Ramon Santiago

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH The issue of whether Jose Valverde is once again a reliable closer isn't settled. Everybody says things are fine, but they aren't. The numbers are fine and the results are acceptable,...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Tigers' designated hitter Victor Martinez says he can catch in interleague games if he's needed. The reality is he probably won't be needed. It's a big hole in the Detroit lineup...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH World Series preview? Don't get giddy. Washington swept Detroit by winning the second of a two-game set Thursday, 5-4, after taking the first, 3-1, in a matchup of teams widely...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It's always someone. Two years ago the player fans loved to hate was Brandon Inge. Last year it was Ryan Raburn. Now it's Don Kelly. Exactly why is difficult to understand. Maybe it's...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It's going to happen, sure as afternoon games on getaway days. An American League team is going to visit a National League city for one of the last series' of the season and will lose...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Thank Carlos Pena for preventing an argument in the Tigers' dugout. Pena lined a 3-2 pitch into right field Sunday for a single with one out in the seventh inning -- the first hit...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Is Detroit's 'Next Big Thing' the Tigers' 'Next Big Bust?' If the dispatching of highly touted closer candidate Bruce Rondon to the minors for the second time in the spring wasn't a...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Rick Porcello is surviving, and improving, under difficult circumstances. The right-hander turned in a good performance Thursday night in Houston, allowing three runs on five hits in...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Tigers' pitchers ended April with 252 strikeouts and there's little doubt they'll have one of the top staffs in baseball when it comes to strike three. Max Scherzer fanned 46 in five...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH One of the few people who isn't worried about Justin Verlander's velocity is Justin Verlander. It's attracting attention in this numbers-dominated era that Verlander has yet to reach...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It was just about a year ago that folks started to realize that maybe those predictions of Miguel Cabrera being a disaster at third base just weren't going to come true. And now, a year...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH The Tigers used a manufactured run to break a 3-3 tie Sunday and then brought out a tactic from the old-time baseball textbook to complete a sweep of the Braves. Miguel Cabrera, whose...