I'm a little early on this, I admit. I'm jumping the gun, but this time they can't call me back to the starting blocks. You heard it here first, then. When the Tigers gather for spring training in about three months---it can't get here fast enough,...

Chris Jaffe over at HardballTimes.com has written a book evaluating managers, entitled, oddly enough, "Evaluating Baseball's Managers." Click here for an excerpt about former Yankees, Tigers, A's, Rangers, and Twins manager Billy Martin. Good stuff,...

Just had to share this, from the late, great sportswriter Jim Murray, about the Metrodome in Minnesota. I'm guessing he wrote this about 20 years ago. “You should see this ballpark. It looks like a whole bunch of trash bags of hangers. The roof...

Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander unanimous winners Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera and starting pitcher Justin Verlander were voted the Tigers' top positional player and top pitcher of 2009, in a vote conducted by the Detroit Independent...

Curtis Granderson is a nice guy. He’s the kind of man any father would be thrilled to have his daughter marry. He is one of the true ambassadors of baseball, and I don’t throw those kinds of words around willy-nilly. But I’d trade...