Great article on ESPN Page 2 that ranks all 32 teams' performance and assigns each one a member of the '84 Tigers as a rating.

Here is what they had to say about the Tigers:


Detroit Tigers (57-28): Sparky Anderson

Sparky was a championship-level manager in Cincinnati. He switched leagues, came to Detroit, and made a World Series winner out of the Tigers. Jim Leyland won it all in Florida. After a few years away from the game, he's come to the AL, where he's led the upstart Tigers to the best record in baseball. If Leyland goes on to repeat Sparky's feat, credit should go well beyond Leyland's office. Dave Dombrowski has quietly engineered three all-world GM efforts in Montreal, Florida and now Detroit. Curtis Granderson might be the most underrated player in baseball. Marcus Thames ranks sixth in OPS among AL regulars. Raise your hand if you knew who Marcus Thames was before the start of the season … or now. Justin Verlander and Jeremy Bonderman may battle Johan Santana and Francisco Liriano for the next 10 years. The '06 Tigers are what makes baseball great.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=keri/060707

We should all grade each individual Tiger. It'll be fun to see who gets higher grades.

That's a good idea. Should we do a thread for each player and make it a poll?

Nah, that would take too long. We'd be into October when we're done with every player. lol I think we should grade each player in one thread.

I like Vinny's Idea.

Give everyone a week to grade a player, then lock it up and archive it.

I guess I'll roll with Vinny as well.

Who do we start with? Inge?

Royals = Rusty Kuntz, lol!