Tigers Sign Matt Treanor

Not sure why they are still talking to Treanor after the Laird acquisition. Rookie Dusty Ryan is just as good as Treanor.

Dontrelle Willis loves him. He got brought up to the Marlins from (then) AAA Albuquerque and caught Willis' best games there. That's how Treanor stayed in the bigs, so last year was somewhat surprising, but the Marlins had nobody else.

Reputed to be a good clubhouse guy (and has the aforementioned hot athlete wife).

They really need relief pitching. This doesn't make any sense.

DD should be focused on relief pitching. This doesnt make any sense to me, personally. Why aren't we hearing rumors about them trying to shore up their bullpen. Instead, we hear them trying to sign a backup catcher. Dusty Ryan can be a serviceable backup to Laird. Doesn't make any sense.

what do you mean he looked awful? evidently you didnt watch the same games i did, because after the first few games Dusty Ryan swung a hot stick and played great defense...called some great games and got a few good outings out of robertson and willis.

I wouldn't mind them signing Treanor, but the lack of attention theyre giving the bullpen is really getting old. Having 3 backup catchers doesn't do us any good.

nckdmaa, you definitely are not ignorant to the current state of mlb catchers, i think youre just ignorant of the current state of the Tigers organization haha

"The Tigers have two back-up catchers. Laird is the better defensively. Ryan is better offensively."

Don't see how that gave up 2 decent prospects for laird to put him on the bench for a backup, no, he'll be the starter next year since he is one of the best throwing and defensive catchers in the league, which the Tigers pitchers are going to need an awful lot of..Somebody to stop all those baserunners from getting to 2nd easily..

From watching lots of Boston games this past season, laird was 1 catcher that Ellsbury put the brakes on after he threw him out stealing a couple times, so the guy puts 2nd thoughts into the minds of good base stealers.

Also, so what if they are in on Treanor today compared to a RP. Its not like a Jake Peavy situation where it encompasses entire weeks. Its one day they are focusing on catcher depth. Tomorrow they can sign a relief pitcher or 2. Most of them are still out there i'm sure they can get one solid arm.

inge doesn't count since he is the starting 3rd baseman.

steve026, its not that theyre spending a day on treanor, its the fact that its not the best way to spend the money, especially with guys like joe nelson who would be happy with a 800k deal out there. Right now there are several good bullpen arms that the tigers are seemingly ignoring. But no worries. we got matt treanor.

The Tigers needed this, Dusty Ryan is not ready for MLB and this gives him the chance to go back down and play every day, instead of wasting away on the bench only playing once every 7 days.

Treanor made $705K last season, I can't imagine that he is going to get THAT much more that the Tigers won't be able to afford their relievers. The Tigers will still have $800K to try to sign Joe Nelson.

By all accounts, the Tigers are heavily going after Beimel and may be taking a wait and see approach to the rest of their reliever signings until they know what Beimel is doing.

The Tigers have quietly fared well this offseason, with the exception of that brutal Joyce/Jackson trade.

Good depth move by the Tigers.

For what it's worth, he's a really good guy, got to know meet him quite a few times (unfortunately for him) at the Marlins spring training complex while he was rehabbing.

Still, I can't see the fit. Seems like another Vance Wilson signing.

well put quantumleaper

I like to see the Tigers finally caring about defense. They made move after move while ignoring how it affected their defense (Sheffield, Cabrera, Renteria) and ended up having some big issues.

Now, it seems as though they've completely reversed directions.

They're playing a defense first catching tandem in Gerald Laird and Matt Treanor. They're moving Inge back to third, where his glove is great but his bat is seriously lacking. They've stuck Cabrera and Guillen in 1B and LF, so they won't be depended on defensively so much anymore. And, they likely won't play Sheffield much in the field.

Now, only if Edwin Jackson can put it together so they don't look dumb for that trade..

quantumleaper, no ive checked em out before, especially with them making all these signings since the winter meetings, but im not a member of any. Do you mean the official site or the detroittigerswebblog?

twoseamer, Dombrowski wants to give our current backup catcher, Dusty Ryan, more time in the minors to develop(I heard he played terrible in the winter league). But I really dont get it either, with our bullpen needing attention, but whatever, not as bad as the joyce deal at least.