The Official Willis/Bullpen Discussion Post

[seantjohnston.livejournal.com]

With Dontrelle's command still a major factor and his first full start since being back from the DL somewhere between a disaster and an atrocity; what will become of the once vaunted Detroit starter? Will he remain in the rotation? Will he be sent down to work on his flagrant command issues?

Also, with Zumaya and Rodney expected back in the next couple of weeks, what is the Detroit Bullpen going to look like? Who has the stuff to stay?

Workday musings lead to big hypothetical question...

[thecrazedhermit.livejournal.com]

So I'm sitting here at work in "hurry-up-and-wait" mode, and my mind is wandering. Here's what I'm thinking about:

Our boys are playing .413 baseball so far this year. If they maintain that, they're on pace to finish the season 67-95 which would be the worst, certainly, since 2003 and would fit right in there in the 1997-2001 forgotten era when they sucked, but hadn't yet gotten historically bad.

Now, I'm not saying I think they'll be quite that bad when the season's over. Hell, if they get hot after the break and are still only 10-12 games back, anything could happen. But let's suppose, just for kicks, that they do finish with 65-70 wins. What happens?

At that point, I think the team finds itself in for a breakup. Leyland and his coaches get fired, and Dombrowski re-evaluates. Pretty much everyone (aside from Verlander and Cabrera and I'd imagine Polanco) gets put on the trading block to some extent, and they decide to go young, perhaps with a younger, up-and-coming skipper (like, say, Matt Walbeck).

I guess I'm probably wrong about this, but I can't imagine that if this $132 million team crashes and burns so badly that they'd just change skippers and run them back out. There's clearly something deeply wrong here, and if they struggle all season, never even close to the playoff race, I'm thinking they take it apart.

Thoughts?

Willis sent all the way down to LAKELAND!!!!

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