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Gopher State
Footballguy
With his run-scoring single last night, Cabrera (29 years, nine days) became the sixth youngest player to reach 1,000 RBI in MLB history. Only Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr. have reached the milestone sooner. miggy best of the best 
tri-man 47
Footballguy
I know Leyland tries to get the right match-ups, but I get a little bothered when he changes pitchers so frequently. He had guys getting good, quick outs on Friday, but then he'd pull them and put in a new reliever. It's risky running the bullpen down and then relying on Valverde, as he did today.Speaking of Friday, how bad a night did Avila have? 8 runners left on base, then he allows a passed ball in the bottom of the 9th. Ouch.--Fun for me today - a young man who is a student worker in my university office (for three years now) has become a starting pitcher for our D III baseball team. I had the chance to go watch them play (total attendance: about 50) as he was today's starter. They won, 2-1, as he threw a complete game four-hitter. He has told me how he tries to channel some Verlander when he's on the mound (he's from south central Wisconsin).
skillz
Footballguy
This has been driving me nuts too. He'll pull Dotel after a quick 1-2-3 7th or pull Coke after a single hitter. That burned us on Friday. I wish he would start using Dotel in the 8th/9th moving forward - he's earned the chance. Has a O.00 ERA in 9 appearances and teams are batting .150 against him. He's closed before too. If Valverde or Benoit don't like having "their" inning any longer they should pitch better then. They shouldn't be entitled to automatically pitch those innings just because they want to. That's the Brandon Inge mentality.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Dotel seems so relaxed and in control. Valverde looks like a mess. 31 pitches in one inning.
Anthony Borbely
Footballguy
Gopher State
Footballguy
Young was placed on the restricted list earlier Saturday to be evaluated under baseball's employee assistance program. He was arrested early Friday on a hate crime harassment charge following an encounter at his hotel during which police say he yelled anti-Semitic epithets and appeared intoxicated.
With young's past issues, I hope he gets the help he needs.
With young's past issues, I hope he gets the help he needs.
I really don't know what to do with Valverde. I do not want him in during one run games. You can't move him into the setup guy, because he will really suck at that. They still need innings out of him, but damn, I would start splitting some of the closer duties or letting the starter go a little longer.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Max sucks
Captain Hook
Footballguy
Would you guys please stop with the Smiley...............his name is Smyly
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
How does that work, do the As have to pick up Inges contract for the rest of the season? If so the Tigers should be giddy!
tri-man 47
Footballguy
...a rare player without an a-e-i-o-u in either his first or last name.
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
It doesn't work that way.
skillz
Footballguy
1 of 3 in New York isn't bad. I figured they'd lose today vs. CC, have a good shot at winning Sat. with Garcia starting - the Friday game was the toss up and we gave it away. Hopefully Fister gets back in about a week or so. That would push Below back to the pen, which is where he pitches best, so that should help the pen get better. Schedule softens up in May so hopefully this team can start hitting its stride this month. The bats will be there it's just a matter of seeing whether Benoit and Valverde can get going. Otherwise my blood pressure is going to go through the roof.
Bojang0301
Omar4Heisman
Seems to be Leylands MO. I hate his lazy Sunday lineups. Give guys a day off vs. a 4 or 5 starter not CC Sabathia. Brad Eldred. Jesus.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
A Kelly error away from taking 2 of 3. The Yankee right field line at 314 is a joke. Everyball hit to right looks like it is going out.
Gopher State
Footballguy
--LF Delmon Young, placed on baseball's restricted list Saturday following an early AM incident outside the team hotel Friday, will undergo doctors evaluations Monday under the Major League Baseball procedures and could return to the active roster shortly thereafter. Independent doctors will evaluate Young and report back to Commissioner Bud Selig's office and to the players' association's doctors. The examination process was detailed in the new Basic Agreement that big-league owners and the union (MLPA) agreed upon in 2011.
"If he is cleared to play, then he will be playing," GM Dave Dombrowski said during a dugout media briefing Saturday. "This is a new rule. This is an automatic provision with alcohol."
Young, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated harassment. Alcohol was reportedly a factor. Dombrowski was quick to add that facts surrounding the incident are not fully known. "I don't know what took place and I don't know that anyone knows 100 percent what took place," Dombrowski said
Sounds like young will be back sooner then later
"If he is cleared to play, then he will be playing," GM Dave Dombrowski said during a dugout media briefing Saturday. "This is a new rule. This is an automatic provision with alcohol."
