Ramon Santiago

MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH There's no question the strength of this season's Tigers' team is its starting pitching. Detroit's five starters have won a combined 32 games heading into Friday night's game at Minnesota. That's the...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH The Tigers have painted their bullpen into a corner and are now searching for a way to make that 20-foot leap to the doorway. Jose Valverde's latest of three blown saves this season...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH If things go the way the Tigers and Austin Jackson want them to Detroit will have its regular center fielder back Friday. Jackson has been out of action a month thanks to a strained...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Detroit fans love him, hate him -- and are stuck with Jose Valverde as the Tigers' closer. Consternation about Valverde's ability to close a game has lingered ever since the disaster...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It's difficult to think of grizzled old-school Jim Leyland as a new-fangled by-the-numbers manager, but he is. As a manager, Leyland meanders along a road with streets named Common...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Lefty Drew Smyly's immediate future could be in the left hand and arm of Jose Alvarez. How Alvarez fared Sunday in his one-time start for shoulder-fatigued Anibal Sanchez -- and he...

Major League Baseball finds itself with a real dilemma in the Biogenesis scandal. It's not whether to suspend the 20-plus players who are implicated; it's when to drop the hammer and take the artificially enhanced players off the field. An extended...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Big college arms are what the Tigers typically draft when they have a first-round pick and that's just what Detroit went for with its first choice in the first round in the last four...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Justin Verlander waited on that golden June day in 2004 much like Thursday, knowing he wouldn't be in suspense very long. The Old Dominion ace figured he'd be selected in less time than...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH It isn't a question of whether Detroit will beef up the back end of its bullpen, but rather how much. The lingering soreness in Octavio Dotel's right elbow -- he's been out of action...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Detroit Tigers - INSIDE PITCH Jim Leyland said it was his fault. Baltimore scored three runs in the seventh inning Sunday to overcome a 2-0 Detroit lead and take a 4-2 victory from the Tigers, who have now lost five...

The Sports Xchange By Todd Karpovich, The SportsXchange Orioles 4, Tigers 2 BALTIMORE -- Baltimore rookie Kevin Gausman allowed one run in six innings and Chris Davis hit his league-leading 20th home run of the season to lead the Orioles to a 4-2...