Coke will be in the pen, Avila will be in Detroit

by Tigerdog1 on Mar 10, 2010 4:34 PM EST

According to Steve Kornacki at mlive.com

Good and Good. Let's hope they both get plenty of action. IF there's any notion of Avila taking over for Laird next season as the starting catcher, he'd better get plenty of playing time this season.

"LAKELAND, Fla. -- Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Phil Coke will almost certainly be in the bullpen after previously reserving the right to put him in the rotation.
“You can write that it’s 99.8 percent that Coke will be in the bullpen and you will be safe,”

Leyland said prior to Coke pitching today against the New York Yankees.

And he also said something that was easy to read between the lines on in regard to catcher Alex Avila, who appears to be all but settled upon as the No. 2 catcher.

“We’re going to do what we think is best for the Detroit Tigers to win,” Leyland said.

The alternative was doing what’s best for Avila’s development as a catcher, and sending him to Toledo to start rather than being Gerald Laird’s backup in Detroit."

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Lynn Henning adds.....

“Leyland has three starting spots nailed down in Justin Verlander, Rick Porcello, and Max Scherzer, all right-handers. Now that Coke has been all but eliminated, his contenders for the final two spots are left-handers Nate Robertson and Dontrelle Willis, and right-handers Jeremy Bonderman, Armando Galarraga and Eddie Bonine.”

Sorry, but I don’t know how to do one o them blue boxes that you put the quotes into!

by Tigerdog1 on Mar 10, 2010 5:36 PM EST reply actions

three ways

first — you can highlight the thing you pasted and then hit the quotation mark icon found between the subject box and text box. that adds the stuff for you.

second — hit the quotation mark and then paste your message between the (quote) and (/quote)

third — type (quote) and (/quote) around the next yourself.

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by Kurt Mensching on Mar 10, 2010 5:45 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Thanks Kurt

But no fair child proofing it! Gets me every time!

by Tigerdog1 on Mar 10, 2010 6:20 PM EST up reply actions

Testing, 1, 2, 3...

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Former big leaguer Tony Clark has been named the MLBPA’s director of player relations, reports MLB.com’s Bailey Stephens. Clark hasn’t played since being released by the Diamondbacks last July, and his duties with the union are “expected to play a large part in future collective bargaining discussions.”

by Tigerdog1 on Mar 10, 2010 6:22 PM EST reply actions