He will pitch 30 games and then help keep the doctors and trainers of Detroit busy for the rest of the season.

to the national championships, where they’ll lost in 5 matches to a team from St. Louis.

i always thought he’d be an arm that once he had a defined role at the back of the pen, he’d dominate, but i’ve lost tremendous confidence in his arm…he’s still very much a thrower and not a pitcher, and guys who carry that ast their mid-20s typically never do get the pitching part and flame out (see former Tiger Matt Anderson)

Worst Case scenario: the injuries he keeps getting aren’t fluke injuries and he keeps bouncing from the DL to the bullpen.
Best Case scenario: they really are fluke injuries (come on, Guitar Hero, blowing out his FINGER in the bullpen and dropping a box on his shoulder… the very definition of unlucky) and he comes back, sets up for whomever closes next year, fixes his control and lands up closing for Detroit for a very long time.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle… he’s injury prone, but the flukes aren’t demonstrative of that. I see him coming back in either 2009 or 2010 and pitching incredibly well out of the back of the Tiger bullpen for 5 or 6 years, but fading into mediocrity after that due to injury.

Law was saying they should keep him as a starter because he wasn’t a injury risk, good times.