Quotes & Notes: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping

■ PingBaseball.com has come out with their Preseason All Ping Baseball Team. OF Aaron Senne is the only Tiger on the list, coming in as a Third Team Outfielder.

■ Project Prospect has an interesting article On Evaluating College Hitters Quantitatively. And he thinks highly of his methods:

My system is comprehensive, relying on empirical production metrics. It looks at a player’s total body of work adjusting for age, positional, park, conference, and schedule effects, and then uses a system of variable weights to determine a player’s likelihood of pro success based on what players of comparable skill have done in the past.