Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 21, 2007
Catching Flies

John Lowe reviews the Tigers outfield defense. It's a group effort:

The outfielders don't flip the ball to each other for outs like Carlos Guillen and Placido Polanco do. But they consider their defense a collaboration.

"We communicate really well the whole game about (where) we're positioning ourselves," Ordonez said.

Monroe said: "Curtis makes sure that when he moves, he makes the rightfielder and leftfielder move. We talk about where to play the hitters. Curtis might look at me and say, 'What do you think?' We sometimes make the wrong decision, but when you do it as a group, it always feels better to know we were all committed to the same plan."

In the 1980s I used to sit in the centerfield bleachers at Fenway Park. I was always amazed that teams would come in that didn't do anything to position outfielders. No matter the hitter, they played everyone straight away. It's good to see the Tigers thinking about this and putting a plan into action.


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