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N ormally the Tigers signing an outfielder to a minor league deal wouldn’t illicit a post from me, but these are slow news times and this is Alexis Gomez . Jason Beck points out that Gomez is left handed and an outfielder, the kind of player that Matt Joyce was but without the upside (I ...
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Table of contents for Strike Throwing with Pitch f/x Strike Throwing - Part 1 - Lots of Tables W ay back in 2008 I started to run a series using pitch f/x data to look at strike throwing tendencies. Sadly this is the slowest moving “series” of posts ever. Nonetheless, it’s ...
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Win Values Explained: Part Six | FanGraphs Baseball
Showing how much teams should be paying for those wins above replacement we've been talking about.
NHL.com - Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic 2009: Celebrities bask in Winter Classic's glow - 01/01/2009
Curtis Granderson ...
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A look back at the year that was here at Detroit Tigers Weblog:
January
Debunking the theory that long grass helped Trammell’s defense
Curtis Granderson stops by for an interview
Talking Tigers prospects with Jonathan Mayo
Nate Robertson gets 3 year deal
Miguel Cabrera ...
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E arlier in the week I posted my
wins above replacement projections for the Tigers 2009 lineup
. Today I turn my attention to the men on the mound. For the projections I used the Marcel 2009 FIP projection for pitcher ERA (available at Fangraphs ). ...
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I t seems as if calculating wins above
replacement, or WAR , has become the cool thing
to do this offseason. We’ve delved into WAR here in the past when evaluating contracts . Now Fangraphs has made WAR available to the masses. Detroit Tiger ...
I just wanted to give a quick heads up that at some point over the next 24-48 hours you may experience some DTW downtime. I’m moving my site to a new hosting company and that would be the root cause. I could either break something (frighteningly likely) or there could be some funniness as ...
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B uster Olney weighs in on how the
economy is impacting team spending: Throughout baseball, budgets are
being downsized from week to week to reflect the latest read on the economy, and what you are about to see — once the smoke clears from ...
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The next edition of Detroit Tigers Weblog Live
will be tonight at 10 p.m. You can check
back at this here post tonight, or get the show on the ustream.tv site. There isn’t a lot of news to cover at this point, so I plan to hit on the Matt ...
Everett signs with Tigers for $1M, will get most of the starts | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
The Everett signing finally became official. Dombrowski said that Everett will get the majority of the starts at shortstop. I'd guess majority would probably be 60-70%.
The Spot ...
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L ee Panas of Detroit Tiger Tales recently interviewed Curtis Granderson . Lee asked several thoughtful questions and Granderson responded with some pretty thoughtful answers. My favorite was an exchange about Granderson’s defense last season:
TT: In the past, you have indicated that ...
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Granderson signs autographs after last year's event Official
Tiger of DTW and Billfer, Curtis Granderson, will be
hosting his second annual charity basketball game. The game supports the Grand Kids Foundation, which in turn supports ...
T hings started out so promising with the acquisitions of Gerald Laird and Adam Everett. And they end so disappointingly with the loss of James Skelton and Matt Joyce. To be fair the Skelton thing was set in motion weeks ago when the Tigers chose not to protect a young athletic lefty catcher ...
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Could James Skelton be looking at a new team - cr Roger Dewitt
On the last day of the Winter Meetings things shift a little bit to the Rule 5 draft. Okay, not everything shifts to that, but it will be the focus in this here blog post.
A quick rule 5 primer is that teams can’t bury ...
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I ‘m having a hard time even writing
about the rumored deal that will send Matt Joyce
to Tampa for Edwin Jackson. Joyce might flame out, but Jackson has yet to even burn. Jackson has a fastball that averages in excess of 93 MPH. That’s ...
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I had so much hope after the first
day of the winter meetings. The Tigers had two
holes filled with plenty of money to fix the bullpen. Things aren’t going according to my plan. Francisco Rodriguez was never an option for the Tigers, but ...
Tigers 2009 WAR Projections - Pitchers