Wow.

Nice work, Dave.

Before the names of Kyle Sleeth, Kenny Baugh, Justin Thompson and even Scott Aldred and Steve Searcy evoked images of a star-studded starting rotation for the Tigers, there was one name the personified unfulfilled promise for Tiger fans: Rich Monteleone.

On this date in 1908: Ty Cobb signs with the Detroit Tigers for $4,000 plus an $800 bonus if he hits over .300.

If you spend time looking through old Tigers yearbooks, especially those from the 1970s, and you have no recollection of the barren period of Tigers baseball, you might think those teams were this close to pennant contention.

We’ve all been exasperated by Jeremy Bonderman’s apparent inability to shutdown hitters in the first inning.

Today The Wall Street Journal and ESPN’s Rob Neyer take a closer look at Bonderman’s first-inning baggage.

With one week to go, Jim Leyland says his team isn’t ready.

Okay, we get it. The Tigers bullpen is to the team’s championship aspirations as an anvil is to a skydiver.
But what, pray tell, if it’s not?
I, for one, refuse to buy into the bullpen as Achilles’ heel conspiracy theory, and here are three reasons why:

Healthy starters
Dave Dombrowski
Zach Miner

1. Healthy starters. Among the many problems last [...]

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #40, a 38-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Scottsdale, Ariz.In this episode we’re joined by Dan Gordon, co-author — along with Mickey Bradley — of Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events.Download the [...]

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #39, a 47-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Ann Arbor, Mich.In this episode we’re joined by two well-known Tigers bloggers, Ian Casselberry of BlessYouBoys.com and BaseballBlend.com, and Samara Pearlstein from Roar of the [...]

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Welcome to The Detroit Tigers Podcast, the podcast for Tigers fans, by Tigers fans. This is Episode #38, a 54-minute podcast about the Detroit Tigers recorded live from Portland, Ore.In this episode we’re joined by Rob Neyer of ESPN.com, and the author of five books, including “The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers” (with Bill James) [...]