Ryan Doumit Needs the American League
While you never want to be cast aside by the only team you’ve ever called home for your entire professional career, the Pirates refusal to pick up Ryan Doumit’s $7.25M option may have been the best thing that could have happened to him as a baseball player. It may have been nice to continue playing for a team whose amazing turnaround in 2011 caught the eyes of MLB and its fans, but in an effort to extend his playing career, Doumit needed to move on. His time in Pittsburgh has run its course. He needs to go somewhere that can showcase that offensive potential that has had us champing at the bit since he first showed up in 2005. He needs to go somewhere where his defense behind the plate won’t be such a liability. He needs to go to the American League.