Baseball Historians

For the third straight year, Tiger bloggers have voted and this year, the results for the three DIBS awards were pretty much unanimous.  Magglio Ordonez was player of the year, Justin Verlander was pitcher of the year and Curtis Granderson was breakout player of the year.  The only close vote was breakout player of the […]

I’m living in a hole these days and while I heard about the Joel Zumaya injury, I didn’t really follow up on it until Friday.  Of course I’m now just getting right around to writing about it.  He had a box fall on his shoulder (official story) and he went under the knife.  He’ll miss […]

The Neifi Perez era may be over in Detroit as the veteran infielder filed for free agency yesterday.  It’ll be interesting to see if Neifi will latch on after the drug suspensions or whether his illustrious career is now over.

That’s two pretty good bluechip prospects for Renteria.  I’ll comment more on this deal tonight.  Make that tomorrow.  I’m having some periodic internet outages so I don’t want to have to redo this several times.
***ANALYSIS***
It’s funny because a couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me what big move the Tigers would make this offseason. […]

Not sure why I picked today to end my little sabatical, but it is what it is.  Jason Beck answered reader’s mail yesterday in his regular mailbag column and he talks about everything from Cameron Maybin to the differences between the Arizona Fall League and the Hawaiian Winter League.
Also, the Tigers made a front office […]

Two Tiger draft picks are turning heads in this year Florida Instructional League.  Rick Porcello is an obvious one because of the hype surrounding him in the 2007 draft and fifth round pick Casey Crosby is also making an impact down in Florida and it was very nice to read about how Porcello has a […]

The Tigers are going with Ivan Rodriguez as their catcher for another year.  Look for my commentary tonight.
***UPDATE***
The Tigers picked up their option on Pudge today at a net cost of $10 million.  He’ll make $13 million but the buyout was $3 million so the Tigers would have been on the hook regardless.
At the plate, […]

It looks like Jose Mesa is back to his old tricks.  He was hammered for three runs in the Phillies’ loss to the Rockies yesterday.  It’s almost kind of sad that he’s on a playoff roster.
I helped two pairs of friends start a couple of local interest blogs.  Be sure to stop by Pistonsblog and […]

Jim Leyland got his contract extended for an extra year and he’s locked in as the Tigers manager through 2009.  Leyland’s has a very respectable 183-141 record since joining the Tigers.
Two former Tigers won both the NL and AL comeback player of the year.  Carlos Pena won the AL comeback player of the year after […]

Alright, the Rockies became the final team to enter the playoffs this year with an exciting win over the Padres so the cast of eight is now set.  There’s no baseball today, but tomorrow things kick off with three games.  I’m kind of bummed because I’m working a contract job right now and while the […]

The Tigers closed the book on their 2007 season with a blowout win over the White Sox yesterday.  I was in Toronto over the weekend so I wasn’t able towatch much of the action but Magglio Ordonez went three for four and he belted his 54th homer of the season.  He finished the season with […]

Well, the Tigers chance to win 90 is now gone after losing to the White Sox last night.  Kenny Rogers had a rough start but the highlight of the day was another solid game by Magglio Ordonez.  One of his two hits was his 53rd double and he drove in his 137th run of the […]

The Tigers won last night in an odd, rain shortened game but they were also eliminated from playoff contention as the Yankees blew out the Devil Rays to clinch up the Wild Card.  As a Tiger fan though, it’s hard to be too disappointed and in a way, I think they go their seasons crossed […]

The Tigers kept their slim playoff hopes alive in a beatdown over the Twins.  Yorman Bazardo was the star on the pitching side and he threw seven shutout innings to improve to 2-1.  Joel Zumaya and Chad Durbin both threw a shutout frame to close out the game.
Curtis Granderson picked up his 23rd triple of […]

The Tigers still aren’t mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but they’d need a downright miracle at this point as the Yankees magic number for the Wild Card is now down to just one.  Carlos Silva and the Twins pen held the Tigers to just six singles and a double in a 2-0 shutout loss.
The one double […]

