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I’ll touch more on this later when I have more time but the Tigers decided on their rotation and shipped Nate Robertson to the Marlins in the process.  Interesting move because if Willis tanks, the Tigers don’t have as much major league ready experience ready to fill in.

I always love stories like this because when aren’t teams talking to each other about potential deals.  Still, the idea of getting something for Nate Robertson or Dontrelle Willis a couple of months ago would have been laughed at.  Now with both pitchers having solid springs and the Tigers needing just one of those two [...]

The Tigers lost yesterday to the Yankees 2-1 but once again, Nate Robertson did a nice job making his case for the fifth spot in the Tigers’ rotation.  It’s getting awfully close to the start of the season so if Leyland wants to stretch out his starters, he’s going to have to decide on his [...]

The Tigers played two yesterday and while Jim Leyland still won’t say who will anchor the back half of his rotation, both Jeremy Bonderman and Dontrelle Willis threw good enough yesterday to where they may be the front runners for the job.  In the afternoon game, Willis got into trouble early in the first but [...]

I’m a little late on this but the Tigers had a rare spring day off so I’m getting caught.  Max Scherzer has had his troubles this spring but he put them behind him on Tuesday as he shut down the Nationals in the Tigers 6-2 win.  He threw four innings of no-hit ball before he [...]

My Detroit Tigers preview is up at the Hardball Times.

The Mets received the best news of Spring training so far when superstar shortstop Jose Reyes was medically cleared to resume baseall activties Tuesday. According to team officials, he will join the team Wednesday and has not been ruled out for Opening day on April 5th. Reyes left the team almost 3 weeks ago after [...]

The Tigers and Braves combined for 28 hits late Friday afternoon in a 4-4 ten inning tie.  The Tigers top of the order accounted for seven of their thirteen hits and five players had multi-hit games.  Ryan Raburn led the way and he went three for five.  Jeff Larish and Johnny Damon both went yard [...]

Rick Porcello has pitched three innings today and he’s been roughed up for four runs by the Yankees in the Tigers first game of the day.  Three of those runs won’t show up in his ERA though because of a Ramon Santiago error.  Porcello did strike out three (assuming he’s done) but he gave up [...]

Talk about an interesting spring development.  Dontrelle Willis threw three innings today.  He gave up a walk and he struck out two with no hits and no runs.  He also did all of this with back spasms.  That brings his spring ERA down to 0.90 and he’s making his case for the fifth spot in [...]

It’s going to be feast or famine for me writing the next few weeks because I’m knee deep into my busy work season.  Fortunately I’m past one big deadline and the next one isn’t for a month so I have a little bit of breathing room.  I’ve watched/listened to some games, but haven’t followed the [...]

The Tigers first spring telecast is today.  Fortunately I’ll be home most of the day so I should be able to catch most of the game.  Even better, there’s four night games (including two 10 pm games) on MLB.TV so hypothetically, you could start watching the Tigers at one pm and watch pretty much non-stop [...]

Doctors have advised all star shortstop Jose Reyes to rest without physical activity for a period of 2-8 weeks, while he deals with an overactice thyroid. He is likely to start the season on the disabled list and the Mets will start  either veteran INF Alex Cora or rookie Ruben Tejada(my choice!) at the spot. [...]

The Tigers are MLB.TV for the first time this year and I’m not at home to watch it.  The big news was Stephen Strasburg and at least for this one game, he lived up to the hype.  He put the Tigers out in order in the first, then the Tigers got a pair of hits [...]

Just about everyone got in on the action yesterday as the Tigers took care of the Astros 17-7.  Fourteen Tigers accounted for 16 hits and eleven walks that resulted in 17 runs.  Seventeen Tigers reached base and Ryan Rabun led the way with a single, three walks and three runs. Don Kelly went two for [...]

SS Jose Reyes has returned to New York for further testing after a physical exam found he has an imbalance in his thyroid levels. He will have tests Monday and it could take up to 48 hours for results. The speedy shortstop will not take part in any physical activity until this situation is cleared [...]

The Tigers opened up Joker Marchant stadium yesterday to a packed house and while they came back from an early 3-0 deficit, they eventually blew a 6-3 lead later in the game and lost 9-7.  Rick Porcello and Dontrelle Willis looked good while Max Scherzer, Zach Miner and Armando Galarraga were all roughed up.  Brent Dlugach [...]

I have the Yankees/Pirates game on and it’s so weird seeing Curtis in a Yankee uniform.  He grounded out to short and they had him hitting second behind Derek Jeter.  Granderson is in center and Gardner is playing in left.
***UPDATE***
It’s the eighth inning and they’re interviewing Curtis.  Now I’m starting to miss him.

Ryan Strieby hit a two run home run and Don Kelly is two for two with a run as the Tigers have a 5-0 lead through three innings against Florida Southern.  Phil Coke struck out three in two scoreless innings and Eddie Bonine threw a perfect third inning.  Baseball is here folks.

The Tigers kick off their spring season today with their annual exhibition game against Florida Southern.  Phil Coke gets the nod.  I’ll be running around meeting with clients but I’m hoping to catch at least some of this game on the feed.  Speaking of which, I have to renew my MLB.TV subscription.