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goner
“The popularity of Martinez and Adam Dunn on the free agent market showed that teams are willing to make large commitments to players with little defensive value”
I don’t completely agree with this statement. IIRC, there were a glut of DH-types available as free agents (also including Manny and Vlad Guerrero) or for trade (Ryan Doumit) last offseason, and only a handful of them (Dunn, Martinez) got “large” commitments.
martinfv2
But Manny and Vlad had no defensive value rather than little, while Doumit has little value on either end.
Pawsdeep
Are you suggesting that Dunn had any defensive value?
funkytime
He does! It’s just negative value.
goner
I guess there is a small distinction, I’ll give you that. :shrug:
Daniel
Of course, Penny will not provide 100 solid innings, and that’s because he’s complete crap. He has nothing left.
Nice work locking up Peralta and Inge though. The team would never get their 81 wins without those guys!
baseballdude
did you see what penny did against the rangers today ?? penny is not crap he just needed to work on getting the ball down in the zone. and penny worked that out with rick knapp ( tigers pitching coach) on friday.
Daniel
Yes, I saw the game. How many lineouts to the warning track do you need to induce in order to win every day? Does he have something worked out with Raburn, like an alley-oop play, where he throws a meatball right down the middle and Raburn pulls it back over the fence, preventing the homer and obtaining the valuable out?
There was nothing on most of those pitches. Nothing. If you think Penny is going to win a lot of games like the one yesterday, you’re nuts. He’s garbage.
Motor_City_Bombshell
Yeah…Penny will provide 100 innings, good or bad, they will be 100 innings.
And if you can think of someone outside of Adrian beltre who was better than Inge at third, please let me know.
Daniel
Okay, Ryan Zimmerman is better. Scott Rolen, old as he is, is probably a little better. Kouzmanoff, Headley and a bunch of other third basemen put up better UZRs last year (Inge was 11th, just behind Alberto Callaspo and just ahead of Mark Reynolds). UZR shouldn’t be our only measure, however. The Fielding Bible gave Longoria the award last year, with Zimmerman 2nd, Beltre 3rd, and Headley 4th. I don’t even know where Inge finished.
We Tigers fans need to let go of this. Inge might have been the nest a few years ago (outside of Beltre), but he isn’t anymore. He’s fun to watch though. He’s a good defender, and though he hit a nice walk-off shot this afternoon, he’s just not much of a hitter. He isn’t worth the money he’s been given.
heliosphan
I hated the Penny signing, even though it’s only a one year deal, since he had some brutal AL East numbers a few years ago, and he’s injury prone. I wish some of the kids would have gotten a chance this year. Adam Wilk should have made the team (instead of Brad Thomas and his awful peripherals), and I’m surprised that Oliver isn’t getting another long look.
Daniel
Oliver will get a chance soon enough, once someone gets hurt or one of our other guys, probably Penny, craps the bed.
Strydorman
I still don’t get why DD didn’t pull the trigger on a trade for Michael Young, after the Rangers said they would eat half his contract. Rather have him in there somewhere at Short or Second than what we have now.