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2013 Prediction Time: A.L. West

The West has all of a sudden become very wild. Texas is still a quality club and made the playoffs in 2012. Oakland came out of nowhere with its young pitching staff, and also made the playoffs. Los Angeles…Read More

MLB Farm System Rankings: #6 Texas Rangers

It’s that time of year again. Time to give this prospect junkie his fix. Last year, I did farm system rankings for all of baseball, and so I wanted to do so again. As I explain with any farm system rankings,…Read More

Texas Still Detroit’s Most Likely ALDS Opponent, Four Possibilities Still In Play

Not only did yesterday’s results – the A’s beating the Rangers, and Orioles and Yankees both winning – not decide who the Tigers would face in the first round of the playoffs, it didn’t eliminate…Read More

Texas Rangers Might Not Be A Completely Horrible ALDS Matchup After All

We’re only two days away from the regular season, but it’s still quite unclear who the Tigers will face in the first round of the playoffs. I broke down the potential tiebreak scenarios earlier, but…Read More

Detroit Tigers Offense: Cool When It Counts?

The Detroit Tigers offense has struggled this year—they’re factually performing below pre-season expectations, below their career averages, and above the tolerable frustration level. Many observers…Read More

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Demand More Than Average, But Don’t Bail Yet

Frustrating, average, disappointing, stale, depressing, awful, unpredictable, disgraceful, inexcusable,…Read More

Why Tigers Can’t Hit Alexi Ogando

This weekend we Tigers fans were reminded of a simple truth: the Detroit Tigers are not as good as the…Read More

Yu Darvish Recovers, Eddie Bonine Retains Grim Record

Yu Darvish made his stateside debut on Monday night. The 25-year-old, esteemed by some as the best Japanese…Read More

The Competition: Texas Rangers

As we all agreed upon here at MCB before the season started, we didn’t want to just talk about…Read More

Ranking the AL’s Super Six: Rotations

The Super Six of the American League have been established. Everyone knows who they are. An underdog…Read More

MLB Farm System Rankings: #1 Texas Rangers

I thought about how I would lead into this, the ranking of teams’ farm systems, but don’t have a…Read More

Winners, Losers, And Random Observations Of Winter Meetings

With the Tigers really doing very little during the winter GM meetings, essentially just signing Octavio…Read More

Tigers Needed Two Wild Cards Five Years Ago

Major League Baseball playoff expansion is here. Most who are reading this have probably heard of these…Read More

Tigers Welcome Back Gerald Laird

The Tigers have brought back Gerald Laird to be their backup catcher for the 2012 season, pending a physical…Read More

Is Guillermo Moscoso The Next Jair Jurrjens?

A lot of our talk has been slanted towards trades and free agents, and well, it is the off-season so…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

Ex-Tiger Edwin Jackson Has Value On Free Agent Market

Edwin Jackson is easily one of the most mysterious pitchers in all of baseball. Blessed with a fantastic…Read More

Who’s Watching The World Series?

One of the things I try to do as someone who writes for a baseball site is, well……pay attention…Read More

Eulogizing the 2011 Tigers

It’s a shame it had to end like that. The Detroit Tigers were dominated in every facet of the game…Read More

Tigers Off-Season Now Begins

With the body of the 2011 season still warm from the defeat in the ALCS, the Tigers organization, and…Read More