As the calendar flips to July, we are now just a month away from baseballs trade deadline. Players such as Julio Teheran, Danny Valencia and Jay Bruce will no doubt become hot topics of conversation over the next few weeks, but the big-name pitchers and hitters are not the only way teams can improve their rosters. In fact, several contenders have significant defensive holes on their rosters, and many of them could make dramatic improvements to their playoff chances with the right glove. Here are five such teams and some of the players that could ease their defensive woes.Detroit Tigers Defensive hole: Right field To replace: J.D. Martinez (injured)Martinez was having a great offensive season for the Tigers in right field, hitting .286/.358/.520 with 12 homers in his first 65 games, but an elbow fracture that he suffered colliding with the outfield wall will keep him out of action for another month or more. That injury puts the Tigers in a precarious situation. At 40-38, the team trails the World Series-champion Royals and red-hot Indians in the loaded AL Central, but with an aging roster, they really dont have much choice other than to continue to compete and try to add players to make up for their losses.
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As the calendar flips to July, we are now just a month away from baseballs trade deadline. Players such as Julio Teheran, Danny Valencia and Jay Bruce will no doubt become hot topics of conversation over the next few weeks, but the big-name pitchers and hitters are not the only way teams can improve their rosters. In fact, several contenders have significant defensive holes on their rosters, and many of them could make dramatic improvements to their playoff chances with the right glove. Here are five such teams and some of the players that could ease their defensive woes.Detroit Tigers Defensive hole: Right field To replace: J.D. Martinez (injured)Martinez was having a great offensive season for the Tigers in right field, hitting .286/.358/.520 with 12 homers in his first 65 games, but an elbow fracture that he suffered colliding with the outfield wall will keep him out of action for another month or more. That injury puts the Tigers in a precarious situation. At 40-38, the team trails the World Series-champion Royals and red-hot Indians in the loaded AL Central, but with an aging roster, they really dont have much choice other than to continue to compete and try to add players to make up for their losses. Art Shell Womens Jersey . "Were just throwing s--- at the wall hoping something sticks," said Tortorella about the possible line combinations for Fridays game against Columbus. The Canucks have lost five straight games and six of their last seven, leaving them in a logjam in the Pacific Division, currently sitting fifth - good for ninth in the Western Conference. Fred Biletnikoff Jersey . Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions. http://www.footballraidersmall.com/Youth-Dave-Casper-Elite-Jersey/ . Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. "Paul sent me a text this morning, just told me he loved me and wanted to go out and fight as hard as I would any other day," Simpson said Sunday after doing just that. Willie Brown Jersey .com) - Yankee Stadium is the home of the Bronx Bombers, but on Sunday afternoon it will open its gates to host the latest addition of the Hudson River Rivalry. Jim Plunkett Youth Jersey . Belfort (24-10) needed just 77 seconds to down Henderson in the headlining bout of Saturdays "UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson" event at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil. The fight served as a rematch of the pairs 2006 meeting, which Henderson won by decision. CHICAGO -- Getting cheered in Chicago after hitting a home run felt just a little odd for Justin Morneau. He wouldnt mind making it the norm, and the same goes for the White Sox.Morneau hit his first home run in more than 14 months to give struggling Chicago a short-lived lead in a 7-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.Yeah, it wouldve been nice if it wouldve held up, the four-time All-Star and former AL MVP said. Nice to get that out of the way, but its tough when were going through a stretch like this, where were coming back against a guy whos having a great year. But hopefully thats the start of good things offensively. We swung the bats pretty well tonight.Morneau had his share of big hits against the White Sox during his long run with the Minnesota Twins.This time he delivered one for Chicago in the fifth with a three-run homer off Michael Fulmer to finish a four-run rally.The home run was Morneaus first since he hit one for Colorado against Arizona on May 6, 2015. It came in his seventh game and 17th at-bat for the White Sox, who signed him on June 9 and placed him on the disabled list so he could continue to recover from offseason elbow surgery.Miguel Cabrera delivered a go-ahead two-run single in the seventh and matched a season high with four hits to lead the Tigers.Cabrera became the 56th major leaguer to reach 1,500 RBI with his single off Nate Jones in the seventh. That put Detroit back on top after the Tigers blew a three-run lead in the fifth and sent Chicago to its eighth loss in nine games.Ian Kinsler scored three runs, Nick Castellanos had two of Detroits 11 hits and the Tigers broke through after managing just six runs over the previous four games against Minnesota and Chicago.Our balls were finding holes today, Castellanos said. Against the Twins, we hit the ball just as hard as we did tonight. It just was right at people.Kyle Ryan (4-2) pitched a scoreless inning in relief after a rare shaky start by Michael Fulmer. Francisco Rodriguez worked the ninth for his 27th save in 29 chances as Detroit won its second in a row.Chicagos Jose Abreu had three hits and drove in two runs. But Jacob Turner got knocked out in the fourth inning, Carson Fulmer (0-1) struggled in relief and the White Sox fell to 23-40 since a 23-10 start.ddddddddddddCarson Fulmer came on with a 5-4 lead in the seventh and quickly ran into trouble.The Tigers loaded the bases with none out before Jose Iglesias drove in Justin Upton with a fielders choice grounder. After Cameron Maybin walked with one out to load the bases again, Cabrera greeted Jones with a two-run single up the middle.That gave the slugger 1,501 RBI and put Detroit back on top. It also gave him 43 four-hit games, tied for 32nd all-time with Willie Davis.Carson Fulmer threw 30 pitches -- 12 for strikes -- in his third major league appearance. It was also the first pressure situation for the promising rookie.Quick memory and throw it over your shoulder and prepare for tomorrow, he said. I cant ever use the excuse of it being my first big-time experience and especially for me being put in that situation. Hopefully I get the opportunity to do it again.ON THE MOUNDMichael Fulmer gave up five runs -- four earned -- and six hits in five innings after posting a 0.83 ERA in his previous 10 starts.Turner threw 101 pitches in 3 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and five hits. He walked four and struck out six after getting roughed up in his previous start against the Los Angeles Angels.TRAINERS ROOMTigers: Tyler Collins (neck spasms) batted seventh and played right field after missing four games. ... RF J.D. Martinez continues to take batting practice as he recovers from a broken right elbow, but the Tigers havent determined when hell begin a minor league rehab stint. ... RHP Jordan Zimmerman (neck) is on schedule for a rehab start Sunday for Triple-A Toledo.White Sox: 2B Brett Lawrie was feeling worse and unavailable after leaving Thursdays game because of tightness in his left hamstring, manager Robin Ventura said. He had an MRI on Friday, but the White Sox do not expect him to land on the disabled list.UP NEXTAce Chris Sale (14-3, 3.18 ERA) goes for his major league-leading 15th win for Chicago, with LHP Matt Boyd (1-2, 4.91) pitching for Detroit. ' ' '