hoops Event
TIGERS TOP PROSPECT RICK PORCELLO: Where will he play this season? Dombrowski said it could be as high as Lakeland when they break camp. Hernandez issues challenge to bullpen The article also mentions Dontrelle Willis’s delivery and how Hernandez is in the process of studying it. That was one of my questions when they made … Continue reading links for 2008-01-15
There will be 23 Tigers players on hand at Saturday’s Tigerfest. They are: Jeremy Bonderman, Tim Byrdak, Miguel Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Jacque Jones, Todd Jones, Macay McBride, Zach Miner, Magglio Ordonez, Placido Polanco, Rick Porcello, Ryan Raburn, Clay Rapada, Edgar Renteria, Nate Robertson, Ivan Rodriguez, Kenny Rogers, Bobby Seay, Jordan Tata, Marcus Thames, Justin Verlander, … Continue reading Tigers announce Tigerfest 2008 lineup
Chad Durbin’s stint as a Detroit Tiger came to an end today when the club made the decision to not tender him a contract. Durbin, who entered 2007 out of options made the team as a bullpen arm as the team broke spring training. But an injury to Kenny Rogers thrust Durbin into the starting … Continue reading Not so tender moment for Durbin, but Byrdak has that loving feeling
Now that the deal is official, people have permission to speak freely. And the new Tigers sound pretty excited to be heading North. Matt Sosnick, the agent for Dontrelle Willis, indicated that Willis is “incredibly excited” and that while the 2 sides hadn’t talked about a contract yet “He’s [Willis] hoping to stay in Detroit … Continue reading The New Tigers speak
The Tigers have pulled off a franchise altering trade today sending former first round picks Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller, along with Mike Rabelo and 3 minor league pitchers to the Florida Marlins for Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis. When Dave Dombrowski decides to go for it, boy does he go for it. Like in … Continue reading Holy Freakin Crap
Below is an idea inspired by Geoff Young at Ducksnorts. It is a kind of family tree of how the current 40 man roster came to be. I’ll be tweaking the format, and adding player links as well. In the meantime, the method of acquistion is indicated in parentheses for each player. If you see … Continue reading Organizational Tree
Look at what’s happened to me, I can’t believe it myself. Suddenly I’m up on top of the world, Should have been somebody else. Believe it or not I’m waking on air I never thought I could feel so free Flying away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or … Continue reading Believe it or not