OT: Galarraga to AAA Toledo
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100318&content_id=…
Not really a surprise, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Looks like Robertson + Willis/Bonderman will fill out our rotation.
So this means the tigers will be winning 3 out of every 5 games if they are lucky
Good grief, you sound like my dad. You know that the tigers were half a play away from winning the AL central last year, right?
That wouldn't be so bad.
considering how well Robertsons slider has been working and willis is pitching strong. I believe he had three more shutout innings today, two of which were 1.2.3.
That is your battle for the fifth spot in the rotation...boy, I just think I might not watch the games this year with the fifth starter...
The OBVIOUS weak points of the Tigers are the back of the rotation and the bottom of the order (Laird, Everette, Sizemore)...I know the AL Central sucks bad, but I just don't see this team winning unless they get an unexpected great season out of one, or probably more of these guys...
I hope the decision to let Edwin Jackson walk doesn't come back to haunt them.
They did not exactly let him walk. They got good value for him in Scherzer and Schlereth.
Yeah, I guess those players along with Phil Coke do provide pretty good value for Jackson. Hopefully Scherzer doesn't pull a Dontrelle in his first season here.
A healthy Scherzer >> a healthy Jackson
He's shown he has good power and speed, and won't kill a team with hiss average. Inge is MUCH more of a weakness at the bottom of the order than sizemore.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:38 PM ^
Nonsense. The guy had 27 HR and 84 RBI last year on two awful knees. There's no way Sizemore will match Inge's power and no guarantee he'll beat Inge's average.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
I bet you 7300 MgoPoints that Sizemore has a much better batting avergage than Inge at the end of the year. If Sizemore has anything going for him it is a good eye and approach at the plate. Inge K's and fails to make contact way more than his fair share.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:45 PM ^
No guarantee Inge hits 20 HR's this year either. He has only done that twice in his career.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:10 PM ^
that's the battle for the fourth and fifth starters right? Not just the fifth.
I'm betting Robertson becomes starter number 4 and then it'll be Bonderman/Willis/Bonine for starter number 5 (with the understanding that Bonine is the last resort option).
March 18th, 2010 at 10:56 PM ^
Don't forget Jackson and the Notorious I.N.G.E. That's three guys we assume won't hit, and two rookies we have no clue about. When Carlos Guillen's corpse is your fourth-best hitter, you might have trouble, as Rod would say, "puttin' crooked numbers on the scoreboard."
as I hate to say it, it seems more and more like Galarraga is a one year wonder.
Hopefully he can get it together as a Mudhen.
He was totally a one year wonder. Minor league journeyman finds success because nobody has faced him before. Once the league caught on he was toast. Happens a lot.
Jim Price has said on many occasions that Mondo's stuff doesn't have the late movement he had two years ago. He was getting a lot of late life and drop to his pitches. His WHIP last year was 1.566. Two years ago, when he had more life and a much better slider, his WHIP was 1.192. I don't know if it is the rest of the league catching on as much as him regressing back to his mean.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
Hearing Jim Price's voice makes me change the station and hearing Price talk about "late movement" is nauseating. Where is Paul Carey when you need him?
I assume you are talking about Bonderman.
Sorry, stupid nickname I made up for Galarraga. It went well with Bondo and NateRo. Although, looking at them all in print now, I think I'll stay out of the giving nicknames business. Not my forte...
I agree that Jim Price is tough to take sometimes and he repeats...repeats what he says for effect a lot, but he knows his pitchers and catchers (being a former professional one of the latter gives him some credibility). I believe he knows about "stuff" and the "art of pitching". They thought Galarraga may have had arm problems last year that he wasn't talking about, but seeing his stuff this year makes that irrelevant. Maybe he finds it in AAA again, but I'm not holding my breath.
My original reply was not to contradict what Aquaman said, just to add that I don't think it was entirely the other players figuring out his stuff.
It couldn't hurt if our hitters were being taught plate discipline. I am confident in the pitching and defense but most of our hitters just hack away.
I won't miss the fastballs he threw right down the middle, and I definitely won't miss watching said fastballs fly over the fence.