Could we have gotten a worse pitcher this past off-season? I would have rather kept one or two of those prospects and just gotten Cabrera by himself. Or we could have kept them all and left Dontrelle and Miguel in Florida!

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By the way, Dontrelle won 22 games a couple of years ago. There is some talent in there somewhere.

Dontrelle Willis is not a joke. Is Verlander a joke? Is Nate Robinson a joke or Bonderman? All these guy's have had issues and they just have to work through them. You don't make it to the show and win 22 games if you suck.

What is the pitching coach doing to fix these young guy's issues? That's the issue here.

Dontrelle Willis is a class act. He is going down to the minors to work out his problems. How many big league guy's with big contracts go to the minors with a happy face on willing to do whatever the club wants?

Give the guy some slack.

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He is obviously having mechanical issues + confidence issues. It won't do him any good to work it out in real ball games. He needs to be in the minors until he can hit his spots again.

He is now in single A.

22 games was three years ago.

He's making top coin and playing in single A. Your right, that isn't a joke because no one's laughing.

It is no laughing matter you are right about that. If he can't get his act together he will likely become our left fielder. I hear he is good with a bat I don't know if he is good enough to the tune of $29 million though.

I actually thought about that the other day when I saw what his batting average is. That would be pretty cool if a pitcher converted into a real baseball player. He appears to still have arm strength, just not accuracy. So, LF would be OK on his arm.

Well the Tigers have won three straight since Willis was sent down, so it must have scared a few players into stepping up their game fearing that they could be next no matter how much money the make.

You have heard of Rick Ankiel, right?