Tigers trade Dontrelle Willis to Diamondbacks

[Little Slide Rooter]

Tigers To Designate Dontrelle Willis For Assignment

By Mike Axisa [May 29 at 9:05pm CST]

The Tigers will designate Dontrelle Willis for assignment tomorrow, according to the team's official Twitter feed. The move will free up a roster spot for Max Scherzer, who is being called up to start tomorrow's game.

 

Willis, still just 28, has been a disappointment since coming over from the Marlins prior to the 2008 season. Overall he posted a 6.86 ERA in 101 innings with the team, including a 4.98 ERA in 43.1 innings this year. He won just two gamess in a Tigers' uniform, missing time with everything from knee hyper-extension to forearm tightness to anxiety disorder.

 

The Tigers have ten days to trade, release, or waive the former Rookie of the Year, but are still on the hook for his $12MM salary this season.

 

Surely someone will take a chance on him on a minor league deal.

[UMFan83]

Hopefully not us.

[Tracer Bullet]

There are obviously worse contracts in baseball, but that 3-year extension in 2008 made no sense whatsoever.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Hopefully not us.

 

Some team with God awful pitching will probably take him, like the Brewers or the Brewers.

[NCCubFan]

Or the Cardinals will sign him, Dave Duncan will work his magic, and the D-Train will be back on track.

[sneakypower]

he'd make a great loogy

[The Logan]

Or the Cardinals will sign him, Dave Duncan will work his magic, and the D-Train will be back on track.

 

I'd like to think with all the success we've had with getting the best out of most of the pitchers in our rotation over the last few years, maybe some Larry Rothschild pixie dust could fix him?

 

On second thought, no. Let's not take that risk.

[questionmarkgrace]

i don't know anything about his velocity the last couple years so I'm just guessing, but i would have to believe that he was a roids guy. if he still throws mid 90's gas someone gives him another shot. heck Rich Hill has had two more shots and he didn't have half the success Dontrelle did.

[17 Seconds]

at least he still looks like omar from the wire

[Banedon]

at least he still looks like omar from the wire

 

Hmmm...I'm not seeing it.

[Sammy Sofa]

at least he still looks like omar from the wire

 

I don't think Omar is who you think he is.

[dew1679666265]

i don't know anything about his velocity the last couple years so I'm just guessing, but i would have to believe that he was a roids guy. if he still throws mid 90's gas someone gives him another shot. heck Rich Hill has had two more shots and he didn't have half the success Dontrelle did.

 

According to Fangraphs, he's never thrown mid-90s heat consistently. He's hovered much of his ML career in the 89-90 range and has dropped to 88 (2008-2009) and 87 (2010) since.

 

I think he was helped early in his career because of his quirky delivery. He's actually not been that bad this year, it appears, as he has a 4.64 FIP – much more in line with his career than the past couple of seasons.

[dew1679666265]

The D-Train is heading to the desert.

 

The left-hander will be traded by the Tigers to the Arizona Diamondbacks, pending a physical, MLB FanHouse reported on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what the Tigers would get in return for Willis.

[BCVM22]

RHP Billy Buckner goes the other way in the deal. No word on who's paying what yet.

[dew1679666265]

RHP Billy Buckner goes the other way in the deal. No word on who's paying what yet.

 

I honestly didn't think they'd get more than a PTBNL for him.

[17 Seconds]

at least he still looks like omar from the wire

 

I don't think Omar is who you think he is.

 

how do you not see it?

 

 

http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/daily-pitch/2010/06/01/willisx-inset-community.jpg

 

http://www.posters.ws/images/834455/dontrelle_willis_2004_studio_plus_photofile.jpg

 

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/s/R/-/-/DontrelleWillisMugShot.jpg

 

http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/craveonline.com/articles/97549/image_assets/image_1.jpg

 

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/michael-k-williams.jpg

 

http://www.zidouta.com/images/williams_omar.jpg

 

[Banedon]

Maybe that first pic of Dontrelle a little, but definitely not in the next two. He has a baby face...Omar decidedly does not.

[Sammy Sofa]

Maybe that first pic of Dontrelle a little, but definitely not in the next two. He has a baby face...Omar decidedly does not.

 

Yeah, Dontrelle still looks likes he's about 16.