Archive for posts tagged 'dave dombrowski'

The Coda
Sunday, December 9th, 2007

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!Wrapping up some outstanding items from what very well could be one of the most significant trades in franchise history…
Replenishment
Peter Gammons astutely pointed [...]

Posted in 2008 Season, Defense, Front Office, Offense, Tiger History, Trades | 36 Comments »

The Tigers aren’t interested in A-Rod unless they are
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The Alex Rodriguez to Detroit rumors just won’t die. Going into the offseason I thought the Tigers chances would be similar to their playoff chances in September. Stuff had to fall their way, and it was a longshot, but that they were still in a better position than most teams. But since [...]

Posted in Front Office, Minors, Trade Rumors | 6 Comments »

What are they talking about?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Dave Dombrowski, Jim Leyland, and Chuck Hernandez took in some instructional league action today. Everybody is in Lakeland this week for organizational meetings so they could have been discussing anything.
Maybe they were talking about the way that the ball explodes out of Rick Porcello’s hand, or maybe the kid’s follow through.
Perhaps they were discussing [...]

Posted in Front Office, Minors, Trade Rumors | 43 Comments »

Leveraging Todd Jones
Saturday, October 6th, 2007

WPA Leaders

Rank
Name
WPA

1
J.J. Putz
6.17

2
R. Betancourt
5.38

3
Takashi Saito
4.27

4
Heath Bell
4.12

5
Joakim Soria
3.85

6
J. Papelbon
3.72

7
Joe Nathan
3.63

8
F. Rodriguez
2.95

9
Hideki Okajima
2.93

10
Pat Neshek
2.83

11
Carlos Marmol
2.8

12
Brandon Lyon
2.8

13
J. Isringhausen
2.75

14
Manuel Corpas
2.71

15
Tony Pena
2.56

39
Todd Jones
1.57

WPA or win probability added tracks a teams chances of winning over the course of a game and the measure for an individual player is the difference in win probability when a player enters the game compared [...]

Posted in 2007 Season, Managing & Strategy, Pitching, Players | 22 Comments »

Pudge speculation and innuendo
Thursday, October 4th, 2007

We’ve now heard from all the relevant players involved in the should we exercise Pudge’s option discussion. Mike Ilitch weighed in on Pudge last night:
“Pudge did a big thing for us, putting a face on the franchise,” Ilitch told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. “He’s made a lot of contributions.
“I don’t think it’ll [...]

Posted in Contracts, Players | 48 Comments »

Breaking down the Dombrowski pow-wow
Monday, October 1st, 2007

Dave Dombrowski held court today in what was deemed an informal availability session and broached a number of topics.  Jason Beck was first to the web with the bullet points.  Definitely click through to Beck’s reporting, but I’ll weigh in on the bullets as well.
Pudge Rodriguez
No decision yet on Pudge and Dombrowski indicated the team [...]

Posted in 2007 Season, 2008 Season, Contracts, Free Agents, Pitching | 43 Comments »

My interview with Dave Dombrowski
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

Tigers President/CEO/General Manager David Dombrowski was kind enough to do an interview with DTW. The discussion touched on trends from the off-season, player development, and a look forward to the 2005 season. The theme throughout is that if the Tigers are going to have success, the improvement will have to come from [...]

Posted in Interviews | 9 Comments »