March 21, 2009

Today’s Random Thought

By Mike McClary in Featured,Fungoes | 4 comments

Is anyone referring to the D-Train as Done-trelle? Perhaps it’s time.

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4 Comment(s)

  1. Doug | Mar 21, 2009 | Reply

    I know Miguel Cabrera came in the package, but Donetrelle (appropos I’d agree) could well be Dave Dombrowski’s Waterloo.

    What a terrible call that extension was? It’s almost Higginsonesque.

  2. Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Reply

    Dombrowski is to blame. I can’t believe he’d sign a long-term deal before he even pitched for Detroit, especially three years. I bet Illitch is furious, he’s spent enough money and won’t spend anymore.

  3. Jim Craddock | Mar 23, 2009 | Reply

    Getting him wasn;t the problem: We had to do it to get Cabrera. Signing him to the extension was the mistake. Especially after a 3-year downward trend.

  4. Dave | Mar 23, 2009 | Reply

    I know, thats what I said. The extension was really stupid. You have to be careful signing pitchers to multiple year contracts, even a 2 year deal would have been dumb. The smart thing to do would have been to simply wait and see how Willis performed in ’08, and then extend his contract. If that would have happened, we wouldn’t have to worry about this mess now. Its almost as if Dombrowski wanted to sign him right away so Willis wouldn’t want to go elsewhere in ’09. Anyway, that was a bad move. Dombrowski will be very careful from now on, or else he’ll be gone. The same thing with Leyland. That would be a shame too, Leyland and Dombrowski do have talent and baseball smarts-or do they?

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