Damons a Tiger

As long as the 36 year old outfielder can pass his physical he will be a Detroit Tiger. Jonny Damon spent the last few years with the New York Yankees. Last year he won a World Series championship with the Yankees. He batted .282 and had 24 homeruns on the season for the Yankees last season. He battled through many injuries last season but managed to stay on the field for most of it. In the playoffs last year he batted .281 and had 18 hits. This not a spectacular post season but considered he was battling injuries during it that makes it an average post season. He did just enough to stay in the lineup and help the Yankees win the World Series. The reason they did not resign him is because he is getting older and they did not want to pay him as much as he wanted. The Yankees would have gladly signed him back based on production. Since his age and money demands were a problem he left and was signed by the Detroit Tigers.

The tigers will be using Damon as an outfielder, Designated Hitter, and most important of all a leadoff hitter. The tigers did not have a solid leadoff hitter going into the season before they signed Jonny Damon. They traded away their leadoff hitter they had last year. Jonny Damon will most certainly help out the most being a leadoff hitter for the Detroit Tigers. Jonny Damon is also a left-handed batter. That is important because the Detroit Tigers do not have many left handed batters on their team right now. This is a big deal because having left handed batters allows you to play to the match up of the pitcher. Some pitchers have a harder time pitching to left handed batters then they do to right handed batters and vice versa. Adding another left handed batter that can hit should help the Tigers out tremendously this season. With Jonny Damon on the Detroit Tigers they might have a chance to make some noise this season.