May
08
This article is courtesy of our friends at Lookout Landing Written by: Jeff Sullivan You might’ve seen this, but the other day, when Albert Pujols finally hit his first home run of the season, he returned to an empty dugout. It would’ve been easy and predictable for the Angels players to give Pujols the cold shoulder. They …
Apr
19
This article is courtesy of our friends at Tiger Tales Written by: Lee Panas After a sweep of the Royals at Kansas City, the Tigers are sitting in first place in the AL Central with a 9-3 record. That is their best 12-game start since the 1984 championship season (when they started 11-1). The White …
Apr
17
This article is courtesy of our friends at Bless You Boys Written by: Tigerdog1 Like a kid with an Oreo cookie, I’m going to just go straight to the middle, to the heart of the matter, and give you the answer first. In a word, the answer is “loyalty.” It has nothing to do with …
Feb
07
This article is courtesy of our friends at Bless You Boys Written by: johnmoz As a baseball fan, I regularly mix wild optimism with Tokarzian despair and expectation of 2008/163-level disaster. With one of the Tigers’ most anticipated seasons in living memory only weeks away, I thought I’d share what the devils and angels are …
Jan
26
This article is courtesy of our friends at Ranting About Cleveland Written by: Dan Tuesday afternoon, Prince Fielder, Scott Boras, and the Detroit Tigers put baseball on it’s ear. After not being in on any of the Fielder rumors during this offseason, the Tigers jumped in at the last minute and signed the big first baseman to …
Jan
26
This article is courtesy of our friends at Chicago Baseball Report With as many as six MLB teams reportedly interested in Cuban slugging star Yoenis Cespedes, the 26-year-old outfielder was declared a free agent by Major League Baseball on Wednesday. Cespedes has been hyped all offseason as the next big thing in baseball. The outfielder …
Jan
25
This article is courtesy of our friends at South Side Sox Written by: Jim Margalus In his evaluation of the Prince Fielder signing and its impact on the division, U-God noted that the Detroit Tigers just filled out the biggest contract in AL Central history. That made me wonder what the competition looked like, and here’s …
Jan
07
This article is courtesy of our friends at Bless You Boys Written by: Tigerdog1 Five Tigers are eligible for arbitration this off season: Starting pitchers Rick Porcello and Max Scherzer, outfielder Delmon Young, reliever Phil Coke and utility man Don Kelly. That means unless the club can come to terms with the players before midnight …
Jan
04
This article is courtesy of our friends at Cubs Billy Goat Blog Despite Theo Epstein’s comments that Matt Garza is “exactly (the) type of pitcher we want to build around“, it appears that, with the Cubs planning to go through a complete rebuilding, he Cubs are willing to listen to offers for their “ace”. David Kaplan recently …
May
10
The AL Central standings are looking more like a Bizarro division than those of a division in Major League Baseball in this decade. Here is how they look before today’s games (5/10/11): Rk Tm W L W-L% GB GBsum Strk 1 CLE 22 11 .667 — L 1 2 KCR 18 16 .529 4.5 4.5 …
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