also while I was gone Detroit resigned Magglio Ordonez

After Adam Dunn signed with the White Sox and Jason Werth with the Nationals Detroit's top priority to solidify right field for next season became re-signing Magglio Ordonez. They'd allowed him to become a free agent by declining his $15 million option for this year. But they resigned him at $10 million for one year. Ordonez showed he had something left. He was on pace for a 25 homer, 100+ RBI season when he broke his ankle sliding into home plate in July and missed the rest of the season. He was still 5th on the team in RBIs with his 59. That's more of a tribute to how little balance Detroit had behind Miguel Cabrera, that only Brennan Boesch, Brandon Inge, and Ryan Raburn were able to pass him.

I think Ordonez is their best option in right field. The pop in his bat is sufficient now that they'll also have Jhonny Peralta for a full season and have added Victor Martinez. Maybe they'll have the Ryan Raburn who perhaps found himself as an impact major league player in left, along with a Brennan Boesch who is closer to First Half Brennan Boesch and not Second Half Brennan Boesch.

At any rate, I'm glad Maggs is back. Philadelphia and Boston both had significant interest in him, along with Texas I think.

In the Tigers favor were the fact that Maggs is loved by the Detroit fans, having won a batting title in Detroit, and also hitting the walk-off home run in the 2006 ALCS against Oakland to propel them into the World Series. Also, Ordonez is Venezuelan. Venezuela does not produce a ton of major league players, like the Dominican Republic. But he has fellow countrymen on the Tigers in Carlos Guillen, Miguel Cabrera, Armando Galarraga, and now Victor Martinez.

Mags is also one of the few holdovers from the 2006 AL Champion team. Justin Verlander is the only starting pitcher left now. Joel Zumaya is the only reliever left, and they still have to choose to re-sign him though rumor says they will. I think Brandon Inge, Carlos Guillen, and Ramon Santiago are the only other players left, and Santiago had only 80 at-bats in 43 games on the season.