Bummer for Chris Getz as he will sit out today's game against the Tigers with a bruised arm. Getz is a native of suburban Detroit and played baseball at the University of Michigan, so this series was something of a homecoming for him. Brent Lillibridge, who started Saturday, will take over duties at 2B and leading off, presumably until Getz is ready to play again. Not sure when that will be however, Ozzie Guillen has already labeled him unlikely to play tomorrow, as well.The Sox are currently hitting .041 from the lead-off position and have a .200 OBP mostly thanks to Lillibridge's 2 walks Saturday. Needless to say, the lead-off hitter has been the most disappointing area of the team after 1 week of play. I think most people knew the Sox weren't going to have a Rickey Henderson-esque lead-off hitter but this is beyond ridiculous.
The Sox needed only 5 games to go through 3 separate lead-off hitters, which seems to be a new franchise benchmark for futility at the top of the lineup. Ironically, however, the only season that seems to have started with as much uncertainty at the top of the order in the past 20 years was (you guessed it), 2005, when the Sox featured 4 separate lead-off hitters through the team's first 10 games; as far as I can tell, '05 and now '09 are the only 2 seasons since 1990 that the Sox have started more then 2 lead-off hitters through the team's first 10 games; in '05 Scott Podsednik, Pablo Ozuna, Willie Harris, and Timo Perez all lead-off by April 15 (Game 10).
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