Detroit – You could almost feel Ron Gardenhire and Brad Ausmus flinching Wednesday when new Tigers skipper AJ Hinch started talking about using Miguel Cabrera at first base.
“I’d like him to play first base certainly for part of the games,” Hinch said in a national Zoom conference. “I don’t know what the allotment is going to be in terms of how much he plays first base and how much he DH’s. But I think freeing up the DH spot is important.”
Oh boy. Certainly Ausmus and Gardenhire felt the same way, but playing Cabrera at first base and keeping him healthy have become mutually exclusive concepts in recent years.