Leyland announces lineup, Cabrera to bat 5th

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Detroit Tigers’ 2008 Lineup Revealed
Published 2/27/2008 by Old Navy King at MLB Fleece Factor
... According to Danny Knobler of Tigers Insider, Jim Leyland has announced his plans for the makeup of the 2008 batting order, and there might be one surprise… Miguel Cabrera is hitting fifth, and not third as most people expected. Jim Leyland might be afraid of 39-year old Garry Sheffield too, and slotting him in the 3-hole seems to be a move at appeasement of the big-mouthed slugger. Don’t get me wrong, I love Sheff’s bat as much as anyone… but at this stage, there is no way he should be hitting in the 3-spot in favor of Cabrera. They should be ...

2008 Detroit Tigers
Published 3/18/2008 by Dave Rutt at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
... If Inge played 23.3% of the time at third base rather than Cabrera playing all the time, that would save about 11 runs in defense.If you were Jim Leyland, and I came up to you and told you that I could improve your team's run differential by 27 runs (16 in offense, 11 in defense) simply by mixing up the line-up a bit, what would you say? Oh right, I forgot, you're Jim Leyland, and you're not very good at math. ...