With about a month to go before pitchers and catchers arrive in Lakeland, here are some various and sundry Tigers items to keep you warm as you wait: On this date in 1947, the Tigers sold All-Star first baseman Hank Greenberg to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1946, Greenberg led the American League with 44 home [...]

If you were holding out hope that Timo Perez would be the answer to the Tigers’ left-handed hitting outfielder problem — I’m looking at you, Big Al — we have some disappointing news: Timo signed a minor-league deal with the Dodgers. Perez, 34, split the 2009 season between the independent Can-Am league’s New Jersey and [...]

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 [...]

My son woke me up at 5:45 this morning so I had some time to catchup on my reading and thinking… Call me naive, but I thought the Kenny Rogers thing would be a slam dunk, even with The Scott Boras Factor. Now that Rogers, who turned 43 on Saturday, is testing the market  [...]

When Greg Zaun‘s liner to left field deflected off the outstretched glove of Timo Perez, I turned off the TV.”Enough already,” I said, chasing my son around the couch. It was bed time and he wasn’t going down quietly.The Tigers, at least through eight innings certainly, appeared to be. You’ll have to win this one [...]

The beauty of being self-employed: watching a Tigers matinee game on my office TV while working away. I don’t do this very often but he are my thoughts updated throughout the game.Jeremy Bonderman clearly has the slider going today.Wow, Timo Perez. As I’ve mentioned before, never in their history have the Tigers had a player [...]