Inside spring training camp:
Seay looks to rebound: Bobby Seay said last year's last-place finish for the Detroit Tigers remains hard to fathom. "We were kind of mailing it in," Seay said. "We're embarrassed about last year." Seay went from being the most effective reliever other than Todd Jones to totally unreliable. Seay had a 2.57 ERA through July, but had a 7.59 ERA during the final two months. Tigers manager Jim Leyland said an inability to throw his looping slider on the outside corner to left-handed hitters was the main problem. Seay also is adding a pitch. "I'm working on a changeup and think it will be a good pitch for me," Seay said. "I don't want to live on my slider." Guillen likes left: Carlos Guillen will be part of a Venezuelan outfield that includes Detroit teammate Magglio Ordonez and Bobby Abreu for the World Baseball Classic. "I better play left field, because if I do not play left field I am coming back here," Guillen said. Left field is his new position with the Tigers after playing shortstop, third base and first base the past two years. Guillen, Ordonez, first baseman Miguel Cabrera and pitcher Armando Galarraga will train beginning March 1 in Lakeland with the Venezuelan team managed by Luis Sojo. Detroit hosts the Venezuelans in a March 3 exhibition game. "It's going to be fun," said Guillen, adding that knee and back problems that limited him to 113 games last year have healed.
Hitting lineup: Leyland revealed his batting order: Curtis Granderson, Placido Polanco, Ordonez, Cabrera, Guillen, Gary Sheffield, Gerald Laird, Brandon Inge and Adam Everett.
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