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 [...]

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 [...]

If you are a fan of the Hot Stove League at all, MLB Trade Rumors is the place to be.  Sometimes, however, you find a nugget of information that you just didn’t want to see.
 
As the GM meetings continue in Chicago this week, it has come to light that the Tigers are listening to offers [...]

Since the 1931 season, the Detroit Tigers uniforms have featured numbers assigned to each player.  Our “By The Numbers” series takes a look at the best, or sometimes just the most interesting, player to wear each number.  We have reached number 8 in our series, if you would like to catch up on the first [...]

Twitter is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?  Upon opening up my browser this morning I saw a tweet from Greg Eno who directed his followers to an article on Mlive.com where Bill Simonson absolutely raked Jim Leyland over the coals.  Simonson called for accountability and questioned why Leyland is so revered.
 
Recently, on this very site,  there [...]

Chicago 3, Detroit 5 (box)
Magic Number 1
 
Justin Verlander probably will not win the American League Cy Young award.  He won’t win the MVP, either.  But today he won the most important game of the 2009 season for his club.
 
For the first seven innings, Verlander flat out owned the White Sox.  He allowed just two hits, both [...]

Detroit 6, Minnesota 2 (box)
Magic Number 11
 
Placido Polanco is not sure where he’ll be playing in 2010.  Nate Robertson and Zach Miner might be reasonably sure, but can’t say what role they will pitch in.  All three of those players were important to the chances of the 2009 team with their contributions in yesterday’s game.
 
Robertson [...]

Marcus Thames is “country strong”. He showed that Friday night, clubbing two big flies, propelling the Tigers to a 10-4 rain-shortened victory over Milwaukee.
After Armando Galarraga yielded a three-run bomb to Prince Fielder in the first, it was Thames who responded with a two-run shot off Braden Looper in the bottom of the inning to [...]