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Originally Posted by ggazoo69  Isn't Jones a lefty bat? Seems like we would have too many righty bats in there with Binge in there as well. It would be cool if Brandon could be a D3B, Designated third basemen, and not bat. |
If you go and check his splits last year he actually hit better against lefties.
Secondly in my opinion this who lefty righty thing is way overblown when you have a team that is going to average 6 runs a game.
Most baseball fans are like most basketball fans, probably the same people in a number of cases, in that they way underestimate the value of excellent defense.
It seems to me that the main advantage of the Tigers having Jones is that he can play a better center field than any of our other guys that will make the 25 man roster, except for Grandy. Jones also hits left handed pitching pretty good. So I can see him playing in center field for us against left handed starters, which Grandy so far in his career has not had much success with.
Jones will also allow us to rest Grandy and still be able to put a decent fielder in center field on those occasions.
However, my guess is that most likely, Leyland will play Thames in left and Raburn in center against lefties.
