The Tigers hope to pull closer to the 500 mark but rainy skys delay the start of the game between Detroit and Atlanta, today at Joker Marchant stadium ( which Detroit won(5-4, overall, 12-14) Polanco hit another homer, the new power hitter of the Tigers)….but the story on Willis is about over, he has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder (which is treatable, but discovered in his blood?, I never heard of this.) I hope he can recover he was such a good pitcher! If he could learn to focus and calm down..He needs to get the ball over the plate!

I guess Robertson wins the starting rotation by default, unless the Tigers decide to go with an all righty starting rotation.Bloom never rose to the occasion in a Tiger uniform, the lanky lefty was returned to the Pirates pretty touched up….

It is good to see the meat of our batting order back from The World Baseball Classic!I feel the WBC is not worth the effort! There is no reason why front line players need to play in the WBC…They need pratice to play against major league baseball players…Besides, we are paying them to play here not in WBC! 

We are in sad shape if Lyon is our closer, the Bosox blasted four consecutive round-trippers off Lyon but we came back too lose only by one run, 7-6( We were down 7-0 at one point)

Jackson was outstanding….He will be in our starting rotation…I believe Bloom should be in the starting rotation..Robertson by default…Verlander and Bonderman are mainstays ( but I hope they bounce back) Willis is history….Gallarraga is fine trade material for a pure lefthanded hitter…

The Detroit Tigers cut another nine players off of their Major League roster on Tuesday afternoon.  Two players were sent to Triple-A Toledo while seven players were re-assigned to minor league camp.

Virgil Vasquez and Brent Clevlen were the two players that were optioned to Triple-A Toledo.

Freddy Dolsi, Chris Lambert, Preston Larrison, Max St. Pierre, Nick Trzesniak, Michael Hollimon, and Scott Sizemore were re-assigned to the teams minor league camp.

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The Detroit Tigers defeated the New York Mets in the first spring training major league baseball game of 2008.  The Tigers used a four spot in the 7th inning for their big inning as they went on to beat the Mets 4-2.

Magglio Ordonez’s infield single leading off the second inning was Detroit’s only hit through the first six innings, until Mike Hessman tripled off the center-field fence with one out in the seventh. Marcus Thames doubled him in, then Wilkin Ramirez’s two-run single put the Tigers ahead. Brandon Inge, who replaced Curtis Granderson in center field, had an RBI single and a walk.

Jeremy Bonderman pitched two innings for the Tigers pretty much just throwing fastballs and gave up two runs on four hits.  Location is the big thing that the pitchers are trying to find at this point in spring training.  That is why you didn’t see Bonderman throwing any of his offspeed pitches today.

Jason Grilli and Zach Miner each threw two innings of scoreless ball while Larrison, Byrdak, and Bautista, each threw one inning of scoreless baseball.  Larrison picked up the win as well.

The Tigers spring training record now stands at 1-0.

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