he was very good before inuries….even considered a closer before devine, baily and others came along

but he was coming back from injuries.
he can be very very good. he needs someone like Knapp
to give him confidence and throw strikes; he has walked to
many after injuries

He thought he was getting 220 pounds of Coke and a few scrubs for Granderson!

"I’d say Detroit did the best," one veteran scout said. "I believe the Yankees are going to see that they are not getting what they think in (Curtis) Granderson. I changed my mind on his defense this year. He turned routine plays into ‘Web Gems’ because he got bad jumps. And he struck out too much and couldn’t hit left-handers.

Source: http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2009/12/scouts_tigers_got_best_of_thre.html

I’d never seen Mark Schlereth before—I don’t follow fottball much—but he’s certain the spttign image of his son. Once the Tigers’ bats put a little gray in the younger Schlereth’s goatee, no one will be able to tell them apart.

And suppose that president/general manager Dave Dombrowski had known in early July that the Tigers would miss the playoffs and owner Mike Ilitch would tell Dombrowski to cut payroll. Would Dombrowski have waived Magglio Ordoñez, saving $15 million in 2010?

I don’t think Rosenberg understands contracts very well.

The common version of this idea is that the Tigers should have sat Ordonez down to prevent him from reaching the number of at bats needed to trigger the option year of his contract. The fallacy of that idea is that it’s a breach of contract for the Tigers simply to sit Ordonez down to prevent the option from vesting—he can only be sat down for baseball reasons.

Rosenberg’s idea is even stranger—that the Tigers should have waived Ordonez to prevent the option from vesting. That doesn’t work—you don’t get out of a player’s contract by waiving him. Ordonez, would have signed with, say, Cleveland, for the league minimum—The Tigers would be on the hook for the salary difference—and you can be sure that Cleveland would take great care to ensure that Ordonez got enough at bats for the option to vest, since they would be spending the Tigers’ money.

Please tell me there is still some hope for us bringing in Pierre for LF….He has a great uzr rating there, and can be that leadoff guy we are now missing…..(No offense to Sizemore, AJAX, Clete, or whoever else is being considered to bat first, but they just aren’t going to be as good as Pierre)

Last I checked we have three pitchers with equal contracts, or Guillen makes 3 million more than Pierre….We won’t have to change our payroll at all to get a guy, who may not be the guy who has the best OBP, but he is a singles machine, and can hit .280 or .290. I don’t know what Sizemore will do in his first season, but if he OR Jackson can hit .280 or .290 in their rookie years, I would be really surprised. .400 OBP in the minors isn’t enough to convince me he is going to do that much better than Pierre’s. Having a guy who is fast enough to score from first, CAN get on base, and even steal 40 a year all while playing a solid LF is tempting…