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Sam is concerned about a team that is both too young and too old at the same time.
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Lynn Henning assesses the free agent landscape and the Tigers targets.
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Kurt opens up Jason Beck’s mailbag
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A look at many of the Tigers playing winter ball
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The Tigers check in right behind the Pistons at 24
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11 responses to “links for 2007-10-23”
How can NHL teams not be on the franchise ranking? Disgusting.
I didn’t even think of Geoff Jenkins as an option, sounds like a pretty good fit to me.
That’s actually not a bad article by Henning. I haven’t taken a real close look at potential hole-fillers for the Tigers but I know Gleeman liked Jenkins for the Twins and there’s certainly worse advocates for a player to have in his corner.
Jason, as popular as the NHL is in “Hockeytown,” – and I like hockey, too – the rest of the nation really doesn’t give a hoot. It’s basically a step above a minor league sport.
The other of the “big three” are followed throughout the country and are worth – and generate – many time$ what the NHL is worth.
Thanks for the link, Bilfer…interesting.
Jason may still have a point. I mean, hockey isn’t really that big nationwide maybe, but it is still a sport ESPN occasionally notices. Barry Melrose anyway. And all regions of the country have teams in the NHL, AHL and probably ECHL. So I’d say that it’s probably popular enough to still be in the big four and should be represented.
Before I read the article, I figured if he didn’t include hockey, it was probably a good thing because he probably didn’t know enough about it to make a judgment.
But then I saw his system and realized there’s no judgments to be made and thought it was strange he didn’t include it. I wonder if he just didn’t know what to do with the point system hockey uses, which is different from the straight win-loss records of the other sports.
I duno my list would look like this
Tigers
my other fav mlb teams
rest of mlb
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football
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every other sport
if he is going off of “wins” like he says MLB should be above everyone else anyways considering most teams that have been around for awhile have at least 8000 wins… 😉
seriously though rating baseball teams against basketball against football is silly enough without forgetting hockey and other team-sports not to mention tennis/golf =P
the great people at ESPN/Yahoo/SI etc. have enough trouble ranking players and doing their “power rankings” year-by-yeaer correctly now we are trying to go across sports?
Ugh. Can you say waste of time?
Yes it’s ironic that I wasted time saying all of this when you probably already know that.
Sad to read that Curtis Granderson isn’t using winter ball to at least learn how to drag bunt against left handers.
Count me out on Geoff Jenkins unless he’s making drastically less then what he was in Milwaukee. I’m talking $3 million or less.
Solid article all around but nothing ground breaking.
I think Jenkins would make a nice platoon partner for Thames, and is generally well regarded defensively. I don’t think you get him for $3 million, but $5-6 million for 1 to 2 years would be palatable.
I don’t think he’s worth $5-6 million but I agree, he’d be a solid platooner.