Miguel Cabrera News

Not surprisingly, Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins was named most valuable player of the American League on Monday.

Of the 28 voters for the AL MVP award, 27 selected Twins catcher Joe Mauer. One voter tabbed Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera as the MVP.

Jamie Samuelsen, the sports director for the "Deminski & Doyle" morning show on WCSX-FM , blogs for freep.com. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers.

The Tigers continued with their off-season housekeeping Friday by completing their 40-man roster, which brings aboard four newcomers.

Right-hander Justin Verlander, who struck out more batters than anyone in baseball and nearly won 20 games for the first time, has won the Tiger of the Year Award in voting by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Who would you trade to improve the Detroit Tigers? And who would you not trade? The latter actually is the more pertinent question.

The Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America isn't the only association in town that hands out annual Tigers awards.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

Along with the Yankees and the Angels, sources say the Cubs plan an aggressive push to land Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson.

Granderson is rumored to be on his way out of Detroit. Even in a time of economic prosperity, the Tigers yoked themselves to a few marquee names; paying severely above cost on each and every last one of them.

Tigers fans frustrated by the team's lack of headlines since the moment Shane Victorino bounced out to Robinson Cano to end the 2009 baseball season need no longer worry.

Edwin Jackson was an All-Star pitcher for the Tigers this year. He looked like one of the great acquisitions in baseball for most of the season - a starter who pitched deep into games and wouldn't become a free agent until 2011.

Joe Mauer has already been named the American League's Player of the Year for 2009 by his fellow players and by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Let put it simple. Albert Pujols was the man this past 2009 season. Pujols undoubtedly should win his third National League Most Valuable Player award.

The 2005 draft is another that may turn out to be more famous for who it allowed the Tigers to get rather than who it eventually netted the Detroiters.

The new owner of the Chicago Cubs knows what fans want to hear and he didn't wait long to deliver.

Florida Marlins southpaw Andrew Miller hasn't met expectations since being taken sixth overall in the 2006 draft.

In looking to next season with the help of this one, don't begin at the Metrodome ending, but in the middle - as in the middle of the Tigers' batting order.

Two prominent Minnesota businessmen are seeking to become minority owners of the Star Tribune.

I've spent several thousand words discussing roster moves the Tigers are faced with in terms of free agents and arbitration eligible players.