detroittigertales.com - 11/30/2009
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Teams have until Tuesday at midnight to offer arbitration to potentially departing free agents. This means that the Tigers need to make decisions on Placido Polanco, Fernando Rodney and Brandon Lyon. If they offer arbitration to any of the three players and that player signs with another team, ...
msn.foxsports.com - 11/29/2009
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It began with a 12-inning loss to Minnesota
in the epic American League Central tiebreaker. Detroit was...
stuck with the memory of a seven-game September lead that faded away, soured further by a night of drinking by star Miguel Cabrera prior to Game ...
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Where might these Tigers' core players fit in?
mlbtraderumors.com - 12/2/2009
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mlbtraderumors.com —
23 free agents were offered arbitration this year,
one fewer than last year. If you're not sure...
what offering arbitration means, click here to read our free agent arbitration primer.
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23 Free Agents Offered Arbitration
mackavenuetigers.com - 11/30/2009
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An organization tree is a nice way to
figure out who's on the team and how they...
got there, so that seems to me the best way to start. Fortunately, Billfer has kept one (mostly) up-to-date for some time now, and Big JP at Tigers Tracks created another recently . So we can see, for instance, ...
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Dombrowski series: A history of the Tigers 2001-2009
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Tigers and the looming arbitration deadline
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Because of Dombrowski’s track record of not offering just to get picks, and the Tigers financial friction I’m not confident that the team will offer arbitration to more than Brandon Lyon. If they do offer it to Rodney and Polanco, it is with the intent to try and sign them. Not to just pick up extra draft picks.
For others thoughts on the Tigers arbitration decisions check out’:
Mack Avenue Tigers
Detroit Tiger Tales
Lynn Henning
John Lowe ...
Roster Rumblings: More guesses on arbitration, shortstop prices, and the Jackson trade that didn't happen
Detroit Tigers blog —
Here are a few tasty links after Thanksgiving weekend.
Lee at Tiger Tales, Billfer at Detroit Tigers Weblog and Ian at Bless You Boys both wrote about the Tigers' arbitration decisions, which must be made by midnight Tuesday.
Like me, all are not certain second baseman Placido Polanco will even get an offer, assume Brandon Lyon will and are pretty sure Fernando Rodney does.
Ian also wonders about how developments in the shortstop market might be affect the ...
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