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The Dugout: Detroit Tigers Spring Training 2010

The Dugout's Spring Training sojourn through the AL Central continues with the Tigers, a team that has never ever won the AL Central. They came closest last season -- after blowing their three-game lead over the Twins with four remaining, a tie-breaker was forced. In the top of the 12th, with the bases loaded, Brandon Inge...

The Dugout: Tigers With Priority Issues

As someone who recently moved from the AL Central to a comfortable new home at the very bottom of the NL East, I like to keep track of what the Tribe, White Sox, Twins, and whatever other teams are in that division. One of those teams is the Detroit Tigers, and boy, is there a lot going on. Skipper Jim Leyland isn't going...

The Dugout: Baseball Is An Obligation

The Associated Press (my finishing hold if I ever become a newspaper-themed professional wrestler) reports that Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland would rather concede to the judgment of a first base umpire than go through the trouble of walking all the way out there and moving all of those limbs and saying all of those...

Clinch Eludes Tigers, Command Doesn't

DETROIT -- It couldn't be playing out any better for the Yankees. At least, that's how it seems. Whether that's true remains to be seen. Ask the Yankees, and they'd wish for the AL Central race to go down to the wire, to a Tuesday one-game playoff preferably. Don't let the Twins or Tigers rest their players, or line up...

Dazzling Phenom Porcello Has Arrived

Jim Leyland was a major league manager before Rick Porcello was even born.In the 23 years since Leyland got his first managerial job, he's learned a lot. Not the least of which is that there are some things you just can't know.Like whether a 20-year-old kid is really ready to pitch in the majors."I can't say I knew...

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02/22/12 Cabrera Not Quite At Weight Goal As Training Camp Looms Source: CBS - WWJ TV - Detroit MI 3B Miguel Cabrera will report to Spring Training at about 265 pounds, roughly 10 above what his goal is as he returns to third base for Detroit to make room for new 1B Prince Fielder.
02/22/12 Jim Leyland, Tony La Russa favor postseason expansion,... Source: The Saginaw News - Saginaw MI It's still unclear if Major League Baseball will expand the postseason in 2012, but Tigers manager Jim Leyland and his longtime friend, Tony La Russa, are both in favor of a 10-team playoff.
02/22/12 Tigers' Leyland still loves spring training Â» Source: Manistee News Advocate - Manistee MI For decades, Jim Leyland has had the rugged optimism of a prospector in the Old West.
02/21/12 Detroit Tigers' Jim Leyland on choosing pitchers: 'I'm... Source: The Flint Journal - Flint MI What separates pitchers who make it to the majors and pitchers who don't doesn't always have to do with what type of arms they have.
02/21/12 Fielder Joins Cabrera, Verlander At Tigers' Camp Source: CBS - WWJ TV - Detroit MI LAKELAND, Fla. Miguel Cabrera began smacking line drives all over a practice diamond at the Detroit Tigers' spring training complex.