chopjob wrote:The American League Central Division Detroit Tigers in 4 games and 6 packs of Lucky Strikes.
Those Transition Lenses won't hide your genius tears, TLR.
Is Shelton on the WS roster or is Ne!f! going to be in the wings to play hero?
I don't think it will be nearly as easy as most of you think. I expect a long, close series.
Shelton apparently cannot replace Neifi on the WS roster (unless they claim Neifi is injured). Shelton was not on the roster at the cutoff date. Since the Tigers are going to have to play under the National League rules in games 3-5, Leyland would probably prefer the position flexibility of having Neifi, Santiago and Infante anyways.
Here is the explanation (stolen from some Detroit sports website)
Answering the Shelton/Perez question once and for all
DETROIT -- It's been misreported elsewhere, so here's the answer for all of you who want the Tigers to drop Neifi Perez from the World Series roster and replace him with Chris Shelton.
It can't happen. No way, no how, not unless Neifi Perez is injured (which he's not).
The Tigers had 13 position players on the roster as of Aug. 31, the cutoff for postseason eligibility. Shelton was not one of them. Neither was Ramon Santiago. They also had two position players on the major-league DL (Placido Polanco and Tony Giarratano) at that time.
Thus, the Tigers had 15 eligible position players. One of those 15 was Dmitri Young, who was later released. That leaves you with 14:
Rodriguez, Wilson, Casey, Polanco, Guillen, Inge, Perez, Infante, Monroe, Granderson, Ordonez, Thames, Gomez, Giarratano.
They can replace Giarratano, because he's hurt, and they did so by putting Ramon Santiago on the roster. Theoretically, they could have Shelton take Santiago's spot in the World Series, but they don't plan to do so. The only other way to put Shelton on the roster would be to have him replace an injured player. He could replace Casey, but that's hugely unlikely unless Casey suffers a major setback. He can not replace Perez, unless Perez is hurt (which he's not).