Should Brandon Inge be playing his final games in a Tigers uniform?

//curled in a ball in the corner crying

A player to be named later, cash considerations, or another left-handed reliever are all unlikely to help us in the long term.

Peralta is meh at best and only has another year. Unless they’re sure that they’ll grab a FA…blah.

Teams like the Giants or Phillies would put a claim in just to keep Inge from being claimed by the Braves or Cards.

you guys didn’t know we’ve been playing possum, just to get a crack at Inge…poor play at third base cost us a game again last night…I remember Inge from the ’06 Series and liked him, and would welcome him in St Louis.

I think that the plan should be to first try and upgrade the lineup at every possible place where there is a vacancy. Loyalty be damned. Give me a winner.
  
That being said, there are few, if any options coming at the 3B position on the free agent market, so any upgrade is likely to come via a trade. There are also no obvious options on the trade market, as there appear to be at SS. So, we may be down to bringing back Inge.

One scenario which Henning (stupidly) goes into is keeping Peralta, either for third base or shortstop. I am truly puzzled by the seemingly self inflicted blindedness to the proven failure that is Jhonny Peralta. This is the guy that is dead last among third basemen in the AL in batting average, and in fielding range, and he’s in the bottom of every major offensive and defensive percentage at that position in the league- OBP, SLG, AVG, and OPS. The Indians dumped him and agreed to pay his salary to go play for Detroit for good reason. There is no future sticking with him.

Another scenario posed by Mr. Henning is Danny Worth at SS. Worth has done nothing, but nothing either offensively or defensively to assure anyone that he can be a major league player. The early returns on his defense show a lack of range and proficiency in his RZR (that’s the pct of balls hit to his zone that are converted to outs). Small samples, yes, but nothing to be encouraged about. The Tigers foolishly let Polanco go last off season and decided to plug in an unproven rookie, sight unseen. It didn’t work, and shouldn’t be tried again.

Lastly, there is the horrific scenario of Peralta at shortstop. Peralta has conclusively proven that he is unfit defensively to play the position. True, that he doesn’t make a lot of errors, but his range makes Edgar Renteria look like Eddie Brinkman. I would rather have almost anyone- Worth, Santiago, Inge, Renteria, or the corpse of Eddie Brinkman at shortstop than Jhonny Peralta.
 
Peralta, at best, is a downgrade offensively and defensively from Inge as a third baseman. I see little, if any, benefit to trading Inge unless the return is better than the supplemental first round pick that the Tigers could get if Inge declines arbitration and walks away. (Think Nick Castellanos or Chance Ruffin). Maybe the Tigers can upgrade the position by a trade. I’d love to have Chone Figgins, salary be damned, atop the lineup and on the base paths. I’d like to have Adrian Beltre, though he’s a great candidate for regression, but I think he’ll stay in Boston somehow. But the most likely best option at third base is to work out a two year deal with Brandon Inge, and try to get the upgrades that are desperately needed in the lineup at another position, where there are free agents and trade pieces more plentiful that can do that.

Like Mike Hessman. What’s that, he left during the winter? Oh.

Like Jeff Larish, then. What’s that, we gave him away to the Oakland Athletics? Oh.

Trading Brandon Inge is right move for Tigers now

Ian’s work is superior to that of Henning or Rosenthal anyway!

and no.

I most humbly appolize