Enrique Polazzo! Enrique Polazzo!

Actually, it's Placido Polanco, but it's fun to say his name like the crowd does after the queen is saved in The Naked Gun. Polanco has been pretty much a one-trick pony the last few years - he's a steady .300 hitter. The Baseball Forecaster's Ron Shandler described him in his first weekly ESPN.com chat as someone who provides only "empty production." But while that's been true for the past couple of years, Doc Gram is not sure that's necessarily true this year. He's been batting second in the Tigers' order, and if he can stay healthy, he may have more value than people are assigning him now. .300 hitters with 500 AB in the two slot nearly always get 90+ runs for the year. That's still only two categories, as Polanco has slugged above .450 only once in his career. But no one would flinch if you picked up say, Brandon Inge, who provides only two categories as well, because they are HR and RBI, seen for some reason as more scarce. Don't forget there aren't that many .300 hitters each year either. Polanco is not by any means going to tear up your league, and he shouldn't be used as a 3B or corner infielder in most formats, but he will provide you a good pickup option in deeper leagues if a second baseman or MI slot-filler goes down. If he stays healthy and in the two-slot in Detroit, he may give you more that that.