As we head into the final weeks of the regular season, your current league leaders are the Aguilas Cibaeñas/Estrellas de Oriente (Dominican Republic, both 30-17), the Tomateros de Culiacan (Mexico, 13-7), the Criollos de Caguas (Puerto Rico, 18-10), and the Leones del Caracas/Navegantes del Magallanes (Venezuela, 30-24). Also, I must bid farewell to two players [...]
Basically everyone and their mother assumes that Rick Porcello, the 23 year old sinkerballer, is on the trade block – this is a big wooden stump that renegades and castaways and albatross contracts get placed on every month or so – and it makes complete sense if you’re a team who is operating on a [...]
After a very confusing 16 hour period in which Anibal Sanchez was signing with the Cubs then wasn’t signing with the Cubs, it appears that the Tigers – more specifically – Mike Ilitch – have won out. Multiple reports say that Detroit has re-signed Sanchez to a 5 year, $80 million contract. Overpay? Yeah. That’s [...]
I was contacted earlier this month by a member of Egraphs, the digital autograph company that launched this past July, and was asked if I wanted to host a contest for the Holiday. Having read about it earlier this year on MLB and ESPN‘s websites (and thought it was a pretty cool idea) I jumped [...]
The only reason I’m even posting this bit of news that you could have gotten here or here or here, and probably did at some point this afternoon, is because I loudly proclaimed my love for right handed Free Agent Kelly Shoppach back on November 26th and since they have now signed for Kansas City backstop, Brayan [...]
We’ve all been hearing rumors about it for weeks, but last night, as we were all settling down for the night, dreaming of another week at the daily grind without the distraction of a baseball game to use as a distraction from our most intrinsic fears, the Royals and Rays finally treated us to the magnificent [...]
The second day of the Winter Meetings concluded with a bit of news from Jim Leyland, who will be the Tigers manager for at least the next year has decided to relieve Gene Lamont of his third base coach duties and place him in the confines of the dugout for the foreseeable future. John Lowe of [...]
Scott Hairston is a Free Agent. He smacked a couple of dingers and launched some doubles with the Mets last year, and since this is a team that didn’t do much of either in recent years, everyone thinks Scott Hairston is a quality player. Good for Scott Hairston. Good for the economy of baseball. The [...]
In hindsight, I probably should have posted this last week, since the winter meetings are going to dominate the headlines for the next few days, but it’s too late now and I don’t want to go another week without updating. Anyways, the current league leaders are the Estrellas de Oriente (Dominican Republic, 24-14), the Tomateros [...]
Today, in non-news that is now-news because there’s nothing else in the world to talk about on a Detroit Tigers Baseball Website the day before December 1st, comes the announcement that the Tigers have non-tendered left handed reliever, Daniel Schlereth. The report comes from the always wonderful Jason Beck. Many thought that Brennan Boesch could [...]
There is a giant building that Scott Boras owns. In its vast domain is an explicit library filled with DVDs and Photographs, and perhaps even some VHS tapes of random Owners and General Managers in Major League Baseball doing things that are most certainly embarrassing. Mike Ilitch, it turns out, has a whole wing dedicated [...]
