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Jason Beck / MLB.com The Tigers have invited back all but one of their coaches for next season, including hitting coach Lloyd McClendon and pitching coach Rick Knapp. Third-base coach Gene Lamont, bullpen coach Jeff Jones and infield coach Rafael Belliard are also invited back. The one coach not ...
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The Tigers are traveling to Minnesota for Tuesday's
AL Central tiebreaker and if they have any organizational...
backbone, they'll tell Miguel Cabrera (notes) he's not playing in the game. Actually, if I were Detroit GM Dave Dombrowski, I'd go one ...
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Tigers response should be strong: Send Cabrera home for year
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Tigers announce five of six coaches return; Van Slyke not one of them
Detroit Tigers blog —
... MLB'com's Jason Beck reports the Tigers have not yet decided whether all the coaches will continue in their current roles. McClendon has served as the de facto bench coach for Detroit, which does not officially have done. So those hoping McClendon is replaced can continue to hold out hope. ...
Andy Van Slyke Won't Return Next Season
Bless You Boys —
... will not be among the five coaches of Jim Leyland's staff to return in 2010. It was not revealed by the Tigers, however, whether or not Van Slyke was dismissed or chose to leave. When asked to clarify that distinction by Jason Beck, Van Slyke said it was "irrelevant." ...
Odds & Ends: Astros, Brewers, Tigers
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... The Tigers have invited all of their coaches back for next season except for one, writes Jason Beck of MLB.com. First-base coach and outfield instructor Andy Van Slyke has "decided to pursue other opportunities," according to a Tigers press release. ...
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mackavenuetigers.com 10/9/2009 — Lloyd McClendon will apparently be back with the Tigers' coaching staff next season; Andy Van Slyke will not.
A day after Tigers GM/CEO Dave Dombrowski stated McClendon was a very good hitting coach, the Tigers announced his job is apparently safe. It is still possible, however, that ...
Andy Van Slyke Won't Return Next Season
blessyouboys.com 10/10/2009 —
One member of the Detroit Tigers ' coaching staff will not be back next season, but it's not the guy many expected (or hoped) would be gone.
First base coach Andy Van Slyke will not be among the five coaches of Jim Leyland 's staff to return ...
The Tigers’ collapse should come as no surprise
thesportsbank.net 10/5/2009 —
Today I have a splitting headache and I’m not sure if it’s because I might have swine flu or because the Tigers epically failed to seal the division championship over the weekend.
To be honest, I’d rather have the swine flu.
The Tigers 5-3 win yesterday afternoon, a win that forced a ...
How Do Jim Leyland’s Teams Finish?
dailyfungo.com 10/5/2009 — The icy-cold fact is this: if the Tigers surrender the division lead — one they’ve held in some fashion since May 14 — on the last day of the season, it will be a one-of-a-kind collapse: a three-game cushion with four to play.
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Quantifying Lloyd McClendon
detroittigersweblog.com 10/19/2009 — I t’s no secret that the Tigers offense was far from satisfying this year. It was the second year in a row that the offense seemed to perform below expectations, after having a huge season in 2007. Naturally suspicions and fingers start to point ...
The Tigers came up short, but don't dwell on the ending
mackavenuetigers.com 10/7/2009 — America got what it wanted: A Cinderella story.
Detroit got what it expected: Another team that came up short in the end.
So the red-hot Twins will ride a 17-4 postseason push to meet the evil empire from the Bronx today, while the Tigers will be derided for years to come for not finishing ...
The End
tigerblog.net 10/7/2009 — “Now his failure is complete”
Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi
So ends the Tigers season. It was a heck of a game tonight and one that probably would have been more fun if not for the emotional investment. When the dust settled, the Tigers sat as the losers and now their season is ...
For Leyland, no regrets at season's end —
Major League Baseball News 10/7/2009
No matter how flustered manager Jim Leyland might've been with his offense, no matter how much shuffling he had to do with his injury-plagued rotation, he tried to maintain a matter-of-fact approach to the Tigers' playoff chase as the Twins closed in ...