Young, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated harassment. Alcohol was reportedly a factor. Dombrowski was quick to add that facts surrounding the incident are not fully known. "I don't know what took place and I don't know that anyone knows 100 percent what took place," Dombrowski said
Sounds like young will be back sooner then later
Anthony Borbely
Footballguy
He is getting suspended. Not sure how long yet.--LF Delmon Young, placed on baseball's restricted list Saturday following an early AM incident outside the team hotel Friday, will undergo doctors evaluations Monday under the Major League Baseball procedures and could return to the active roster shortly thereafter. Independent doctors will evaluate Young and report back to Commissioner Bud Selig's office and to the players' association's doctors. The examination process was detailed in the new Basic Agreement that big-league owners and the union (MLPA) agreed upon in 2011. "If he is cleared to play, then he will be playing," GM Dave Dombrowski said during a dugout media briefing Saturday. "This is a new rule. This is an automatic provision with alcohol." Young, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated harassment. Alcohol was reportedly a factor. Dombrowski was quick to add that facts surrounding the incident are not fully known. "I don't know what took place and I don't know that anyone knows 100 percent what took place," Dombrowski saidSounds like young will be back sooner then later
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
7 daysHe is getting suspended. Not sure how long yet.--LF Delmon Young, placed on baseball's restricted list Saturday following an early AM incident outside the team hotel Friday, will undergo doctors evaluations Monday under the Major League Baseball procedures and could return to the active roster shortly thereafter. Independent doctors will evaluate Young and report back to Commissioner Bud Selig's office and to the players' association's doctors. The examination process was detailed in the new Basic Agreement that big-league owners and the union (MLPA) agreed upon in 2011. "If he is cleared to play, then he will be playing," GM Dave Dombrowski said during a dugout media briefing Saturday. "This is a new rule. This is an automatic provision with alcohol." Young, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated harassment. Alcohol was reportedly a factor. Dombrowski was quick to add that facts surrounding the incident are not fully known. "I don't know what took place and I don't know that anyone knows 100 percent what took place," Dombrowski saidSounds like young will be back sooner then later
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
It seems that Young has some problems he needs to deal with, some people close to the team were not surprised when they heard this news.Young is only 26 and has potential yet Tampa and Minny both dumped him for basically nothing. For Minny to give Young away to a divison rival was puzzling.--LF Delmon Young, placed on baseball's restricted list Saturday following an early AM incident outside the team hotel Friday, will undergo doctors evaluations Monday under the Major League Baseball procedures and could return to the active roster shortly thereafter. Independent doctors will evaluate Young and report back to Commissioner Bud Selig's office and to the players' association's doctors. The examination process was detailed in the new Basic Agreement that big-league owners and the union (MLPA) agreed upon in 2011. "If he is cleared to play, then he will be playing," GM Dave Dombrowski said during a dugout media briefing Saturday. "This is a new rule. This is an automatic provision with alcohol." Young, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated harassment. Alcohol was reportedly a factor. Dombrowski was quick to add that facts surrounding the incident are not fully known. "I don't know what took place and I don't know that anyone knows 100 percent what took place," Dombrowski saidSounds like young will be back sooner then later
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Spartans Rule
Footballguy
Flowers are blooming, the Kentucky Derby is this weekend, and Max Scherzer is reworking his delivery because he forgot how to throw a ####### baseball over the offseason.Just a typical May.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
He's right. last year they sent him to Toledo to get right and he came back to have a terrific second half. I would rather sit him out a start or send him down (I think he has one more option) instead of running him out to throw four innings and give up seven walks.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Just need LD to keep Max on his bench & Max will pitch well.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
How about him being completely off my roster?
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
How fast years fly.... it was 2010 when they sent him down. He sucked at the major league level all of last year.
