You Gotta Lose Your Mind.

Pitching Friday for the Tigers is Max Scherzer. Scherzer came over from the Diamondbacks in the Edwin Jackson deal. He's also got complete heterochromia (one blue eye and one brown eye) which is pretty neat. He throws a low to mid-nineties fastball, a slider, and a change up. He's generally around the strike zone and doesn't give up too many walks. He has good strike-out numbers but he does get hit.

Last time we saw Dontrelle Willis (6/4/09), he was in the process of completely falling apart. It wasn't fun to watch. He started the third inning with a hit batsman, a walk, a strike out, a walk to load the bases, a walk, and another walk before Leyland pulled him. Given his mental health issues, I found myself really wanting to just give him a hug and get him to calm down and breath. That said, he's off to a better start this year. His fastball is sitting in the high-eighties, he's also got a slider, and a change-up. The walks are still high but he's re-shown the ability to throw the fastball on the corner for a strike. And he's getting strike outs. He's also inducing a lot of ground balls. But Willis missed his last start after coming down with the flu and hasn't pitched since May 4.

Because they had a rain-out/double-header on Thursday, the Tigers are currently without a starter for Sunday's game. Armando Galarraga is scheduled to pitch for their AAA team on Sunday, so he might be the best bet to get the start.

Meanwhile, if the game plan is to knock the starter out and feast off of the bullpen, you might want to reconsider: their bullpen is ridiculously good. And if Joba Chamberlain bugs and you were only too glad for Francisco Rodriguez to head to the Mets so you didn't have to watch him (although the Charlie Brown look after he blew a save was beautiful), then, given the chance, Jose Valverde will drive you completely up the wall. The only solution I can see is to completely blow out the Tigers in every game and give him the weekend off--have at it boys.

Miguel Cabrera has a twelve-game hitting streak and is absolutely tearing the cover off of the ball. Austin Jackson (who they got for Curtis Granderson) is hitting well but has also been ridiculously lucky; he also plays a decent centerfield. Magglio Ordonez *tilde implied* is having nice bounce back years; Carlos Guillen was also playing well until he was sidelined with a strained hamstring and landed on the DL. They've also called up outfielder Casper Wells; the kid reportedly has a great arm.

And for some reason, they've (mostly) all shaved their hair into mohawks. I don't know--Damon claims to not be responsible--maybe they're all really twelve.