Scutaro cashed in on a career year at age 34.
2009: .282 BA/ .379 OBP/ .409 SLG/ .789 OPS/ 111 OPS+
CAREER: .265 BA/ .337 OBP/ .384 SLG/ .721 OPS/ 92 OPS+
If you honestly believe Miguel Cabrera is a better defensive 1st basemen... than you are A COMPLETE MORON.
Instead of relying on useless stats how about you open up your eyes and watch.
Sox could of had Nick Green, Lugo, and Cody Ransom playing at shortstop in 2007 and they would of still won the World Series, stability had nothing to do with it.
UZR is pretty much useless when it comes to 1st basemen. Mark Teixeira is an ELITE 1st basemen, anyone can see that with their own two eyes.
The fact that UZR says Cabrera is better than Teixeira should set an alarm to the fact that the stat is useless.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091112&content_id=7657830&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
C: Joe Mauer
1B: Mark Teixeira
2B: Aaron Hill
3B: Evan Longoria
SS: Derek Jeter
RF: Ichiro Suzuki
CF: Torii Hunter
LF: Jason Bay
DH: Adam Lind
C: Brian McCann
1B: Albert Pujols
2B: Chase Utley
3B: Ryan Zimmerman
SS: Hanley Ramirez
RF: Andre Ethier
CF: Matt Kemp
LF: Ryan Braun
P: Carlos Zambrano
Someone thing tells me you guys were not complaining about payrolls when you easily won the 2007 World Series with a $88,602,214 dollar payroll advantage.