It appears that Johnny Damon has officially signed on with the Detroit Tigers for one year and $8 million. It's a better deal than I expected him to get although I'm sure it's less than Scott Boras promised Johnny when he had him spurn the Yankees.
I wont really regret seeing Damon leave. He was a mercenary who came in for an extra $4 million and he left because he wasn't getting the cash he wanted. He did some good for the Yankees and I'm sure he'll play all out for the Tigers. Unfortunately both he and the Tigers will probably be pretty disappointed when they watch ball after ball fall about 20 feet short of the right field wall all summer.
I wont even think about how many balls will evade him in the outfield. Good luck Johnny... you're going to need it.
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Yeah, how's that for a change in the outfield? Curtis Granderson chasing down balls in the wide open plains of the Detroit outfield to Johnny Damon hobbling after balls he couldn't track then short hopping the throw to the cutoff man. I wonder how many singles he plays into doubles?
Granderson is actually quite poor at tracking balls as well. He gets to more of them than Damon because of his speed, but be prepared for a lot of, eh, interesting, routes to fly balls.
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