Tim Marchman opines the Porcello deal helps the New York teams. With the Tigers giving the finger to MLB, it should encourage the Mets and Yanks to do the same.

Justin Verlander is the only Tigers on the squad, but they are managed by Leyland. Grady Sizemore makes it as a reserve but Granderson doesn’t.

Leyland has “no clue” when Guillen will be able to return to shortstop.

Henning profiles Worth who went straight to Hi A after this year’s draft, and is having success

Lee previews the upcoming 2 game series

A study of how often teams have been converting quality starts (as defined by a game score >50) into wins. The Tigers are in the middle of the pack at 14th

Olney opines that the over slot draft signings are just waiting to be announced until the last minute to avoid Selig’s wrath.

Is it a better bet to pay Pudge $13 million next year to play for you, or $3 million not to? If you go the latter you’ll be spending money on his replacement. Tough call at this point.

Gammons quotes an agent saying that draft deals will need to be done on Tuesday because MLB will stall on paperwork while trying to strong arm teams in to a slotting system that has no real authority.

Zumaya heads to Norfolk with the Mud Hens to begin a rehab assignment

Octavio Dotel heads to the DL in Atlanta

Gagne’s allowed runs in 3 of his 4 appearances for the Red Sox

David Chadd is confident Tigers can ink Porcello

Things are looking good for Zumaya, with a possible rehab stint beginning next week. Think he can pitch in the 5th and 6th?

It’s great the Tigers have hit 7 grand slams this year, but the pitching staff has allowed 6 now. And three in one week.

Curtis Granderson has the longest current streak

Speculation that the Tigers are prepping a $4 million+ offer for Porcello

A nice article on Lou and Tram. But that would be Piniella, not Whitaker.

Look to find the next great table setters. Gorkys Hernandez receives favorable reviews and ranks 4th

Henning looks at unsigned high draft picks Rick Porcello, Casey Crosby, and Cale Iorg

Henning profiles Jair Jurrjens, but goofs when he says that Jurrjens is on the 40 man roster – he’s not.

Yesterday I did a roundtable with other Tiger bloggers at The Fanhouse

Q&A with the creator of Baseball Reference

Two of my favorite things, baseball and the discovery channel

Roundup of BA’s look at AA

Lee saw the O-Tigs thump the Spinners in person this weekend

Nice analysis by Eric comparing Miller and Verlander’s performances by count

Durbin starts Wednesday. And Rodney was popping the fastball.

Even more speculating on the Jack Wilson deal, and it just gets stupider. This time it was Jurrjens and a mid level with Detroit paying all of Wilson’s salary. But the Pirates wanted Monroe and Detroit said no. At this point I don’t believe any of it.

All the EG research to date listed in one place

Stuff like this scares me. This would have been viewed as the worst move of the trade deadline had it gone down as reported here.

MLB enteres into a revenue sharing agreement with StubHub!

Lot’s o’ Tigers on the list, but when Pudge is rated tops defensively things might be a little amiss

The Tigers have already had one bout with numbness and it meant losing Rogers for half the season.

Lamenting the loss of Wilson…Plus the Tigers offered Trahern for Barnes and would consider calling up Mike Hollimon to fill the back-up infielder role.

Dombrowski confident that Zumaya and Rodney will be able to help and quickly. Plus Marcus Thames and Kenny Rogers are expected back next week.