Answering my own question about how Brian Bannister ended up on the Royals- he was traded for reliever Ambiorix Burgos, who currently has a 5.53 ERA in 73 IP for the Mets. Bannister, meanwhile, is at 3.51 (ERA+ of 151). Good trade there, Omar!
"Scranton's season ended today. The Yankees will be calling up LHP Kei Igawa, RHP Jeff Karstens, RHP Matt DeSalvo, LHP Sean Henn, RHP Ross Ohlendorf (who will have to be added to the 40-man) and OF Bronson Sardinha."
That would bring the Yankees up to 35, with Chase Wright and TyClip likely to be added when the Thunder's season ends. Will we hear the same kinds of rants from Michael Kay when the Yankees call up the kids?
The guy who almost single-handedly turned a potentional 5-2 roadtrip into a 2-5 hole? Or the guy who gave up 4 runs in .2 ip yesterday for Scranton in the playoffs, losing the game and spoiling a rather good start by Mighty Matt DeSalvo.
Our record against the Central is pretty amazing, considering the quality of the teams. The Royals are clearly up-and-coming, and the only weak link is the ChiSox, who are, after all, only 2 years removed from a championship.
This is going to be one scary division. Tigers, Cleveland, KC, and Minny are all young and talented.
Thank god for the unbalanced schedule. Besides us and the Sawx, only TB looks set for the future, and TB will figure some way to screw it up.
12 Which confirms a rather simple counterpoint to the Kay/Leiter rant about the Mariners having 5 lefties in the bullpen: it doesn't matter how many pitchers you have if they all suck.
I can't imagine any of them get in a game unless the Yanks are blowing someone out or have already clinched a playoff spot.
Booing Johnny Damon? Really? Between this and the celebration of the 24th (24th!) anniversary of the Pine tar game, The Royals fans really need to get over it.
You should be able to have that sound option. Especially in HDTV, where, with the 5.1 surround, you get the crowd ambiance out of 4 speakers. What if you could turn off the center speaker/announcers, and just kick back with the crowd sound. It'd be like being at the park.
Throw in some smell-a-vision in the future, and we'll be set.
Yeah, I don't really follow any kind of football, so I can see why I wouldn't know who beat who. I guess I thought I heard somewhere they were playing Notre Dame. Ohhh no it was that BOTH Notre Dame and Michigan were in danger of opening 0-2, that was it.
21 He's played for three teams since he left KC, six years ago. And it's not like he spurned the team that drafted him to go sign a big free agent contract- he was traded for Angel Berroa, AJ Hinch, and Roberto Hernandez. The booing should be reserved for David Glass and Allard Baird.
23 I actually know quite a few people who do that watching college basketball games- as a Duke fan, we always get the rambling of Dick Vitale. ESPN typically leaves the announcers on one channel, which is easy enough to turn off. One guy managed to synch up the game, in HD on TV with the local radio call. Good times.
34 It's working fine for me... I just figured that everyone outside of NY/NJ either 1) thinks that it's blacked out like every game on Saturday or 2) actually has places to be on Saturday night.
David Pinto has been tracking the odds of A-Rod catching Maris for the AL record. The chance is small, but significant: between 3 and 4% before tonight's.
Sox were up 4-1 after 2.5 innings.
Then Dice-K:
Gives up a Single
Gives up a DOuble
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded.
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded. 1 run in.
Gives up a Single to Miggy. Now 2 runs in.
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded. 3 run in. Bases still loaded.
No outs.
61 Hey, the Bulls were 10 games back in May, and came back to win the division. Now they get to face the team they bitch-slapped in the season's final week to take the division (Richmond). It kinda stinks that the first two games are here, it would be awesome if they clinched at home. Also kinda messed up that the wild-card team gets home-field advantage in the championship.
From Pete:
UPDATE, 8:43 p.m.: Alex Rodriguez now has 49 home runs as a third baseman, the Major League record. At some point the Steinbrenner family may as well offer him equity.
Derek Jeter left the game with "stiffness in his right knee."
Did I miss something with all the arm-rotating and good-hearted mocking of A-Rod by the bullpen members? Also, can the arguments that A-Rod ruins team chemistry please stop, based on this anecdotal evidence?
But, they were looking for a small-ball play! Betimit clearly failed there... bench him! What a selfish player, going for a homer instead of a single or sac fly!
Betemit is exactly the sort of player we have not had on the bench the past few years. No superstar, but he can hurt you. A good solid player with pop. GREAT.
Cairo was a scrappy player, but this is much much much better.
