By Matt Pelc
The Detroit Tigers got a bit of good news late last week when it was announced that ace Justin Verlander signed a five-year, $80 million deal to stay with the team through at least the 2014 season.
The Tigers started the off-season by choking down the stretch to fail to make the postseason and [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Last week, the Tigers failed to offer arbitration to Placido Polanco, and, as expected, he left via free agency and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies., the place he came from in a trade for Ugueth Urbina, now serving a prison term in Venezuela, probably the best trade by Dave Dombrowski as the Tigers’ [...]

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By Matt Pelc
I was talking with a fellow Floridian Tiger fan over the weekend and I told him that I still have not gotten over last month’s swoon.
I told him that game was my biggest bummer sports moment since the Anointed One found Sterling Sharpe for a touchdown to pull a win out of the [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Well I was wrong about one thing with the Tigers in my articles from the last few days. They did want to win this thing, they just did not have the skills to do it or the manager who has the know-how to win close games.
This was evident in last night’s game when [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Last week all of us Tiger fans, me especially, became increasingly nervous with the fact that the Tigers seemed to be handing the division over to the Chicago White Sox and that Chicago had all the momentum after Mark Buerhle threw a perfect game on Thursday.
The teams came into this past weekend’s series [...]

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By Matt Pelc
It’s a great time to be a Tigers’ fan.
More than halfway through the season, the Tigers have a better than decent shot at claiming their first divisional title since 1987, first ever AL Central crown and their second appearance in the postseason in four seasons.
Detroit sits at 48-39, first in the American League [...]

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