Can somebody please tell me why we need so many Utility Players?

How can anyone differentiate between them? I doubt Leyland wants any of them in his starting lineup, but flexibility is important when there are fewer bench players on the roster these days. What I’ve seen of Sizemore, and clearly what Tigers management has decided, is he’s a slug.

I agree that the roster has too many players of similar skills (or lack thereof). I’d rather see Sizemore get some experience at 2B before Leyland goes back to the misguided path of playing Carlos there. I agree with Stormin that management is certainly down on Sizemore and doesn’t want to hand a job to him anymore. But he at least has better projections at the bat than any of the others.

At the beginning of the year I wanted to see Dlugach get a chance since he has reportedly good defense for SS. But his batting projected as Everett at that time and he hasn’t even lived up to that in Toledo.

Leyland needs to pick two guys – one for 2B and one for SS – and stick with them for awhile.

We don’t but that’s how they keep building them in the minors. I don’t know who’s in charge of the draft, but they need to get off the pitching and focus on position players who can swing a bat.

everyday at second in Toledo. So, imo he is still in the plans for beyond 2010. Rhymes playing second, brings a certain energy so might as well ride it for now, reminds me of a david eckstein type, Worth makes the plays at short and could be on the bench like Santiago beyond this year.
Tigers just don’t have a “star” quality position player to bring up. This is in part due to DD going after power arms early in the draft the past few years.
None of this happens except for the fact they got completely blindsided with Inge, Maggs, and Carlos going down.

signed, Phil Garner.

You can never have enough of them on the way to 77-85.