Dusty Baker Update: Yonder Alonso

We at Game Of Inches have done our share of Dusty Baker hating. Some may say we are picking on him, but he's really just picking on himself. When he's not to busy devising ways to break pitchers and telling his players to stop walking, he's deviously plotting other ways to play baseball backwards. Such ways include playing a guy with a DH's body and surgically repaired right hand, who has never played catcher ever in his life, at catcher. No really. I'm actually not kidding. Here is what Baker said at a press conference yesterday:

"We've entertained a few things, even the possibility of putting Alonso behind the plate. He's built more like a catcher than he is anything. Imagine a left-handed, power-hitting catcher. A lot of that depends on our Minor League development people that spend time with the kids and the time training them."

A lot of it also depends on whether or not that player has ever played catcher, a physically demanding position, before. Alonso has not. It's not like they moved Mike Piazza BEHIND the plate...

And so is born the tag to monitor Dusty Baker's persistent gallimaufry.