Grant StoyeGrant Stoye

I love baseball, and naturally, love the Tigers. Bobby Higginson and Cecil Fielder shall always be my favorites, and "Randy Smith" is still a four-letter-word to me. I obsess over Hot Stove season and treat fantasy baseball like a religion. Otherwise, I write for Mlive and have a book on Amazon. I can also draw dinosaurs in formal attire.

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Miguel Cabrera: Trade Bait?

Miguel Cabrera just hit an opposite-field home run 441 feet. This is not something normal ball players do. This is not something good ball players do. This is unreal. After the oppo-dong landed several…Read More

Hereditary Fandom

My prolonged absence Motor City Bengals is in part because of my grandpa, who has recently been having serious health problems. It’s been hard to function in my daily life with worry in my heart and…Read More

Breaking Tigers Trade

April’s opening sees a startlingly bold move by Dave Dombrowski, as the Detroit Tigers GM has traded Rick Porcello, Andy Dirks, and a player to be named later to the 1991 Oakland Athletics for  Rickey…Read More

The View from Lakeland, Part One

This past week I was lucky enough to be able to spend two days in Lakeland to watch the Tigers take on the Braves and the Phillies, and most importantly to be reminded of what Sunshine is. There’s something…Read More

Don’t Panic!

To preface: Spring Training stats are, for the most part, pretty useless. Pitchers routinely go on record saying that their sole purpose is to work on particular pitches during an outing, so the seven…Read More

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Could Jose Valverde Return?

Two different news sources (CBSsports and Rotoworld) piqued my curiosity today when mentioning the Tigers’…Read More

2013 Detroit Tigers Closer: Team Al Alburquerque

There’s just something about the cavalier words of Jim Leyland that makes a Tiger fan uneasy. Whether…Read More

Polanco Exodus Revisited

When the Detroit Tigers made the announcement that they weren’t bringing back Placido Polanco, it seemed…Read More

A Detroit World Series Followed by…?

There’s something fascinating about the construction of a successful baseball team. Look at the gradual…Read More

The Kansas City Royals are Terrifying

One of the things I disliked the most about not having my laptop for several days was trying to follow…Read More

Drews Are Never the Answer, Mr. Dombrowski

In terms of the Tigers’ pursuit of Stephen Drew, Han Solo said it best in “Return of the Jedi”: “I…Read More

2013 Payroll Concerns (or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mike Illitch”)

With the recent addition of Torii Hunter, the Tigers committed $26 million dollars to the payroll for…Read More

Why Not Kick the Tires on Giancarlo Stanton?

First and foremost, with Jeffrey Loria completely fleecing the city of Miami, the taxpayers of Miami-Dade…Read More

Anibal Sanchez’s Contract Demands

Recently Jon Paul Morosi reported that Anibal Sanchez has set his contract parameters: somewhere around…Read More

Kevin Youkilis: Detroit Enemy Number One

August 11, 2009. That was the day that 20-year old Rick Porcello plunked a bald, grumpy Red Sox player…Read More

Dave Dombrowski at the GM Meetings

Starting this Wednesday, all of Major League Baseball’s general managers will convene in Indian…Read More

Detroit Tigers Hot Stove Armchair GM Volume 2

After reading Chris Hannum’s superb Armchair GM article I was too excited not to do my own. My main…Read More

Now for Four Months of Tigers Speculation in Detroit!

Although the outcome was ultimately disappointing, this was as good a World Series I’ve seen in a while.…Read More

What, Tigers Fans Worry?

To preface: This World Series is a competition between two very good baseball teams. The Giants had been…Read More

Taking The High Road On Jose Valverde

A buddy of mine recently retweeted a DetTigerTalk message saying, “Dear #Tigers fans. Please,…Read More