I guess I am collecting believers

Andrew Miller is 2-2 with a 7.96 ERA right now... in a league that doesn't have a DH.  He's lasted 6 innings just once in 7 starts.  If anything, he's gotten worse.  I'm more upset about some of the deeper prospects the Tigers lost in trades this year than I am about Miller.

I'm sure they've worked with Bonderman repeatedly on his change-up over the past couple of years.  Sometimes a guy just doesn't have the physical ability to throw a good one.

The bigger problem I see with Bondo this year is location.  He simply can't locate his slider at all.  It's a ball 80% of the time.  So hitters are sitting on his fastball.  Unless you're Randy Johnson, you can't survive on two pitches when one isn't working.  If the location is due to mechanics and they're not catching it, that's on Hernandez.  I'm not enough of an expert to tell.

Location is killing Verlander, too.  20 walks in 43 IP, plus 6 hit batsmen... that's too many free passes.  And he consistently falls behind, contributing to an elevated pitch count.  As mentioned, that seems to catch up to him after the 5th inning.  His overall ERA is 6.28 right now, but it must be 10.00+ from the 6th inning on.