The Indians clinched the American League Central over the weekend and the Yankees magic number is down to two for the Wild Car.  At this point, the Tigers need to win their remaining six games AND have the Yankee lose their remaining seven to win the Wild Card outright.  They can lose or the Yankees […]

If you still had faith after Monday’s lost to the Indians, it has to be pretty much gone at this point.  While the Tigers haven’t been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, they face an uphill battle that looks pretty much insurmountable.  The Tigers are now six losses back of the Yankees with just nine games […]

I’ll save the eulogy for when the Tigers are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but it’s safe to say that the chances of Detroit making the postseason this year are very, very slim.  They’re five losses back with ten to play for the Wild Card and the Indians don’t even have to play .500 ball […]

The Tigers let another game get away from them and at this point, even the most optimistic of Tigers fans have to be thinking that this game is the straw that broke the camel’s back.  Up 5-2 in the eighth inning, Joel Zumaya was tagged for three runs that sent the game into extra frames.  […]

The Tigers pulled off a sweep this weekend and Jair Jurrjens gave the Tigers another huge boost (and hopefully a glimpse of things to come) with a solid start to take care of the Twins for a three game sweep.   Jurrjens didn’t give up a hit until the sixth inning when he was also tagged […]

If you would have told me that Yorman Bazardo would be gone before the end of the fifth inning and that Johan Santana threw eight innings, I would have thought the Tigers were toast.  Of course that only applies when Johan isn’t doing his best Jeremy Bonderman impersonation because the Tigers tagged him for four […]

The Tigers won, but with just over two weeks left in the season, the Tigers also need help and they didn’t get any last night.  The Yankees stormed back and scored six runs in the eighth inning to beat the Red Sox and even the Indians came back and won.  So at the end of […]

Justin Verlander won his fourth straight start and his sixth out of the last seven to improve to 17-5 on the season in the Tigers 5-1 win in their finale over Texas.  Verlander gave up just one run on seven hits and a walk and he struck out seven.  Joel Zumaya and Todd Jones each […]

I’m watching the game and Curtis Granderson almost grounded into a double play.  Curtis amazingly has grounded into just one double play all season and if he finishes the season with just one, he’ll be only the fifth player in the last 27 years to ground into one double play or less and have more […]

Things  got off to an immediately bad start yesterday as the Tigers were pummelled in game one of their doubleheader with the Rangers.  The Rangers set a record for homeruns by visiting team with seven in a 13-6 beatdown that at one point had the Tigers down 11-0 late.  The four starters who threw at […]

At the end of this month, last night’s game may end up meaning little but man, was it fun to watch.  Roy Halladay owned the Tigers most of the night and heading into the ninth, the Jays had a comfortable 4-1 lead.  Mike Rabelo led off with a single and then Timo Perez hit one up the middle […]

It’s been a rough day but it ended with a smile as the Tigers came back from a 4-1 deficit to score four runs in the ninth to win it.  Magglio Ordonez and Curtis Granderon each had two run singles with Maggs drivine in the tying and winning runs.
I’m beat so I’m crashing.  I’ll have […]

Jim Leyland said that there’s a good chance that Jeremy Bonderman will be shut down, potentially for the entire season.  Bonderman hasn’t been the same pitcher in the second half and it looks like one of the culprit’s is a sore elbow.  Billfer wrote up an excellent analysis of Bonderman’s second half slide so be sure to […]

Jeremy Bonderman had another poor start yesterday afternoon as the Mariners blew out the Tigers 14-7 in an ugly game.  Bonderman was back to having first inning troubles when he gave up two runs in the first frame but Felix Hernandez outdid him by giving up four in the bottom of the first.  That was the […]

Curtis Granderson just did it. He stole his 20th base to become just the third player in major league history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 homeruns and steal 20 bases.