1 Catcher Off the Market

Tigers keep Pudge

From Rotoworld:

Tigers exercised catcher Ivan Rodriguez's $13 million club option for 2008.
It was believed that GM Dave Dombrowski wanted to find a new catcher, but owner Mike Illitch preferred the idea of keeping Pudge. It was the right move. Rodriguez has become an awfully frustrating player to watch in the batter's box, and giving him a multiyear deal for this kind of cash would have been a bad idea. The Tigers, though, are better off paying $10 million for one more year -- there was a $3 million buyout attached to the option -- than they would have been giving a long-term deal to a likely

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