Just in case you were having trouble keeping up with all those twitter updates (I was), you can find out what happened in Tiger baseball here.  Stay tuned, though, the winter meetings will be here all week.
 
First, we learned the Tigers had made a flurry on minor moves.  They announced the trade of LHP Clay Rapada [...]

MLB.com’s Jason Beck (via MLB Trade Rumors) is reporting that the Tigers and former A’s shortstop Bobby Crosby have “mutual interest“, and the Tigers could view him as their starter at short.
 
As Beck’s column notes, Crosby is coming off an injury shortened 2009 season where he started just two games at short, playing behind Orlando [...]

According to MLB.com’s Jason Beck (via twitter), the Tigers have extended salary arbitration offers to free agent pitchers Fernando Rodney and Brandon Lyon.  The two players both qualify as type-B free agents, so if either or both turn down the offers and sign elsewhere, the Tigers would recieve a compensatory draft choice.  The players have [...]

There is a lot of talk about whether or not Detroit should try to bring Placido Polanco back for another season at second base.  Regardless of what they decide to do, and I’ll bet that Polly is playing elsewhere in 2010, the best area for potential upgrade is at shortstop.
 
When Adam Everett was signed to [...]

The names are familiar, ones we have all cheered (and probably jeered) for most of the season.  Some will be easy to forget, some we will never forget, but the cold truth of baseball is that player and coaches move on.  If the Tigers cannot extend their season, we could be seeing the last of [...]

Detroit 0, Chicago 2 (box)
Magic Number 8
 
Eddie Bonine didn’t allow a hit until the sixth inning, but when he did, Gordon Beckham made it count, blasting a two-run homer to provide all the scoring (and half the hits) in a 2-0 White Sox win.
 
The game was a classic pitcher’s duel, Bonine mowed through the White [...]

Kansas City 3, Detroit 4 (box)
Magic Number 13
 
The box score will show that Fernando Rodney earned his 33rd save of the season in the Tigers’ 4-3 win on Wednesday night.  The real save of this game, however, happened in the eighth inning, and it belonged to Brandon Lyon.
 
With the Detroiters clinging to a one run [...]

You know that a team is desperate to find relief help, especially at the closer position when rumors are not swirling. It seems that the Tigers’ talks have just died off. Maybe I am overacting, because I want to see this situation resolved. Who knows, maybe we will get a christmas present. Anyways, here is [...]