Reports: Tigers to sign Prince Fielder (http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7498284/detroit-tigers-reportedly-land-prince-fielder-214m-offer?eleven=twelve)


The Detroit Tigers and free-agent first baseman Prince Fielder agreed to a nine-year deal worth $214 million, according to multiple reports.


Fielder
The 27-year-old Fielder made $15.55 million last season with the Milwaukee Brewers, including a $50,000 bonus for starting the All-Star Game, after signing a record single-year deal for an arbitration-eligible player last January.

He hit .299 with 38 homers and 120 RBIs as the Brewers won the NL Central for their first division title since 1982, when they were still in the AL.

A first-round pick by the Brewers in 2002, Fielder became the youngest player in big league history to hit 50 homers in a season when he did it in 2007, and he's appeared in all but one of Milwaukee's games over the last three years.

He is a career .282 hitter with 230 homers and 656 RBIs.


Holy. shit.

N'yoh my god.

The Comerica Prince doesn't have the same ring to it that The Palace Prince does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqo4OZ0Pqs

now wut

Like, wow.

Gonna sell a lot of those huge jerseys.

so getting one.

Miggy. Prince. Papa Grande. Penny. Laird. Jhonny.

I LOVE THIS FAT TEAM!

fat man money ratio is through the roooooooof

Good god, this Jeff Moss dude is an idiot.

And the DH is?
Murders row baby!

That's amazing. I can understand the old man ponying up that kind of dough. He really wants a World Series before he goes.

I love the euphemisms being thrown out about Fielder in the articles I've read: big, robust and beefy among others.

Now can we get them both to drop weight and improve their fielding so we could have them and VMART in the lineup when he gets back?

Knobler says Miggy has confirmed that he's shifting to 3B.

lol

I'm sure he'll DH plenty. Maybe even some LF?

Picked up some crazy bread, you guys.

My way of thanking Mr. Illitch. Such a great guy.

wish there was a Caesar's around here. I owe the empire!

Had some leftover Caesars from the weekend in the fridge (deep dish, sausage).

Just popped it back in the oven and OMG...

@GreggHenson
The bitter taste of the ALCS fuel Illitch to do this.

I know that you guys were upset with me at the time, but I had a bigger plan in mind.

YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvaYgWc9eY

We are going to need to sign a wiz of a backup shortstop if Miggy and Peralta are going to share the left side of the infield.

^
NN

Also, got OST?

NN??!!?

Negative Nancy, lol.

I was actually looking forward to seeing how excited about this you were going to be, and I got... that. Ha!

Oh I am super excited, haha, just didn't post it, was busy arguing with my Chicago fan hater friends on email....

Skipped right past it on here. I'm not trying to be negative, I was just thinking about how it'll likely work and I imagine it will involve a lot of late inning switches for defensive purposes. I'm thinking they both get maybe 80 games at first, Prince 80 at DH, Migs 45 at third and 35 at DH?

When Victor gets back he might go back to catching 35 games a year if they can pull it off with Migs picking up 30 more games at 3rd if he can handle it?

So cool

http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tom_gores.jpg
"Now that's what I call being impactful."

You couldn't have picked a worse picture of Mr. Gores.

smh

...but you don't know the game, right? SMH

Feelin' justified for preferring MR. I over Gores (Mr. bargain basement)... Mr. I loudly said fuck the money I wanna win now.

So much respect for Ilitch.

Fielder has only missed 8 games in 6 years... hell that just a normal bender for Cabby.

This is a New York Yankees kinda move. Wowzers!

So much respect for Ilitch.
Gonna have to second that emotion... hail to I

I'm so happy I could buy a hot-n-ready (and give it away because it's shitty pizza, still love me some Ilitch though).

it may be shitty, but it is satisfying and affordable when hungry.

Jesus, I forgot about Raburn at 2nd. Now I'm totally being a NN but with Porcello and Fister pitching to contact this could get amusing.

Sign Cespedes, put Santiago at 2nd

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20120129/FREE/301299952/in-signing-fielder-ilitch-isnt-stretching-dough#.TyXv8SvFYLY.twitter

Hey Vinny... thanks for that bro... very informative.

This is still so fuckin cool.

I think the MLB forum should be top dog....not third.

couldnt be more pumped. i remember a couple years ago when when i was coming up with trade ideas sending jacob turner to the brewers for prince (many mocked him). unfortunately that thread seems to have been lost. the world's loss, really. after we signed victor i was 100% certain that ship had sailed (even joked with my dad the night before we signed prince we should offer him a 1 year deal).

mike illitch? he's the man

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2004_Kill_Bill__Vol._2/004KBT_Samuel_L_Jackson_002.jpg

also, sucks we have to wait a year for the fully operational battle station (assuming victor ever makes it back), but i expect prince to be marginally better than victor, but the pitching staff to be much better than last (maybe not JV). the real question mark to me is how avila, boesch, and jackson play.

im 100% getting mlb network this year. i'd pay anything.

online package is pretty affordable, IIRC. I'll probably do that again.

Is this still cool, Tahoe?

God bless Mike Ilitch.

OK, so Prince looks really fucking fat. Shit.

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20120225&Category=SPORTS02&ArtNo=202250381&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Slugging-trumps-speed-smart-baserunning-key-Tigers