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Yahoo! Sports’ Steve Henson loves the Tigers. But just not as much as he loves the Red Sox or the Indians. Can’t really argue with experts preferring the World Series champion and A.L. Central Division winner over a second-place, non-playoff team. But just a year ago few were giving the defending-league-champion Tigers repeat lovin’.
What [...]

About three hours before the Mitchell Report was released today, I updated Twitter with this tongue-in-cheek ditty: Is today the day we find out Nook Logan was on steroids? Little did I know that his name would appear in the report (on page 277).
Two bits of interest for me related to Logan: First, didn’t know [...]

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 [...]

George Kell is my all-time favorite baseball announcer and it’s not even close. (In case you missed it, I interviewed Kell on the podcast this past winter. Listen to it here.)
Today voting got under way for the Ford Frick Award and at first I was delighted to see Kell’s name on the ballot. Then I [...]

ESPN.com’s Jayson Stark heaps some praise on Tigers’ centerfielder Curtis Granderson in his notes column today.
Granderson, along with Philadelphia Phillie Jimmy Rollins, is on pace to potentially join Hall of Famers George Brett and Willie Mays by having 20 homers, triples, doubles, and stolen bases. He’s also not grounded into a doubleplay this year which [...]

Tigers aren’t assured an A. L. Central crown!
The best part about Parker’s columns is the headline. Two reasons:
1. You don’t have to read the actual article.
2. The headline is written by someone else.

Coming on the heels of my post earlier this week on Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller being Baseball America’s third-best prospect duo, the pair shows up in the top 10 of the magazine’s 100 best prospects list.
Unfortunately, those are the only Tigers prospects you’ll find.
The other 98 players come from the other 29 teams. The [...]

“John Schmoltz“.

It’s night-night time here in Arizona but I have a few Tigers-related thoughts rattling around inside my noggin this evening (actually morning). Here goes:

Working from home has its advantages. Take, for example, the ability to watch an afternoon Spring Training game on ESPN. I only saw a couple of hitters before I had to scoot [...]

We at The Daily Fungo are nothing if not well-read.
Rarely do I check my online subscription to The Wall Street Journal, but today I did — and I’m glad. I found this interesting piece titled “A New Study Shows How Baseball Myths Can Hurt the Game.”
With pitchers and catchers reporting to the grapefruit and cactus leagues [...]