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Get it done

Five things at the top of the Tigers' to-do list:

Find that left-handed reliever:Jamie Walker can't do it alone. It's digging up a lefty reliever that's the hard part, as the Tigers discovered a couple of years ago after trading for Steve Colyer and, ultimately, learning he wasn't reliable. This is a search that could extend throughout spring training until some kind of deal -- or surprise -- surfaces.

Pump up Nook Logan.New hitting coach Don Slaught's thoughts on Logan are, at the very least, intriguing as the Tigers try to turn a potential game-breaker into a productive hitter. Much of Logan's challenge is non-mechanical. The Tigers need for Logan to think of himself as a hitter. Making him a steady center-fielder who can hit .270 would be huge.

Develop Jeremy Bonderman's off-speed pitch.If he can manage two things in 2006 -- avoid bad first innings, and craft a solid change-up that can be thrown as more than a novelty -- this power-pitching colt will win 20 games by Labor Day. People forget he just turned 23. He'll yet become the staff ace, and one of baseball's best right-handers.

Keep encouraging Dmitri Young.He signed on to the tough stuff -- a stint of Marine Corps-caliber boot camp and food rations next month at an Arizona training facility. That says everything about the player Young intends to become in 2006. If new manager Jim Leyland and Slaught can get him to be a bit more picky at the plate, Young could have a dynamite 2006.

Decide to fish or cut bait with Carlos Pena.It's a last chance for romance between the Tigers and Pena. He needs to show -- from the start of spring training -- that he's going to hit consistently and productively, at all times and in all kinds of game situations, and with a reasonable ratio of strikeouts to extra-base hits. Getting him the necessary at-bats to do so might be a problem, which is why he looms as trade bait.
Nook...what a weird name