2011 Pre-Season Preview: AL Central â€“ Detroit Tigers

March 27, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment

Tigers 1B Miguel Cabrera Detroit Tigers (2010 record: 81-81) The Detroit Tigers finished the 2009 season tied for first place in the AL Central (86-76) after having relinquished a seven-game lead to the Minnesota Twins during the last four weeks of the season. They then lost a one-game playoff in The Metrodome in 12 innings, […]

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Can’t Get No Satisfaction

March 26, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

Five days in the Florida sun watching baseball without commuting on Metro, conference calls from hell, or stereo political rhetoric. Â How can the crowds be so small down here when the grass is so green?

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Tigers Starting Rotation and the Court of Public Opinion

March 25, 2010 by Shelly Riley · Leave a Comment

Dontrelle Willis posted a win today in the 5-1 win over the Blue Jay’s inÂ the Grapefruit League. Â In a way, this scares me slightly.Â I was beating the Willis drum when he was signed back in winter of 2007 but it has been well documented since then about his anxiety issues, lack of performance, […]

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