Well, it’s starting to seem like the Young experiment is going better than most people expected (put me in that category for sure). It also seems less and less likely that Abreu is a trading option; furthermore, Soriano is saying that he’s pretty intent on staying in Washington for the season. Even with the pleasant surprise of Young’s play so far, I still feel like it’s too early to bank on him the rest of the way. How is everyone else thinking of Dellucci? Seems like he’d be easier to trade for than Abreu or Soriano, and he could provide valuable playoff experience during the stretch run. I know he wants to be an everyday player, something he doesn’t have in Philadelphia, but that just makes me think of Doug Mienkiewicz, who performed admirably in a platoon role for the ’04 Red Sox (and we all know how that turned out). Thoughts?

3-11 with 1 run scored and 0 extra-base hits? That’s actually about what I expected, and I think Dmitri Young is awful. What did you expect?

Also, regarding the Dmitri Young “experiment” – his last good season was 2003, he’s a 32-year old subpar defender at LF/1B, and his last 1000 or so plate appearances have ranged from passable to positive awful, and he just returned from the Betty Ford Clinic.

This would have been an “experiment” in any other year, but this season it’s wishcasting for a cheap fix.

Oh that’s right, I forgot. None of his stats matter because he can bat lefthanded, and that’s the most important thing, right?

If the Tigers are going to talk a big game about overpaying free agents to come to Detroit, they might as well not stop doing it RIGHT BEFORE IT’S TRULY IMPORTANT. I understand that Abreu and Soriano will be dear, but we have a golden opportunity to grab a pennant here. This is precisely when you’re supposed to overpay. Just because the trade deadline is like 10 days away doesn’t mean you need to wait 10 days to decide something. The White Sox are closing in on Soriano, and that could be a major problem for us.

There is no experiment”. Dmitri Young used to be a decent player, but he isn’t anymore. If the White Sox get Soriano they’ll instantly be favored to catch us.

Well, they’ve been better than I expected–I thought he would be DFA by the middle of this week, and they’ve still been winning (besides that bizarre Saturday game which was blacked out here in favor of the Cubs). Besides, my comment was less of a “check it out, Young’s not too bad!” and far more of a “since it looks like Abreu and Soriano aren’t doable, how about Dellucci?” Like it or not, Abreu isn’t going anywhere. If, as ESPN is reporting, Soriano to the Chisox is just about a done deal, then the front office had better have a few alternatives in mind, and it seems to me like Dellucci is the most plausible alternative.

Mark,

I just don’t see how Dellucci is that much of an upgrade over Thames. I know he’s left handed, but I just can’t see parting with even a midlevel prospect for a guy who’s not that much of an upgrade over who we already have.