<![CDATA[robythomas Blog Posts]]> http://www.detroittigersnews.com/robythomas/weblog/ <![CDATA[Predicting the 2009 season with my crystal ball]]> http://www.detroittigersnews.com/robythomas/weblog/6760/predicting-the-2009-season-with-my.html http://www.detroittigersnews.com/robythomas/weblog/6760/predicting-the-2009-season-with-my.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:47:43 PDT How about this? My very first article by the smart-assed blogger who has a vivid interest in the Detroit Tigers. It’s now spring training, I, for one, am excited to see the snow melt (it will come back to Michigan, it snows till April here) and see the tigers kick some tail in Florida (somewhere I wish I was at right now). So, for my first entry, this smart-ass blogger wanted to give an analysis for some of our players. Here goes:

Magglio Ordonez – He was the person who hit the ball out of the field against the Oakland A’s in 06 to lead us to the World Series. When we had our share of troubles after the 07 all-star break, Magglio remained supreme with the best batting average in the AL. Although the team dropped to the cellar in the AL Central last season, Maggs kept his Batting Average over .300, knocking over 21 homers, in which I expected more, and getting 103 RBIs. Maggs does have life in that Thirty-Six year-old body to hit good production numbers. You’ll see more of the same with Maggs in the batting average category, I’ll stand by that. Just don’t expect him to hit more than 23 home runs.

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