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Webvideo Miggy's Bomb.

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Webvideo Castellanos' two-run homer.
Nick Castellanos jumps on a fifth-inning Jonathan Papelbon pitch and drives it over the right-field fence for a two-run homer.

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Webvideo Hunter's RBI single.
Torii Hunter laces a fifth-inning RBI single to center field off Jonathan Papelbon, extending the Tigers' lead over the Phillies.

from the Tigers official site
 
Andy Dirks feeling better, could return Tuesday.
A day after the Tigers had to scratch Andy Dirks from the lineup with an intercostal muscle issue, manager Jim Leyland said Dirks is feeling much better. Dirks could have played today against the Phillies in Clearwater, Leyland indicated, but they decided to play it safe instead of rushing him back against a lefty.
Before the injury, Dirks was on the travel roster to Kissimmee for Tuesday?s game against the Astros. No word whether he?ll be back on there now that he?s healthy, but with Nick Castellanos playing the entire game in left field today against the Phillies, as is Jeff Kobernus at DH, the rosters would lend themselves to seeing Dirks play Tuesday.
from JasonBeck'sTigersblog
 
Dirks ready to return from rib cage strain.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Tigers have had enough injury news already in their camp that they were due for some good news. They got it Monday morning with outfielder Andy Dirks.

A day after Dirks was scratched from the lineup with a left intercostal strain, manager Jim Leyland said Dirks was feeling much better Monday morning.

"It wasn't near as bad as what they thought," Leyland said.

He could have made the trip for the afternoon game against the Phillies, but Leyland said they decided to play it cautious rather than rush him for a matchup with left-hander Cliff Lee.

Before the injury, Dirks was on the travel roster to Kissimmee for Tuesday's game against the Astros. With Nick Castellanos playing the entire game in left field Monday against the Phillies and Jeff Kobernus at DH, it's likely Dirks will play Tuesday.

"He's ready," Leyland said. "He took some swings today and said he felt fine. He didn't say he felt great, but he could've played today if I had wanted him to."
from the Tigers official site
 
Miggy's massive homer nearly leaves ballpark.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Few hitters in the game today can make a tape-measure home run look as effortless as Miguel Cabrera. Just as few can make it sound that way.

While the 6,061 in attendance at Bright House Field saw Cabrera test the depths of the ballpark with his three-run homer to left field, Cabrera claims he just saw a way to avoid a double play with runners in scoring position when he blistered a Jonathan Papelbon fastball.

"With a runner in scoring position with one out, I try to hit the ball in the gap," Cabrera said. "I try not to kill the inning with a ground-ball double play right there. It was like my goal to try to elevate the ball, try to hit the gap."

He certainly did that. The ball nearly landed in the players' parking lot behind the stadium. A bartender at one of the tiki bars along the left-field concourse said the ball hit the back fence behind the bar, about 100 feet beyond the left-field fence. Most teams don't even attempt to do measurements on Spring Training home runs, but the best guess was a 450-foot drive.

Players have homered into the players' parking lot in the past, especially during batting practice. Most of those, however, take place during batting practice -- not during a game.
It was the second home run of the spring for Cabrera, who said he's trying to get his timing down quickly before he leaves to join Venezuela for the World Baseball Classic.

The tape-measure drive upstaged Nick Castellanos' first home run in a Tigers uniform, an opposite-field drive to right-center field that looked a lot like a classic Cabrera homer. Castellanos understood.
"I hit a home run. That guy hit a moon shot," Castellanos said.
from the Tigers official site
 
Smyly keeps eyes on Phillies' Lee to pick up tips.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Most starting pitchers will tell you that they don't care who's starting on the mound for the other team. They try to beat the opponent, not the opposing pitcher.
Cliff Lee is not most starting pitchers. For Drew Smyly, he's the standard for his style of game. So when Smyly wasn't pitching during the first two innings, he was watching Lee, trying to get a tip, to notice something that could help his game.

