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Jose Valverde Earns Save in 1-2-3 Ninth Inning, Detroit Tigers Beat Royals 7-5

Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 (box score) The story of this game was waiting for the ninth inning because Jose Valverde was in the house, he was named the closer, and live or die this thing was…Read More

The Cutoff Man: Jose Valverde is Back With the Detroit Tigers

Jose Valverde named closer – REMAIN CALM, ALL IS WELL! – Al Beaton – Bless You Boys With the bullpen by committee experiment having come to an end, Leyland is one happy man tonight.…Read More

Tigers Fans Should Be Patient With Jose Valverde

The big news of the day is – as hinted at by MLB.com’s Jason Beck – Jose Valverde is skipping the Toledo leg of his minor league tour and coming straight back to Detroit. The Detroit…Read More

Jose Valverde Posts Non-Impressive Line In First Two Minor League Outings

The Detroit Tigers have until May 8 to decide whether or not they want to add veteran reliever Jose Valverde to their major league roster (he can opt out of his minor league deal after that date), so there’s…Read More

Don’t Read Too Much Into the Timing of the Jose Valverde Signing

We see the timeline as this, and we assume the two events are related: Wednesday: Phil Coke blows a save. Thursday: Detroit Tigers sign Jose Valverde. It’s easy to call this a panic move by the Detroit…Read More

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Jose Valverde and the Detroit Tigers

As Detroit Tigers management told us Thursday morning, Bruce Rondon will start the season as the closer…Read More

Could Jose Valverde Return?

Two different news sources (CBSsports and Rotoworld) piqued my curiosity today when mentioning the Tigers’…Read More

In Which A Jose Valverde Rumor Surfaces

Just yesterday Garrett Craig wrote a piece about the big-name relievers that were still on the market…Read More

Yes, I will miss Delmon Young (and the others like him)

Thanks to the luxury of a pretty set roster, Tiger fans have been left caring about players no longer…Read More

Jose Valverde Not Receiving Any Interest This Off-Season

  Jose Valverde‘s name hasn’t come up in any of this off-season’s rumors or speculations…Read More

Detroit Tigers Don’t Need A “Proven” Closer

I think everyone is aware by now that the Tigers have stated that they have no interest in trying to…Read More

A Thank You To Jose Valverde

The Detroit Tigers have come out and publicly stated that they are prepared to move on from Jose Valverdeas…Read More

Delmon Young and Jose Valverde Won’t Be Back With Tigers In 2013

We all knew this was going to happen – neither Delmon Young nor Jose Valverde ended up being worth…Read More

Valverde and Benoit Tested, Benoit Passes

There are few ways to put a positive spin on last night’s drubbing in San Francisco other than…Read More

Taking The High Road On Jose Valverde

A buddy of mine recently retweeted a DetTigerTalk message saying, “Dear #Tigers fans. Please,…Read More

Yankees and Tigers Both Wounded

As it all turned out, thanks to a 12th inning catch that Nick Swisher could not make and a hard ground…Read More

Detroit Tigers Win, but Jim Leyland Getting Hard to Defend

That doesn’t mean I won’t try. All season long Jim Leyland has been taking a lot of abuse…Read More

Tigers’ Manager Jim Leyland is Really an Evil Genius

You might argue that Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland was an idiot for going to Jose Valverde in an attempt…Read More

Jose Bleeping Valverde

Madness has been defined as the repeating of an action in hopes of just once getting something different…Read More

Detroit Tigers Keys To Beating NYY

This isn’t going to be the kind of series preview that plays on the hope and optimism of our Tigers…Read More