July 23, 2009
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past,Featured,Trades & Rumors | 0 comments
As the trade-deadline hysteria gains steam, let’s look back on this date in 2002 when the Tigers made another non-blockbuster for three prospects that amounted to bupkis. Detroit traded righty Brian Moehler and infielder Matt Boone to Cincinnati for infielder David Espinosa and two players to be named. The Reds sent Noochie Varner and Jorge [...]
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March 31, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes,Trades & Rumors | 2 comments
Last July 9 I attend a Tigers/Indians game at Comerica Park — the one when the Tigers came back from six runs down to win it in the ninth on a Miguel Cabrera line-drive homer — and found myself utterly transfixed on the father and son duo sitting in front of me. The dad, possibly [...]
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March 30, 2009
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes,Trades & Rumors | 5 comments
Thanks to a timely ping from Ian Casselberry, we heard about the Tigers curious trade with the Braves this afternoon. Here’s how Baseball Prospectus 2009 summed up Josh Anderson: Now 26, he’s still nothing more than a fifth outfielder. Nice. Atlanta gets pitching prospect Rudy Darrow. More to come, but three things come to mind: [...]
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December 10, 2008
By Jim Craddock in Hot Stove,Jim's Gems,Trades & Rumors | 7 comments
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 [...]
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December 8, 2008
By Jim Craddock in Featured,Hot Stove,Jim's Gems,Trades & Rumors | 7 comments
Well, the Tigers once again barely set the suitcases down in the hotel room before getting down to business. Moving quickly to fill a hole, they acquired catcher Gerald Laird for pitching prospects Guillermo Moscoso and  Carlos Melo. Laird is a quality catcher who can hit, and he’ll give Dusty Ryan time to grow into [...]
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August 12, 2008
By Mike McClary in Blast from the Past,Fungoes,Trades & Rumors | 4 comments
…the Tigers sent John Smoltz to the Atlanta Braves for Doyle Alexander. Discuss.
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August 1, 2008
By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes,Trades & Rumors | 3 comments
Now this makes sense (from Bill Madden’s column in The New York Daily News): How could [Yankees' GM Brian Cashman] know the Detroit Tigers’ perennial All-Star and Gold Glove catcher had become disconcerted over the decision of his manager, Jim Leyland, to give an increased percentage of the catching role to Brandon Inge? It seems [...]
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