Bonderman

Well.....Jeremy Bonderman looked like his old self last night. He struggled in the first inning! We're all set!

Certainly that's not quite the case yet...Bonderman wasn't sharp judging by the comments in the Detroit News and by looking at the box score. He limited the damage by getting a couple of Double-plays to wiggle out of trouble. However that, to me, is troubling as Bonderman isn't exactly known as a groundball machine. Unless his new split-finger pitch is going to make him into one. Overall he allowed 2 ER and 7 baserunners over 3 innings pitched....obviously that's too many baserunners to sustain any kind of success. He has two or three more starts in Spring Training to make a case for himself.

There is nothing more that I'd like to see than for Bonderman to get on track. Right now I'd put his Spring performance behind Nate Robertson's however. We'll see how the final two weeks unfold but right now the back of Detroit's rotation has the same questions today that it started with back in February. In reality there isn't enough data to judge these guys statistically....its all going to be up to Leyland and Rick Knapp to read the tea leaves and make the gut-decisions about who gets the first crack when the bell rings on April 5th.