Hmm, just saw this from earlier on Pete's site: "A few notes on some pitchers: Joba Chamberlain will be shut down until Tuesday as he threw 29 pitches last night"
159 They don't have to, but I can easily see how it might get in the way.
This is what I hate about intelligent baseball fans (not directed at you, Mattpat; I'm including myself in this group). Because so much of this game is easily rationalized and explained, we start to do the same to the players as well.
For example, I commented that the Yankees looked terrible the day Scooter died, and it might be because they have heavy hearts. Someone quickly told me that the Yanks won the day they had to bury Munson.
That was ridiculous, IMO. I might (and probably was) totally wrong. But using a Yankees team from 3 decades ago to make an argument like that is crap. Everybody deals with death differently. Just because one group of guys was able to block it out and play in no way means that a completely different group of guys will be able to do the same. Some people are blessed with a godlike ability to focus. It's a gift that not everybody has.
Pete Abraham made what I thought was a good point the other day. The few starts after Mike Myers, Ace Wang's best friend on the team, was DFA'd, Wang didn't pitch well. It's entirely possible that he didn't pitch well because of other circumstances, like a finger injury or sheer bad luck. But it's definitely possible that he struggled because he wasn't in his usual comfort zone. None of us knows how Wang personally reacted to it. I get the feeling that if someone had made that point here, they would have been ridiculed.
If Arod and Jeter had an argument before a game, maybe they both can block it out and go 3-4 apiece. But if Melky steals a girl from Cano, how the hell do we know that's not weighing down on him the next day? Playing baseball is an incredibly hard thing to do that requires the utmost concentration. The slightest distraction could make your pitch miss two inches two high, resulting in a home run. The slightest distraction could delay your decision to swing a split second, resulting in a weak grounder to second. There is definitely a mental aspect to the game, and everybody's ability to focus can be compromised by other circumstances.
As you can see, I've been bottling this post up for a while.
180 I always had a notion that chemistry had more to do with meshing qualities as opposed to meshing personalities. The players don't have to like each other to win, but it doesn't hurt.
I have the Red Sox on the radio. It's going almost as well as the one in KC. And it's really fun to listen to. Castiglione gets a great tone in his voice in games like this.
185 That's my pernt. There are few, albeit enough, examples of teams with personality clashes being successful. How much do sportswriters have to do with that? More than the average fan thinks is my guess.
Okay, Andy for the seventh. Do I hear nominations for the eighth?
Turns out to be the perfect game to have Joba and Vizcaino unavailable, huh? I guess they'll be unavailable again tomorrow, come to think of it. Joba not until Tuesday?? Even in a pinch on Monday?
200 Bullshit. Rick Ankiel and Zack Greinke immediately came to mind. It is absurd how some people think of athletes as machines. I could think of more, but it's Saturday night, I have to go. Hopefully they don't blow this one.
205 Okay, Britton for the ninth.
Well, no, hang on. Let's have one pitcher throw the eighth and ninth.
With Joba and Vizcaino unavailable tomorrow, we need as many bullets in the bullpen as possible.
208 No, it's a totally different tone, I'd say. Sterling sounds 'resigned', and kind of 'settling in' to try to kill off the time. Castiglione sounds whiny and defeated.
Well, maybe it's just a difference in their tonalities.
I'll take another inning from Britton now, or else Villone.
Or Veras, sure. Who the hell is Veras? Pitching for the Red Sox: Devern Hansack. Who the hell is Devern Hansack??
220 Maybe because "Scranton's season ended today. The Yankees will be calling up LHP Kei Igawa, RHP Jeff Karstens, RHP Matt DeSalvo, LHP Sean Henn, RHP Ross Ohlendorf (who will have to be added to the 40-man) and OF Bronson Sardinha." — via LoHud.
228 So you're positive all of these guys will be placed at some point in a critical game situation when there is no other option? Wow, that's 6 losses right there. I see your point...
235 Good point. Still, they were also removed for scrubs, so I'm technically correct.
JD Drew is really, really bad this year. I didn't realize how bad until I looked at FanGraphs, where they just love Win Expectancy Added. Drew is an absolute disaster by that measure, one of the very worst players in baseball.
Looks like Edwar for the ninth.
I'd rather have him ready to go tomorrow. Maybe Joe thinks he needs a low-pressure situation, given his last couple of outings.
241 Or let all the call-ups be used in lower leverage situations so that the great players can focus on the high leverage situations. I'm surprised that watching a game like this that 237 don't see the value of having the call-ups available. Edwar wouldn't have to pitch today.
