-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 … [visit site to read more]

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What sets them apart thus far is that they also host two or three daily chats with fans and a person covering some aspect of the sport, either in general or a specific team. In the past, our own Joe Dexter has been a guest and more recently, Kurt Mensching and Jason Beck have also appeared to talk Tigers. There really is a lot of good information and I strongly encourage all of you to go check them out.

But as far as their ranking of the Tigers offseason, there’s where we have a problem.

Mike Spiciarich posted the HotStove rankings last night, and you have to scroll a long, long way down the list before you find the Tigers, whom he ranked 22nd of the 30 teams. They ranked behind the Astros, whom most of baseball regarded as giving out two of the worst contracts this year (signing Brandon Lyon for $15MM and extending GM Ed Wade). They ranked the Tigers just ahead of the Mets, whose big offseason included the signing of roughly 19 backup catchers and Mike Jacobs.

Now I suppose reasonable minds can differ when evaluating offseason moves, but I have issue with the logic that Spiciarich appears to have used.

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