The Tigers at the trade deadline: Porcello is key
mackavenuetigers.com 7/21/2009 — And now we enter the final 10 days before baseball's trade deadline -- a time full of all-day excitement as teams try to shore up for the stretch run, or find a young player to help them next season. Not that trades cannot occur after the deadline -- it's just a different set of rules and not ...

The Five Questions The Detroit Tigers Will Have To Face In 2009
bleacherreport.com 6/17/2009 — The Tigers are 64 games into their 2009 season and are in control of the AL Central, with a slim two game lead over the Minnesota Twins. While Detroit has played good baseball this season, they seem to let the other teams in the division sit in ...

Why The Trade Deadline May Be Disappointing For Tigers Fans
baseballreflections.com 6/18/2009 — With just about six weeks remaining until the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline the Detroit Tigers find themselves in first place in the AL Central, albeit with some gaping holes in their roster. Through ineffectiveness or injury the Tigers are struggling to fill the bottom two spots in the ...

That One Hurt: Royals 4, Tigers 3
blessyouboys.com 7/7/2009 — Until the Detroit Tigers stop shooting themselves in the foot, it's hard to believe they can win the AL Central division. View full size photo uploaded July 6, 2009  ...

AN Chat with Bless You Boys
athleticsnation.com 6/29/2009 — More photos » by David J. Phillip - AP about 23 hours ago: Detroit Tigers' Brandon Inge (15) hits a game-winning two-run home run as Houston Astros ...

Detroit Tigers: Draft Day Analysis
blessyouboys.com 6/11/2009 — [ Editor's Note : I thought we'd move this over from the  FanPosts  for the sake of discussion, since  demondeaconsbaseball   has been following the process so closely for  Minor League Ball .  We'll have more analysis ...

Detroit Tigers’ midseason report
thesportsbank.net 7/15/2009 — By H. Jose Bosch Unlike Miss America 2008 — Michigan-native and first pitch thrower outer Kirsten Haglund — the Tigers have managed to be in first place without looking pretty. Granted, it’s like being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind, but I’m not one to complain about first ...

Tigers 5 - Cubs 3: Seriously, You Guys?
wastingawayinwrigleyville.blogspot.com 6/25/2009 — And as the Tigers and Cubs look on in terror, the people of Detroit discover a large cache of mortars. The end times are upon Motor City. Last night was the baseball fan's equivalent of those rednecks you see on COPS that repeatedly crack their head on the pavement on purpose, either out of ...

The Big Questions
spotstarters.com 6/2/2009 — Here we are. It’s June 1st and the Detroit Tigers have a four game lead in the American League Central. Who saw this coming? I’ll be honest, I thought the Tigers were a .500 team at best. That still may happen given that the season ...

Rethinking the Tigers’ bullpen
mackavenuetigers.com 7/3/2009 — Relief pitchers are unpredictable. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re bad. Sometimes they’re Chris Osgood . Year-to-year, you never know what you’re going to get, which makes the job of general manager pretty hard. ...

Detroit Tigers on Precipice, But to What? — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
With all the scuffling the Tigers have been doing this season, I was startled to learn that as of this final weekend in June, they sport the third best record in the majors, behind only Boston in the AL East and Los Angeles in the NL West. As I ...

Tigers grabbing AL central by the tail — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 6/26/2009
After finishing last in the American League Central last season, the Detroit Tigers were a team of question marks in spring training

Benching All-Stars All The Rage In Baseball This Year — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
Has there ever been a year that you can remember where so many All-Star caliber players have been benched? First it was David Ortiz, then it was Garrett Atkins, then Magglio Ordonez, and now it is Jimmy Rollins and Milton Bradley. It has gotten to ...

Rock City Toughness: Leyland An “Every Man” When It Comes To Embracing City — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
Jacques Demers, as the irrepressible coach of the Detroit Red Wings, wasn’t happy. In 1987, around the beginning of his tenure in Detroit, Demers had to make changes. His team was slumping and wasn't putting in the effort needed. He could not ...

White Sox host Cubs in Crosstown battle — Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago White Sox :: 6/26/2009
It's round two of the Cubs-Sox Crosstown Classic, and this time we're on the South Side. The Sox are coming off two straight wins against the best team in baseball in the Los Angeles Dodgers, while the Cubs struggled against the Tigers, getting swept ...