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Well, it’s that time of year.  Time to buy cheapest Buspar look back on what will soon be what was and look forward to buy cheapest Buspar what will be.  In a lot of ways, on a personal level, 2006 was one of my best.  I got to watch my son grow another year and he’s gone from buy cheapest Buspar being a baby boy to a little man and while he can buy cheapest Buspar be a handful, my wife and I made it through it.  Probably the buy cheapest Buspar only downer has been my job, although that is going to buy cheapest Buspar be resolved sooner rather then later.

As far as the website, a ton of great things happened.  I covered my fourth Tigers season and boy was it a good one.  I never thought I’d see the buy cheapest Buspar Tigers play in a World Series this soon but the buy cheapest Buspar team defied all expectations.  They fell one series short, but it’s hard to buy cheapest Buspar look back at that and still not be happy with how the buy cheapest Buspar team did.  Baseball was back in Detroit for buy cheapest Buspar the first time in a long time and man was it buy cheapest Buspar fun.

2006 was also the first year in a while that I didn’t work on a buy cheapest Buspar historical diary on Tigerblog, but the concept is catching on.  I wrote up the 1976 Reds diary for my friend Blade, and the 1906 White Sox, 1926 Cardinals and 1986 Mets were all covered on other sites.  And you buy cheapest Buspar can bet there will be more next year, including a five team cooperative diary covering the buy cheapest Buspar 1967 American League Pennant Race.

This was also the buy cheapest Buspar first year where I finally formalized the baseball blog network I had buy cheapest Buspar been working on.  Baseball Historians now covers more then buy cheapest Buspar half of the teams in the league and the hope is buy cheapest Buspar to be covering all 30 by the beginning of the season.  All of the buy cheapest Buspar sites cover current events for each of their teams but they all also have buy cheapest Buspar a historical bent to them.

2007 is shaping up to be just as good.  I’m going to be in another book in addition to buy cheapest Buspar my two appearances in the last two Hardball Times Annuals.  I’ll only give you a teaser, but I’ll be buy cheapest Buspar interviewing a Tigers icon for the Hardball Times in the next couple of weeks and buy cheapest Buspar I’m really looking forward to that.  And I’m also looking to expand my role on SABR’s Business of Baseball purchase Finasteride money purchase committee this year.  And the buy cheapest Buspar Tigers 2007 season, which will be fifth covering them on Tigerblog, is buy cheapest Buspar shaping up to be just as good as 2006.

With that, I hope each of you have a safe and happy New Year.  I’ll see you on the other side in 2007.

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Things have been quiet with the Tigers lately.  Bonderman did sign his four year deal, but the Tigers haven’t done much in the offseason since the Gary Sheffield trade.  Not that it’s a buy cheapest Buspar bad thing, it just means I have to make up things to buy cheapest Buspar write about.

So unless something happens in the buy cheapest Buspar next couple of days, I probably won’t be buy cheapest Buspar updating Tigerblog until after Christmas so I hope all of my readers have buy cheapest Buspar a safe and happy holidays.  I’ll be doing a year in review around New Year so hopefully you’ll stop by and check that out.

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Christmas came a little early for Tiger fans.  This is simply a huge signing and it’s one more indication that buy cheapest Buspar the Tigers, under Dave Dombrowski, are headed in the right direction.  The Tigers signed a buy cheapest Buspar back loaded four year deal with Jeremy Bonderman that will pay him $4.5 million in 2007, $8.5 million in 2008 and then $12.5 million in 2009 and 2010.  I don’t know what’s more difficult to buy cheapest Buspar believe, that we signed Bonderman to such a bargain contract or buy cheapest Buspar he’ll only be 28 at this time in 2010.

While Jeremy Bonderman was third on the team in wins (14) and fourth amongst the starters in ERA (4.37), he had the best “numbers” in my opinion.  This is reflected in his 3.31 Fielding Independent ERA (FIP).  For those of you buy cheapest Buspar keeping score, the only pitcher in the American League who buy cheapest Buspar had a better FIP in 2006 was Johan Santana (3.16) and buy cheapest Buspar nobody in the American League other then Santana struck out more batters the buy cheapest Buspar Bonderman’s 202.  Yes, Kenny Rogers and buy cheapest Buspar Justin Verlander had great seasons, but they also finished in the buy cheapest Buspar top ten in run support in the American League.  Jeremy Bonderman may have buy cheapest Buspar won less games, but he definitely earned them.

