Interesting you say this. I had been wondering whether Harris had built a lefty-heavy roster for a reason. After all, most pitchers are right-handed, and our right field fences are a lot easier for a ball to clear than the left field fences, which makes getting a power-hitting RHH with agency on the market a real challenge. Who wants to come to Detroit to see their home run-hitting career tumble?
Then last night, I heard Dan Dickerson talk about how Harris and this front office have built this LHH-heavy roster with a purpose, going through the strategic niceties that it allows Hinch to work with during the games, and I thought, hey, maybe there's something to that.
And then, this morning, I saw this on FanGraphs:
And that convinced me: yup, we are LHH-heavy for a reason, and probably a good one.
I'm fine with it, as long as we have at least some counterbalance, and if Tork can somehow shake his blues, Vierling sticks around and rakes some, and we can get one more starboard-side guy with a stick—Malloy? Navigato? Bigbie? Someone from outside?—we could maybe be on the leading edge of something here.