For Tigers, It's Time To Move On Without Magglio

Magglio Ordonez provided easily the best baseball experience in the past 24 years for Detroit Tigers' fans. The walk-off home run he hit to win the 2006 ALCS and propel the Tigers into the World Series set off a love fest in Comerica Park. It brought tears to the eyes of any fan that saw it. In 2005, he signed a mega-deal to play for the Tigers, when no one wanted to play here, and when no one wanted to pay him. Ordonez was coming off an experimental knee surgery. One that he had to have performed in Germany, because no American doctor would do it, while the Tigers were just one season removed from the worst record in American League history. Sadly, the whirlwind romance between Maggs and the Tigers appears to be nearing its end. Just two years removed from his batting title in 2007, Ordonez has fallen flat. In 2007, he hit .363 with a league leading 54 doubles and an OPS of 1.029. But the numbers declined last season and then the bottom fell out this year. Entering play today, Magglio is ... (link)