According to the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Tigers are after right handed reliever Latroy Hawkins and “there were indications” the team has offered him a multi-year contract.
The Tigers, of course, are in need of relief help due to the freak injury to Joel Zumaya who will miss at least the first half of the season. But Hawkins? Sure, he did post a respectable 3.42 ERA in Colorado last season, but the 34 year old is not what he once was back in the day for Minnesota. He has lost his ability to miss bats, striking out only 56 batters in the 116 innings he has pitched the last two years. (Compare that to his best years – 2002 and 2003 with the Twins – when he struck out 138 batters in 157 innings). Plus, his last stint in the American League was a disaster, as he posted a 4.48 ERA in 2006 for the Orioles. A multi-year deal for Hawkins has “fleece” written all over it.
Filed under: Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers
Agreed. This guy would SUCKKKK in the big boy… er, American League.