Its time to be honest. Brandon Inge is not a good major league baseball player. In fact, one might argue that he has been the worst every day third baseman over the past 10 years. I dare you to find another with worse numbers than these.
The fact that he has been bad isn’t my concern heading into the 2012 season. Its the fact that he has been getting worse every year for the past 3 years that makes me concerned. How bad could it get it 2012? .172 BA, 3 HR, 43 RBI? My God I want to gag. He might be the only player in Tiger's history to have a negative WAR. (Well... Maybe Gary Pettis too...)
Another moment of honesty that this youtube video articulates quite well.
The people who love Brandon Inge are white, and there are a lot of white people in Michigan. I guarantee that you will not find a black man wearing an Inge jersey at Comerica Park. Just doesn’t happen. White position players in Mo-Town have been sparse, and Inge has been a place for Anglos to place their story within the Tigers story over the past 10 years. This camaraderie has to stop, as we have to get him off the hot corner. But can it happen?
The overarching problem with Inge is on Dumb-browski. He signed him to that ridiculous 2 year deal for 11.5 million. Here is my fear. We are in bed with that contract and won't be able to shake it. It took the extremes of Inge's performance last year to get us to even think about it and he still got 303 Plate Appearances... Most of which were wasted. Unfortunately, this year he will be back on the hot corner. We will have to put up with his strike outs, his whining, and his embarrassing facial hair. That is until he is so bad that we trade away young talent to replace him, or have a miracle happen in Toledo. Come on Castellanos!
So the worst part of the article is this. We are stuck with him. We are stuck with his lack of production at the plate, his completely mediocre defence, that's right, I said it... And with his lame tattoos. May the white people rejoice.
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