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Seattle Mariners 1-2 Detroit Tigers: Dreams and Nightmares

Let’s talk about sports as a blanket. You know what I’m talking about. When you’re a kid you know that no matter how scary the outside world is, as long as you keep your entire body underneath your…Read More

Brayan Villarreal Resumes Throwing On Schedule

  Brayan Villarreal stepped onto the mound on Wednesday for his first throwing session of the spring and, according to the Detroit Free Press, felt no ill-effects of the sore elbow that shut him…Read More

Ugly Loss Reminds Us of Tigers Deficiencies

There is no other way to say it. All the sugar in the world couldn’t sweeten the foul smell that was produced by the Tigers play in the field on Sunday. The game was ugly. Mental errors were aplenty,…Read More

The Somewhat Quiet Emergence Of Bruce Rondon

With Nick Castellanos dominating high A ball this season in Lakeland, he has dominated the talk of the minor league system for the Tigers, and rightfully so. Especially considering the system now is without…Read More

I’ve Had My Phil Of Coke

It’s a rare thing when I let my emotions get the best of me. Rarer still that I decide to let my disgust be known in an article on our site. I don’t know if disgust is the right word though,…Read More

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Five Keys To The Tigers Second Half

Recently, MCB writer Brian Sakowski offered his bold predictions for the second half. While I don’t…Read More

Live. Arms.

Tigers pitchers struck out 11 last night against the Royals to rise to 699 on the season – good…Read More

Tigers Mid-Season Grades: Relievers

Another day, another series here on MCB. Of course, when it gets to the All-Star break, it’s natural…Read More

Brayan Villarreal Proves Himself To Be Human

I was thinking to myself last night before the Rangers Josh Hamilton launched a two strike slider into…Read More

If Jose Valverde Is Out For Awhile, Then…

The Tigers closer Jose Valverde suffered an apparent wrist injury while warming up in the Detroit bullpen…Read More

Luis Marte Starts His Road Back

Tigers reliever Luis Martegot his start on the road back to the big league roster tonight in Lakeland,…Read More

Weary Bullpen Gets A Fresh Arm. Tigers Count On Porcello To Avoid Sweep.

The Tigers bullpen has been getting itself quite a workout lately. So, after tonight’s short outing…Read More

Verburg Whiffs Twice

A couple of days back our own John Verburg posted his predictions for the Tigers three roster battles…Read More

Tigers Pitchers Extend Roster Battles

With only one more week of spring training games to decide the Tigers’ last bullpen and rotation…Read More

Rosters Trimmed, Ortega & Hoffman Toledo Bound

  The Detroit Tigers are slowly whittling down their roster to the required twenty-five men. Yesterday,…Read More

Impressions From A Spring Game

March Madness? Who cares? While most of the sporting world is focused on a bunch of college basketball…Read More

Tigers Bullpen Still One Man Short

Last year the bullpen in Detroit was extremely ‘top-heavy’. The ERA for the unit as a whole…Read More

2012 MCB Detroit Tigers Top 50 Prospects: #50 – #46

  The Detroit Tigers Minor League affiliates seasons are officially in the books and the off-season…Read More

At the (Third) Quarter Pole: Rookies

So far, if you’ve been following along, you’ve seen our staff hand out grades for the starting…Read More

Tigers Option Schlereth, Recall Villarreal, Thomas in Limbo

In the wake of the Tigers latest drubbing at the hands of the New York Mets, manager Jim Leyland announced…Read More