When Baseball Was Fun

The Tigers are still HOT in the HOT island of the Dominican Republic. Seeing that they can’t draft very high because of the recent Free Agent signings of Jose Valverde in 2009, Victor Martinez in 2010 and Prince Fielder 2011-2012 they have resorted to signing kids who are two or three years away from professional [...]

Nick Castellanos had no sooner graduated from High School down in Fort Lauderdale, than the Tigers were standing on his doorstep with a check for 3.5 million smackeroos. Young Nick, just finishing up with a .542 batting average as a High School Senior, thought…”Hey, why not, that’ll buy Mom a new car” signed and instantly [...]