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Around the AL Central: James Shields, Trevor Bauer, Justin Morneau, and What’s Next For The Chicago White Sox?

A lot happened around the American League Central Division this week. The Kansas City Royals consummated the Wil Myers-for-James Shields trade on Sunday night, and the Indians dealt Shin-Soo Choo to Cincinnati…Read More

Were the Detroit Tigers Prepared To Ship Out Nick Castellanos For James Shields?

Former New York Mets general manager Jim Duquette just tweeted out an interesting bit of news: I was just told by a top major league exec that the #Tigers were heavily involved in discussions for Shields…Read More

The Kansas City Royals Are Not Yet Contenders In the American League Central

Late Sunday night, after word broke of the major trade that sent James Shields and Wade Davis from Tampa Bay to Kansas City in exchange for Wil Myers et al., there was no shortage of knee-jerk reaction…Read More

Offseason Central: James Shields to Kansas City

The button finally got pushed on the long-rumored James Shields for Wil Myers trade. Wil Myers will be going to Tampa Bay, James Shields will be going to Kansas City – but that’s not all. The…Read More

Rumor Mill Focused on Starting Pitching

There are a lot of good starting pitchers that are at least potentially available right now. Not a lot of second basemen (if any at all) nor a lot of corner outfielders with power and range to cover the…Read More

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Series Finale Offers Intrigue As Well

Today at one o’clock a battle for early American League supremacy will take place at Comerica Park.…Read More

Game 2 Offers Stellar Pitching Matchup

Even though the Red Sox have some good pitching names, the past series with them didn’t offer the…Read More

MCB Prime 9: A.L. Cy Young Candidates For 2012

I recently took a look at 9 players who could have breakout seasons in the American League. While I didn’t…Read More

Why Not Hiroki Kuroda as a Detroit Tiger?

It seems pretty apparent that the Tigers are not going to make any substantial moves until international…Read More

What Would it take to part with Turner and Castellanos?

Nick Castellanos is a big deal to the Tigers.  If you’ve noticed, Detroit has shown a willingness…Read More

Drawing Conclusions from the Tigers’ Post-Season Run – Is Starting Pitching Over Rated?

Starting Pitching has long been the most valuable commodity in Major League Baseball.  Looking back…Read More

Tigers Should Be Cautious Of Getting Some Rays

With the playoffs just around the corner, the Tampa Bay Rays made a significant move towards winning…Read More

Tigers Scouting Shields, Astros Willing to Move Wandy

Danny Knobler of CBS Sports wrote today that the Detroit Tigers will have not one, but two scouts in…Read More

Dave Dombrowski Focused on Adding a Starter

This morning, Sam Genson took note of a nugget that Jason Beck tweeted yesterday evening, in the wake…Read More