Archive for the 'Hot Stove' Category

I was in Portland, Ore., meeting with clients this week but was able to sneak away for my first visit to Powell’s Books flagship store. (One word: Wow.)While I was waiting in line to buy three baseball books — including the hard-to-find “No Big Deal” by Mark Fidrych and Tom Clark — I snapped [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. — As we all warm ourselves by that roaring hot stove, savoring yesterday’s blockbuster and thinking about the holidays, let’s not forget the boatload of trades the Detroit Tigers have made on December 4ths of the past. According to the Tigers 2007 media guide, the team has completed seven trades on Dec. 4, [...]

Are you kidding me?When Mike first broached the possibility of Dave Dombrowski’s blockbuster this afternoon late this morning by forwarding me Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal I thought it must’ve been some posturing and cheap talk.When I nosed around ESPN.com and saw Peter Gammon’s blog entry saying there was some validity to it I let my [...]

I certainly don’t remember when the Detroit Tigers dominated the home page of virtually all of online sports news sites. Maybe when they won the ALCS last year?As of this writing, the Tigers are baseball news tonight. I set up a dedicated page on The Daily Fungo that shows you how the trade news appeared [...]

As the Cubs mull over the notion of dealing Mark Prior, here’s a question: Should the Detroit Tigers make a play for the right-hander?Why not, I say.
[S]ince he went 18-6 with a 2.43 ERA in 2003, Prior has had repeated physical problems, and has pitched in just 57 games over the last four seasons — [...]

Three years ago this week the Detroit Tigers signed Troy Percival as the club’s new closer. Unfortunately his career in Detroit was a short-lived one due to injury.Fast forward to last year and Percival’s comeback with the Cardinals (many thought he’d return to Detroit out of loyalty, if nothing else. [Insert punch line here]). Relying [...]

Each day, the Kenny Rogers situation gets more and more bizarre, doesn’t it?How did the Tigers end up holding the bag after Rogers claimed “Motown or nowhere” for 2008? Surely Scott Boras has a role in it — but given how badly the A-Rod thing appears to have blown up in his face, he might [...]

A couple of quick hits:

Buster Olney reviews the Tigers’ active — and decisive — off season so far.
[W]e’re not even out of the second week of November, and the Tigers already have put together a lineup that will be formidable, and a rotation that has a chance to excel. 

We all know Magglio Ordonez is [...]

So Joel Zumaya’s out until…well, who knows? Not to worry, the Tigers might have a fall-back position in the person of Todd Jones. Unless he signs with the Braves or some other team in the southeast.Worried? Me too.I wonder if the Tigers front office is mulling a call to Mariano Rivera’s agent. He could be [...]