Perhaps No News is Good News

by FLATigersFan on Dec 20, 2005 10:39 AM EST in Detroit Tigers News

It's been slow the last couple of days around Tiger Town, void of rumors or any kind of groundbreaking transactions for the ballclub. In fact, outside of Nomar signing with the Dodgers there has not been much going on in all of the MLB after the winter meetings have concluded.

Perhaps this is good news for the Tigers...perhaps not. After a "big" move early last offseason (Percival signing), the Tigers did not do too much until late, when Magglio Ordonez came on board. This season they signed Jones and Rogers relatively early, and we may not see another move for some time if the period of quietness (is that a word?) continues.

I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind watching the Tigers not make moves for the sake of making moves. It sound cliche, but it's the truth. We have a couple of young guys who are projected to have bright futures, and I would like to watch us make smart economic decisions and hope for the best with what we have brought up through the system. It may take longer in some instances, but for every great signing these days there seems to be 2 or 3 bad ones.

Hopefully there will be more to write about the Tigers and discuss in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully Dombrowski can make a couple more tweeks to the system and bring in more pieces of the puzzle. Any suggestions?

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Quietness...

Merriam Webster recognizes quietness as a word, but it does offer up "tranquility" as another option. I'm with you... We've got youngsters coming up through the system, with more than a few close to ready for graduation. I know what you mean by not making moves for the sake of making moves. In other words, don't give up on the young guys coming up, and don't block them with moves to bring in vets. Stay with what we've got and let's see what we've got. I think Tiger fans are pre-disposed to this because of the core of the '80's team that came up from the minors together - Whitaker, Trammell, Parrish, Gibson, Morris, and Petry, plus Lemon added via trade at about the same time.

by swampudlian on Dec 21, 2005 10:08 AM EST reply actions

The way I see it...

We wanted a closer. We got one.

We wanted a SP. We got a pretty good one.

Let's just let everything else fall into place on it's own if possible. Unless we can get some solid relief pitching to provide more depth, I don't see another position (outside of maybe 3B) where we need to make any major moves.

by FLATigersFan on Dec 21, 2005 12:01 PM EST reply actions