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Jeremy Bonderman has never quite made the impact that many projected for him. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Today's edition takes us back to May 7, 2005 and Dan Scotto's article on the Tigers' ace of the future Jeremy Bonderman.

Scotto looks at how Bonderman's career trajectory might have been altered by his place on the historically bad 2003 Tigers team.  At an age when most pitchers would be honing their craft in the minors, Bonderman was the #2 pitcher for a team that lost 119 games. 

He showed some flashes of brilliance but, not surprisingly, didn't set the world on fire (4.79 FIP, 6 K/9, 3.2 BB/9). Putting up those numbers in the majors as a 20 year old did suggest he could be a special pitcher though.

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