Tigers and Rangers Pull Off Blockbuster Deal In the Dark of the Night; DD Confirmed Ninja GM

Ian Kinsler is excited to be joining the team.

So. I thought all those tweets I was seeing about a possible Prince-Fielder-for-Ian-Kinsler trade were an elaborate trolljob by Jon Heyman.

Ha ha! The joke was on me! The Tigers really did trade Fielder for Kinsler! The Tigers are also going to send $30mil to Texas in the deal.

More after the jump

Music To Listen To When Your Baseball Team Loses

I originally put this together during the 2008 season (ha, fitting!) and thought I’d bring it back. :P Presenting: Music To Listen To When Your Baseball Team Loses

Links to youtube videos under the cut!

Hey, Jack Clark?

Tigers Are Endangered Species and Now We Know Why

THIS HAPPENED! (Probably.)

Apparently several Tigers got stuck in a revolving door at the Cleveland Marriott and NBC Sports’ Craig Calcaterra is livetweeting it at the scene.

Outside the Bounds of Reason: Happy Trails, Ryan Raburn

Oops.

The one thing you must understand is that my lack of disdain for the very disdain-worthy Ryan Raburn isn’t entirely rational. I can’t explain or reason with it any more than I can explain or reason away any number of my odd, irrational attachments.

Raburn isn’t a very good player. He has his moments of brilliance, as do most Major Leaguers; he was good enough to make it to the Majors and be a mediocre to downright bad replacement level (or worse) player. There are plenty who never made it that would probably give nearly anything to walk a mile in Raburn’s cleats.

My entirely irrational fondness for Raburn lies in a family death in 2009.

A Video I Made About the Tigers’ Postseason Pitching, Minus José Valverde

All She Wrote from rockthescherzer on Vimeo.

Warning: Eminem. Foul language.

baseball footage © Major League Baseball
“That’s All She Wrote” © T.I., Eminem, Lukasz Gottwald, etc. AKA a bunch of people who aren’t me
Not for commercial use

20 Questions With Fake Boesch!!

Cats With Bats is proud to present an exclusive(ish) interview with Twitter’s own (sort of) Fake Boesch! If you’d like to see more of him—sorry, no nude pics this time, guys—read on!

2012 MLB Draft All-Name Team

1B: Correlle Prime
SS: John Bushyhead
2B: Joe Sever
3B: Zarley Zalewski

OF: Mallex Smith
OF: Skye Bolt
OF: Torsten Boss

C: Austin Chubb

BENCH:
Spencer Kieboom
Douglas Crumlich
Jamodrick McGruder
Sly Edwards

RHP: Zebulon Sneed
RHP: Storm Throne
RHP: Brock Dykxhoorn
RHP: Buck Farmer
LHP: Max Foody
RHP: Kieran Lovegrove
RHP: Lance Breedlove
LHP: Austin Thrailkill
RHP: Damien Magnifico
RHP: Walker Weickel
LHP: Michael Heesch
LHP: Fernando Fernandez-Beltran

Honorable mentions: Anthony Bemboom, Beau Maggi, D.J. Driggers, Rustin Sveum, Justin Chigbogu

Liveblogging the 2012 MLB Draft

That’s the end of day one of the MLB draft. More tomorrow!

Carlos Correa Jr., first pick overall

To be updated as more picks come in.

The Detroit Tigers don’t pick until the second round, 91st overall.

Brandon Inge Released, Ramon Santiago Left to Carry On the Legacy of the 2003 Tigers Alone

Tigers bid adieu to one-time mainstay. (Detroit Free Press)

As you probably heard, long-time Tiger and lightning-rod-for-controversy Brandon Inge was released following Thursday’s 5-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners:

Tigers have unconditionally released Brandon Inge. Brad Eldred’s contract will be purchased from AAA Toledo tomorrow.

— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) April 26, 2012