Tiger Geist

Who knows.  Will Detroit take the next few series by the balls and attempt to get back into the playoff race?  Or will they do their best to walk as many players as possible and attempt to blow up their bullpen yet again?  We’ll know by Sunday.

Sheffield talks about how he’s feeling great now (awesome, thanks for tanking it all year) and how the strike zone favors the pitchers.  Somehow I wonder why Detroit’s pitchers haven’t taken full advantage of this expanded strike zone.

I don’t know what to think about Sheffield right now.. if he just smokes it the rest of the year, does that mean they try to bring him back?  I wish his arm would fall off and just make the decision easier.

Blah.  Oakland is playing like poop and they’re in town, and pitching three straight left handers.  Detroit’s best starting pitchers right now are 1)  a cast off from Texas and  2) their former long reliever.

Interesting news is Leyland wants Zumaya to throw this winter.  I thought that Zumaya would still be a solid reliever even if his fastball didn’t come back, since he had such a devastating curve ball in 2006.  It looks like that is giving him trouble now, turning him into a Billy Koch.