One Response to “The Detroit Tigers Podcast #16: Happy Birthday, Tatum!”

1. Dan Schonberg Says:
   June 8th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

   Working late, and listening to your show, so I figured I’d write and talk about the draft. In terms of Porcello, some important things you didn’t mention. As I understand it, according to the new CBA, team have until Aug. 15 to sign draft picks. That means no extended hold outs and craziness like we had with Verlander and we had with Maybin. The new thing in the draft though is that if we don’t sign him (or any of our 1st 4 round players), we get an “equivalent” pick next year. In this case, apparently it means we’d get the 28th pick next year in the case of Porcello.

   Looking over the list of our other draftees.
   http://www.baseballamerica.com/draftdb/2007xteam.php?team=DET

   Word is that Casey Crosby is also a tough sign potential. What I heard on the Baseball America podcast is that if the resources we try to put to Porcello doesn’t pan out, we’d make a run at him.

   Couple interesting last names in the list.
   Rd. 25 Colin Kaline
   Rd. 43 Richard Zumaya
   Any word on whether these guys have any relation to other Tigers of note?

   Rd. 21 Kyle Brute
   How can you not like a base player named brute? Winner of my favorite name drafted by the Tigers this year. In case you were wondering, last years winner, Kodiak Quick, did not sign with the Tigers.
   Last years list: http://www.baseballamerica.com/draftdb/2006xteam.php?team=DET

   Rd. 10 Dominic De la Osa
   This would be just a fun name to say when cheering on the Tigers

   Anyway, back to work. I’ll still probably be mostly out of the loop this summer, but keep up the good work.

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