Re: Detroit Tigers, Volume 5: The Hank Greenberg edition
Well I just got back from lakeland.
First, if Bruce Rondon is on your fantasy team, like he was on mine, drop him quick.
Yesterday he was great, today, awful. He can't hold runners on and today philadelphia's minor leaguers ran wild on him.He had no clue on first base. Second, well he has no command, so he walks a lot of guys. He's wild high a lot of the time. Then of course his velocity was off today by 5 or 6 mph.
As far as everyone else. Kelly has improved a lot. He carried the team two of the last three days with lot's of big hits, and good fielding plays. He's on the big club and berry went down today.
Verlander was fair today, but had quite a number of runners on base,( guys who had no business being there) and had to be taken out on pitch count because he couldn't get thru 6 under 100 pitches. it was not a great outing. Hamels on the other hand, had a great outing. Avila got hurt again day before yesterday, but played today. I wonder who is going to be the real back up catcher. I can't see victor doing it.
I liked Downs. he gets people out. I hope they keep him up. I know it's a long shot, but he gets people out vs letting them get hits. this is a good thing. Coke pitched yesterday and was lights out, the only tiger pitcher we saw who was. Porcello was ok, but he left several balls up against the Marlins and even they could hit them. I think smiley will be in the rotation in a month or so.
Overall had fun, but there is no way I'm paying to watch BP. no. way. and the tickets for spring training games are in no way cheap any longer. Also, The Marlins prices for everything from parking to water were much higher than the tigers. They share a stadium with the Cards, and it's no where as good as Joker Marchant.
I was very unimpressed with the tigers hitting today. Let's hope the regular season is better.
