MotownWebGuy said:
There's no proof Cespedes can hit an average major league breaking ball.
I'm not sure Oswalt can even pass a physical.
Manny was late on fastballs two seasons ago. Think he's improved / gotten faster at his age?
Teams would not be looking at Oswalt if he had not provided proof he could play.
Cespedes seems to be the big idea around here, but I agree, people are assuming he's going to just start on a MLB roster out of the blue and be serviceable, those same people believe in the tooth fairy.
Manny is just a dumb idea, a guy who can't even play for 50 games, who has not played a full season for 3 years, and is the laziest S.O.B. MLB has probably ever seen, not to mention probably cant play at all without PED's. Manny would actually make us a worse team, rather than better.
And finally the super pipe-dream, that somehow Prince Fielder would take a 1 year contract to come to Detroit.
Prince would probably never come to Detroit anyhow, even if we offered him 10 years, because he hates his daddy, and he would never live his daddies shadow down in Motown.
Oswalt is the best option out of those ideas, it would be like winning the lottery at this point.