Back to work on Day 2 of the winter meetings

...be loads of speculation regarding the Detroit Tigers' and possible trades involving Curtis Granderson, Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera and Edwin Jackson. The guess here is that at week's end, Jackson will be the...

Seattle balances cash with caution

A year ago, it was the Yankees who began the winter with their pockets full of cash, ready to spend on the best free agents, and after locking up CC S...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2009

Lobby scuttlebutt

...A Tigers source said that while Red Sox owner John W. Henry retains great fondness for Miguel Cabrera, signed by Florida when Henry still owned the Marlins, he didn't think the Sox had...

Prospect Kelly to focus on pitching

Kelly to focus on pitching; little other news at Day 1 of meetings

Miguel Cabrera

Edes still emptying Sox mailbag

Thoughts on Miguel Cabrera, Roy Halladay and getting younger.

Giving thanks with a mailbag

Bill Simmons kicks off the holiday season by giving thanks to the readers with a big ol' mailbag.

Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)

So many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Steve Berthiaume: Voting For The Games

...what Mauer did this season. One voter decided that even that wasn't enough to deny Miguel Cabrera the award. You look at numbers long enough, you can let them talk you into anything...

Mike & Mike in the Morning

...Joe Mauer didn't win the AL MVP unanimously and the one writer who voted for Miguel Cabrera makes the rest of the voters look bad

The market for Miguel Cabrera

...Tigers are in cost-cutting mode and they are willing to discuss a possible trade of Miguel Cabrera, writes Lynn Henning. Set aside, for a moment, the off-field incidents in which Cabrera was...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Oct 6, 2009; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera (24) tosses his bat as he watches the flight of his two-run home run in...

Youkilis, Bay fare well in MVP voting

...choice in 1997 while with the Mariners. The other first-place vote went to Detroit's Miguel Cabrera; the lone voter presumably casting his ballot before Cabrera went on an all-night bender on...

Twins' Mauer near-unanimous AL MVP

...and 387 points. Yankees teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter were second and third. Detroit's Miguel Cabrera drew the other first-place vote and finished fourth in the balloting. Despite missing more than...

Congrats Mr. Burns: Joe Mauer Wins AL MVP

Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens The 2009 sideburn intervention by Ron Gardenhire and Justin Morneau was clearly ineffective. Joe Mauer has capped...