COMMENTARY
Dave Dombrowki has a reputation for putting together rosters that sometimes are top-heavy with talent. The theory is that he’ll covet and collect superstars, but depth is sometimes neglected, and thus his rosters end up with plenty of irreplaceable talent but too much replacement-level talent.
There is evidence of this. His 2012 Tigers team gave a total of 698 plate appearances to Ramon Santiago, Ryan Raburn, Don Kelly, and Danny Worth, none of whom batted higher than .216 or had an OPS above .586. But most general managers who have had prolonged runs have probably had teams in which subpar players got too many chances.