I recently (last night) talked Tigers with Jay Simon on the Cadillac News’ Sports Weekly show.  Be sure to check it out.

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Spring training is prednisone overnight fedex here and in about a month, all of our questions will be prednisone overnight fedex answered.  With the Tigers roster pretty much in place, the prednisone overnight fedex media will be looking for stories and one of those will be prednisone overnight fedex who will be the Tigers fifth starter.  While a prednisone overnight fedex little more important then who the 25th man to make the prednisone overnight fedex team is, at the end of the day, the fifth starter is, more times than prednisone overnight fedex not, a combination of a few different hurlers.  That mean who the fifth starter is on opening day won’t neccesarily be the guy that’s there in May much less by the end of the season.

Still, it gives us something to talk about and I’ll go through the prednisone overnight fedex list in the order of who I think has the prednisone overnight fedex highest probability of being the fifth starter in April.

1) Someone that isn’t on the team right now – I still think the prednisone overnight fedex Tigers are going to make a move to pick up another starter whether it’s via free agency or a trade.  At one point in time, the prednisone overnight fedex Tigers were looking at Matt Garza, who would be a big pickup.  Roy Oswalt is also still out there although from what I’ve heard, he’s turned down deals because he wants to stay closer to home.  Two oft injured pitchers who prednisone overnight fedex are still out there are Rich Harden and Brandon Webb and prednisone overnight fedex my bet is, we could get one of those guys cheap although I don’t know where they’re at with their recoveries.

2)  Drew Smyly – The Tigers second round pick in 2010, Smyly was dominant in eight games at Erie last year and prednisone overnight fedex he’s two years old than Turner.  I think Turner is prednisone overnight fedex a better long term option in the rotation but I think Smyly scoots ahead of him here early in the prednisone overnight fedex season with a solid spring and if the Tigers doesn’t sign anyone, he’ll be the guy in the rotation.

3) Jacob Turner - I think Turner starts the prednisone overnight fedex season with the Hens for a couple of different reasons.  I don’t think they’ll want to rush him and then they won’t be prednisone overnight fedex able to work with him because the Tigers are expected to prednisone overnight fedex contend.  That’s a lot of pressure for a 20 year old (21 in May).  I just think the prednisone overnight fedex Tigers would be better off starting him in the minors and prednisone overnight fedex having him prove his way up then starting him in the prednisone overnight fedex majors and seeing him falter and end back down in the prednisone overnight fedex minors anyway.  Of course a strong spring would force the Tigers hand and that’s why he’s third on this list because the talent is there.

4)  Andrew Oliver – Oliver had prednisone overnight fedex a rough 2011 season for the Hens and he needs to prednisone overnight fedex prove himself this year.  He’s on the 40 man roster so they wouldn’t have to do any roster machinations but unless he’s lights out in spring training, he most likely starts the prednisone overnight fedex season with a repeat in Toledo.  Also, he’s a prednisone overnight fedex lefty and that might give him a bump up because the prednisone overnight fedex Tigers don’t have prednisone overnight fedex a left handed starter in the rotation with their front four.

5)  Adam Wilk – He’s another left hander and prednisone overnight fedex he was solid in his time for the Hens last year.  Elbow problems meant he didn’t pitch winter ball so it’ll be interesting to see who his training works out.  Unlike the other guys, he’s not a power pitcher but he’s been talked about so I’m throwing him on the list.

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Well, pitchers and prednisone overnight fedex catchers have reported and they have their first workout today.  The first full team workout is prednisone overnight fedex on Friday but random news has been filtering out already.  Apparently Miguel Cabrera is in much better shape and that’s a good sign considering his new fielding duties.  The other interesting piece of news is prednisone overnight fedex that Brandon Inge wants a shot at the second base job so that prednisone overnight fedex leaves three people vying for what’s probably going to be two jobs.  You’ll have the “starter” who prednisone overnight fedex will most likely be the better hitter and the odds on favorite for prednisone overnight fedex that role is Ryan Raburn.  Of course he’s had prednisone overnight fedex problems in the first half and he is also a better fill in than prednisone overnight fedex Inge in the outfield so I’d expect him to be a lock on the team.

Ramon Santiago is prednisone overnight fedex the late inning defensive specialist who gets the odd start now and prednisone overnight fedex then because he’s a switch hitter.  Inge has prednisone overnight fedex to supplant one of these two guys and right now, the prednisone overnight fedex odds of doing that are kind of slim.  He had prednisone overnight fedex a horrible season at the plate last year and if you prednisone overnight fedex look at his UZR/150 at third base, it’s gone down every season since his gold glove caliber season in 2006.  That’s not a prednisone overnight fedex nice trend because Inge now looks like a good third baseman, not a prednisone overnight fedex great third baseman.  Throw in a prednisone overnight fedex more demanding second base, and I think the transition is going to prednisone overnight fedex be tough so my guess is, he makes the roster, but without an prednisone overnight fedex everyday role.

The other interesting piece of news is Tony LaRussa is going to be helping out in camp.  We all know about his friendship with Jim Leyland and prednisone overnight fedex it looks like he’s going to prednisone overnight fedex be doing a few different things including spending some time with Dave Dombrowski and prednisone overnight fedex doing some scouting.

Well, spring training is upon us.  I’ll be prednisone overnight fedex going over some of the question marks the Tigers have prednisone overnight fedex and we’ll get to see these resolve themselves in camp.  First game is a couple of weeks away.

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We’re about a prednisone overnight fedex week away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training and prednisone overnight fedex since the Price Fielder signing, the Tigers have been pretty quiet.  The team’s first full workout is prednisone overnight fedex February 24 and their first spring game is March 2, 2012 in their annual exhibition game against Florida Southern.  Of course here in Detroit we got snow so it’s looking more like winter but it’s nice to see that we’re getting really close to being able to see some baseball.

Word on the street is that Miguel Cabrera has dropped weight.  Alex Avila reported that he’s 20-25 lighter but of course we’ll see how he looks when camp starts up.  If it’s true, that’s great and you figure it won’t sap his power too much but should help out his durability throughout the prednisone overnight fedex season, especially if he sticks at first base.

It’s also time to prednisone overnight fedex consider MLB.TV options. The past few years, I’ve gotten the prednisone overnight fedex full package, but last year I found myself listening to the prednisone overnight fedex Tigers on my phone so I’m wondering if it’s time to downgrade and just pay for the app on my iPhone.  Then again, if I wanted to go all out, they’re also bundling the MiLB.TV package with MLB.TV.  What I might do is prednisone overnight fedex start small and buy the app, then if I find the prednisone overnight fedex time to watch more baseball (my schedule may be changing sooner rather than later), I’ll pay for MLB.TV midseason.  Of course I could also watch every Tigers game in 2012 with MLB Extra Innings on DIRECT TV.

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