But I think we’ve got a better chance of Carlos cutting back on booting plays at short.

MLB.com has Guillen at 9 errors at the moment. Jeff, that is well above league average. In fact, he’s leading the bigs in that odious category. And for reference, in Guillen’s last (nearly) full season (2004) he made 17 errors in 135 games. If he continues at the pace he’s currently on, he’ll rack up 37 errors over 135 games.

This run of terrible fielding has been very costly. I’m working off memory here, but including last nights game I recall 3 games in which his miscues led to winning or tieing runs. And it does all seem to be mental. He seems healthy and his range looks as good as ever. He’s getting to balls easily enough, but he seems to be having problems picking stuff up cleanly and transferring the ball to the throwing hand. It’s very strange.

All I’ll say is that I continue to be really disappointed in his at bats, and I’d prefer seeing him out of the everyday lineup.

The comment about Guillen’s fielding being in your head is hilarious Billfer. It’s in mine too. Watching that final Os rally evolve last night had me going crazy and the error was the icing on the cake.

Jason the idea of moving Guillen to third is an interesting one and I’d like to hear other people’s input on this. I don’t think it’s a bad idea although Inge is really just this season beginning to master third–which is itself an important defensive position–and decreasing his value by a move to short while also downgrading third by moving Guillen over may not be the best move.

Given my distaste for DY’s everyday presence, I’d propose moving guillen to DH and letting Infante man short. He’s been looking pretty good at the plate as of late.

Of course none of that is going to happen because I’m sure Guillen would go nuts if asked to give up his fielding duties. I hope he pulls out of it.

First, it may be time for Guillen to move to third base and Inge to shortstop. As I recall, Inge played SS before being moved to catcher, and he’s more than athletic enough to handle it. I haven’t seen Guillen’s other errors this season, but both of them last night were ranging deep to the third base side. He seemed to be rushing the exchange, but in both cases it seemed as if he had plenty of time for the out with a crisp throw to first. I know he’s had knee problems; is he afraid he doesn’t have the stability to pivot and throw back across his body? Or maybe it’s just in his head now.

Also, Dmitri Young looked awful. He only reached when Cabrera totally lost command, and even then Young manufactured a few strikes for Cabrera. He’s not going to have many more at bats if they are that ugly.

who would have thought that Guillen would cost us the game

Yeah, no kidding. His D has not been very impressive this year. Are his fielding numbers still above league average?