In today's Free Press Drew Sharp says Lelyland deserves a contract extension and does not deserve blame for the Tigers' struggles this season. http://www.freep.com/article/20090619/COL08/906190408What say you?
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A discussion of the Detroit Tigers past, present and future.
Le Grand Orange
Best DH Season for a Bengal
Guillermo is Tops in Our Opinion!
Willie Hernandez posted the best relief season in the history of the Tigers.
The Best Season in Left?
The Rock, no doubt
Ty Cobb
Clearly, we picked Cobb as having the best year in center
Kaline narrowly wins our poll
for best season in right.
George Kell, 1949
The best Tiger season at third
It's Unanimous, Tram had the Best Season at Short
By Acclaim!
Who had the best season at first?
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, that's who
My Kind of Town
Toledo is our favorite minor league stadium
Old Yankee Stadium - Our Favorite
Winning our poll for favorite non-functioning ball park-Yankee Stadium
Wrigley Field: Our favorite (non-Detroit) operating MLB park
By narrow vote over Fenway, it's Wrigley Field
Sparky Anderson - The Greatest Skipper
With the election of Spark, we complete our little Hot Stove project of selecting the Greatest Tiger Team. This was fun.
Who Was the Greatest Tiger Reliever, DH/PH
We resoundingly agree that Willie Hernandez was the best reliever, but we tied on Rusty Staub or Daryl Evans for DH or pinch hitter
Kaline is the Unanimous Rightfielder
In our second consecutive unanimous vote, Al Kaline, is chosen as the Greatest Tiger Rightfielder!
Cobb is Unanimous!
Nobody liked him, but we agree he was the best in center
Willie is Our man in Left!
Willie Horton is our choice for the greatest Tiger in left field
Good Ol' George Kell, the Best Tiger at the Hot Corner
At least by our vote, he's been elected. (BTW, thanks to Tom Haggerty for the write up on all the third basemen.)
Tram Stands Tall at Short
Tiger's Super Second Sacker - Gehringer in a Lanslide!
Once again, I was overwhelmingly out-voted, Charlie Gehringer wins.
Heaven's First Baseman
Hank Greenberg, elected as the Greatest Tiger firstbaseman in History
Our Tiger Hall of Fame
Bill Freehan, catcher
I think Leyland has done a solid job. The Tigers have remained afloat despite injuries to guys they were hoping/counting on to produce (Bonderman, Guillen, Thames, maybe even Willis?), as well as the unexplainable collapse of Ordonez. And Leyland did go against his own gut and bring Porcello north (thank God!), so I think he deserves some props. But let's face it, gentlemen, there is only one reason the Tigers are in contention right now: they play in the worst division in baseball.
ReplyDeleteIt's a long season. Injuries and slumps are to be expected, and are part of the game. The decision should be in the post-season. The management gave Leyland some horses. If he can't produce at least a division flag, he's gone.
ReplyDeleteBTW, another neat photo by our official photographer, Mr. Hagerty. Look in the reflection of his glasses: was he signing baseballs in Lakeland?
ReplyDeleteyes he was signing after a spring training workout.
ReplyDeleteOK it looks like Leyland will stay. Saturday's Free Press reports he received a two-year contract extension.
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