Long-time readers of The Daily Fungo have likely grown weary of my professed love of the Rockies and Coors Field. So I’ll spare them the details and provide new readers with the gist: I attended the Rockies’ first-ever home game at Mile High Stadium against the Expos in April 1993 (thanks to a grueling roadtrip [...]

Is it just me or were there a lot of Aug. 31 trades made back in the day? Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s it seemed that Oakland was always adding a big name at the deadline — Willie McGee, Ruben Sierra, Harold Baines. Just asking. The last time the Tigers made any [...]

Tigers’ Record: 23-17, 1st Place; Tied with Minnesota Today’s Game Tigers at Dodgers | 10:10 p.m. ET – Dodger Stadium | On the air: FSD/AM 1270 & 97.1 FM Pitching Matchup Dontrelle Willis (1-1, 4.68 ERA) vs. RHP Chad Billingsley (4-2, 4.03 ERA) Yesterday’s Results Tigers 5 – A’s 2 W: Jeremy Bonderman (2-2) L: [...]

In case you were wondering, here’s what Nate Robertson looks like in a Photoshop-driven Marlins get-up. Here’s what Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez had to say about his new starter: “I know that he’s a pretty good pitcher. … “There were a couple of years that he threw right around 200 innings. He’s a workhorse. Coming [...]

So where does last night’s dust-up rank in the annals of Tigers bench clearers? Hmm. Well, it wasn’t as interesting as the 1980 Tigers/White Sox brawl (a.k.a. Cowens v. Farmer Grudge Match), nor as violent as Tigers/White Sox circa 2000. Here’s a refresher on that one: Sixteen players, coaches and managers suspended. Nine others fined. [...]

Dontrelle Willis returns to the D as a reliever. If he continues to pitch the way he has in Spring Training and early in the regular season, his name might very well end up ahead of Damion Easley as the Tigers most expensive contract-as-main-course ever. Rob Neyer‘s already weighed in on the move. Speaking of [...]

The other day I sent an instant message to Ian Casselberry asking if, perchance, the Tigers may be feeling some buyer’s remorse regarding the Miguel Cabrera trade. I admitted to Ian that it’s way early but that doesn’t mean that panic is not setting in everywhere around Comerica Park — but never at Fungo HQ! [...]