http://www.dtownbaseball.com/2007/02/12/is-tony-giarratano-the-tigers-future-at-shortstop/ A Detroit Tiger Blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.dtownbaseball.com/2007/02/12/is-tony-giarratano-the-tigers-future-at-shortstop/comment-page-1/#comment-392 The Carlos Guillen Question » Mack Avenue Tigers : A Detroit Tigers Blog Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:51:23 +0000 http://www.dtownbaseball.com/2007/02/12/is-tony-giarratano-the-tigers-future-at-shortstop/#comment-392 [...] Oh, and to make this seem like a no-brainer for Detroit, there doesn’t appear to be any player coming down the pipeline to replace Guillen at shortstop. Jim Leyland himself said he doesn’t view Omar Infante as that guy. We know it’s not Ramon Santiago, and I don’t have faith in Tony Giarratano. Besides, as Morosi pointed out, several other teams are in the market for a short stop after this year, so there’s no guarantee the Tigers wouldn’t trade down in value. So, based on first-look Detroit pretty much needs Guillen. [...] [...] Oh, and to make this seem like a no-brainer for Detroit, there doesn’t appear to be any player coming down the pipeline to replace Guillen at shortstop. Jim Leyland himself said he doesn’t view Omar Infante as that guy. We know it’s not Ramon Santiago, and I don’t have faith in Tony Giarratano. Besides, as Morosi pointed out, several other teams are in the market for a short stop after this year, so there’s no guarantee the Tigers wouldn’t trade down in value. So, based on first-look Detroit pretty much needs Guillen. [...]

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