Given the rash of bad news with injuries, shellackings, and visa problems hitting the Tigers bullpen, today was a nice change. Denny Bautista continued to pitch well. He went 2 scoreless innings with 4 K’s and is going to be hard to leave behind when the team heads North. Jordan Tata, who wasn’t a strong … Continue reading Good news for Tigers pen?
The Tigers are going the split squad route today with a home game against the Reds (Dontrelle Willis) and a road tilt against the Indians (Yorman Bazardo). For those with MLB.tv they’ll be able to catch the road game which is set to feature Rick Porcello. Also of note today, Todd Jones is slated to … Continue reading Porcello and moving pictures
A bulleted list of the day that was in Florida: Justin Verlander made his second start and allowed just one hit in 3 innings. Denny Bautista continued to impress with 2 innings and a lone walk as the only blemish as the Tigers beat the Phillies Oh yeah, and Carlos Guillen went deep once twice … Continue reading Wednesday Woundup
Jon Paul Morosi reports that the Tigers bullpen headaches have the team talking trade. Morosi notes that there have been “general discussions” with the Cubs. Chicago has become a favorite trading partner of Dombrowski with the two clubs completing five trades during DD’s tenure. Morosi notes that the Cubs may be interested in a right … Continue reading Bullpen woes spawn trade talk
The Tigers are undefeated, and here we are all of 2 days into spring training. Detroit beat a back-up Toronto Blue Jays roster by a score of 4-1. Curtis Granderson and Magglio Ordonez were the offense with Grandy belting a 2 run homer and Ordonez picking up two hits. The pitchers had little trouble with … Continue reading The dream continues, and other stuff
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
We’ve taken a look at how the Tigers may, or at least how we think (and by we I mean I and the people who agree with me) they may fill out their bench. The bench is one of the few areas of ambiguity in terms of the roster. The other area is the bullpen. … Continue reading The Full Pen
There isn’t an official top prospect list, but BA’s is kind of the standard. Today they announced the Tigers 2008 top 10 Rick Porcello, rhp Cale Iorg, ss Scott Sizemore, 2b Michael Hollimon, 2b/ss Yorman Bazardo, rhp Jeff Larish, 1b Matt Joyce, of Danny Worth, ss Francisco Cruceta, rhp Brandon Hamilton, rhp Rick Porcello is … Continue reading Baseball America’s 2008 Tigers Prospect List
The Tigers have signed Nate Robertson to a 3 year deal for $21.25 million. The Freep has the break down on the dollars. Robertson will earn $4.25 million this year, $7 million in 2009 and $10 million in 2010. He would earn $11 million in the third year of the deal if he throws a … Continue reading Robertson extended for 3 years
Mayo was kind enough to answer some questions about the now-depleted Tigers farm system as well as a look forward to the 2008 draft.
A look back at the year that was 2007 here at the Detroit Tigers Weblog… January The Tigers inked Timo Perez and Bobby Seay. Seay would turn out to be pretty good while who could have fathomed the consternation Timo would cause. I began writing more than most cared to know about first pitch swinging … Continue reading Detroit Tigers Weblog 2007 Year in Review
Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog: FIP Analysis for Tiger starters in 2007 Price limited to Tigers color This is for the best. Price is okay doing color commentary, but the play by play innings were often times difficult to follow The Detroit Tiger Weblog ยป Tigers lock up Bonderman A rough health weekend here … Continue reading links for 2007-12-17