Move Brandon Phillips Back To SS

In the wake of the Alex Gonzalez deal, Redleg Nation thinks it is high time the Reds organization makes the move they should have made the day they traded Felipe Lopez away and move Brandon Phillips back to SS. With Chris Valaika’s bat appearing to peak out at AAA this season, there is not anyone in the organization that appears ready to be of help at SS in the near future. With this season already a lost cause, doesn’t it seem to make sense to see if Phillips can still play the position he played for 82% of his minor league career? In the Cleveland organization, Phillips was a SS from 1999 to 2002, he was not a fulltime 2B until 2003 with the Indians and later at AAA Buffalo after he flopped offensively in the majors. In 2004 he split time evenly between SS and 2B at AAA. In 2005 he was a fulltime SS in AAA. Omar Vizquel was the Cleveland SS through the 2004 season, and Johnny Peralta took over fulltime in 2005. So basically Phillips had 5.5 years of professio...