Dave Dombrowski

No strong team needs relief pitching more than the Tigers. No reliever is hotter than Jesse Crain. Don't be shocked if Crain is closing games against the White Sox when the teams meet in Detroit before the All-Star break. When general manager Rick...

Last week's ranking in parentheses. 1. Cardinals (1): Slowed down a little since a 23-7 stretch April 30-June 1. But they have lost more than two games in a row only once and never more than three. Starting pitching limits losing streaks. 2. Tigers...

MINNEAPOLIS Tigers closer Jose Valverde has been on the field early each of the last two days working his mechanics. Perhaps he'll regain his consistency and quiet down the talk that the Tigers must trade for a ninth-inning closer to replace him by the...

DETROIT The curtain should come down on the Jose Valverde Reunion Tour. The Tigers can't trust him. It was a worthwhile experiment. If it worked and he stabilized the bullpen, fine. If it didn't, it cost the Tigers little. And considering that the...

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...

If the Tigers are going to lose hot-hitting shortstop Jhonny Peralta to a drug suspension of at least 50 games as they chase the pennant, it is likely to come later than sooner. Peralta is one of more than a dozen big-league players whose name has been...

The Sports Xchange Tigers 6, Pirates 5 DETROIT -- Jhonny Peralta had four hits and drove in three runs and Victor Martinez added a go-ahead, two-run double as the Detroit Tigers won for the sixth time in seven games by defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Pittsburgh Pirates - INSIDE PITCH It would be easy for the Pirates to give up on third baseman Pedro Alvarez, especially after another 0-for-4 day Monday in a 6-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.. First, there is the...

The Royals expect James Shields to be a difference maker. But were they close enough to being a playoff team before they added him? That's the question about the deal in which the Royals sent future All-Star Wil Myers to the Rays. It's too early to...

With this week's release of the Jackie Robinson film "42" putting a spotlight on the current decline of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday appointed a task force to study how to increase diversity within the...

Look out, below. The Rangers, who not so long ago were morphing into the Yankees, are coming down to Earth before our eyes. Barring some diplomacy worthy of a great secretary of state, Nolan Ryan is on his way out of the organization. He feels...