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Yankees vs. Tigers Series Preview
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog — ... - Dontrelle Willis is on the 15-day DL with a hyperextended right knee. He threw about 50 pitches against several Tigers' hitters on Saturday and didn't feel any pain. ...

View from the Monster 5-5
Sports of Boston — ... start of the homestand, allowing one run over six innings, after holding the Jays to zero over eight in his prior start. The Red Sox head into this week leading the East by three games and will have back to back four game sets on the road in Detroit and Minnesota (wrapping up the trip with a two game series at Baltimore). The Tigers began the season with an 0-7 start, which was disappointing given the expectations coming into this season after adding Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis over the winter. Though the Detroit pitching did appear ...

Gammons Gives Hope
The Spot Starters — ... fall last season could be attributed to three categories: pitching, defense and injuries. Justin Verlander, who made a run at the American League Cy Young Award in 2007, got into bad habits in spring training and finished 11-17. Jeremy Bonderman came down with a blood clot in his right arm and made just 12 starts. Nate Robertson finished with a 6.35 ERA. And Dontrelle Willis could not throw a strike. … ...

Forty-four really bad contracts
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — ... for his Age 39 and 40 seasons, and the three-year, $29 million contract gifted to Dontrelle Willis just months after he had finished a pretty lousy season in the National League. Dave Dombrowski got a great deal of credit for the Tigers' 95 wins and American League pennant in 2006. But the Tigers dropped to 88 wins in 2007 and cratered to last place in 2008, and today they're saddled with five awful contracts. If Dombrowski gets credit for the club's amazing 2006, doesn't he also deserve the blame for what happened last year? Is there a lesson here? Yeah, there is. ...

The Watch List
Bats — ... with Josh Hamilton (ribs) going on the disabled list. But as his playing time increased, Jones, 32, hit .235 over six games, with five strikeouts in 17 at-bats. Dontrelle Willis looked as if he could rejoin the Tigers soon but took a step back in his rehabilitation from an anxiety disorder. On Friday, in his first start for Class AAA Toledo, he needed 102 pitches to get through five innings. He gave up three runs, seven hits and two walks and hit a batter. Three-fifths of the Tigers’ rotation has an earned run average of 6.00 or more, so perhaps they could do worse than ...

PITTSBURGH > DETROIT, AGAIN
Mondesi's House — ... As far as the game itself, Tigers pitcher Dontrelle Willis had a spectacular performance, doing his part to send the crowd of 27,565 home happy by walking eight Pirates and allowing six hits in three and 2/3 innings of charity work. A 7.49 ERA and 1-4 record, and for the low, low price of $10 million this year. That's some quality general managing. ...

Which Tigers’ contract would you drop?
Detroit Tigers blog — ... Dontrelle Willis — He is owed $6M this season and $12M next year. (Total due: $18M) He may be battling anxiety, but he has definitely battled the strike zone. This season he has a 7.49 ERA and 28 walks in about 34 innings. ...

Would Bonderman for Bradley help Tigers?
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — ... and could simply continue playing right field. Would adding Bradley and Duchscherer really make a difference next season? Probably not. Even if Bradley stays healthy enough -- physically and emotionally -- to play 140 games and the Duke gives the Tigers 175 good innings, the Tigers would still need a bit of luck to reach the 90 wins it will likely take to capture the AL Central. The basic problem is that in 2010 the Tigers will spend $50 million on Ordonez, Jeremy Bonderman, Dontrelle Willis , and ...

What to do about the Rule 5 draft and 40 man roster
Detroit Tigers blog — ... Dontrelle Willis -- But I don't think the Tigers will because they hold out faith he can come back in 2010, just based on quotes in stories. ...