??? ch-ch-changes????
Interesting off day for Detroit. They have another 24 hours to make a couple of moves; they have another week or two to make some more. Here’s some of their issues:
- Need to find a spot for Denny Bautista, returning from the DL
- Need to find a replacement for Ramon Santiago, destined for the DL
- Need to make a decision and a spot for Fernando Rodney
- Need to make a decision and a spot for Joel Zumaya
- Need to make a decision and a spot for Gary Sheffield
- Need to make a decision on their left fielder (Guillen, Thames, Thomas)
- Need to make a decision on Galarraga
The pitching situation isn’t really that interesting — seriously, Rodney and Zumaya are better then the rest of the bullpen; does anyone really care who gets demoted? Dolsi is showing promise, but could easily use more work in the minors. Otherwise.. who cares. Galarraga should stay in the rotation, but who would get bumped? Robertson to the pen might make sense, but lately he hasn’t been ‘awful’. I bet most of the players wouldn’t let Dontrelle Willis pitch to their kids at the annual father-son baseball game.
The position players are more interesting — at what point does detroit make a move? Do they start thinking about next year and move some salary around? Do they make some moves to get more speed and talent up from Toledo? Does it really matter, since Leyland seems to screw everything up anyway (DH’ing young guys, playing old players with bad shoulders / hemorrhoids in the field, etc). I don’t know if the results would have been any different, but does any of his recent moves make any real sense?
I foresee some changes coming up. And why not? What is so exciting about today’s team? Raburn has gotten moved around so much that he’s now batting at a career low — he probably should be moved down to get some at-bats. Thames wasn’t good enough to be our starting left fielder for the past three years, his current numbers are right in line with his career averages… if he deserves to be the starting left fielder, then we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs. I know many people think he’d hit 35 - 40 home runs if he had 500 at bats… I just wish those same people were major league GMs.
Blah. Go Wings. So hard to enjoy this team right now.. every glimmer of hope is quickly put out by mis-management or players not seeming to care. Maybe we all need an off day. When does the Lion’s training camp begin?