If there was ever an ultimate combination in baseball, it would be Carlos Santana and Edwin Encarnacion. While one will be impossible to get the ball past at first base, the other will be cracking bats as the Cleveland Indians’ DH, and vice versa.
Mike Napoli and Santana usually stayed away from swapping in 2016’s regular season, but with the Encarnacion upgrade, the old first and DH switch-a-roo will be something to fear, if you are not lucky enough to be on the Tribe.
Napoli had a solid 9.01 range factor at first base last year, and a .