What the Tigers Need To Do This Year.

On Friday the 14th of November the free agency market opens up widely. Already Kenny Rogers has filed for free agency and Dontrelle Willis is still an unknown factor after injuring his knee last season. The Tigers had a lousy 74-88 season. With a team batting average of .271 and a team ERA of 4.90, the Tigers could use all the help they can get.

First lets shore up the cleanup hitter with another power hitter behind Gary Sheffield. In the Free agency market right now you have Ken Griffey Jr. or even Jason Giambi. If they sign Giambi that can help at 1st base and in the outfield.

Next the Tigers need to look at pitching. Just get a couple of Starters that can go deep in the game. That's all I ask.

I don't expect the Tigers to get to the World series but to play above 500 ball. So lets see what they do in this their rebuilding off season.

Tim Lincecum and the NL Cy Young Award

I know this Blog is about the Detroit Tigers, but when a play from my favorite National League team, the San Francisco Giants, wins a major award I just have to write about it. For those of you who do not know here is some information about Tim Licncecum:

• Full Name: Timothy LeRoy Lincecum
• Born: 06/15/1984
• Birthplace: Bellevue, WA
• Height: 5' 11"
• Weight: 170
• Bats: Left
• Throws: Right
• College: Washington
• MLB Debut: 05/06/2007
• 2008 ERA: 262
• 2008 Win-Loss: 18-2
• 2008 Saves: 0
• 2008 Strike Outs: 265

With those stats 24 year old Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants won the Cy Young Award for the National League on Tuesday November 11, 2008. According to http://mlb.com/:

"Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes, seven second-place votes and one third-place vote for 137 points, which were assigned on a 5-3-1 basis. He outdistanced Arizona's Brandon Webb (73 points), the New York Mets' Johan Santana (55), Philadelphia's Brad Lidge (10), Milwaukee's CC Sabathia (9) and the Chicago Cubs' Ryan Dempster (4)."

I've watched Tim pitch and I can say he deserved this award and I hope he does it again next year. Congratulations Tim on both the Cy Young award and the video game cover.

My Life as a Detroit Tiger Fan

I've been a Tiger fan as long as I can remember. Tiger fans are a family choice. My father was a Tiger fan as was his father before him and his uncle played for the Tigers from September 22, 1924 to September 27, 1942. He was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1949. His number 2 was retired in 1983. Of course I'm talking about Charlie "The Mechanical Man" Gehringer. I have some fond memories of this great baseball player. I remember my first Tigers game at Briggs stadium and sitting in Uncle Charlie's box. I can remember watching Al Kaline and the 1968 Tigers win the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.

We were living in San Francisco in 1968 when the A's moved to Oakland and going to the Tigers Series that April. It was hard to to get news those days if you did not live in the city where your home team played. Now with the Internet I can get the news of my favorite team and get it constantly throughout the day.

The purpose of this Blog is to put my opinions out there and what I as a fan would like to see the team do. Days when there is no news, I will post biographies and anticdotes of Tigers players past and present. I am hoping that as the season goes on I will get to interview players and coaches of the Tigers and thier Minor League teams. Any comments would be appreciated.