243 There should be no rational regret for letting Peña walk. Oaktown, Detroit and Boston saw what the Yankees saw. Apparently. But we're the dumbfu*ks, according to some...
on gameday advanced a LOT of those looked like strikes - but they are not correcting for batter height anymore - is this an angry ump or did bruney just crap his pants?
252 I thought Minky was going to suck this year. I was right. I figured Pena could put up a .750-800 OPS with defense equal to Minky. I am not necessarily smarter, but I was right.
Well, that's over.
God, the last three innings were dreadful and took forever. And hold on, isn't our ridiculously big inning supposed to be the seventh? What gives?
Anyway, Wanger needs a win tomorrow, and he'll have to pitch seven innings. Eight would be better.
To Bruney's credit, after he threw his arms up at the ump, he threw about 3-4 more obvious strikes that the ump didn't give him because he was stilled bothered by it. I guess baby ump didn't take his tampon out and stayed mad at Bruney.
Ahh, that's the inside joke on the shoulder rotation! Their aping him rotating his shoulder when he jammed it sliding into second. That the bullpen was doing it - Funny!
M's have now lost 13 of 14. This is a historic choke. From 2 games ahead to 5 games back, in 3rd place, in 2 weeks. Wow. Literally hard to believe. Their fans must be stunned.
I don't know, I thought Bruney threw his arms up because he was frustrated with himself. I say this because I've done it myself... But that pitch he threw wasn't close to a strike.
285 The "fans" up there are well beyond baseball right now. Seahawks QB Hasselbeck just presented an honorary jersey to Bush so the whole state is in succession mode. Baseball is the last thing on their mind...
Jeter has fluid in his knee. Dealing with it since Anaheim. It won't be fixed until he gets off it for a while (i.e., it won't be healed until after the season). Derek wanted to stay in the game, but Joe was firm.
I gotta tell ya dude, if I see that Giuseppe Franco mug one more time I think I will throw a brick thru the screen and probably miss the rest of the season. As it is, I have to keep the game on about a half hour delay on my DVR to avoid that freak! Go Yanks!
In an article in which Kevin Youkilis tries to explain why the Yankees target him, he justifies their reasoning:
"They play 'Yankeeography' on Paul O'Neill every day," Youkilis said, referring to the Yankees' practice of showing highlight films on the stadium scoreboard of Paul O'Neill, a beloved former Yankee known for his dramatic mood swings. "So, what's the problem? I've been compared to Paul O'Neill. I know Paul O'Neill. We have the same agent."
304 I guess I'm slow because I don't know who W.S. Porter is and why would that prompt his mini-retirement? What am I missing here? Sorry for making you explain.
From a Luhod blogger: "Patellar tendinitis is not a serious injury. Surgery is never required. The treatment is rest, ice and non steroid drugs like ibuprophen."
I prefer to take Jetes out of the lineup, with DH'ing him every other day, to see if he can stiil hit.
We need him more IN the PS then to GET TO the PS. The team's goal should be to get him as healthy as possible for October. As is, he is a massive liability on defense (because his knee is bad) and is NOT as good as Betemin on offense.
He needs to sit. He does nothing for our team in his present condition. But his healthy bat IS needed for October.
307 I would have to agree with the assessment; tendonitis is not as serious as a tear, and most doctors would recommend rest and pain-subsiding medicine (ibuprophen is okay). The problem is that it tends to take a while to heal properly because the knee is one of those important areas of the body in terms of regular functions (walking, sitting, etc.), so it's nearly impossible to give it complete rest without putting a cast on it (fat chance) . Poor Jetes is gonna feel it for the rest of the season, and sitting him for a few days will only subside the pain temporarily before he goes back in and stresses it again. A really annoying injury, to say the least (I've had it, so I know.)
306 William Sydney Porter, for whom wsporter named himself, is better known as the short-story writer O.Henry, who led an interesting life as quite a few turn-of-the-century writers had. The thread that prompted wsporter's semi-retirement is below; I recommend starting from an earlier post than where it opens for context; I had initiated the conversation about the meaning of his name; which prompted an amusing challenge, an interesting-yet-very wrong hypothesis and Yankz' blunt discovery of the true meaning of Christmas... er, his name, rather >;)
Random thoughts:
... I am surprised there is not more Banter on the "Jeter situation". I see this as a fairly major issue, as I expect JT to handle it poorly, by playing Jetes as opposed to resting him until the PS.
... We are 1/2 game behind the Mutts.
