The Tigers have been busy this weekend, with a roster move on each of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, Bobby Higginson came off the disabled list, and AJ Hinch took his place. Higginson went 6 for 12 with two doubles this weekend. On Saturday, the Tigers demoted Steve Avery and called up Eric Eckenstahler from Toledo. Eric had a 2.66 ERA in 40.2 innings and a 38/22 K/BB. Avery had been struggling since his first several scoreless outings. Today, Shane Loux finally got the call and he will take Fernando Rodney’s sport in the bullpen. While Rodney didn’t pitch particularly well, he didn’t pitch as bad as his stats would indicate. He allowed a number of soft hits, but could never recover from them. Shane Loux has gone 11-6 with a 3.06 ERA for Toledo this year. He’s a soft tosser that doesn’t strike out a lot of guys, but he doesn’t walk a lot of guys either (58/30 BB/K in 128 innings). Even though Loux is being called up to pitch from the bullpen, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him make spot starts to spell the Roney/Ledezma/Bonderman rotation.

Other Stuff
-Lynn Henning had another good column today. He weighs in on mid level free agents, Alex Sanchez, and the lack of talent at high levels of the organization.
-Ramon Santiago picked up two RBI in the same game. Those were numbers 8 and 9 on the season.