Martin Luther King Jr Day apparently doesn’t affect the front offices of major league baseball teams as many are finalizing contracts with their arbitration eligible players today. Rick Porcello’s signing was reported first and now it appears that lefty reliever Phil Coke will make $1.1M base this year and could take home another $50K based [...]
MLB Trade Rumors has reported this morning that the Tigers will avoid arbitration with 23 year old Porcello. The contract is said to be worth $3.1 million for 2012. Initial take? Excellent value for the young righty who is probably worth $5-6 million on the open market.
I surely hope that rival front offices don’t read this post and decide to react, but it’s a chance I’m willing to take. Over the last two seasons, Philadelphia’s Roy Oswalt has been overshadowed by the Trifecta of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Cole Hamels, and quite justifiably so. Compound those three arms with the [...]
The official announcement of the first 18 players invited to Spring Training comes with the reminder that Spring Training isn’t too far away. According to the Tigers official site: The first pitchers and catchers workout in Lakeland will be on February 20, while the first full squad workout will be on February 24. Here are [...]
Putting aside anything Dave Dombrowski has said regarding the Tigers plans this off-season, I wanted to take a look at what Matt Garza could make Detroit’s starting 5 look like in 2012. In this post I will ignore who the club would give up for him, as that would focus on the future. Jim Leyland [...]
The Wizard, Ozzie Smith, was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 7th round (146th overall pick) of the 1976 amateur draft. That added to a draft that had already seen the Tigers take Alan Trammell (2nd round), Dan Petry (4th), and Jack Morris (5th), all of whom played key roles in the success of [...]
Certainly for a young man who was taken by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round of the 1976 amateur draft after attending BYU, being considered for baseball’s Hall of Fame is an honor most can only dream about. Jack Morris was arguably Detroit’s greatest pitcher during the 1980’s and with Monday’s announcement of this [...]
According to the witty Jonah Keri over at Grantland, “the cost of a marginal win on the open market is about $5 million right now”. Give or take the highs and lows of a specific player during his career, there will certainly be years where he will be worth much more than his current contract [...]
First of all Walkoff Woodward started in October as a blog covering the playoffs. Of course, the origins didn’t begin there. I authored the blog Two On, One Out all of 2009 and most of 2010, which covered baseball in general, during the first part of 2011 I began The Tigers Den on the Bloguin [...]
This is more of a reference than anything. H/T to The Sports Network. Detroit Tigers Regular Season Attendance 2011 2010 Game Att. Total Average Att. Total Average 1 44,799 44,799 44,799 45,010 45,010 45,010 2 33,810 78,609 39,305 35,332 80,342 40,171 3 28,984 107,593 35,864 26,081 106,423 35,474 4 18,724 126,317 31,579 17,058 123,481 30,870 [...]
