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Detroit Tigers, Volume 3 - The Alan Trammell version

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Well, he's 23 and hasn't picked up a bat on a regular basis since high school. That was 5 years ago. Remember, there's also a DH throughout the minors, too. He's not accustomed to swinging a bat, and AL teams in general don't like having their pitchers take a swing.

Santiago just ****ed up there. Is there a reason we're not walking Votto?
 
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So....we're walking Bruce, but we're lobbing grapefruit to Votto. Uh-huh.
 
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We've got a short bench, Benoit unavailable, and Villareal is not likely to go. And we're pinch-hitting for Porcello in the 6th.

That means we need 12 outs from a depleted bullpen, and we're going to have to burn at least one more pinch-hitter from an already thin bench. Great.
 
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Imagine had our esteemed hitting coach spotted the hole in Boesch's swing sometime before June...
 
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Delmon clubs one into the seats in left-center.

5-4 Tigers, top 8.
 
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I'm waiting for Marlboro Jimmy to bring in Aurelio Lopez. That's just about the only arm we've got left short of Valverde.
 
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Coke to pitch to Votto.

Everybody get in the bunker.
 
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Hammer said:
Coke to pitch to Votto.

Everybody get in the bunker.
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Beat me to it.

EDIT: wth? He can do that to one of the best hitters in the NL but not the Cleveland Indians, or any AL team for that matter?
 
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Great googly-moogly. He struck Votto out.
 
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Okay, sometime this weekend we've got to see what happens when Cabrera gets a hold of Chapman's heater.
 
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Did Matt Young move in with Ryan Raburn before he got called up to Detroit?
 
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So...How does this one turn into a loss?
 
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A safety squeeze to end it. That's new.
 
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Peralta on paternity leave. Some Perez dude from Lakeland being called up because he's on the 40-man and they don't want to waive anyone.
 
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Hernan Perez. A 21-year old prospect in high-A ball, but a prospect nonetheless.

More in a minute.

EDIT: Okay. Hernan Perez has played mostly 2B this season after being a shortstop for the most part in the minors. Doesn't appear to have much of a bat, as he hasn't hit .270 in a season yet. Not much OBP, either, and he's a bit of a windmill.

See for yourself. Meet Hernan Perez

In Lynn Henning's weekly slurping of our farm system, Toby Harrah (minor league roving hitting instructor) said this:

Hernan Perez, second base, Lakeland: "I would look at him as maybe a year and-a-half to two years from playing every day in the big leagues. He can do a little bit of everything and would be playing shortstop if it weren't for (Dixon) Machado. Has a little problem with balls on the outside of the plate."
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I would expect to see Santiago and Worth deal with the middle infield the remainder of the weekend.
 
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So he'll be pinch hitting with two outs and the go ahead run in scoring position?
 
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Probably. Or Leyland will bring him out of the bullpen as the 4th pitcher to appear in the 8th inning of a 9-4 game.
 
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Oh. Remember Cale Iorg? He's 26 and after being in Toledo last year (and hitting .208), he's back in high-A Lakeland.
 
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