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
At home and in the second half of the season he was good in both the past two years. 2010
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Split W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP SO/9 SO/BB 1st Half 6 6 .500 4.61 16 16 0 0 0 0 93.2 93 53 48 13 35 1 88 5 0 2 395 1.367 8.5 2.51 2nd Half 6 5 .545 2.47 15 15 0 0 0 0 102.0 81 31 28 7 35 0 96 2 0 6 405 1.137 8.5 2.74
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Split W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP SO/9 SO/BB 1st Half 10 4 .714 4.69 19 19 0 0 0 0 111.1 122 62 58 16 38 1 96 4 0 6 487 1.437 7.8 2.53 2nd Half 5 5 .500 4.09 14 14 0 0 0 0 83.2 85 39 38 13 18 0 78 3 0 6 346 1.231 8.4 4.33
whoknew
Footballguy
Also - pretty sure Bonderman is working on his changeup so he'll have a third pitch.
Gopher State
Footballguy
BOSTON (AP) – Third baseman Brandon Inge agreed Monday to terms on a contract with the Oakland Athletics.
Jim Rogash
The newly acquired Brandon Inge, who spent the first 12 years of his career in a Tigers uniform, said he's happy to be with his new club in Oakland.
Once they put him on the 40-man roster, the A's must pay Inge only a prorated portion of the $480,000 minimum — or about $412,000 — of the $5,308,743 he was owed when released by the Detroit Tigers on Thursday
seems like a low cost utility player for the A's
Jim Rogash
The newly acquired Brandon Inge, who spent the first 12 years of his career in a Tigers uniform, said he's happy to be with his new club in Oakland.
Once they put him on the 40-man roster, the A's must pay Inge only a prorated portion of the $480,000 minimum — or about $412,000 — of the $5,308,743 he was owed when released by the Detroit Tigers on Thursday
seems like a low cost utility player for the A's
Eephus
Footballguy
Oakland has a roster full of low cost utility players
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Porcello
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
That will work even better, thanks.
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
BOESCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just coming in here to ##### about Lloyd and how he should have been fired three years ago, but Brennan saves him for now.
I was just coming in here to ##### about Lloyd and how he should have been fired three years ago, but Brennan saves him for now.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Why isn't Potato Fat pitching this inning?
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Because it's Benoit's turn to give one away?
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
I would have preferred Dotel, but Benoit a better option than Valverde for sure. Can't really blame him anyway, one hit off Jonathan Dirty Sanchez is terrible. If you let him, he'll walk home a run an inning. Hopefully they get Abreu, they'd have one guy outside Miggy and Prince with plate discipline.
scrumptrulescent
Footballguy
Lloyd is an idiot. Pay the Yankees hitting coach whatever it takes.
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Fister's Triple A outing - 4 innings, no runs, 2 hits, 5 K's. Tentatively slotted for Monday night in Seattle.
Saw this on the Tigers' website:
"Smyly is the first starting pitcher since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 to give up fewer than two runs in each of his first four Major League outings. Smyly is also just the third pitcher in the last 50 years to do it."
Tentatively slotted for Monday night in Seattle.Saw this on the Tigers' website:
"Smyly is the first starting pitcher since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 to give up fewer than two runs in each of his first four Major League outings. Smyly is also just the third pitcher in the last 50 years to do it."
If the Tigers end up with Porcello and Max as the #4 and #5 guys, the Tigers will be alright.Fister's Triple A outing - 4 innings, no runs, 2 hits, 5 K's.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Love SmFister's Triple A outing - 4 innings, no runs, 2 hits, 5 K's.
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Gopher State
Footballguy
LF Delmon Young is eligible to come off the suspended list Friday and faces an uncertain reception once manager Jim Leyland decides to put him in the starting lineup again. Leyland proclaimed Young won't start Friday but that he could be inserted at some point if the situation warrants. He was suspended for seven games after being arrested and charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault in New York last Friday. Young might be kept out of left field and used as the designated hitter if public reaction is negative, and being in the outfield would subject him to taunts from fans
scrumptrulescent
Footballguy
As a guy who has had very little confidence in Max, I have this odd feeling he's about to turn it around. Local radio and national sports media all piling on...."What's wrong the Tigers?" I think this team is glad to see April go and is about to put it all together, going on a serious run. Loads of talent and we all saw in spring training and the early season how good team chemistry looked. Prince was a great addition and this team is about to explode.I'll step down now.If the Tigers end up with Porcello and Max as the #4 and #5 guys, the Tigers will be alright.Fister's Triple A outing - 4 innings, no runs, 2 hits, 5 K's.
scrumptrulescent
Footballguy
Is there a point to this or are you just having a laugh at the kid's expense?
tri-man 47
Footballguy
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