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“I want to see the new Miguel because everyone says he looks very cut up,” Granderson said of Miguel Cabrera.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Curtis Granderson said he had three games marked on his mental calendar. The first comes Wednesday, when he returns to Lakeland, Fla.,Cheap Tapout Hats, to play the Tigers for the first time since being traded in December.
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“No matter how good we were in Detroit,Tapout Hats, that level of confidence that the Boston fans had was always high,cheap Montreal Expos Hats,” Granderson said. “You go in there as a Yankee, it kind of neutralizes it a little bit.”
Granderson played eight seasons in the Tigers’ organization,cheap San Francisco Giants Hats, and the sight of his wearing Yankees pinstripes may look as foreign and incongruous to Tigers fans as Johnny Damon’s wearing the Old English D would be to Yankees supporters. Granderson said he had kept in touch with many of his former teammates, including Dontrelle Willis,Cheap Minnesota Twins Hats, Zach Miner and Wilkin Ramirez,Oakland Athletics Hats, and he saw Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen in January, when his charity basketball game coincided with Tigerfest in Detroit. He called Justin Verlander to congratulate him on the five-year, $80 million deal he signed before spring training.
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