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Shortly before Thanksgiving I was re-reading* Peter Walsh’s book “ It’s All Too Much “, a treatise on de-cluttering home, office and life. (*Actually, I was re- listening to it as an audiobook. Nevertheless…) Walsh, who is a regular on Oprah, TLC and other TV ...
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Nappy New Year to you and Happy 56th Birthday to former Tigers outfielder Lynn Jones .
The Tigers selected Jones from the Reds in the 1978 Rule 5 Draft. He played for the Tigers from 1979 through 1983 and was a part-timer’s part-timer. He appeared in an average of 61 games for the ...
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One-thousand runs!
Dream Team!
74-88.
As if we have to remind you, that about sums up the 2008 Detroit Tigers. A team that was constructed to maul American League pitching instead became the prey and became what might be the most disappointing Tigers team in history.
How did it happen? ...
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If we had to narrow the Tigers’ dismal 2008 to one culprit it would be the pitching. While Detroit’s offense had many fits and starts throughout the season, the pitching was pretty much the same from March 31 to Sept. 28: awful.
Whether it was Dontrelle Willis ‘ sudden ...
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I know. There have been few uplifting things to focus on when looking back on the 2008 Detroit Tigers.
But there was one — if only one — story that made Tigers fans hopeful and it came as a result of a under-the-radar trade with the Texas Rangers on Feb. 5. The Tigers acquired ...
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There were plenty of signs early on that 2008 was not going to be a championship season for the Tigers. Yet, an occasional (albeit short) winning streak would buoy the spirits of the faithful only to be smashed to smithereens by the news of, oh, another injury .
Take Jeremy Bonderman for ...
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Jeremy Bonderman
When I began pulling together this list over the past month or so, it became clear that possibly the only positive story to come out of the Tigers season was the emergence of Matt Joyce . Joyce finished the 2008 season with a .252 average, 12 homers and 33 RBI in 92 games.
At long last, the ...
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Magglio Ordonez
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The Tigers were likely ecstatic when Joel Zumaya managed a quicker-than-expected return from shoulder reconstruction. A healthy Zumaya (and Fernando Rodney ) was to revitalize a rickety bullpen and fill in the sizable reliability gap late in games. Except they didn’t.
Zumaya was ...
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Just three weeks into the season — or perhaps sooner — Jim Leyland realized that Miguel Cabrera was no Brandon Inge at third base and, at the same time, knew that Carlos Guillen was not Sean Casey at first.
So what do you do when you have to immovable objects on the corners of ...
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It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly five years since Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez signed with the Tigers as a free agent — only a few months after winning the World Series with the Marlins. I tuned in to ESPNEWS on Feb. 6, 2004, to see if they were going to broadcast ...
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Sure, it hurt when the Tigers sent Jair Jurrjens and Gorkys Hernandez to the Braves for Edgar Renteria . There was some — i.e., a tad — concern about Jurrjens’ durability and, well, to get a player of Renteria’s caliber at such a vital position you have to part with ...
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It’s the end of the year, so that means it’s time for Top 10 Lists galore. So I thought I’d add to the list of lists with my take on the 2008 Detroit Tigers. Actually, this top-10 list — which I will reveal over the final 10 days of 2008 — is for the calendar ...
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Thanks to the 17 Daily Fungo readers that entered our book giveaway. Today I’m pleased to announce the winners:
Nathan Markey wins The Detroit Tigers , by Frederick Lieb.
Sean Heyboer , who writes the Tigers blog Trumbull and Michigan , wins the autographed copy of Rob Neyer’s Big ...
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Today is the 47th birthday of Jeff Robinson , a once-promising starting pitcher for the Tigers and one of my favorite short-timers.
Robinson finished a six-year career with Pittsburgh. His career line: 47-40, 4.79 ERA.
The 6 ft. 6 in. Robinson broke in with the Tigers on April 12, 1987 ...
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In the spirit of the holidays, we’re giving away a couple of nifty baseball books to two lucky Fungo readers.
Send an email with your name and contact information and we’ll throw your name in a Tigers hat and select the winner of one of these two:
An original copy of The ...
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Happy 54th to the southpaw who, 30 years ago last week, was traded by the Tigers with minor-leaguer Jack Murphy to the Cardinals for Jerry Morales and Aurelio Lopez .
Sykes’ career numbers: 23-26, 4.65 ERA in five seasons (1977 and ‘78 in Detroit, ‘80 and ‘81 in St. ...
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MLB.com has a central location for all Tigers-related video from the Winter Meetings, you can watch them here . You’ll find:
Dave Dombrowski on Edwin Jackson trade
Jim Leyland on 2009
Dombrowski on Laird deal
Jason Beck on Laird, and the Adam Everett signing
The site also has ...
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I’m still wrapping my head around this trade . So, to get some idea of what the Tigers are getting in Edwin Jackson I reached for my trusty copy of Baseball Prospectus 2008 .
Here’s what it has to say about the newest Tiger:
It’s been more than four years since Jackson was ...
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Meet your new number-three starter : Edwin Jackson . Or maybe he’s number two. Who knows? All we do know is that the Tigers made the most curious trade since…since… Dickie Noles -for-Dickie Noles?
While the Mets, Mariners and Indians were swingin’ a 12-player trade ...
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