http://www.baseballprospectus......cleid=6418

Be sure to click the “a pitcher who gave them good work in 2006″ in her analysis of the trade from the Brewers’ perspective, for some statistical analysis that hasn’t been brought up here.

I don’t want to start an argument about whether you can really know someone’s attitude from how they look while they play, because that strikes me as a religious question — either you believe you can or you believe you can’t, and there isn’t much point in arguing it either way.

I will say that it doesn’t seem like the team thinks he has an attitude problem: Dombrowski has dealt quickly with clubhouse malingerers so far in his tenure as GM (DY got his walking papers last year in the middle of a pennant race; Urbina was dealt quickly after his fight. He didn’t tolerate Weaver showing up his teammates for long, either). Rodney, on the other hand, continues to get the ball in key situations, despite all evidence that he can’t hold a lead this season. I’m not sure they’d do that if they thought his attitude, rather than, say, his tendinitis were causing his problems.

Perception on the mound, mostly. He looks absolutley miserable everytime he pitches, like it’s the last place on earth he’d rather be.

I don’t recall who it was — I think either Joe Morgan or some other announcer — even made mention of it last time Rodney pitched.

some perceived sense of intuition; no; no; I guess

I see parallels to Rodney, both in stuff (pre-TJ) and attitude (sucks).

I’ve seen more and more references to Rodney’s “bad attitude” on this site and other Tiger forums. On what are people basing this charge? Are there any actual incidents, or complaints from teammates about Rodney? Or is this just an impression that people get from his demeanor on the mound?

De La Cruz was sent to the minors. No surprise there.

When will “Gates” Colon get released?

February 9, 2005: Traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Detroit Tigers for Roberto Novoa, Scott Moore, and Bo Flowers (minors).

The reason middle relief is so spotty is because of the inconsistent situations. Sometimes guys are brought in when the score is out of hand and told “just throw strikes” to get the game over. Hence, they will give up more hits and their stats will suffer. Closers and setters generally don’t have to deal with this.

I’d like to see ERA when the game is within 3 runs.

Let’s not stomp a guy simply because he has a 100mph fastball and was stuck behind two of the best relievers around in Turnbow and Cordero.

I like it. All he needs is a little Chuck H., and he’ll be fine.

Truthfully, anything other than Jason “Get Me Off The” Grilli is a serious upgrade.