Just When You Want to Give Leyland a Break He Does This

First of all, I have to mention this stat so you know why Leyland has pissed me off so much today. Placido Polanco is 11 for his last 18 at bats. That is a .611 BA over that stretch. Certainly not the generic Phentermine plan these guys have been on all year.

Now I will show you the line up he put out there today:

C. Granderson cf
M. Hollimon ss
C. Guillen 3b
M. Ordonez rf
M. Cabrera 1b
J. Larish dh
M. Thames lf
B. Inge c
R. Raburn 2b

No Polanco. Some dude named Hollimon that I bet none of you have ever heard of hitting SECOND in the line up where PP usually hits. Raburn playing 2nd.

So we just sweep the Whitsox and Leyland decides to give half the starters the day off. Tremendous. Are we to assume that the guys decided that they were going to go out and get blasted last night and don't feel like playing today, or that Leyland is just a moron? I will go with the latter.

Update: Tigers leading 3-0 in the 7th. Although they are winning. I still think Leyland is an idiot.