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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/03/detroit_tigers_don_kelly.html
Detroit Tigers' Jim Leyland breaks bad news to Quintin Berry, jokes with utility man Don Kelly.
from Mlive

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...end-Quintin-Berry-minors-Don-Kelly-makes-team
Tigers send Quintin Berry to minors; Don Kelly makes team.
from the detnews

http://motorcitybengals.com/2013/03...d-to-minor-leagues-don-kelly-now-a-near-lock/
Quintin Berry Optioned to Minor Leagues, Don Kelly Now a Near Lock.
from mcb-tb

http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...ite-news-to-Kelly-?blockID=884955&feedID=3701
Leyland delivers opposite news to Kelly and Berry.
from DetroitFox
 
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Verlander declined to comment on talks about contact extension with Tigers.
Said he did not dispute what JonHeyman@CBS previously reported.

Verlander: "I've got no comments on contract anything. We're one start away from Opening Day and I'd prefer to talk about that."

JasonBeck
 
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Forbes: Tigers valued at $643M, up 35%

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...rbes-Detroit-Tigers-up-value-643M-35-increase
Forbes: Tigers valued at $643M, up 35%.
from the detnews

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eddk45fghje/1-new-york-yankees/
MLB Team Values 2013.
forbesmagazine

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbad...-highest-paid-players-on-and-off-the-field-2/
Baseball's Highest-Paid Players On And Off The Field.
forbesmagazine

The Detroit Tigers have increased their value by 35 percent in the past year, according to Forbes.

The reigning American League champions are now valued at $643 million, making them the 13th-highest valued team in Major League Baseball.
The team posted revenue of $238 million and an operating income that was $400,000 in the red, thanks to a player payroll that topped $120 million. The team's 2013 payroll is estimated at about $150 million.

The New York Yankees, at $2.3 billion, have the highest team value ? not just in baseball, but in every U.S. sport. The Los Angeles Dodgers, at $1.6 billion, are the second highest valued team, followed by the Boston Red Sox at $1.3 billion.

The average major league team is now worth $744 million, according to Forbes, up 23 percent compared to last year. It was the largest year-over-year increase since Forbes began tracking Major League Baseball finances in 1998.

Forbes noted the Tigers boasted baseball's best local television rating ? 9.1 ? in 2012, 41.6 percent higher than the previous season. And ratings were high for radio broadcasts, which had an average audience of 199,700, fourth-best in baseball, according to Arbitron.
 
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/2013-positional-power-rankings-wrap-up/
2013 Positional Power Rankings Wrapup. Best Team here are our Tigers.
from fangraphs

Now that we?ve completed our journey through the positional power rankings for the upcoming season, I wanted to give an overview of each team?s forecasts for each spot, and then their overall forecast. Keep in mind that simply summing the linear weights contribution of each individual player is a very crude way to project a team?s performance, since it leaves out things that a good projection system should forecast, such as strength of schedule and the non-linear interactions that effect run scoring. However, for being a crude back-of-the-envelope calculation, it also works pretty well, so as long as you take these in the spirit they?re intended and not as the gospel truth, this kind of exercise can give you a lot of information about where teams stand heading into the coming season.

So, here?s the total results for each team?s forecast WAR from the Positional Power Rankings, and the conversion from that into projected wins.
 
Tigers rotation to finish spring is Sanchez, Scherzer, Fister....Sanchez starts vs. Astros tom. in Kissimmee, we're on the air at 1pm..

Rondon was working in back-to-back games for first time...gave up bloop single, LD single, allowed 2SB, balked in run, only recorded 2 outs.
With Rondon shaky in the back end of back-to-back outings ... NOW it gets interesting for the Tigers.
What stands out are the baserunners allowed by Rondon this spring - he's allowed 26BR in 12.1IP (17H+9BB), K'd 19, and allowed 8ER..
going into today, there were 5 relievers fighting for 3 spots - Rondon, Alburquerque, Villarreal, Downs and Marte.....
.both Downs and Marte pitched today - Downs retired all 4 batters he faced, has allowed 1ER in 14IP, allowed 9H, 3BB and 16K...
Marte has allowed 3ER in 12.1IP, 10H, 1BB/8K....the final spot in bullpen is not going to be easy....
DanDickerson
 
http://www.freep.com/article/20130327/SPORTS02/130327071/detroit-tigers-philadelphia-phillies
Philadelphia 4 - Detroit 1: Justin Verlander solid, but Bruce Rondon struggles for Tigers.
from the freep

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/03/detroit_tigers_philadelphia_ph.html
Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander shuts down Phillies in final spring tuneup;
Bruce Rondon takes step back.
from Mlive

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/...27&content_id=43387552&vkey=news_det&c_id=det
Verlander increases workload in final spring tuneup.
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2013_03_27_phimlb_detmlb_1
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site
 
Leyland and Avila said a mixup in signs was to blame for Rondon's balk. Avila put down a new sign at last minute and Rondon froze.
 
Wednesday night cigars.
Back in a few after listening to the doom and gloom for 2013 rsn.
 
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...on-looms-Tigers-closer-candidate-Bruce-Rondon
Decision looms on Tigers closer candidate Bruce Rondon.
from the detnews

Decision on Rondon looming after rough outing.
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The spotlight that has been shining on Bruce Rondon every outing for the last five weeks finally can come down. Now comes the judgment of whether he's ready to pitch in the big leagues, let alone close.
Wednesday's outing against the Phillies didn't make the decision process any simpler.
"From an organizational standpoint, we're evaluating a couple of these last decisions we have to make," manager Jim Leyland said. "We evaluated yesterday and we evaluated today, and we will discuss those evaluations in both instances."
Without saying as much, Leyland was acknowledging the difference in the two days, and the complication in putting together a judgment as a whole. A day after Rondon submitted what Leyland called his best pitching of the spring, the right-hander struggled to try to get through his inning of work Wednesday.
Neither of the back-to-back singles Rondon allowed leading off Wednesday's seventh inning were hit particularly hard, though Ben Revere's ground ball single was hit hard enough to elude Danny Worth's diving attempt at third base. With runners at the corners and nobody out, Rondon rebounded to fire fastballs past Troy Hanzawa for the first out, but Michael Young's grounder to short sent Jhonny Peralta just far enough to his left to leave him without a play at the plate.
It also moved the speedy Revere to third, and that's where Rondon's outing seemed to come apart. A walk to Laynce Nix put runners at the corners for Carlos Ruiz. A balk then cost Rondon another run.
Catcher Alex Avila took the blame for the balk, saying they had a mixup on signs. When Avila threw down another sign, Rondon stopped in his delivery, drawing the call and sending Revere home with another run.
"Alex said he messed it up. I don't worry about that," Leyland said.
Ruiz's ensuing walk drew Leyland out of the dugout as soon as Rondon snatched the toss from Avila. Rondon had hit his pitch count, and Leyland did not want to go much past that on Rondon's second straight day of pitching.
"He wasn't as sharp, obviously," Leyland acknowledged, "but he wasn't bad, bad."
That said, Leyland acknowledged it'll be part of the evaluation.
Leyland said earlier Wednesday that he's hoping to have a decision on his remaining roster spots, including the bullpen, on Thursday.
from the Tigers official site
 
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