When the Tigers take the field to battle the Yankees at Joker Marchant Stadium this afternoon, a couple old friends will be suited up to face them. The Yankees are bringing former Tigers Marcus Thames and Curtis Granderson when they make the trip from Tampa.
Thames, who originally came up with New York, returned to the Yankees on a [...]

All across Major League Baseball, blogs and team sites alike have been running year-in-review type posts.  In fact, I did some of that myself over at the Detroit Tigers Den, which I co-write with Austin Drake.  Here at Tigers Tracks, I have mostly stayed away from that temptation.  Sure, they are easy stories, and I [...]

This morning, I was greeted by a surprising post over at Bless You Boys.  Ian Casselberry is stepping down as the Grand Poo-bah and handing the reigns over to Kurt Menching of Mack Avenue Tigers.  Ian gave no deep insight as the why the decision was made, and I am not asking for it.  Frankly, [...]

Now that the Big Deal is all but official, the Tigers are going to be faced with a slew of questions as to what their next course of action will be.  There is an impending roster crunch as two player will have to be removed from the 40-man to get under the limit.  The Tigers [...]

You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach just as the rollercoaster reaches its apex and just before you go plummeting back down?  That’s exactly the feeling I have as I write this post.  It’s a feeling of tremendous excitement and tremendous terror.
There are so many sources to link to in [...]

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 [...]

Amid all the trade speculation that has his name connected with deals that would send him anywhere from New York to L.A., Curtis Granderson is occupying his mind with other things. As he recovers from a grueling season and gets prepared for the holidays, Granderson has decided to launch headlong into another venture: a television show.
 
I’ll [...]

They are not calling it a fire sale.  Let’s get that out of the way first.  Dave Dombrowski has conducted fire sales before, most notably following the 1997 championship season with the Florida Marlins.  This, he says, is not a fire sale.
 
The GM meetings don’t usually bring much noise, and there were no major moves [...]