For a team like the Indians, who entered the season with World Series expectations, one thing fans surely didn’t expect is to have something called Jamey Carroll become the everyday second basemen. After all that has gone wrong, that Asdrubal Cabrera underperformed enough to be sent to Buffalo feels like only minor bad news, but bad news nonetheless. When you’re hitting at a sub-Mendoza clip, however, it’s a necessary move.
What’s interesting, though, is that fans of the feather should actually be rooting for Carroll to play everyday, and for more reasons than the fact that he looks like Paul Byrd’s little brother when he grows a goatee. …
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2008.