Archive for the 'Hot Stove' Category

January 14, 2009

White Sox Add Bartolo Colon

Five years ago, this would worry me. Now? Not so much. I’ll take Edwin Jackson.

January 14, 2009

Now I Feel Better

This is the bullpen help we’ve been waiting for?

January 12, 2009

ESPN Hot Stove Lens Points toward Tigers

Here’s a Hot Stove report from Peter Gammons. Nothing you don’t already know.

December 11, 2008

MLB.com Video: Dombrowski Comments on Tigers Deals

MLB.com has a central location for all Tigers-related video from the Winter Meetings, you can watch them here. You’ll find: Dave Dombrowski on Edwin Jackson trade Jim Leyland on 2009 Dombrowski on Laird deal Jason Beck on Laird, and the Adam Everett signing The site also has some older videos too — game highlights from [...]

December 10, 2008

Baseball Prospectus on Jackson

I’m still wrapping my head around this trade. So, to get some idea of what the Tigers are getting in Edwin Jackson I reached for my trusty copy of Baseball Prospectus 2008. Here’s what it has to say about the newest Tiger: It’s been more than four years since Jackson was one of the top [...]

December 10, 2008

Joyce Goes Home, Tigers Fans Go “Huh?”

Meet your new number-three starter: Edwin Jackson. Or maybe he’s number two. Who knows? All we do know is that the Tigers made the most curious trade since…since…Dickie Noles-for-Dickie Noles? While the Mets, Mariners and Indians were swingin’ a 12-player trade (with J.J. Putz as the centerpiece) the Tigers were not zeroing in on a [...]

December 10, 2008

Matt Joyce for Edwin Jackson

I really want to give Dave Dombrowski the benefit of the doubt on this one. I really do. But I am not seeing it. Matt Joyce is a lefthanded power bat, something the Tigers have needed for a while, who could take over at either of the corner OF spots once Sheffield was gone and [...]