DETROIT -- Buck Farmer tossed 13 scoreless innings over his first two Tigers starts. He allowed 13 runs over 4 2/3 innings in his next two, including seven runs in Sunday's 9-1 loss to the Rays. As a result, Farmer's next start will be for Triple-A Toledo.
Farmer's fall from Tigers folk hero to a Mud Hen again was so swift, so extreme, it could make for a country ballad. But it's an example of baseball being a game of adjustments. In the Majors, between ample video and small armies of scouts, the adjustments come quickly.