Today’s news and notes from around the Tigers Blogworld.
-If you haven’t already heard, Lee Panas, a senior member of the blogoshere, as a few new irons in the fire. He recently released a book, entitled Beyond Batting Average. The book gives an in-depth look at the new statistics of baseball. What’s great about that is [...]

If you are not familiar with HotStove.com, you should be. Founders Tom Reese and Paul Rubillo have put together a fine site that collects all the news and rumors from around Major League Baseball. In addition to linking to mainstream media members (much like MLBTR), HotStove also frequently links to blogs, which I certainly appreciate, [...]

Typically, the month of April is the best time of the year for fans of Detroit sports. In any given year, the Pistons and RedWings are vying for playoff positioning (not this year, but we won’t mention that) and it also marks the beginning of baseball season.
Fox Sports Detroit is your home for nearly every [...]

Just as Joel Zumaya drew praise and hyperbole with his first session of throwing live BP at Tigers camp yesterday, Jeremy Bonderman did today.
Bonderman was one of only two American League pitchers to work over 200 innings and strike out over 200 batters in 2006, along with then-Twin Johan Santana. Since that season, however, things [...]

Relax folks, we have a long way to go. Today marked just the first time this spring that pitchers began throwing to live batters. The regular season doesn’t start for another five weeks or so. Spring Training games don’t even start until next week. Nevertheless, it seems all of Lakeland is buzzing about former phenom [...]

Tigers incumbent third baseman Brandon Inge is said to be progressing well in his recovery from off-season surgery on both knees. Still, he will not be able to participate in games until at least the final two weeks of camp. In the meantime, once games begin next week, the Tigers will use an array of players to [...]

In order to clear a roster spot for the newly signed Johnny Damon, the Tigers announced via twitter that reliever Casey Fien was designated for assignment.
Fien will work out at the Tigers minor league complex in Lakeland for the next several days. If he clears waivers, the Tigers can re-assign him to the minor leagues, but could be back [...]

I know, it’s not just New Yorkers. Seemingly every time a player signs a free agent deal with another club, the fans and sometimes media in the jilted city take up arms and go about bashing the player. He was greedy, he’s just about the money, he’s got no integrity. Usually, this happens when a player leaves [...]