Take a look at this list of Rays in order of UZR/150(min. 250 innings at one position). Now, see if a name appears that you wouldn't expect. If that name appears twice and ahead of B.J. Upton, Carlos Pena, Jason Bartlett and Aki Iwamura, then you're thinking along with me.
| Name | Pos | G | GS | UZR/150 |
| Crawford | LF | 108 | 103 | 28.6 |
| Longoria | 3B | 119 | 118 | 17.7 |
| Gross | RF | 120 | 75 | 15.4 |
| Aybar | 3B | 41 | 40 | 13 |
| Hinske | RF | 49 | 47 | 11.6 |
| Hinske | LF | 40 | 37 | 9.9 |
| Upton | CF | 143 | 141 | 5 |
| Pena | 1B | 132 | 131 | 4.5 |
| Bartlett | SS | 125 | 122 | 2 |
| Iwamura | 2B | 152 | 151 | 0.6 |
| Zobrist | SS | 35 | 33 | -15 |
According to UZR/150, Eric Hinske wasn't a bad fielder at all and not nearly as bad as we all made him out to be. Of course he only had 600 innings in the outfield this season, but in those 600 innings he was better than Denard Span, Justin Upton, Matt Kemp and Jay Bruce. How? I do not know.
Hinske hasn't attracted much interest on the open market, except for a possible interest by a Japanese team, but for a team looking for a platoon outfielder or a power bat off the bench, they could do a lot worse that Hinske(I'm looking at you Dayton Moore). If he doesn't end up with a Major League deal or something overseas, I wouldn't mind bringing him back and stashing him away in Durham on a split contract.