According to the Freep, DD is actively shopping AG after he was bumped from the roster today to make room for Brad Penny. Crazy, because they just signed him to a 1-year, $2.3M deal. Why sign him and then toss him like an old moldy bag of tangerines, you ask, Coleman? Here’s why. No one … Continue reading Dombrowski is “confident” he’ll trade Galarraga (UPDATED: Trade)
Let’s do an old Rob Neyer construct, Player A versus Player B: Pitcher A: Record: 3-1 GS: 6 IP: 40 ERA: 2.48 K/BB: 23/12 HR: 2 OPS against: .618 Pitcher B: Record 3-1 GS: 6 IP: 35.1 ERA: 3.06 K/BB: 24/14 HR: 3 OPS against: .571 Pitcher B is Armando Galarraga in his first 6 … Continue reading The Galarraga rotation debate
Though it’s not really a surprise, when Dontrelle Willis comes back he’ll be taking Armando Galarraga’s spot in the rotation. Or perhaps Galarraga will be returning Willis’s spot. You could see this was the plan when Willis started his last rehab assignment on the same night Galarraga was pitching. Dontrelle will make rehab starts for … Continue reading Tigers to skip Galarraga and Dontrelle’s rehab
The Tigers finally get to resume their natural rivalry with their geographical cousins, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Kind of weird to have both Dontrelle Willis and Armando Galarraga starting in the same game huh?
Armando Galarraga takes the Comerica Park mound since, well, you know when.Still no Magglio Ordonez in the lineup, and this is the perfect time for a Carlos Guillen day off?
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig responded to the Armando Galarraga/Jim Joyce situation. Sort of. It took him 18 hours to issue a statement that said little. Instead his decision to not reverse the call came out through “anonymous source with knowledge of the situation.” Why Selig couldn’t do this himself is beyond me.
The title of the post comes from Armando Galarraga himself in discussing the blown call by Jim Joyce which cost Galarraga a perfect game. That says it all doesn’t it? It speaks to the game, to the call, to everything. There’s no getting around the frustration in this one. A game in which pretty much everyone feels awful when it is done.
Armando Galarraga pitches for the Tigers tonight, but if the bats can’t get something going it doesn’t really make that much of a difference does it? The Tigers will face the reanimated Fausto Carmona.
A collection of postcard sized thoughts on the Tigers weekend series against the LA Dodgers including: Armando Galarraga, Dontrelle Willis, NL strategy and more.
It is one of those unusual 7pm starts for a West Coast game that just never happen. But it is happening. And it is happening with Armando Galarraga and John Ely on the mound.
Armando Galarraga joins the Tigers rotation, and for more than just a day. He’ll take on John Lackey in the rubber game of the series. With a bullpen that is once again thin after two poor starting performances and 3 extra innings, 6 innings from Galarraga would be immensely helpful.
The Tigers have optioned Scott Sizemore and Max Scherzer to Toledo. In their place come Armando Galarraga and Danny Worth. Worth wasn’t on the 40 man roster so his contract was purchased.