Was the Tigers decision to give Magglio Ordonez a $75 million contract a wise move?
During free agency, teams were concerned about his knee surgery. The hernia problem was an unforeseen injury. He’s having surgery this week and the Detroit Tigers are hoping he’ll be back by mid-July. It’s hard to criticize the Tigers because I think a lot of teams were interested in him. Back then, the only question was about his knee. At some point, Ordonez will be back. He’ll be healthy and he’ll be the player that everybody saw a couple of years ago in Chicago. 4. What do you make of the steroid and gambling accusations toward Lenny Dykstra? Lenny was a guy I enjoyed playing against because he played hard and he played aggressive. He was a hard-nosed gamer. I remember one play at Wrigley Field when he went back on a fly ball and ran into the bricks and suffered a broken collarbone. He was out for quite a while. When I heard about the accusations, I thought about how he did go from a smaller little leadoff hitter to a guy who beefed up pretty good in one year. He just had a whole di
