Before the season, whenever a radio host asked me to make my division winner picks, I would say something like ?if I had to bet my children on the outcome of any race, it?d be the AL Central. The Tigers are a lock.??So far, not good. Sorry Mookie and Carlo, but you?re gonna have to pack your little bags and go live with the nice people at the casino or whatever.
Jim Leyland seems more unhappy about than I am, however (look, my kids can be annoying sometimes). And his ire is directed mostly at his third and fourth starters, who are not getting the job done:
?It has to get better. It?s hard for any bullpen to survive a couple starts like we had the last couple days.?Two days in a row and 100 pitches by starting pitchers in the fourth inning? That?s not acceptable.?
But as Leyland notes, sending down either of them is not on the table. There really isn?t anyone else to take the job. This team, to be successful, has to have Scherzer and Porcello eat innings at the very least. To keep them in ballgames. To give the offense a chance and to minimize the amount of innings a flawed bullpen is forced to pitch.
And boy howdy have they not been doing that.
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