Something is amiss with Miguel Cabrera’s left wrist. He hasn’t swung the bat well this week, and there may be a injury related explanation. After a poor at-bat Fox Sports Detroit camera’s zoomed into the dugout and saw Cabrera inspecting and massaging the wrist after removing the tape. He ended up with another at-bat in the game that saw Kevin Rand come out and visit. The at-bat culminated when Cabrera grounded out to short (it was a nifty play by Tony Pena Jr.) and it appeared the didn’t follow through in the way he typically does. Jeff Larish came into the blow-out to play defense in the 9th.
An injured Cabrera would be a tremendous hole in the middle of the lineup. He played through a hamstring injury the early part of last year, but it seems that if he is hurting it would be prudent to give him a couple days to rest up.
Lovely.
Yea that would suck BIG time. Still not sure, they haven’t formally said anything I assume. The middle of our lineup is struggling as it is. Granderson hasn’t sucked, but hasn’t been what I hoped. Same with Polanco. Ordonez has sucked so far, but at least not as bad as his terrible spring. Although I did get to see him snap his 0-13 with that bomb.
To me it looks as if Guillen is hurting. I mean you could expect some slight dip in slugging% possibly…. But to me he just doesn’t look right. He is just rolling over on some balls.
We’ve got to be thankful that Inge and Laird are mashing. Santiago/Anderson/Everett have done well with the stick. And that besides Verlander (at times) many of our pitchers have done as well or better than I assume most gave them credit for coming in.
To have Jackson and Gals pitch the way they have been is pretty cool.
And yet Leyland has both Cabrera and Guillen batting in the ninth inning of a game when they have an 8 run lead.
Hopefully at least one of them will get today off before the big big weekday series with the Yankees.