The Tigers and the Marlins completed the first blockbuster trade of the hot-stove today. The Marlins sent star slugger Miguel Cabrera and starter Dontrelle Willis to the Tigers for a package of six prospects, including starter Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin.
For the Marlins, the deal seems to work out pretty well, for their purposes.
They dumped [...]
The entire baseball world has their eyes on Johan Santana, but another AL Central team may be looking to make a huge splash.
The Tigers are, according to the Boston Globe, investigating two potential blockbuster deals.
The first would involve a trade with Oakland for right-hander Dan Haren.
The second would be an even more audacious move with [...]
Alex Rodriguez had one of the greatest seasons ever by a right-handed batter. He hit .314 with 54 HR and 156 RBI. He had a .422 OBP and a 1.067 OPS. And, he did all of this while playing in one of the most unfriendly parks for right-handed hitters in the game at Yankee stadium. [...]
A-Rod and Scott Boras earned the ire of the sporting world, as they announced during the World Series that he would be becoming a free agent.
Buster Olney, citing anonymous sources, reported that the Yankees were over $100 million short of even talking to A-Rod.
The Yankees offered the slugger a 5 year $150 million extension, which [...]
MLB named Carlos Pena and Dimitri Young as comeback players of the year for the AL and NL respectively. What do these two gentlemen have in common? They are both former Tiger first basemen.
Pena, though a promising prospect in the Minor Leagues, never panned out at the Major League level with the Tigers. [...]
Viewers throughout the country enjoyed the ESPN Wednesday Night Baseball broadcast of the Cleveland Indians vs. the Detroit Tigers. Because the local network in Detroit (Fox Sports Detroit) carried the game as well, the ESPN telecast was blacked out.
Why is this a problem? Besides inflicting the wisdom of Rod Allen upon an entire unfortunate city [...]
Four teams. Three Spots. The Red Sox, Yankees, Indians, and Tigers are all clamoring to claim a place in October. With two months and less than 60 games remaining, each game will be infused with a sense of urgency. Fans of these clubs will not need Dane Cook’s theatrics to fire them up. Here are [...]
Baseball’s mythical July 31st trading deadline is fast approaching, with contending clubs clamoring for the last cog that will put them over the top in October. Pundits are predicting one of the most boring deadlines in history, which probably means there will be at least two last minute 4-club Nomar leaving the Red Sox extravaganzas [...]
Comerica Park opened in 2000, as a replacement for the iconic Tiger Stadium. Intended to revitalize an area of an economically depressed city and to thrust the Tigers into the new millenium, it instead has been an unmitigated disaster, and the absolute worst of the new ballparks built in the last twenty years. The Odds [...]
Thank you Major League Baseball. Without your refusing to sell your Extra Innings package to Cable Companies and blackout rules, I might have been forced to suffer through tonight’s Tigers vs. Red Sox game with NESN’s seasoned veteran crew of Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo. Fortunately, I was able to watch the game on Fox [...]
