News and Notes
September 19th, 2008 Posted in 2008 seasonSome notes from around the baseball world:
- It sounds like Freddy Garcia would like to remain with the Tigers past this season. If his first start is any indication of his ability, the Tigers should pay the man.
- Jim Leyland went nuts on Angel Hernandez the other night in Arlington. Now he’s paying for it with a three game suspension.
- Freddy Garcia says that Magglio Ordonez reminds him of Edgar Martinez. Magglio has his eyes set on a second consecutive batting title.
- The Detroit Free Press suggests that Derek Lowe would be a nice fit in the Tigers rotation. I don’t know if I totally agree. Lowe is 35, so the Tigers would have to get him with a Kenny Rogers like deal (short term). Also, Lowe is coming from the NL to the AL, that almost always leads to poorer performance.
- The Tiger will start the 2009 season on the road. Check out more the highlights here.
- The Rays have called up last years number one pick, David Price. The Rays will probably use Price out of the bullpen the rest of this season.
- Apparently Gary Sheffield is a little nuts about his uniform (Bless You Boys).
- Billfer covers The Beatles, Tigers style. (Detroit Tigers Weblog).
- Over at Tiger Tales, Lee highlights what the Tigers 2009 starting rotation could look like.
2 Responses to “News and Notes”
By Jackson on Sep 21, 2008
If you were told at the beginning of the year that Cabrera would bat .295, hit 35 HRs, and knock in 130 runs, would you have been happy with it? Has anyone noticed that heis leading the AL in home runs and is second in RBI? Had the Tigers traded him straight-up for Miller and Maybin, we would have thought that the Tigers got a good deal. If they had made the trade and got a decent reliever out of it, or a solid 4 or 5 starter, it would have been a great deal. They decided to roll the dice and got Willis (and gave him a big contract), and they lost on that one, but when it all adds up, I think we have to go back and consider this part of the “straight-up” deal, with Willis just tossed in there. The problem wasn’t the roll of the dice on Willis. You gotta do that every now and then. The problem was that there was no backup plan in case he fell apart, which they should’ve at least seen as a strong possibility. So, I think it was a GREAT trade, probably a poor decision on the Willis contract (they could’ve given him less or had more conditions to meet in it), but overall a decent move by Dombrowski.
By Blake on Sep 21, 2008
I was just thinking about this today actually. Get out of my head. I’ll post on it later in the week.