Comments on: Game 42: Tigers at Diamondbacks

By: ron

ron — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:50:29 +0000

Whose going first, Leyland or Randolph? And the Mets have a winning record.

By: ron

ron — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:42:35 +0000

Don’t worry, they will win a blow out game today. This is their modus operandi. It’s like the kid who cleans his bedroom once a month because he can’t stand his mom’s screaming.

By: T Smith

T Smith — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:52:27 +0000

If you switch them back, you REALLY run the risk of exposing ameteurs flipping a panic mode switch. This team is already the laughing stock of baseball. I can’t imagine the fodder you’d create, not to mention the signals you send to the players. I can imagine a dialog along these lines:

“What position am I playing this week, Skip?”

“Depends how many days you go this week at your current position before you lose a game for us.”

“Ohh. So I guess that means every other day I should expect a new fielding assignment then?”

I’m at a loss.

This was just a horrible loss. A horrible loss.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:41:32 +0000

I shut if off in the 8th inning and went to bed sensing it would end this way. I wish Sheff was on the DL. Raburn can play a decent third base and is a hustler and while I still love Carlos, I don’t know what I’d do with him. The camera kept showing Bondo and Inge talking with each other in the dugout and Bondo was furious. It’s gotten real ugly.

By: Rick G

Rick G — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:12:03 +0000

David L, my thoughts exactly. Guillen played well at 1B last year and was starting to work things out when the switch was made this year. Cabrera was not great at 3B, but his error totals the last two years (17, 23) rival Inge’s (22, 18). Of course Inge is a better 3B, but you can live with Cabrera there.

Moving Guillen to 3B was a bad idea because of his history of throwing errors. Those are probably half his errors overall in his career, can anyone find this out? That damn sidearm delivery he won’t abandon is only getting worse from 3B than it was at SS because of the angle across the field. And when you have a new 1B who can’t scoop your lousy throws, it makes it worse.

Plus there’s this - this year Guillen has hit .379/.468/.636 as a 1B, .220/.277/.271 as a 3B. Holy cow, I can’t even believe it’s that bad.

Is there any rationale for not switching them back, other than being too proud and stubborn to admit the mistake?

By: billfer

billfer — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:03:14 +0000

T Smith - If the Tigers send one more hitter to the plate in 7th, chances are Inge would have been in at 3rd because Leyland would have likely pinch hit for Bondo. Instead his spot in the order was leading off the 8th.

By: david L

david L — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:48:42 +0000

Leyland…
How did moving Guillen to 3rd and Cabrera to 1st make us a better team?

I do not understand that move, Cabrera has a much much better arm and played 4 season at 3b without any major issue, maybe a few errors here and there.

We traded for a SS in Renterera and had Guillen who we thought would play 1st what changed? He looked to be coming around before they made the change

Our defense stinks and is losing game for us. Way to Inconsistent, this is Unreal

Leyland must do something, be a man, Switch them back or put Inge at 3b, Guillen at DH and Shef to the DL until he is 100%

DO SOMETHING THIS IS UGLY AND IT GETTING HARD TO WATCH, WHAT A JOKE OF A TEAM !!!!!!!!!!!!

By: T Smith

T Smith — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:25:05 +0000

Greg:

Yup. We’ve gone over this time and time again. Inge should be put in during late innings when we have the lead, or when a pitcher is downright dealing. Bondo gives up two hits into the seventh and can’t get a win. Pathetic. Simply pathetic. I will add though, that when you’re playing Interleague when there is no DH, it becomes harder to carry yet another dead-weight bat on top of the pitcher — which is probably part of Leyland’s decision not to put Inge in there in the seventh. But then again, there are about three or four dead-weight bats in the lineup currently, so why discriminate?

My guess is Inge would have been playing third in the eighth last night, once we get through the seventh. Like so many other misfortunes that have plagued this team, however, that’s one inning too late and a couple runs short.

By: greg

greg — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:24:55 +0000

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. If Guillen is playing the field, be prepared for his defense alone to singlehandedly lose a game just about once a week.

By: mj

mj — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:25:20 +0000

i saw dave dombroski walking around 5/3 ballpark tonight in west michigan. i seriously thought about telling him to fire the entire tigers coaching staff, but didn’t want to be a d-bag. after seeing the tigers lose this one tonight, i’m mad at myself for not taking advantage of that opportunity.

is anyone starting to think they’re throwing these games on purpose? i smell another black sox scandal.