Comments on: Tigers release Tim Byrdak

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:11:50 +0000

Any available relievers are gonna be significantly cheaper right now than they will be moving forward. I think we can fix this thing for some spare parts right now. It’s gonna cost a lot more in the middle of the summer.

The price won’t go up as much as you think. It just seems like it because there will be better arms on the market then. The junk that’s available now at a reasonable price will also be available then at a reasonable price.

By: billfer

billfer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:13:56 +0000

Grilli is adequate, and really his numbers are comparable to many of the “established” relievers the Tigers have been linked to.

By: Chief Dark Cloud

Chief Dark Cloud — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:11:10 +0000

HOW

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:37:07 +0000

I still say go after Farnsworth,

or try to rape the Pirates and pluck up someone

Still I feel ok about

Miner, Bazardo, Seay, Jones, Bautista, Grilli, Lopez

Given Verlander pitches 200 innings as long as we could average 180 a piece from Robertson,Rogers,Bonderman and Willis it’d be good.

BTW I think this is the year Robertson does well and gets support

By: Steve in Kzoo

Steve in Kzoo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:43:46 +0000

I don’t know why theres such anger for Grilli he was pretty solid the second half of the season last year minus a few outings. With that in mind Grilli is and will always be known as a long reliever, to give him a one inning sub setup guy for Bautista is just madness. Grilli should be used as he always is as a emergency one inning guy/long reliever. Miner should easily get the 7th inning duties as he too was not to bad second half last season.

Bautista and Lopez have been the happy face around the bullpen this spring my only hope is that they can keep this up all season. Bautista is looking a lot like firearm Zoom zoom out there right now.

All that said, there has got to be something going on in the front office after this release. Marte, or that guy from the mets has got to be it. Fuentes is going to cost us whats left of our farm, Holliman and Sizemore are our future double play guys I believe and we cant let them go. whatever happens we have to improve this pen otherwise it will be our downfall this year.

By: strummer

strummer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:43:07 +0000

“Grilli’s ok if he’s your mop up guy on a mediocre team.”

Or a pitching in 51 games with a 108 ERAplus for a World Series team.

Hmmm…seems the plus sign will not save to comments.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:15:26 +0000

Grilli’s ok if he’s your mop up guy on a mediocre team.

By: strummer

strummer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:02:51 +0000

“There’s no chance you guys misspelled Grilli’s name as B-Y-R-D-A-K, is there? Please?”

Why the Grilli hate? He has been a solid contributor since coming to Detroit. And after the horrible start to last year, pitched pretty well from June onward. Also has put up good results so far in spring training.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:34 +0000

I’m not much into spring training results so until Willis struggles in the regular season, I’m okay with him.

I would think DD would have something in place when Byrdak was released. Because it makes no sense to let him go now. Something has to be on the backburner.

By: charlie

charlie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:49:36 +0000

everyone was excited about the off season trades…and with good reason. however, we gave up a lot of pitching, a lot and nobody ever, ever, ever has enough. i think the one we may end up regretting is sending jurrgens for renteria…i know time will tell. hmmm