Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds

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Det News: Parker: Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds
Published 3 days ago at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Det News: Parker: Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds Life with snarky Parker… Bonds, baseball’s all-time home-run leader with 762, should pick the American League team he wants to be designated hitter for, give it a blank contract and have it fill in the numbers. And that team could easily be the Tigers. They desperately need a left-handed bat in their inconsistent lineup, which has been shut out five times in the first 34 games. Last season, the Tigers were blanked three times. The only thing Bonds—who earned $15.5 million last season with the San Francisco Giants—should ...

Baseball Today: Friday, May 9
Published 3 days ago by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo SoxBlog
... to meet with Long . . . they would understand the issue must be resolved immediately." UNHAPPY NEW YEAR: With last night's loss, Tigers starter Jason Verlander now has as many defeats -- six -- as he did all last year. (Detroit Free Press) And Miguel Cabrera, off to a slow start with the struggling Tigers, admits he misses the Marlins. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) THE ANSWER: The Detroit News' Rob Parker says Barry Bonds is the cure for what ails the Tigers. ...

Not a moment too soon: TGIF reading
Published 2 days ago by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
... . Obviously, he didn’t have the Crash Davis tutorial on not hitting doors with your pitching hand. (I can’t keep giving you these free lessons!) Rob Parker of the Detroit News says “like him or not, the Tigers need Bonds.” I disagree, given that the Tigers are actually third in the AL in runs scored and in the top five in every important offensive category. The problem for Detroit is that they’ve allowed the most runs of any AL Team—yes, even more than the Rangers. I fail to see how signing Barry Bonds is going to change that. But I guess we have to have thirty different ...