Saturday, October 09, 2004
News Of The Day - 10/9/04
Tigers pick up Colby Lewis -- Freep 10/9/04
My Take: This is a low risk move with a potentially high reward. Lewis is known to have had a mid-90s fastball with great late movement (maybe too much) and a very sharp curve. He was also developing a slider as a hedge against those two pitches because he frequently experienced loss of command. All that is pending his ability to comeback from rotator cuff surgery in May. Talk is that he might make a closer, but the Tigers should not close the book on the possibility of his becoming a starter. First step, however, is to see how he fares comes March.
My Take: This is a low risk move with a potentially high reward. Lewis is known to have had a mid-90s fastball with great late movement (maybe too much) and a very sharp curve. He was also developing a slider as a hedge against those two pitches because he frequently experienced loss of command. All that is pending his ability to comeback from rotator cuff surgery in May. Talk is that he might make a closer, but the Tigers should not close the book on the possibility of his becoming a starter. First step, however, is to see how he fares comes March.
