PT TOMORROW: AL Central—A six-man rotation for the Tigers?
Jun 20 2018
Over the weekend, Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire hinted that the team is considering moving to a six-man starting rotation when Francisco Liriano likely returns from the DL later this week. The expectation had been that Blaine Hardy (LHP, DET) would move back to the bullpen once Liriano was ready, but Gardenhire has cast doubt on that idea: "He's not necessarily going to the bullpen. We're working on a lot of things. You've got to remember the time of the year. It's the middle part of the season. We've got some guys in there that could probably use extra days, take innings off our load. We started thinking we could probably do this. Not saying we're going to, but we could. Now you guys just get to wait and see what we...
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