Like Stripes on the Fur Coat of a Tiger - 12/15

by Ian Casselberry on Dec 15, 2008 7:30 PM EST in Detroit Tigers News

Tiger Tales has an interview with Curtis Granderson. Topics of discussion include situational hitting, defense, basestealing, and Grandy's upcoming second annual charity basketball game.

Detroit Tigers Thoughts takes on the "Edwin Jackson was once a top prospect" argument used by those who like his acquisition.

Was Dave Dombrowski chasing wins when he made the trade for Jackson? Beyond the Box Score has a quote that could lead one to that impression. (via Baseball Musings)

Adam Everett has officially signed his contract with the Tigers. No surprises. One year for $1 million, plus incentives. But how about Steve Kornacki citing range factor in his story? Anything to try and put Everett's defense into a quantifiable asset, I suppose.

From his mailbag, Jason Beck addresses the Tigers' decision not to offer arbitration to Edgar Renteria and how the World Baseball Classic might affect the team.

If Chris Capuano was one of the non-tendered free agents that caught your fancy (though no one posted any comments here to that effect), forget about him. He re-signed with the Brewers today.

This isn't Tigers-related, but it has some local flavor. MVictors.com found an eBay auction of a ticket stub for a 1932 baseball game played between the University of Michigan and Meiji University of Tokyo.

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I like these new guys

They’ll try and make up for their lack of offense but great defense. And, at least Everett can bunt. Team players. No big egos.

by densogirl on Dec 15, 2008 8:46 PM EST reply actions

WinJack

For anyone who still thinks that the Jackson/Joyce trade was the end of the world I implore you to check out Christina Kahrl’s review of the trade on Baseball Prospectus.

Her central points:

1. Finding OF who hit well enough to play is much easier than finding starting pitchers who are under team control for three years and are at least average.
2. Jackson’s stuff is good and he has no serious injury history. His frustrating habit of leaving fastballs up in the zone should not be nearly as difficult to correct as the various other problems in the Tiger pitching staff. Though she does wonder why it simply hasn’t been corrected already. She also points out that Jackson is less than a year older than Joyce.
3. Joyce’s future is by no means a sure thing. He hit .218/.336/.345 over the final two months of the season and isn’t very good against lefties. She also notes that he goes fishing on low pitches and has a tendency to pull off.

Basically at this point all we know is that both teams traded for need and there is no way to determine a clear winner. At the end she writes “this seems like a reasonable bet on both sides of the proposition.”

by MacRae on Dec 15, 2008 9:14 PM EST reply actions