2011 Season Thread

[kellmellus50]

Raburn batted 2nd spot today 0-4 at bats and 3 strike outs .this burns me up Leland lineup sucks again !!!

[kellmellus50]

E - R Raburn (7, field). we lost by one run tonite because of raburn error that was big in our loss of coarse he also went hitless. enough said you all get the same story over and over again.

The Tigers made it 4-0 before the Diamondbacks scored three in the fourth, helped by second baseman Ryan Raburn's error

leland is going to live and die with raburn.

[TSE]

No, Leland is immortal. He died a long time ago with bad decisions and bad managing, and he's still here. If we get lucky and hit success, then he lives and earns the praise, but he's void of having to accept responsibility for anything bad he does.

[TSE]

That was kind of a weird play that just happened, why did Cabrera slide into home? Lamont was acting very demonstrative by racing down the line and motioning aggressively, but Cabrera did look back and should have saw no threat developing. Either Cabrera is an idiot, or he got sucked in by Lamont's body language and simply just missed the play when he looked back and thus was unsure if there was a play. Either way, there was no reason for Lamont to go as far as he did with his actions to give Cabrera this option to get confused and then have to take an unnecessary slide.

Just a little thing, but still bugs me, cause this is the stuff that convinces me that these guys are clueless about the nature of the game when handling stuff like this appropriately in a strategically logical way should be automatic and routine. You can't watch a single game without seeing all kinds of stuff like this and over and over and over again, and it's just annoying.

[kellmellus50]

I just can’t buy into the way this guy writes out his daily lineup card. I never have liked Leyland's style.

I look at where the Tigers are and think if Leyland really played the players who give him the best chance to win, like he said a few weeks back, Detroit would be at least 6 games up in the AL Central.

How Ryan Raburn can play more last week than Brennan Boesch or Alex Avila is proof Leyland overthinks the game of baseball.

Leyland love affair with Raburn defies logic.

The guy has no glove and is mired in a season-long slump. How has Raburn not gone back to the minors to see if he could learn how to throw and hit again? The guy is hitting .199 and makes an error every other game and Leyland still stands by the guy.



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[ajaX82]

I would kill to get Jose Reyes and move Peralta to third. He was awesome tonight

[TSE]

MLB is loaded with awesome young players that we could easily nab away if we wanted to be proactive about change. I'm still waiting. We should be having a landmark deal to discuss on par with the Cabrera trade, if not more than one of those deals going on.

[ajaX82]

Coke is back to the bullpen...as he should be. What an awful starter. Maybe Furbush becomes the #5 lefty starter?

[TSE]

Coke is back to the bullpen...as he should be. What an awful starter. Maybe Furbush becomes the #5 lefty starter?

We should be seeing Turner or Oliver before the season is out, so if we make the playoffs, one or both of them could be starters. Especially if we trade a couple pitchers away which is long overdue. Although there's no guarantee of that cause they both could and should have more time to develop first. I don't like having to be forced to potentially make an inefficient decision which is why I think we should be doing something completely different with our roster management.

[kellmellus50]

The tigers are losing 10-0 in the 3rd inn i turned the game off.Cleveland won and 1st place is slipping away again!!!!!!!


update 15-0 in the 6th i am going to bed .

Ryan Raburn — ranging into shallow right field on a grounder by Aubrey Huff — double-clutched his throw to first. The error made three of the five first-inning runs unearned.

Why is Raburn playing for the tigets ? because leland loves him.

[TSE]

No, Leland likes Raburn, he LOVES Don Kelly. Smoochy smooch!

Also fyi, Kelly right now has the same batting avg he had last year of .244, yet his anemic slugging pct from last year of .374 has shriveled up to be even less efficient and stands at .341. 33 pts at these low numbers is proportionally very sizable. He also strikes out once this year every 7.5 ABs, up from 5.5 that he had last year. This guy really sucks at baseball, and he's different than other lousy players in that I see no potential or upside or likelihood that he will ever have anything to offer.

I just think that as long as Kelly is on the roster, that Raburn deserves some slack, cause even if his numbers are terrible so far, he at least has potential to break out and develop and contribute in the future, and I don't like to crucify players in the middle of a long slump period if I think they are potentially worth it with having at least a semblance of credibility to recover from that. Same with Magglio, if he's healthy, we don't have to worry about him. We should be able to count on him to be worth a lot more than his .200 current BA cause that's just not indicative or representative of that value. And that's because he has credibility that he's worth a lot more than that, based on production and showcasing of past talent. Raburn has shown us some positive things in the past, but Kelly has never shown anything. Raburn's career batting avg is only .262, but that's still better than Don Kelly's best baseball of his life, and he's about 100 pts ahead of him on slugging for career avg. Raburn's numbers just aren't good enough, but they are leaps and bounds ahead of DK.

[kellmellus50]

The only thing i like about Kelly is his name and he did pitch and get out the player, he can also play muli positions which you do need 1 person on the team to do that.

[TSE]

The only thing i like about Kelly is his name and he did pitch and get out the player, he can also play muli positions which you do need 1 person on the team to do that.

Not if you have high quality starters and single depth players for both the OF and IF. Kelly is a hybrid backup to all those backups, and that player becomes less important if you have higher value guys in those higher valued positions to begin with.

[ajaX82]

So i hear we fired Rick Knapp. How did old Lloyd Mclendon live to see another day?

[TSE]

Anything can die, even a nice 1 run Verlander game can shrivel up and die. Lack of offense loses again.

[kellmellus50]

here's the problem Ordones =.204, Raburn .205, kelly .239, inge .`196, we need to trade for at least a couple of hitters to replace a couple of players.

[TSE]

We need a trade in such a bad way. I want many trades, our entire team could be changed over to something much better, but at least one would be better than nothing.

[kellmellus50]

Kansas City scored in five of its first six innings, including an unearned three-spot in the sixth after Ryan Raburn dropped a pop-up in shallow right.

fulbrush was sent down ,who will be are 5th pitcher?

[TSE]

Worth is back up, so it's Coke for now.

[TSE]

Oh lordie, now I just saw a report that we are one of the teams heavily interested in Beltran. What is DD's diabolical strategy this time?