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No arbitration for Renteria

by billfer on December 1, 2008 · 16 comments

in Former Tigers, Free Agents

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!I think it is safe to call the Edgar Renteria-Jair Jurrjens/Gorkys Hernandez deal “the trade that just keeps taking.” There was hope that [...]

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Renteria inked by Giants - Tigers get draft picks

by billfer on November 24, 2008 · 22 comments

in Free Agents

UPDATE: It appears the report may not be true. Tim Dierkes keeps updating the link below with more information, so check back. I have to admit that $18 million for Renteria didn’t pass the smell test, but it was the Giants…
It appears that Edgar Renteria is heading back to the National League. The Giants [...]

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Junkballing: Almost too much to link to

by billfer on March 24, 2008 · 4 comments

in 2008 Season, Contracts, Former Tigers, Injuries, Spring Training

A flurry of link worthy items, plus just being behind in general leads to the mother of all link round-ups:
Injuries - left handed pitcher edition
Bless You Boys picked up a Buster Olney report that scouts were speculating that Dontrelle Willis may be injured. That could certainly be part of his control problems. Then [...]

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Tigers Acquire Edgar Renteria

by billfer on October 29, 2007 · 96 comments

in Trades

The Tigers traded for Edgar Renteria. They’ll send the Braves Gorkys Hernandez and Jair Jurrjens.
I’ll have more on this later when I digest it, but wow. Renteria is a nice player and affordable, but the Tigers just traded 2 of their top 4 prospects for a shortstop on the wrong side of 30. [...]

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Breaking down the Dombrowski pow-wow

by billfer on October 1, 2007 · 43 comments

in 2007 Season, 2008 Season, Contracts, Free Agents, Pitching

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 [...]

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