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Fielder high-risk, high-reward for Tigers
posted by Pat Caputo at
12:49 AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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6 Comments:
Pat,
In this case, I loovvvve to say, I TOLD YOU SO! It was obvious that Illitch was not going to stand pat (no pun intended). The man is rich, 82 and wants a WS ring. He was not going to fool around with Damon, Peno, Guerroro, etc. It amazes me that the area sports writers missed this thought process. He doesnt care about the money, his history has proven this. The Granderson trade is the sole time he cut payroll other than that Illitch has always been an aggressive, over-the-top owner.
Alan
Pat,
I hope that Jim Leyland will have a serious talk with Prince and Miguel, at the opening of spring training, and lay down the law and tell Fielder, that he will have to share 1st base, and DH with Cabrera for the good of the team, and that Cabrera will be moved around, splitting his playing time at 1st, 3rd, and DH If Fielder insists on being the only first baseman I see the road to hell paved being with the best of intentions. Cabrera proved in 2008, that he can't handle 3rd base. It would be unproductive to Miguel to be a full time DH, which
would force weak fielding Delmon Young to play left.
Karl
Karl
Good observation, Pat. My exact reaction when I heard this. Mantle and Maris? I think this trade has more than it looks like.
The Lions and Tigers are both great offensive teams, with weakness on the defensive side. Leyland should make Fielder share 1b duties, with Miggy. Problem solved Tommie
Pat, this move put them back in the running to the WS. You have to pick your poison, do you want a poor fielding 3B or poor fielding LF? One thing I hate to see is Miggy playing 3B in WS and he never played there all year. I voting to put Miggy at 3B, along it does not effect hit hitting with Inge as the back-up. I like Porcello and I think he is a better pitcher then his stats have shown but we should trade him for strikeout pitcher.
This is the biggest thing I can remember since Pudge came in 2004.
But Book, I agree wholeheartedly that this could go south, as sweet as it sounds - too much sweet causes cavities ya know.
Not only making sure Miggy and Princy (nah ... doesn't work) get along - but Fielder carries a little baggage - issues with Poppa Fielder ... should fans go south on him it could get ugly. We might see a situation in next couple of years where one of them has to go.
As for recalling the ghosts of Miggy at third in 2008 - Miggy is a different player now - he wasn't the best at first either in 2008 - but he's pretty damn solid there now. This Miggy can work hard and be solid at 3rd to I believe - maybe no Inge [stifled laugh] but then who is [choked on laugh]!
This could be great - but it could also go 0-7 south too.
Baseball is berry berry goot.
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