"Every pitch," Smyly said afterward, "I was in the dugout just watching it. I always like seeing how he attacks the hitters, what he throws in certain counts, because I feel like we're pretty much the same. I always like to take notes when he pitches.
"He commands his pitches so well, in and out. Guys never know what's coming. Watching that, it's what I want to do. You know, I'm not going to blow a fastball by every guy, so I have to work in and out."

They have a lot more in common than that. Both hail from Arkansas, and both were Razorbacks in college. They have the same agent, and they both go home during the offseason, when they've found themselves working out at the same place in Little Rock on occasion, along with Cubs pitcher Travis Wood.

"I don't know if he tries to emulate me," Lee said of Smyly, "but he has asked a few questions and I try to give some pointers here and there, and I'm more than happy to help those guys out."
The intensity of Lee's workouts, and the repetition involved, amazed Smyly, but he did pick up ideas. His best tip of the winter, however, might have been a mechanical tweak that Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones made during TigerFest to improve Smyly's changeup.

Smyly threw just a few changeups during his two innings of one-hit ball Monday, and he hit the strike zone with only one. He said the feel for it, however, was much easier than what he had thrown last year, when he was trying to force the motion.
"My command for it is better," Smyly said. "My feel for it is better. The angle of it, it's more changeup-like. Sometimes last year it would cut on me. It's a lot more consistent."
from the Tigers official site
 
Belliard cleared by doctor to coach first base.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It wasn't an injury absence technically, but Rafael Belliard's absence from the first-base coaching box so far this spring was a reason for worry. It ended Monday.
When Belliard took his new position coaching first base for the Tigers' 10-1 win over the Phillies, he made what he considered a major step in his road back from prostate cancer. It came less than four weeks after surgery to remove two tumors.
His doctor didn't want him out on the field when games began over the weekend because he worried that a sudden movement to get out of the way of a foul ball could open up wounds from his surgery and cause bleeding. So Belliard waited.
Dr. Vipul Patel was Belliard's guest at Joker Marchant Stadium on Sunday, when the Tigers hosted the Phillies, and he also gave Belliard clearance to begin coaching at first Monday. Belliard hopes to be cleared to take part in batting practice next week.
from the Tigers official site
 
February 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander is born in Elba, Nebraska. Suffering from epilepsy, haunted by his experiences in combat during World War I, and shadowed by alcoholism, Alexander will still be able to win 373 games during a 20-year career, the third highest total in major league baseball history. He will lead the National League in ERA on four occasions, wins on six different seasons, complete games six times, and shutouts during seven seasons. He will also win 30 or more games in three consecutive seasons, and be the only pitcher in major league history to win the Triple Crown three years in a row. Alexander will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1938.

1935 - The New York Yankees release longtime star outfielder Babe Ruth, freeing him to sign a $20,000 contract with the Boston Braves of the National League. Ruth's new contract with the Braves also gives him a share of the team's profits.
In 1934, Ruth endured one of his worst seasons with the Yankees - at least by his lofty standards - with a .288 batting average, 22 home runs and 84 RBI. This season, he will play just only 28 games for the Braves before announcing his retirement on June 2nd at the age of 40. Ruth will hit the final three home runs of his major league career on May 25th against the Pittsburgh Pirates, giving him a total of 714. His last home run will clear the right field grandstand at Forbes Field and will travel an estimated 600 feet.

1943 - The Philadelphia Blue Jays hire Bucky Harris as their manager. It is the fourth major league club Harris has led. He also managed the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox, not counting two stints - later three - with the Washington Senators.
Clark Griffith, Rogers Hornsby, Donie Bush and Bill McKechnie have also managed four clubs. Harris will compile a record of 38-52 in 92 games before being fired, but will resurface as manager of the 1947 World Champions New York Yankees. He will finish his managing career with Detroit in 1956.

2011 - Major League Baseball names former manager Joe Torre as executive vice-president for baseball operations, replacing Bob Watson who retired after last season. Torre will be in charge of supervising umpires and meting out discipline for on-field incidents.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Grodzicki
Johnny Grodzicki coach 1979.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Uhle
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uhlege01.shtml
George Uhle 1929-1933.

from Baseball Reference
 
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