Well if HE’S not worried
posted in 2008 Spring Training |Leyland not worried about bullpen staff
Well, good. At least that makes one of us!
It was recently announced setup man Fernando Rodney would start the season the disabled list. That notice was followed up today that he was taking a few days off throwing. Meanwhile the non-worried manager is “snooping around minor league camp.” Well, I’m glad he’s enjoying himself.
I jest. On a more serious note, it really isn’t as bad a picture as could be painted. Yeah, the relief situation leaves me a bit uneasy. Certainly you’d feel better if you had better known players with a background of consistency. On the other hand, these Tigers are going to score quite a few runs, and even if they don’t score 5 or 6 on any given day, they just need to be one run better than their opponents and the lineup the Tigers trot out day-in and day-out is good enough to make me not worry. Not right now, anyway. Come October when almost every team remaining has good pitching and a good lineup? Yeah, I’d like some better relief than the Tigers have now. But hopefully Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney will be healthy and effective by then.
But in the meantime, with nothing much going on in Tigers camp — except for Leyland hoping his players will “get serious” like it’s the regular season, which starts in a scant 10 days — we bloggers have not much else to talk about or worry about. So we track possible trade partners for relief pitching, as Ian did. Or beat poor horses, as Samara did. Or speculate, as I continue to do.
Will the regular season start already?!
In the meantime, we have seven days of college basketball — and I’m one Spartan hoping for at least three of those days to have more meaning than hoping to beat Grandy with my ESPN.com bracket. (I’m winning 140-100, if those links work! And of course a lot of people have 160…) Which brings me to the question: do you have a bracket in Curtis Granderson’s group? The winner of it gets an autographed bat. I want to see how my competition picked. Post your links if you’ve got em!
Oh, and that bullpen thing? I’ll get back to your in a month. Until the regular season begins, I really don’t know what to think.
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