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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...

The Dugout: Dontrelle Willis Returns

In case you've been living under a rock for the past 17.2 innings, Dontrelle Willis is back. That frenetic, majestic delivery of his, which you see to the right, was a piece of Major League Baseball canon when he pitched for the Marlins. It was as Bob Gibson as one can get in this decade.To understand the real-life...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Detroit Tigers' 2009 Preview

After a disappointing 2008, the Tigers are aiming for a slightly less disappointing, but still disappointing, 2009 season. They just need a focused, distraction-free Spring Training to get back on track. Now if, say, Magglio Ordonez elected to exercise his right to free speech by endorsing a controversial head of...