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The A Arizona Diamondbacks have given 28-year-old catcher Miguel Montero a five-year extension worth $60 million, and it is the biggest contract in Diamondbacks history.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 26, 2012 -- Jim Leyland had a minor revelation Thursday night at the team hotel.

AUGUST 10: Manager Jim Leyland #10 takes starting pitcher Rick Porcello #48 of the Detroit Tigers during the fourth inning against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field on August 10, 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Lose a few ballgames and everyone wonders who's going to get fired, traded, demoted, released, bought out, brought up, or otherwise saddled with the Tigers' soggy start.

The Detroit Tigers lost again last night and are now 20-23 and in 3rd place in the sketchy American League Central division.

1935 - Babe Ruth, winding up his career with the Boston Braves, hit three homers and a single at Pittsburgh, but the Pirates won 11-7. Ruth connected once off Red Lucas and twice off Guy Bush.

By the time the teams faced each other for the first time this season, the Tigers were expected to be in first place -- possibly by a comfortable margin -- and the Indians in second, or even third.

The topic of this morning's " Detroit Tigers Q&A" was second base . Let's focus on the team's struggling offense in this round of questions and answers.

Ryan Raburn shut up all the haters for at least 24 hours; Collin Balester on the other hand, did not; and Justin Morneau returns to the Twins lineup just in time for the Tigers series.

MLB baseball will hold it's annual amateur draft this year on June 4th thru the 6th.

He would sit in front of his locker and talk softly with one or more of the Tigers players.

Alex Avila is not bothered by the knee issue that kept him out of consecutive games this week and will start Saturday and Sunday in the final two games of a four-game series with Oakland.

Yesterday we mentioned we would take a look at the Tiger DH performance.A Then again, you may want to avert your eyes.

A few days ago, I gave you my All-Overrated Team , which featured the likes of Josh Beckett and Alex Rodriguez .

When discussing the most prolific hitters in all of baseball, it is impossible to leave Miguel Cabrera out of the conversation.

When the Cleveland Indians settle in to Fenway Park for a four game series starting Thursday night, there will be four former Red Sox players who are dawning the Tribe's uniform and calling Cleveland home.

At their current pace, the Rangers will outscore their competition by 323 runs. Last year, the Yankees led baseball at 210.

We are still roughly three months worth of baseball from the July trade deadline, but it is never too early to take a look at the potential crop of MLB players who could find themselves on the trade block this summer.

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Every Friday I will be taking a look at a prospect in the lower levels of the minors who could be on his way up very quickly, either to a new level or up toward the top of prospect ranking lists.