Randor Bierd was the best of the three players the Tigers lost in the Rule 5 draft yesterday. Bierd could turn out to be a solid middle reliever for a big league team and while he wasn’t a huge loss, this is a guy who could have played a role with the Tigers in the next couple of years. The other two guys the Tigers were lost came in the Triple A portion of the draft. Juan Cedeno and Benjamin Fritz were the other two guys and neither look to be a major loss.
Kevin Goldstein broke down the Rule 5 draft in a nice column. Be sure to check it out.
| Team | W | L | GB |
| CWS | 55 | 42 | - |
| MIN | 55 | 43 | 0.5 |
| DET | 49 | 49 | 6.5 |
| KC | 45 | 54 | 11.0 |
| CLE | 43 | 54 | 12.0 |

Unfortunately, those are the guys we got. In addition to Bierd, we lost Jose Fragoso and Corey Hamman. No tears should be shed for them either.
--Posted by Matt in Toledo on December 10th, 2007 at 3:24 pm