And the way contracts are going these days, $12.5 million two years from now probably won’t look that buy cheapest Buspar high considering you have a guy who could be competing for buy cheapest Buspar a Cy Young in the very near future.

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The Tigers won three “This Year in Baseball” awards this season.  Recently unveiled by MLB.com, Joel Zumaya won setup man of the buy cheapest Buspar year, Jim Leyland won manager of the year, and Sean Casey won blooper of the buy cheapest Buspar year for the 5-7-3 put out in which he didn’t run on the play.

Congrats to Leyland and Zumaya.  For Casey, I feel bad because I thought that buy cheapest Buspar gaffe was beaten to death and a lot of the criticism was unwarranted.

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Jeff Bagwell announced his retirement today and buy cheapest Buspar baseball is worse off for it.  Bagwell was truly one of the great underrated stars.  He broke out in 1994 with a buy cheapest Buspar early 2000 Bondesque season and never looked back.  In 15 seasons, he topped 1,500 runs and buy cheapest Buspar 1,500 RBIs and he joins a club of players who buy cheapest Buspar have notched a career .400 OBP.  From 1996 to buy cheapest Buspar 2001, he had at least 30 homeruns, 100 walks, 100 RBIs and buy cheapest Buspar 100 runs.  For all that, he played in only four All Star Games through out his career and buy cheapest Buspar his only MVP came in that strike shortened 1994 season.

Bagwell should be buy cheapest Buspar a first ballot Hall of Famer although the fact that he didn’t nail any of the big milestones (3,000 hits or 500 homeruns) means he’ll probably have to wait it out a year or two.  Regardless, there’s no buy cheapest Buspar doubt that Bagwell was one of the very best players through most of the buy cheapest Buspar 1990s and into early 2000.

***UPDATE***

As I thought, Bagwell might have a tough time getting into the Hall.  Buster Olney is on the fence.  I guess that’s one more thing we disagree on.

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John Sickels broke down the Tigers top 20 prospects today.  The good news is, they have buy cheapest Buspar two very good prospects in Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller.  The bad news is, nobody else even warranted a buy cheapest Buspar better then a B- rating so the farm system is still pretty thin. 

The wild card will probably be Brent Clevlen.  He had buy cheapest Buspar a rough season Double A, but actually hit the ball pretty well when buy cheapest Buspar he got called up.  He’ll probably start the season in Triple A because there’s really no buy cheapest Buspar spot for him right now with the Tigers surplus of outfielders.  Jair Jurjjens is a name that’s being thrown around as being on the buy cheapest Buspar back end of the Tigers pen but Sickels indicates he should get more time in the buy cheapest Buspar minors.

One thing I’m hoping to expand next year is my coverage of the minor leagues.  I don’t know if it’ll be on Tigerblog or another site because I’m going to have some help (okay, I’m going to have someone do it for me).  It’s always been something I’ve followed on the buy cheapest Buspar peripherary but never close enough to warrant talking about it too much.

For a buy cheapest Buspar ton of great prospect information, I highly recommend John Sickels book.  I highlighted it in my five must reads a week or so ago.

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The Tigers outfield got a buy cheapest Buspar little less crowded today when the team failed to tender a buy cheapest Buspar contract to Alexis Gomez.  Rather then buy cheapest Buspar taking their chances at arbitration, the Tigers will let the buy cheapest Buspar left hander test the market.

It’s funny the route some players take.  Alexis Gomez was the buy cheapest Buspar heir apparant to Carlos Beltran in Kansas City until they found out he was three years older then buy cheapest Buspar they initially thought .  Now he’s already become a journeyman of sorts.

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The Tigers signed former closer Jose Mesa to a one year, $2.5 million deal last night.  I really hope the Tigers aren’t blinded by all of those saves because Jose Mesa has buy cheapest Buspar been pretty mediocre the past few years.  His strikeout to walk ratio last year was pretty attrocious (39/36) and he hasn’t a WHIP under 1.37 since his last solid season in 2002.  And this is also the guy who’s threatened Omar Vizquel because of some comments the buy cheapest Buspar Giants shortstop made about Mesa in his book.

