Tigers haven't ruled out adding a Starter...

[bassburns]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/02/tigers-havent-ruled-out-trading-for-pitcher.html

We'd had been previously linked to John Lannan probably be default earlier this off season. Mostly because Washington's rotation is full and ours isn't 100% intact yet.

Lannan has the fact that he's left handed going for him but he's certainly not a prototypical interest of Dombrowski. A Career 1.42 Whip in the NL isn't a good sign either if we were to get him cheaply.

Personally I'd still rather us just go in house at this point with one of the young guns and let things roll. Can always address at the trade deadline if need be.

 

[Rebbiv]

I would certainly pass on Lannan. Career 1.50 Away WHIP, 1.56 Away WHIP last 3 years. Soft tossing lefty, who really cannot get lefties out.

 

[Thumb]

I don't see why Below cant start the season as #5 and move Turner up assuming he progresses enough, it's the #5 spot, if we can get 10-12 wins there were as good as last year, no reason to add more payroll or trade anymore of the already thin farm IMO.

 

[kalinecountry]

Just fodder and speculating like the Mlive story also posted earlier.

5 or 6 young pitchers that the Tigers can go with whoever shows the most leaving ST and move to another at AAA if the 5th starter that starts the season doesn't workout...Below, Smyly, Turner, Wilk, Oliver, Crosby..

 

[turok]

Even IF one of the Tigers' young minor-league SPs has a standout ST, and wins the last spot in the rotation, I have my misgivings about his stamina to pitch his spot throughout a 162 game season. The Tigers might have to replace whoever it is, as early as right before or after the ASB...meh.

 

[jimrice]

I see no problem going with the best ST pitcher. There's always a few vets available at the deadline if there's a need.

 

[turok]

Looks like the one remaining "stud" FA SP who last pitched for the Phillies in '11, Oswalt, might be laying low, in a Roger Clemens-like mercenary role, and maybe he will wait until further into the regular season before signing with a genuine contender in the AL or NL?

Yup, but he won't likely be a Tiger, I don't think that the club/FO would seek and sign a SP "mercenary", and Oswalt has already shunned the Tigers and ignored their overtures during this past offseason.

Roy Oswalt has told major league clubs that he might pull a Roger Clemens and return midseason, according to a baseball source

 

[spockmaster]

Oswalt can go get fucked for all I care, he already turned down a contract offer with us because we're Detroit.

 

[turok]

Oswalt can go get fucked for all I care, he already turned down a contract offer with us because we're Detroit.

If he eventually signs with an AL team, I hope that he pitches vs the Tigers and they will soon knock him out of the game by batting around in the first or second innings.

 

[hellifino]

just return to yesteryear and have 4 starters like they use to.... we could matchup with just about everybody then.
1.Verlander
2.Schwerzer
3.Fister
4.Porcello

 

[Thumb]

just return to yesteryear and have 4 starters like they use to.... we could matchup with just about everybody then.
1.Verlander
2.Schwerzer
3.Fister
4.Porcello

Porcello already has stamina issues as it is in a 5 man rotation, and I don't really want JV to add too many more innings.

I'm going to assume you meant this as a joke.

 

[hellifino]

just return to yesteryear and have 4 starters like they use to.... we could matchup with just about everybody then.
1.Verlander
2.Schwerzer
3.Fister
4.Porcello

Porcello already has stamina issues as it is in a 5 man rotation, and I don't really want JV to add too many more innings.

I'm going to assume you meant this as a joke.

why yes, yes I did.

 

[justinrose74]

Why didn't we sign Edwin Jackson again?

 

[turok]

Why didn't we sign Edwin Jackson again?

Dunno, but the dude must be a fucking leper, has bad body-odor/breath or something, since he isn't exactly a terrible SP, but no team seems to want to keep him around for more than a season, ever since EJax finally busted out w/the (Devil) Rays, after 3 seasons of getting some "sips of coffee" in the majors with the LA Dodgers '03-'05. He and his agent overvalues his talents, stats, and comparative WAR value "somewhat", but I still kinda wonder why the Tigers couldn't have lopped off a few million $$$ from Prince Fielders' contract to, say a nice round number, like 200 million for 9 seasons.

Even 20M per season for a total of 180M seems like "more than enough" for...say one of Prince's descendants/great grandchildren to someday comfortably, if not luxuriously live off of...or maybe he or she might miss out on, or come up a bit short on that 10M+ cost of taking his or her month-long space-trip/vacation to a enclosed resort on Mars in the 22nd century..heh!!

 

[jimrice]

Why didn't we sign Edwin Jackson again?

Because the team didn't want to spend a boatload when all they needed a fifth starter, I suspect.

 

[mhughes0021]

probably posted somewhere already. from ESPN rumors....thought it was interesting DD said Turner was off-limits all of a sudden.

The fifth starter race in Detroit
10:42AM ET
Detroit Tigers


The Detroit Tigers, like a host of teams, begin spring training games this weekend looking to determine a fifth starter. The most recognizable candidate is Jacob Turner, the 2009 first-round pick who earned a promotion to the big leagues last season, but the competition could be a spirited one.

The Tigers have as many as six candidates competing for the lone opening, and John Lowe handicaps the field in Thursday's Detroit Free Press. There is Turner followed by five southpaws: Duane Below, Adam Wilk, Andy Oliver, Casey Crosby and Drew Smyly.

A dark-horse candidate could be the 22-year-old Smyly, who posted a 2.07 ERA between Class A Lakeland and Double-A Erie in his first professional season. The Tigers are not afraid to put their prospects on the fast track to the big leagues, as they showed last season with Turner.

If nothing else, the Tigers could have some serious bargaining chips at trade deadline time in July. Several teams inquired about Turner over the winter, but GM Dave Dombrowski basically said he was off limits.