Willis headed to Tigers' bullpen

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MLB.com: Willis headed to Tigers’ bullpen
Published 5/21/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
MLB.com: Willis headed to Tigers’ bullpen Dontrelle Willis is rejoining the Tigers, but he’ll be doing so in the bullpen. Manager Jim Leyland announced Wednesday that the team will activate Willis from the 15-day disabled list, but Willis will not return to the rotation. Instead, he’ll pitch in relief while the Tigers try to work on his pitching. Armando Galarraga, who has been one of the Tigers’ most effective starters since replacing Willis in the rotation, will remain there. “We just want to keep him working, get some more innings in, get him fine-tuned a little bit, and ...

Dontrelle Willis Is Back as a Very Well Paid Mop Up Man
Published 5/21/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
Filed under: Detroit, Tigers, AL CentralThe Detroit Tigers will be getting Dontrelle Willis back from the disabled list today or tomorrow but don't go rushing to your television to watch his next start. It might be a while. The Tigers are going to use the D-Train as baseball's most expensive long reliever while they try to work out the problems that plagued him before his injury. It's been a while so we'll review. Willis walked nine batters and struck out none over two April starts with the Tigers before he landed on the DL. He did a bit better in Toledo during three rehab starts, seven walks in 16 innings, but the need to repair his ...

Willis returning to bullpen
Published 5/21/2008 by Eric Stashin at Roto Professor
Dontrelle Willis According to Jason Beck of mlb.com (click here for the article), Dontrelle Willis has been activated from the disabled list, though he will not be returning to the starting rotation.  Instead he will pitch out of the bullpen while Armando Galarraga remains in the rotation. I would expect that this is just a temporary situation, with Willis returning to the rotation after he gets everything figured out, but I guess that is no guarantee.  Willis was not very impressive in his minor league rehab stint, posting a 4.41 ERA over 3 starts.  What is more disturbing was the walks iin his past two outings.  Over just 11.2 innings he walked 7 batters, while striking out 7, ...

D-Train to pitch out of the pen
Published 5/22/2008 by The Reverend (noreply@blogger.com) at Ghostrunner on First
... The Tigers activated Dontrelle Willis today and Jim Leyland indicated he wouldn't be headed right back to the starting rotation but rather the bullpen. Armando Galarraga, his replacement hasn't exactly been sucking. ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, May 22
Published 5/22/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... night (mlb.com) . . . Braves manager Bobby Cox thinks John Smoltz, Rafael Soriano and Mike Gonzalez will all return within the next two weeks (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) . . . Both Carlos Zambrano and Lou Piniella say the Cubs' ace is just fine (Chicago Tribune) . . . Ryan Church, who suffered his second concussion in two months on Tuesday night, hopes to be playing again for the Mets by week's end (New York Times) . . . Dontrelle Willis is back with the Tigers but he's headed to the bullpen. (mlb.com) OLD FRIENDS: Pedro Martinez ...