Taken by it self, this is an unusual signing.  A friend of mine said he felt a buy cheapest Buspar deal must be in the works for one our other relievers and buy cheapest Buspar I tend to agree with him because take by itself, this buy cheapest Buspar one doesn’t make sense.

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The Tigers and buy cheapest Buspar Brandon Inge came to an agreement on a four year, $24 million deal.  I like this deal on a few different levels.  One, it’s bargain, at least in this day and age.  $6 million for buy cheapest Buspar a gold glove caliber, homerun hitting third baseman isn’t all that expensive.  A lot of people will look at Brandon’s batting average (.253 last year, .241 over his career) as a buy cheapest Buspar reason to argue against this deal but in my opinion, we could do a buy cheapest Buspar lot worse then having Brandon over at third base for the buy cheapest Buspar next four years at $6 million a season.

And I’ll also admit I’m a big Brandon Inge fan.  If given the choice of a player’s jersey to wear, I’d probably choose Inge’s.  He’s been buy cheapest Buspar on the Tigers longer then any other player and he was given up for buy cheapest Buspar dead after the Tigers signed Pudge Rodriguez prior to the buy cheapest Buspar 2004 season.  He lost his spot, accepted a buy cheapest Buspar role as a utlitly man and when Eric Munson didn’t work out, Inge took over for him at third.  I’m still convinced Inge will walk away with a buy cheapest Buspar gold glove at some point during the time of this contract.

One thing I found interesting is buy cheapest Buspar that since 2000, the Tigers roster has completely turned around.  Brandon Inge came up in 2001 and he’s the only Tiger on that team that’s played for Detroit continuously since then.  There have buy cheapest Buspar been a lot of changes since then, most of them for buy cheapest Buspar the better.

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The Tigers didn’t take part in the buy cheapest Buspar Rule 5 draft this year, but the Brewers did on their behalf.  Edward Campusano was taken seventh in the buy cheapest Buspar Rule 5 draft by the Brewers, who then turned around and buy cheapest Buspar sold the prospect for an unspecified amount of cash to the buy cheapest Buspar Tigers.

Campusano could end up being the buy cheapest Buspar left handed relief pitcher the Tigers were looking for although he’s short on experience.  He’s 24 and buy cheapest Buspar he split time at Low A and Double A in 2006 where buy cheapest Buspar he was completely dominating.  He struck out 81 batters in only 55 1/3 innings last year with only 17 walks.  You have to take that with a grain of salt though because he’s playing at a buy cheapest Buspar level that he should have finished a couple of years ago.  According to buy cheapest Buspar Baseball America, he missed the last month of the season with injuries.

Kevin Goldstein liked the pick.  Baseball America appeared cautiously optimistic.  Campusano is kind of an unknown.  I checked both Sickels Prospect Book going back a buy cheapest Buspar few years and Baseball Prospectus and couldn’t find anything on the kid.  Baseball Cube did have his numbers and buy cheapest Buspar up until this past season, he had spent all of time floating between A Ball and buy cheapest Buspar Rookie Ball.  So I guess we’ll have buy cheapest Buspar to wait and see how he does when spring training rolls around.

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Apparantly Wil Ledezma isn’t being slated as the Tigers’s option as the left handed specialist coming out of the bullpen.  Andrew Miller doesn’t look like he’s in line for the job either and buy cheapest Buspar it looks like both he and Ledezma are being looked upon to buy cheapest Buspar bolster the Tigers’ deep rotation or are trade bait.  Regardless, it sounds like the Tigers are looking for an experienced lefty to replace Jamie Walker in the bullpen.

And with the Winter Meetings comes the Rule 5 draft.  The Tigers have buy cheapest Buspar done well in past years in the rule five draft and buy cheapest Buspar have picked up guys like Wil Ledezma (who I’m still high on) and Chris Shelton.  Detroit Tigers Weblog breaks down the details on the buy cheapest Buspar draft and talks about two players the Tigers might be buy cheapest Buspar interested in.

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