Miller to start Friday
Bonderman to DL. Tigers hope he’ll be ready to pitch next Thursday, but Miller won’t be optioned back right away just in case. He will be sent out when Bondo is ready. No relief.
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Miller gets a start. Friday’s game just became “don’t miss TV.”
I’ve been monitoring the rader up Boston way, and I hope they hang on and get the game in, albeit late. No point in playing a doubleheader tomorrow in 40ish temperatures.
My apologies if anyone here is a Lynn Henning friend or fan, but why does he write articles about trades that can’t possibly be made? He may as well suggest getting Pujols to come over here. Casey is it for this season, barring injury. Why even bring that stuff up?
Actually, Henning IS right, there WILL be SOME form of trade at/near deadline time, UNLESS Casey picks it up (he won’t, he’s toast). This lack of ANY kind of production cannot continue.
Casey isn’t going anywhere at least not this year. Now I didn’t read the Hennings’s column, but in case you haven’t noticed there a few Tigers hitters under achieving right now. (Monroe, Inge and Sheffield). And it is not like he is not hitting the ball, in fact he is hitting the ball he just isn’t finding the holes. He has had numerous tough luck outs.
And everyone keeps saying it out Sheffield, why not about Casey?? Career .300 hitters will get there.
Your crazy Sean isn’t going anywhere.
Hey, c’mon Casey has as many RBIs as Rabelo and Perez combined!
All facetiousness asied, he is an excellent 1B. He hits beautiful line drives. But he is not going to supply power to the lineup, he will clog up the bases if he reaches them and his LHB presence does not deter opposing managers from throwing who they want to against us.
Shelton is distancing himself from the interest of management even moreso now with his poor performance in Toledo. I think his days are numbered. The disappointing thing about that is that he will likely end up being a throw-in in any future deal rather than the prize. It will take a blockbuster trade to get a good LHB first sacker and the Tigers are not likely to upset the current makeup of the team to do that.
I think they will stick it out with Casey and (though I would prefer to see some muscle supplied from our 1B) I think he will get his average up to a respectable level.
My guess is they will groom Larish for the job and we’ll see him called up in September.
There is no question that we need some power from the left side of the plate and that the logical place to expect that to come from your first baseman. I would like to see that happen for us this year but I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
The mayor is definitely looking at some cold poll numbers until he can get his slugging percentage above .300. I’m not asking for a .300 BA just that he get his slugging numbers near say, I don’t know, Miguel Cairo or Alex Cora. I think Casey has performed better in the field than expected and only a little worse at the plate. I liked the off-season signing of Casey not because he is a major league starting first baseman — which he clearly isn’t anymore — but because he was inexpensive and I thought due for an early trip to the DL which, in my neverending dewy-eyed romanticism, would, I believed give Shelton another shot with the Tigers. I’m afraid that Dan is right and that is not going to happan but it is also true that Shelton has no real trade value. And who do we have to deal? Timo Perez? Larish? Colon? Tata? For the record in half the at-bats Phelps has better slugging numbers with the Yankees.
What I don’t understand is that Tiger fans continue to believe that casey is about to warm up. “He has had numerous tough luck outs” – I’m sure he has but than again who hasn’t? We have seen 4 months of Casey and in the American League he is a career .230 hitter and a veritable machine for hitting ineffectual ground balls to second. He is a late inning defensive replacement and occasional pinch hitter and no more.
I have been telling anyone who would listen since he got sent down in 2005 that Thames is a natural first baseman. To my astonishment Leyland said he’d give him a try this offseason and I think he has performed defensively better than anyone expected. His average hovers near the Mendoza line but the guy has been used very irregularly and has accumulated only 60 at-bats so far. He has 1/2 the at-bats of Casey but more RBIs, home runs and is slugging about 200 points higher than the mayor. Isn’t it time to give him 3 starts a week and see if he can get the job done?
On todays game it looks like Miner is now pitching game one. I didn’t even know he had left Toledo. I pray that nothing is wrong with Maroth. So we got Durbin, Miner and Miller pitching the next three games? This is going to be very interesting.
Well Rube, you said it better than I ever could. Casey continues to struggle against AL pitching, although there’s been some improvement of late. I’m still waiting to see if wear and tear has done him in permanently.
Where I disagree with this type of article Henning wrote is that he points out a problem but offers no solution. That’s pointless. There isn’t much of a solution to be had if Shelton is faltering, and a trade for anyone worthwhile is very unlikely. I am intrigued, however, with the idea of playing Thames more. He’s better at firstbase than I thought he’d be. On the other hand, he strikes out a lot and you can’t say that about Casey.
I think Henning hit a nerve because he was sounding like those people over the winter who wanted us to “get” Ichiro, as if you could walk into the corner market and pick an Ichiro off the shelf. It just appears to me that Casey is this year’s firstbaseman and everyone may as well get behind him, for better or worse. At least he’s a good guy, no one can claim otherwise.