Today in FanPosts/FanShots: Mike Ilitch, Top Prospects Lists, and Miguel Cabrera

by Ian Casselberry on Nov 24, 2009 5:35 PM EST in Detroit Tigers News

This isn't going to be a regular feature, but as we're trying to steer some attention over to the FanPosts and FanShots sections, we'll try to highlight the links and articles that your fellow BYB readers have taken the time to post.

demondeaconsbaseball posted a link from MLB Trade Rumors regarding Peter Gammons' latest ESPN.com blog post. Would Mike Ilitch allow a fire sale?
MackAveKurt linked to Baseball Prospectus' list of top 10 Tigers prospects, courtesy of Kevin Goldstein. Who are the jewels of Detroit's farm system?
SabreRoseTiger linked to a blog post by the Freep's John Lowe, in which he comments on the possibility of the Tigers trading Miguel Cabrera.
rook34 links to an article in which White Sox GM Kenny Williams critical comments about Bobby Jenks' conditioning (or lack thereof).
One more from demondeaconsbaseball, and one more regarding the Tigers' top prospects. This top 10 list is Marc Hulet at Fangraphs.

Thanks to those who posted FanPosts and FanShots today, instead of posting links in the comment threads of other main page posts. Hopefully, we'll start getting more comments in response to those links, as we all get used to people using those features more frequently.

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Hmm

It would be nice if there was a little fanshot thing under the fanposts like in the old SB Nation… is it just me that doesn’t have that?

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by David Tokarz on Nov 24, 2009 10:02 PM EST reply actions

what do you mean?

on the right column, right under FanPosts is FanShots?

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by Kurt Mensching on Nov 24, 2009 11:06 PM EST up reply actions

*facepalm

Yeah, I’m slow on the uptake this week.

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by David Tokarz on Nov 24, 2009 11:10 PM EST up reply actions

"It's like they want to give him away"

Didn’t see this being discussed anywhere, although I only took a cursory look. That said, Jeff Passan of Yahoo sports quotes an unnamed executive as saying that in regards to the Tigers and Edwin Jackson.

It certainly could be the national media running with a storyline (Detroit financial crisis impacting Detroit sports team), but where there’s smoke, there’s usually some fire. Hope not for you guys, but it does look quite ominous for you guys right now.

by toonsterwu on Nov 25, 2009 2:39 AM EST reply actions

I just had this idea...

I know this isn’t a feature, but it might be a good end of the week feature to not only keep the fanshots/post in focus here but to also wrap up each weeks biggest stories.

Sort of a “This week in Tigers baseball” type thing. It’d be along the same lines as the Morning Prowl, but only once every week (or 2 when news is slow.)

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by madpoopz on Dec 1, 2009 10:42 AM EST reply actions