Tigers Not Done Dealing

To impress baseball fans, the Tigers will go out and trade three top prospects in their farm to Toronto for B.J. Ryan and Scott Rolen.

Both will go on to lose their jobs by June 15th.

I would advise against Borowski unless you like a closer with an 81 MPH fastball.

If they get Ryan it could well happen, or anybody.. He looked last season like a closer on the verge of next "Gagne-idis" syndrome and would not like to see anyone give up anything for him and also have a feeling the Jays would LOVE for someone to take the 2/20M he has coming off of their hands..

Cordero and Isringhausen would seem like perfect fits, the both of them for this team, not sure about Borkowski, Beimel would seem nice also.

What about breeding Porcello for a relievers role this year than having him start the next? I know that would be rushing him and start the clock on his arbitration years, but it is an option.

Porcello can wait
We have to take him slowly
He's our future

We have other relievers/ hard throwers that can round out the 'pen (casey fien, rudy darrow, Ryan perry, scott green, Cody satterwhite to name a few)

Stay away from Cruz!!
He'll cost draft picks
For a team that needs talent in it's system, draft picks cannot be freely given away

TINKERING? We've been tinkered on long enough.
This bullpen blew 28 saves- that's 26 games where they had the lead in the seventh or later and blew it.
This pen had 16 players pitch in relief last year. 10 are gone (good) but not one has been replaced by a major league pitcher.
Of the six returning, Bobby Seay has the BEST WHIP at 1.49. 110 AL relievers that pitched 40 innings were better.
NOT ONE decent reliever still on this team.
Cruz? Absolutely. That second round pick is about No. 65 because of all the comensation "sandwich" picks.
Sign Cruz
Sign Beimel
Sign Lyon
And Rodney Is NOT the best option to close. I'd rather call Denny McLain out of retirement to close.

I believe it would cost the Tigers a second round pick if they signed Cruz. If they can get Lyon for a decent one year contract I think they should do it. I hope to god they don't go into the season with Rodney or Zumaya .
I wonder what Mike Henneman is doing right now.

How bout PARNELL,KUNZ,SCHEINDER AND CASTILLO'S CONTRACT 4 2 big contracts of TIGERS; ORDONEZ AND WILLIS.This will reduce TIGERS payroll plus give them 2 young pitcher's; also help the METS w/ a power right handed bat they need and a left handed pitcher then they dont need PEREZ.Then METS could sign O-DOG to play 2b and PUDGE to catch.

I actually have a lot of faith in Rick Knapp
What he is doing with all the pitchers already is quite good
He already pointed out a mechanics/ balace flaw in Verlanders delivery
Hopefully he can redirect the pitching staff to its 2006 glory

You just don't eff around with high upside arms like that. Porcello is way too integral a part of the Tigers' future to mess around like that.

1. Sign Chad Cordero. Huge yes to this one. Low risk, high reward.

2. Go with an opening day rotation of Verlander-Bonderman-Galarraga-winners b/w Jackson/Miner/Robertson. Here's why I do this. I honestly think that Edwin will pitch himself out of the rotation before Miner or Robertson will. This is why I have blasted the Joyce/Jackson trade for the Tigers so many times. Loser goes to the pen.

3. Groom Willis to be the closer. Here's why. His mechanics have completely fallen apart. It will be much, MUCH easier for him to learn one plus pitch than it will be for him to learn 2-3 plus pitches. One pitch will fare him well as a closer. And, he's the type of pitcher who throws hard. Pitchers like that often find better success out of the pen.

4. Joe Beimel is an absolute waste of money for the Tigers. You don't spend on a LOOGY when your pen needs help from BOTH sides. Find a LH AAA starter with distinct platoon splits and have him be LOOGY.

This is an obvious move. Can't believe nobody has said it.

Dumbrowski will obviously sign Eric Gagne! He is a known name and will probably work cheap on a 1 year deal.

The first thing you can do to save the Tigers is fire Dave Dombrowski. He's the genius that traded away a bunch of young talent for Renteria, Willis, and Cabrera.

I seriously wonder if this guy wakes up everyday and thinks it is 2003. TIME TO WIN WITH THE FLORIDA MARLINS.

"Willis is a lost cause. We should have found a way to move him when we had a chance."

Tigers already had the chance dtigerman, for likewise lost cause Julio Lugo from Boston and Tigers may have even been able to talk them into eating the extra 4 million that Willis owed over 2009-10 over what Lugo is, now the Tigers have that LH reliever at least if they don't want to go out and get a real one like Biemel.

"I kinda like the idea of Willis as a closer/late inning guy, but I doubt that he is any better in one inning than he was in a few innings."

Yeah, he will be. Even if it is as a LOOGY, at least you're getting innings out of Willis. As I said, you only need one plus pitch to succeed as a closer, you need multiple to succeed as a starter.

And, looking at 2007, he held lefties to a .357 OPS, even though he had horrible overall stats. 2008 also had a great lefty OPS, even though he got absolutely bombed by righties(OPS over 1.000 v. RHB). D-Train will EASILY cut it as a LOOGY, if not a bona-fide closer.

ReyL
No!
Two middle-tier to upper-tier prospects (from a very depleted farm system) for a mediocre/ inconsistent reliever
We can't afford to keep trading away pitchers and farm hands!