UPDATED: Phil Coke suffers bone bruise, placed on DL. Wilk and Oliver to be called up

But they don’t need to make one till after Friday’s game. This way the Tigers won’t short themselves a roister spot by bringing up Oliver, then having him sit until Saturday.

I gota say hes been good to above average as a starter.

He must be a Inge fan if he thinks that is good.

Is Dave Dombroski’s BYB UserName.

That’s probably Hennings logic. It would be easier to slide Furbush into that slot on regular rest than to monkey with Oliver’s innings and rest for two starts.

Of course, we now all view your news as gospel, so logic be damned! Now, can you please offer some breaking news about solving our hitting woes from 2B and 3B?

I think Coke has kind of changed their plans twice in the last week, with the great start and now the injury.

Maybe Coke getting hurt really just caused Wilk to come and Oliver was already a sure thing. But would they have pulled him from the rotation? It seemed like they had decided not to after his previous start.

Something just doesn’t add up with this story. From what I understand, you have a source within the tigers org that tipped you off to th fact that Oliver would be coming north to take Phil Coke’s rotation spot, and Furbush would be joining the big league bullpen. Since that story “broke” at BYB, and NOWHERE else in the media, we waited a couple of days, and then Brad Thomas got “hurt” in the bullpen, and Coke got “hurt” during his start allowing both of those things to come true.

In my mind, one of a couple of things happened.
1. You/the tigers organization correctly predicted two injuries to the pitching staff.
2. There is something fishy going on within the organization to make roster moves that have been pre-determined look spontaneous.

This doesn’t seem odd to anyone else?

but using Henning as a benchmark is like using Randy Smith as a benchmark for GM’s

The single best predictor of what the Tigers will do is to take the opposite of what Henning predicts.