Around the Horn: Links roundup for 3/3/2012

By catswithbats on 03/03/2012 • ( 0 )

image cobbled together in Photoshop by Alexandra Simon

Lynn Henning penned an interesting piece about Joaquín Benoit. Fun fact: Benoit’s read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho—twice!
Crain’s Detroit Business has caught wind of the “¿Sí or No?” shirts!
Ken Rosenthal wrote a pretty good piece about Miguel Cabrera’s move to third base.
Turns out Elmon isn’t interested in DHing. Now, I might not be a Young fan, but the comments to that article are hilariously awful.
Check out this older but still relevant Bless You Boys piece on Joel Zumaya: An Investigation: Joel Zumaya
Andy Oliver made a fine Spring debut. And also, apparently, pitched one more inning than he was meant to due to a miscommunication with the pitching coach. Was Tony La Russa in the building?
Tim Kurkjian and the Baseball Tonight crew stopped by Tigers camp recently.
In non-Tigers-related Tim Kurkjian news, check out Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia’s hilarious impersonation of Kurkjian here (h/t SportsCenter)
Fellow Detroit Tigers Scorecard contributor, Grey Papke, writes about expanded playoffs here, and why it might not be such a bad thing after all.
James Schmehl of MLive writes that Al Alburquerque on track to start throwing program in late March.
Garret Craig of Motor City Bengals wonders if the age of the Tigers’ bullpen should be an area of concern here.
The Tigers’ official MLBlog shared its Photo of the Day here.
And yours truly compared Pudge to G-Money (and wondered which one would make the better backup catcher) here.