Around the Tigers blogosphere and beyond. Thanks to posts in the comments for the first two.

• Blake at Spot Starters interviewed Gary Gillette

Nice catch for Blake. Gillette edits the Tigers Corner series and ESPN’s Baseball Encyclopedia. Blake talked to him about Tiger Stadium, the blockbuster trade and what went wrong in 2007, among other topics. Gillette thinks the Tigers can be pretty good, but if they have more than two key problems, they could still end the year behind the Cleveland Indians because of depth issues.

It’s not a word-for-word posting of the interview, but it’s a good read. Nicely done.

• MLB Fleece Factor wrote the Tigers could win 95 games and has the potential to be the top team in baseball.

Fleece Factor thinks there’s strong batting all around, and the pitching isn’t bad either. But the problem is with so many innings on so many young arms, injury concerns for the rotation could put a damper on season.

• Bilfer wrote about the Tigers “backups” plan.

I think this one ties together what the first two point out. With the starters set, Bilfer looks at who could break camp on the bench for the Tigers and how that affects the depth at different positions. He made a nice chart of the possibilities. As I concluded on the topic earlier this year, Bilfer thinks the ideal situation is

… Marcus Thames, Brandon Inge, Vance Wilson, and Ryan Raburn given the assumptions above. Raburn would most likely end up thirsting for at-bats as the majority would go to Inge. Still, that bench gives you a pretty solid combination of offensive pop and defensive flexibility.

Also Bilfer is working on redesigning DTW.

• Lee is still going through all his defensive metrics at Detroit Tiger Tales.

• Jon Paul Morosi wrote about making his prospect list for Baseball America.

The introduction was funny — ” Ten Guys Who Weren’t Traded” — but his explanations for the players were nice.

–January 22 –

• One addition:  Baseball Musings’ David Pinto looked at the Tigers offense as part of his series.

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