OGT: Detroit tigers @ atlanta braves 3/3/2012

[motorcityjoe611]

Guys that play the corners are generally bigger and stronger, because the defense at those positions doesn't require as much range. Not sure how else to explain it to you know it all.

Now that was a concise, easy for me to follow explanation. Thank you.
Good comeback.

[pGekko]

Now that was a concise, easy for me to follow explanation. Thank you.
Good comeback.

Maybe I'm one of a majority. I don't know. My feeble mind doesn't know everything about baseball, but that's how I understand it.

[pGekko]

Now that I think about it, did you every play 2nd base at your size Joe? That answers your own damn question.

[pGekko]

I still laugh when I see that avatar btw.

[motorcityjoe611]

I still laugh when I see that avatar btw.

I know me too. Seriously thought, what kind of a narcissist inserts himself into...uh...
Yeah, me too.

[MoOff24]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_yl...fielder_030312

After one day, the Tigers survived it just fine, which will mean nothing come April. The metrics will show that Fielder is no Cabrera at first, that Cabrera is no Inge at third, and that Inge isn’t much of a hitter, no matter where he plays.

Then Inge, who’d mow the lawn if it meant getting on the field, made a diving catch to end the second inning and a rangy stop and flip to end the fourth.

[GF-22a]

I know those two are not good fielders but unless something huge happens to them at the plate (in a bad way of course) then the offense those two provide will more than make up for the few balls that get into the outfield that may not have last year

[SportsFromA2]

nice little recap from Jason Beck, hope he does this after every ST game...

What we learned: Brandon Inge can pick it at second base.

What to remember from Game 1: That lingering doubt that Inge could make the shift from third base to second at age 34 with more bulk than before (and I admit, I had it coming in) is hurting right now. On Friday, Jim Leyland said that from everything he’s seen, Inge will play second base fine. On Saturday, Inge went out and made two outstanding plays up the middle — one a diving catch, the other a nice scoop and shovel flip behind second base. Whether Inge makes it now rides on whether he hits; his fielding is no question.

Hey, it’s only spring training: The Tigers took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, which sounds great until you consider how many pitchers combined to do it. When the Marlins no-hit the Tigers on March 23, 2009 at Joker Marchant Stadium, Ricky Nolasco flat-out dominated them for seven innings, though the Tigers lineup still hadn’t gotten back Miguel Cabrera, Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen from the World Baseball Classic at that point.

How much suspense was there about Saturday’s no-hit bid? Not enough to keep most of the starters around to battle Disney traffic once they were out of the game.

The highlight play you may have missed: Clete Thomas wants back on the Tigers roster, and the Tigers still think highly of him. His acrobatic catch while flipping over the bullpen fence in the first inning, and his running catch into foul territory in left field later, were good signs for somebody less than two years separated from microfracture surgery on his knee.

Non-game note of the day: The Tigers sold more than 66,000 tickets on Saturday, the first day single-game tickets went on sale. Online sales accounted for a good amount of them, but there were more than a thousand fans waiting in line on a snowy, windy Saturday morning for their first big reason to look ahead to spring.

http://beck.mlblogs.com/2012/03/03/g...ot-just-homer/