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I think that'd be a good LF platoon next year if they can find a solid RFer. They need a corner OFer regardless, especially if they are gonna keep Inge (no reason not to given the market). Bring Maggs back to DH, cut Guillen.
He's a perennial strong 2nd half player and his glove is brutal. If he isn't hitting, he's worthless, and he hasn't hit much in the last several years.It isn't my $, but if we choose to execute Peralta's option at the expense of another issue I think that would be very dumb.
He's actually a pretty good fielder at SS with a 1 UZR this year (6.5 per 150) and a 2.6 last year. His career first and second half splits are almost identical at the plate, he's not heroic but he puts up decent numbers for the position. Verlander was great tonight, that slider has been showing up more and more as the season goes along. If he can cut down on his pitch count, he'll win the Cy Young next year.
Speculation on some FA's the Tigers may go after for next year:Tigers Insider
UZR needs a large sample size to be even remotely accurate and both of the last two years have seen Peralta with small sample sizes at short. In the four years before that, 2005-2008, Peralta played full time at short and was a negative defender each year. He's not a good shortstop, and nowhere near worth $7 million dollars.He's been solid with the Tigers, but I think it's more likely that he will perform more similar to his career numbers in 2011 than in his brief stay here thus far. That makes him an average to slightly below average hitter and a below average fielder. Decline the option and bring him back for $3-4 million, give one of the kids a shot at it everyday, or do something crazy like sign a third baseman and move Inge to short.
Yeah that's really a great idea except the Tigers don't have "kids" to play at SS. Iorg has been decent, but I doubt he is even close to being ready to be an everyday SS in the majors. Worth is not a great SS in the field. Plus the fact is the team already has enoguh "kids" as Boesch will be no worse than a platoon next year, we are stuck with Avila and Jackson is the everyday CFer. Add in Rhymes or Sizemore at 2B and that is a lot of young guys with only Jackson being a sure thing (he's so much better than I thought he was gonna be). Peralta in his last full season at SS in 2008 was 5th in fielding percentage and 5th in range factor for all qualified ML SSs. His UZR was -1.1, that is not terrible. Slightly below average, yes. I also completely disagree with Peralta being a slightly below average hitter for that position. His OPS this year is second among AL SS. He was 10th last year but 1st in OPS in 2008, and third in 2007. That is not slightly below average for a hitter at the SS position, that is decidedly above average. Would be nice to bring him back at the 3/4 mill but that might not be realistic and Brandon Inge at SS has potential to be a disaster. There are no real good FA options so I'm just saying that Peralta given what he has shown so far, based on his past and based on the market is probably the best option. There are certainly bigger fish to fry as we so desperately need a corner OFer and one more bat and starting pitcher, but you can do a lot worse than Peralta. Adam Everett and Ramon Santiago are fielding gems, but neither hits a whole lot. Peralta is a guy you can hit 6th or 7th who can deliver power in streaks.igbomb said:
I see them eating the final year of Guillen's contract like they did with Sheffield, Robertson, and Dontrelle. He won't be around in 2011. Even if that happens, I'm not a big fan of Martinez since he is so injury prone and would have to DH a lot. There aren't a ton of great options in FA this year though. I think someone else will overpay for him and he ends up going elsewhere anyway.
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Why, so the tigers could go 100 & 100?
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No, because I hate the NFL and this would give me more baseball. Bad baseball > NFL.
I'm going to assume that there once was a time when you didn't hate the NFL, otherwise how did you end up on a website whose #1 subject is the NFL?
Heard Mad Max after the game last night and he gave all the credit to developing his slider. Said his slider has made all of his other pitches more effective.
lolI'm proud of these guys, they have shown a ton of heart down the stretch.Congratulations to Brandon Inge for becoming the all time strikeout leader in Detroit Tigers history
Me too. Sure beats the end to the 2008 season. It's gonna be fun watching these young players continue to develop. They still have a chance to catch Chicago for 2nd place too. Will be interesting to see what Dombrowski does to improve the team this offseason - Leyland was in the paper today saying he wants bullpen help and I don't blame him.
That is the problem with the Tigers..too many backups in starting roles.Inge- Should be a backup or utility player on any team. In fact I would like to see Inge gone, the guy has no upside.Rhymes- backup IFWorth- backup INBoesch- ??? fourth OFSizemore- Could be OK in a year or twoLaird- Too bad this guy could not hit 250 with 15 HRs and 60-65 RBI..but he can`tThe guy I am somewhat high on is Rayburn. At 29 he seems to have finally matured as a hitter. IF RR could hit foe a whole season like he has the last two months one of the problems is solved. RR has the potential to be a 25 HR 90 RBI guy.
If they end over .500 and sign a Type-A this off-season, they lose their first round pick. If not, it's protected.Silver linings...
Why? Seems to make sense to me.
