Joel Zumaya

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.