Buster Olney

Yeah, and first and foremost, Scott is not the devil.

I will defend him in that realm.

Here's the deal.

This surgery, within the context of what pitchers go through, this is not a major surgery.

This is a relatively minor procedure.

He's got loose bodies that are kind of floating around his elbow.

It's like putting a rock inside of a door hinge.

Uh, so they're going to remove it and he'll be back probably in about two or three months.

I don't think there was any chance that tigers were going to trade Scoble anyway, uh, because the first off, you know, they're trying to win the division, get back to the playoffs again.

And on top of that, the American league stinks.

Okay.

You got the Yankees are great.

You've got the Rays who are pretty good, and then you've got a bunch of teams in the mosh pit, and you weren't going to, if you're the Tigers, you're not going to trade Derek Scoble if you're anywhere close anyway.

He is going to get a chance to pitch, as you mentioned, maybe by the end of July, certainly in August, September, and then he's going to make a boatload of money as a free agent.

I don't think any of that is going to be interrupted because this is not the sort of surgery that derails pitchers in the way that a shoulder injury can or a major elbow reconstruction can.

That was an absolute joke of what happened in Detroit.

So they are scrambling for starting pitching right now.

Not only is Scooble on the injured list, but so is Justin Verlander and Troy Milton and Casey Mize, Jackson Jobe.

They have all these starting pitchers on the IL.

I know that after the Scooble injury to the conversation, Tiger's organization was, look, we just need to stabilize their starting pitching and hold on while he's out.