Is This The End For Jim Thome?

Is this the end of the line for Jim Thome? Is there nothing left for the big guy to do?

Jim Thome is my favorite active player in MLB. I have always found him to be a very solid clutch power hitter with an excellent presence in the clubhouse. That is evidenced by the fact that the Los Angeles Dodgers picked him up from the White Sox to shore up their bench hitting.

What did you say, bench hitting? Yeah, that is what he is apparently reduced to. Coming off the bench against a right handed pitcher to take three mighty swings and sit back down.

When he moved from Philadelphia to Chicago in 2006 he was immediately employed as a Designated Hitter. This did two things.

First it helped him sta...

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