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Here's the final installment of the spring 30 in "30" series. Hope you enjoyed it or, at the very least, learned a little something along the way. Just 28 days till Opening Day! WASHINGTON NATIONALS Manager: Jim Riggleman, 2nd season (33-42 in Washington, 555-694 … Continued
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Tom Gage: 1. I'm stunned that Doug Baker's World Series ring sold for $12,322.
Stunned because the same brokers have an Oakland A's World Series ring on eBay … Continued
Lynn Henning
Lynn Henning: That six-year relationship between Jeremy Bonderman and his change-up, which was the equivalent of … Continued
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Major League Baseball
- Diamondbacks beat Rockies 8-7 in Mexico - 09:24 PM
- Santana pitches well in Mets' 5-1 loss to Marlins - 09:14 PM
- Milwaukee beats San Francisco Giants 10-8 - 09:03 PM
- King Felix makes spring debut in Mariners' loss - 08:43 PM
- Dodgers rally for 6-4 victory over Texas Rangers - 08:25 PM
- Diamondbacks beat Rangers 9-3 in split-squad game - 08:09 PM
- Reds, White Sox end in 5-5 tie after 9 - 07:51 PM
- Porcello pitches 4 scoreless, Tigers beat Rays 9-6 - 07:09 PM
- Varitek appears for Red Sox in 6-4 win vs. Twins - 06:43 PM
Tigers: Notebook
Jim Leyland touched by several Tigers' attitudes
Dontrelle Willis, Jeremy Bonderman, and Nate Robertson -- three starters who will not all make the 2010 rotation -- all were pulling for each other during Saturday's victory over the Yankees in which all three pitched. - 03/15/2010
Austin Jackson makes serious strides with Tigers
Jackson is batting .429 after he ripped a pair of triples and a single in Sunday's 9-6 victory over the Rays at Marchant Stadium, all before the fourth-largest crowd in Marchant history, 9,671. - 03/15/2010
Porcello, Jackson star in Tigers' exhibiton victory
Lakeland, Fla. -- In one of those mixed bags that the Grapefruit League so often serves up, the Tigers could live with their sweet and sour combination Sunday at Marchant Stadium, where they beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 9-6. - 03/14/2010
Possible Tigers starters look good vs. Yankees
Three important pitchers -- Dontrelle Willis, Jeremy Bonderman and Nate Robertson -- pulled three good grades Saturday as the Tigers whipped the New York Yankees, 6-2, at windy Marchant Stadium. - 03/13/2010
Lynn Henning
Minds are Jim Leyland's business
Leyland is the best psychologist who has managed the Tigers, at least in the past 35 years. Leyland is so into reading the minds of his team and players he would not separate it from his responsibility as skipper. - 03/13/2010
Jerry Green
Ex-Tiger Purnal Goldy never reached phenomenal promise
He was tall, rawboned, with a classic swing. He would be the perfect outfielder for the Tigers, an athlete who would fit in with Al Kaline. - 03/13/2010
Tom Gage: Tigers Insider
Dontrelle Willis is thankful for everything
Giving thanks. Some players do it when they cross the plate. Some in the dugout for all to see. Willis, without fanfare, does it. He didn't know someone had noticed. - 03/13/2010
Ex-Tiger Doug Baker sells World Series ring for $12,322
And the winner was? No way of knowing, but whoever it was, he or she spent $12,322 to win Doug Baker's 1984 World Series ring in an eBay auction that ended Friday. - 03/12/2010
Jim Leyland lays down expectations for Tigers pitchers
Friday's Tigers-Phillies game was canceled, so manager Jim Leyland convened an indoor workout after he had a morning chat with his pitchers. "I told them how critical the next 10 days would be, what I expected," Leyland said. - 03/12/2010
Lynn Henning
Payroll savings after 2010 expected to give Tigers flexibility
The Tigers will probably be involved in a free-agent investment or two during the coming seasons, which is one of the benefits of having bad contracts run out. There should be fresh money to spend on essential personnel. - 03/12/2010
Lynn Henning
Tigers rotation becoming a headache
It isn't offense that has the Tigers nervous halfway through camp. It's the pitching, and if there's a lesson here, it's to never make assumptions about pitching. - 03/12/2010
Tigers: Notebook
Jim Leyland: Ex-Tiger Placido Polanco 'a peach'
He's with his new team, the Phillies, and at a new position, third base. But not much else has changed. He was 1-for-3 with a single in the Phillies' 4-0 victory over the Tigers. - 03/12/2010
Tigers' Brandon Inge will get first start on Saturday
