Comments on: Tigers not expecting Victor Martinez to play this season

By: caseyo4

caseyo4 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:19:45 +0000

Cabrera is playing more than respectable defense at 3rd base. I don’t buy into this 1B/DH guys. We need to upgrade at SS to help the range on that side some, but I’d be more than comfortable leaving Cabrera at 3rd. Fielder is not as good at first defensively as Cabrera was, and probably will be a full-time DH within 4-5 years. Delmon – Delmon can go away anytime now…

By: papacrick

papacrick — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:45:55 +0000

They will still get Soriano off waivers in the next couple weeks

By: rooney24

rooney24 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:59:40 +0000

Because they insist on playing their 1B/DH guys in the field, rather than playing a good defensive player there. I thought it would have made sense for them to go after Soriano, although only if the Cubs would have paid the vast majority of his salary this year and next (maybe 75%). He would have been an upgrade at DH for the rest of this year, and if the Cubs paid enough of his salary, you could then afford to either dump him or keep him on the relatively cheap and dump Martinez next year.

By: ken49ers

ken49ers — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:48:19 +0000

How is it possible that a team made up of all first basemen and DHs can be 13th in the AL at the DH position??