Yahoo! Sports – MLB – Phillies send Polanco to Tigers for Urbina, Martinez
Earthshaking news for those AL only players in leagues who don’t carry over stats who had gotten used to Urbina’s saves, but good news for people like me who are counting on Percival. Now he just has to stay healthy the rest of the way.
Good news, too, for those of us who have Polanco in mixed leagues (or NL only leagues that carry over stats). Polanco is a good little contact hitter who has shown some pop. Not a big deal, but a tonic if you were feeling the loss of Jason Smith.
It looks like the immediate guy to take a hit will be Omar Infante, who isn’t hitting, but this is as much a vote of no confidence for Carlos Guillen’s knee, which has been bothersome so far this year, to say the least.
There is also Ivan Rodriguez’s hand problem. Polanco doesn’t catch but he does play third base.