2014 MLB Thread

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Originally Posted by kelmac07

Great games last night. Well, the Tigers/Orioles was good up until the Tigers bullpen took over in the 8th.

That's been the chorus in Detroit since April.

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Can the Tigers bullpen really be that bad??

Originally Posted by jonumberone

So far the Postseason has been great, but, my God, the managing has been awful.

The Tigers paid dearly for their managers mistakes.
Game 1, you go to your bullpen guys in their roles. I get it. But you can't go back to them in game 2
Dombrowski has to take a hit too.
His team is a perennial playoff competitor, but he's has the same problem every year.
The bullpen has been his Achilles heel.

Unfortunately yes, yes they ARE that bad. Some want to run Dave Dombrowski (GM) out of town but you have to think about it. If last year someone said our bad bullpen would be adding Joba, Soria, Nathan, and Johnson for the upcoming season, you would have expected improvement. Clearly that wasn't the case.