Jim Leyland has another concern -- second baseman Scott Sizemore, who continues to slowly recover from a fractured lower left leg suffered last October at the Arizona Fall League. - 03/11/2010
Tigers manage just three hits in loss to Phillies
The Phillies won, 4-0, getting 11 hits to three by the Tigers, who never got much of anything going except double plays: They hit into five of them as a balmy wind blew everything but rain across Bright House Field. - 03/11/2010
Cost of a Tigers '84 World Series ring? $5,000
That's the asking price on eBay for the Series ring of infielder Doug Baker. As of Wednesday night, there were no bids on the ring, but the auction ends on Friday. - 03/11/2010
Curtis Granderson has dandy homecoming while visiting Tigers
Everything, it seemed, was so typically Curtis Granderson, at least if you could ignore the Yankees uniform he wore during Wednesday's game at Marchant Stadium. - 03/11/2010
Tony Paul: Fantasy Baseball Preview
Scouting fantasy baseball: Making the right moves
Players to sell high, those that are low buys, a look to the future and position-by-position rankings for the National and American leagues. - 03/11/2010
Tony Paul: Baseball Insider
Closer Joe Nathan apparently out, but don't erase Twins from contenders
Joe Nathan has an elbow ligament tear that probably will require surgery and force him to miss the entire season. The Twins aren't about to concede the division, however. - 03/11/2010
Yankees' Alex Rodriguez: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds
Lawyers for the Yankees slugger are setting up an interview as part of an investigation into a Canadian doctor who is the focus of a cross-border drug smuggling case involving human growth hormone. - 03/11/2010
Tigers' Jacob Turner, 18, strikes out side, Yankees prevail
A year ago, he was in high school. Wednesday afternoon, Jacob Turner found himself on a mound at Marchant Stadium pitching to the New York Yankees. - 03/10/2010
Anxious Jim Leyland has 'no clue' who will fill out Tiger rotation
An anxious Jim Leyland said Wednesday he has spent sleepless hours pondering the Tigers' starting pitching and "has no clue" who will grab the final two spots in the team's rotation. - 03/10/2010
Lynn Henning
Here's how Tigers' 2010 batting order is taking shape
Jim Leyland worries about his starting rotation. Fans worry about the Tigers' offense. It's a fundamental difference in how the Tigers' 2010 prospects are viewed 26 days before the team opens at Kansas City. - 03/10/2010
Tigers' Johnny Damon sits out vs. Yankees with stubbed toe
Damon was scratched for what would have been his first spring training game against the Yankees after stubbing his right big toe "running around in the yard" on Tuesday. - 03/10/2010
Tigers' Ryan Perry making noise with solid spring
Perry, who has quietly pitched as impressively as anyone in camp, came through with another typical Perry inning: two strikeouts and a ground-out in a one-inning cameo. - 03/10/2010
Tigers: Notebook
Magglio Ordonez hitting well, but he's not alone
Magglio Ordonez's new muscle, which came courtesy of a hard winter in the gym, was evident Tuesday when he slammed a three-run home run beyond the right-center field fence at Space Coast Stadium. - 03/10/2010
Baseball: Roundup
Former Dodgers center fielder Willie Davis dies
Willie Davis, a speedy center fielder who collected two World Series rings, three Gold Gloves and was a two-time All-Star during his 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. - 03/10/2010
Lynn Henning
Tigers' Dontrelle Willis has made 'huge progress'
Carefully, you ask the Tigers manager if he has seen anything different in Dontrelle Willis during these first weeks of spring camp. The caution has to do with past history. - 03/09/2010
Tigers roll after being shut out by Nats phenom Stephen Strasburg
On a day when the Washington Nationals were showing off their prized young right-hander, Stephen Strasburg, the Tigers did a little showing off themselves. - 03/09/2010
Tigers closer Jose Valverde is no lightweight
Something doesn't click after studying Jose Valverde's first two weeks in Tigers camp. He's listed as 6-foot-4, 280 pounds. The 6-4 digits add up, but the 280? - 03/09/2010
New Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer plans to dial up intensity
Newcomer Max Scherzer -- with good reason -- is frustrated. In his first two spring outings as a Tiger, he's gone from bad to worse, rough to rougher, scored against to mauled. - 03/09/2010
