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Tiger fans had to deal with this for about the past 8 years. The one weakness of Dombrowski was building a bullpen.

Why would Clay have not gone to Detroit before the rest of the team?

JD would have easily made it to 3B if it was not called an out.

Martinez ran back to 1B because the umpire said it was out.

The 1B umpire called it out when it wasn't out. Just review it and get it over with.

The Tigers would have moved the game when the Lions schedule came out unless of course the Lions ended up paying at a different time because of the game.

Then the team loses the DH and the pitcher would bat.

Yup. Tigers and Lions never play games at the same time because it would be a logistical nightmare.

They have the right to voice their displeasure but the home team has the right to select the start times. This happens to the Tigers too. Cleveland is notorious for doing these things. Tigers have been doing this for years and the first ones to complain the loudest are the Red Sox and the man who started it.

You mean Dave Dombrowski who started it? Thursday day games are popular in Detroit and thousands of fans bought tickets and made arrangements for this game. There is also a Lions game at 7:30. The baseball universe doesn't revolve around the Red Sox. This wasn't some move to punish Dombrowski or the Red Sox. Whether it was the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th game of the series, it would have been played during the day and Dombrowski knows this. Did Dombrowski ask Baltimore to move their game to the day time?

I am sorry discussing the team the Red Sox are playing emasculates you.

There was an altercation but Cabrera was the one with physical marks. He was accused of breaking his wife's phone. Cabrera was arrested and Dombrowski bailed him out. Castellanos, Iglesias, and Maybin have been good position players but are injured. The rotation has also been better. Verlander has been back to his old self, Fulmer is one of the better pitchers in the AL, and Boyd has pitched well of late. Norris is also been ok and is a top prospect.

JD Martinez has only been worth 4 and 5 WAR the past two seasons and currently has a 935 OPS but blows goats. By the way, Cabrera is not a wife beater. His wife beat him.

Its been that way for a few years and yet Dombrowski who started this and denied other teams request to move the game asked to have the game moved. I guess he thought his old team owed him a favor? Did he ask Baltimore to move their game? Who has a night game on get away day?

This is the time to play the Tigers. Castellanos, Iglesias, and Maybin are out with injuries. Cabrera is injured but will likely play. Upton has been useless. The only real threats are Kinsler, the Martinii, and possibly Cabrera.

Want to know who begins a series with a day game? Dave Dombrowski. Thursday day games are a tradition now in Detroit started by yours truly Dave Dombrowski.

Aviles was pretty terrible but it's a slight upgrade. Not really going to matter when Kinsler is the only healthy infielder.

If Benoit didn't give up the grand slam in game two, that series is much different. I don't think anything was tactically superior.

This also showed Dombrowski's weakness as GM. The bullpen gave up leads in two games of that series. Smyly and Benoit were the only good relievers. Smyly was moved to the rotation after Fister was traded. Benoit left in free agency. They were replaced by Joba and Nathan. The bullpen was even worse in 2014. It looks like he has done more though for the Red Sox bullpen.

When your bullpen gives up a game tying grand slam and your RF flips over the wall, that will make you look old and tired.

Honestly, Dombrowski doesn't have a good history of drafting and developing. The Tigers had good starting rotations, but those were mostly through trades. Verlander and Porcello were the only pitchers they really drafted and developed. He spent a lot of high draft picks on the relievers and the Tigers always had a terrible bullpen.

A lot of his staff has stayed in Detroit and work under Avila. When he first came to Detroit, he cleaned house and brought a lot of his guys from Florida. This is a little different situation than when he started in Detroit. His former staff probably isn't leaving and typically you would want to bring in your own guys if you clean house. Maybe he'll talk Leyland out of retirement again.

He would sign and always seemed approachable. I think there is more to this story.

Over a decade of following the Tigers with Dombrowski, never heard a complaint of him being rude. Not even 6 months in Boston and there's complaints of him being rude. Anyways, since Avila took over the Tigers, we are learning the Tigers never even had an analytics department under Dombrowski. Hopefully he doesn't cut back the analytics with the Red Sox.

As a Tigers fan who has watched Dombrowski his entire career with the Tigers, I will say he rarely comes up on the wrong side of a trade. Yes the Tigers have traded many prospects, but rarely did this prospects amount to anything. Yes the Tigers farm system was always near the bottom of the league but the Tigers always managed to trade for the players they needed. There was also a lot of pressure from ownership to win a title. Dombrowski took a 119 loss team and had them in the World Series in three years and a perennial playoff contender. He also has a knack for finding players on other teams who were underwhelming and making them into stars like Guillen, Polanco, Peralta, Edwin Jackson, Fister, Iglesias, JD Martinez to name a few. He also traded for Scherzer before he was elite, got Cabrera for nothing, and was able to dump Fielder's salary and get a 5 win player. The Fielder signing was all Mike Illitch. Downsides are the complete inability to build a respectable bullpen. For the most part, the Tigers had a decent closer but it was nauseating relying on the likes of Joba Chmberlain and Tom Gorzelany heading into the season. This despite the fact he has drafted a number of relievers in the first round who have never amounted to anything. His drafting has not been great but he is great at trading prospects before they lose value. I think Dombrowski is the perfect guy for a team with a big payroll who wants to contend. He has also proven he can rebuild teams in Florida and Montreal as well.