Archive for the 'Trades & Rumors' Category

At the trade deadline in 1996, the Tigers sent Cecil Fielder, the only tradeable commodity at the time, to the Yankees for Ruben Sierra and RHP Matt Drews.
That trade was a no-brainer. The Tigers weren’t going anywhere in ‘96 — little did we know it would be another 10 years before they’d post a [...]

So says Jason Beck:
He’s owed little more a third of his $3.75 million salary that he signed with the Yankees. Interest in Hawkins has also been linked to the Twins, his original team with which he spent the first nine years of his big-league career. The 35-year-old right-hander went 1-1 with a 5.71 ERA with [...]

SI’s John Donovan would like to see 10 trades made this week. Here’s one he’d like the Tigers to make:
David Eckstein (Blue Jays) to the Tigers
Eckstein gets pounded on by the stats-minded community. His numbers indicate that he’s not even an average big-league shortstop. Still, he’d be better than Edgar Renteria, he’s cheap, he’s [...]

In the Jayson Stark’s latest edition of Rumblings and Grumblings he reports:
Catch a Tiger: Here’s another pitching name to file away for your pre-deadline rumor mill: Nate Robertson. The Tigers have told clubs they might have a left-hander available in a few weeks. And it certainly wouldn’t be Kenny Rogers or Dontrelle Willis. So that [...]

Twenty six years ago today the Detroit Tigers traded left fielder Steve Kemp to the White Sox for Chet Lemon. It was the quintessenial Jim Campbell Winter Meetings trade.
Kemp made too much money and former GM Campbell didn’t like players who held out (Rusty Staub) or won in arbitration (Kemp, again). Campbell also liked to [...]

Now that the Reds, much to Josh Wallen’s chagrin, have picked up Adam Dunn’s 2008 option, and that the Tigers apparently aren’t interested in Geoff Jenkins, the Tigers Opening Day lineup seems to be taking shape.
I’m thinking out loud and could see it looking something like this:

Granderson
Polanco
Sheffield
Ordonez
Guillen
Renteria
Timo/Thames
Rodriguez
Inge

What do you think?

Curt Schilling is a free agent for the first time in his career. In a post on his blog yesterday he talks about becoming a free agent and, at the tail-end of the post, he lists the teams he and his family would consider in 2008:
There are a million little things that go into this [...]

Today the Tigers announced that lefty reliever Edward Campusano is being returned to the Cubs’ Triple-A club in Iowa.
A Rule 5 Draft selection acquired by the Tigers in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers on December 7, 2006, Campusano missed the entire 2007 season after undergoing left elbow reconstruction surgery to repair a torn ulnar [...]

One of the most enjoyable regular columns on BaseballProspectus.com is Transaction Analysis by Christina Kahrl. The Tigers rarely garner much attention in TA but this week is the exception. When you look at the number of roster moves Detroit has made lately you will a) be astounded, and b) amused by Kahrl’s take on [...]

For two years in this space (and two years before that to anyone who would listen) I pleaded with the Tigers to trade Craig Monroe. Or release him. Non-tender him, whatever it took.
On Thursday I got my wish.
So where does Monroe make his Cubs debut? Right here in Phoenix against the Diamondbacks on Friday night.
So [...]