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Weekend Prowl: Watch Weinhardt Again, Eyeing the Mariners, No On Castro, and Grandy the TV Host
If anyone missed Saturday's Arizona Fall League championship game (including two hitless innings and four strikeouts from Tigers prospect Robbie Weinhardt), you can catch a replay on MLB Network from 3 to 6 p.m. ET Monday. Lynn Henning likes what he sees in the Seattle Mariners' organization,...
Morning Prowl: Halladay Hootenanny, Grandy Meets Obama, Viva El Tigersosphere, and Who's Selling?
Could the Tigers really be a player in the Roy Halladay sweepstakes? My Spidey sense tells me no, but that's not going to stop reporters from trying to connect dots between now and July 31. For instance, Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, who remembers Mike Ilitch's "whatever we have to do"...
Morning Prowl: D-Train, Neyer, Rosenthal, and Newton
The Tigersosphere's resident injury expert, Samara of Roar of the Tigers, attempts to determine what might have shown up in Dontrelle Willis's blood work to raise red flags among the team's medical staff, and dispel some of the misconceptions that have already developed. For the latest episode...
Sheffield on Being a DH, Feeling Healthy, and... Playing Past 2009?
For his "Baseball Notes" column in yesterday's Boston Globe, Nick Cafardo talked to Gary Sheffield. And when asked about letting go of playing the outfield and fully embracing being a designated hitter this season, which is the tune he was singing at the beginning of Spring Training, Sheffield...
A Scout's Take on Willis and Sheffield
Nick Cafardo had a couple of Tigers-related items in his Sunday Notes column for today's Boston Globe. First, some talk from a scout who's seen Dontrelle Willis's newly simplified delivery: In the words of one scout, "No more herky-jerky, but hitters are getting good swings on his fastball....
Monday's Frosty Mug
Some things to read from inside your Indestruct-O-Bubble. So, with 24 days until pitchers and catchers report, the Brewers are expected to exchange arbitration figures today with their four remaining eligible players. Brewers Bar has predicted the figures he expects to see. Another day,...
Cafardo's Deep Postseason Wisdom
Merriam-Webster defines depth as, among other things: "the quality of being profound (as in insight) or full (as of knowledge)..." To be honest, I had a hard time conceptualizing this, at least until I saw the picture of Boston Globe sportswriter Nick Cafardo next to the definition. Cafardo...
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