... Cleveland is 2 games behind the Angels. If they overtake LA, we play Cleveland (not LA) in the first round. For all reasons, including travel, this would be really nice. Anyone know who we play if LA and Cleveland finish with the same record?
... Only 2 AL Central teams are over .500. Who'ld have thunk it?
... AVG .339 | HR 18 | RBI 91 | OBP .419 | SLG .572
Chase Utley. Some pretty sick numbers... for a 2nd baseman who missed 25 games to injury.
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2.50 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 12 BB and 5 HR in 68.1 IP.
Hard living tonight.
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Stupid POS
"Scranton's season ended today. The Yankees will be calling up LHP Kei Igawa, RHP Jeff Karstens, RHP Matt DeSalvo, LHP Sean Henn, RHP Ross Ohlendorf (who will have to be added to the 40-man) and OF Bronson Sardinha."
That would bring the Yankees up to 35, with Chase Wright and TyClip likely to be added when the Thunder's season ends. Will we hear the same kinds of rants from Michael Kay when the Yankees call up the kids?
The guy who almost single-handedly turned a potentional 5-2 roadtrip into a 2-5 hole? Or the guy who gave up 4 runs in .2 ip yesterday for Scranton in the playoffs, losing the game and spoiling a rather good start by Mighty Matt DeSalvo.
Oh right, same guy.
For the love of all that's holy, why?
Our record against the Central is pretty amazing, considering the quality of the teams. The Royals are clearly up-and-coming, and the only weak link is the ChiSox, who are, after all, only 2 years removed from a championship.
This is going to be one scary division. Tigers, Cleveland, KC, and Minny are all young and talented.
Thank god for the unbalanced schedule. Besides us and the Sawx, only TB looks set for the future, and TB will figure some way to screw it up.
I can't imagine any of them get in a game unless the Yanks are blowing someone out or have already clinched a playoff spot.
Most homers in a season: six. Career OPS+: 79.
You should be able to have that sound option. Especially in HDTV, where, with the 5.1 surround, you get the crowd ambiance out of 4 speakers. What if you could turn off the center speaker/announcers, and just kick back with the crowd sound. It'd be like being at the park.
Throw in some smell-a-vision in the future, and we'll be set.
Jeter & A-Rod & Giambi I understood. Damon -- WTF?
Yeah, I saw that Michigan game. Kind of sad. Not that I have any kind of loyalties or indeed care much in any way about college football.
I hear there's a baseball game in KC, though.
34 It's Saturday night. Don't look at me man, I'm only sticking around for like an hour.
.545/.600/1.273
Hmm, think Cano waited too long to break for home?
Then Dice-K:
Gives up a Single
Gives up a DOuble
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded.
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded. 1 run in.
Gives up a Single to Miggy. Now 2 runs in.
Walks a guy on a 3-2 count, bases loaded. 3 run in. Bases still loaded.
No outs.
2/3s of the Hens opening day lineup is in the majors at the moment, I didn't like their odds going in.
Damn.
O's up 8-4. Dice-K gives up 7 runs. Tough break.
HR - Dice in a world of hurt now.
Has Pedroia been, uh, brushed back yet?
Still, this game's looking pretty good to me.
7 run inning for O's.
Go M's and O's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_aaYih92ss
I love the Oregon Ducks.
The Attorney General?
Looks like I almost jinxed him. Sorry!
Yikes, that's not good, "No word from the Yankees..."
Betemit SS/Giambi 1B
Betemit SS/Stink 1B
Alberto SS/Giambi, Betemit or Stink 1b?
Oh, no fucking way. NO WAY!
Those 3-1 pitches are hell for Bannister tonight, huh?
This is just like April. We can't explain it. Can't even understand it.
Silly woman. A simple "Ha!" would have sufficed.
121 Nice >;)
UPDATE, 8:43 p.m.: Alex Rodriguez now has 49 home runs as a third baseman, the Major League record. At some point the Steinbrenner family may as well offer him equity.
Derek Jeter left the game with "stiffness in his right knee."
Anyone know the story behind that?
That sounds like a flare-up of an old injury, right?
131 Saying that A-Rod is bad for team chemistry is now the sporstwriter's badge of shame. They're all primarily objects of mockery today.
Jeez, the kid has the IQ of a Bostonian.
I don't understand small ball in that situation, but it ended well.
Cairo was a scrappy player, but this is much much much better.
And Steve Philips should not only never GM again, he can no longer be taken seriously on BBTN (not that I ever did)
The Bronx Zoo Yankees won two world championships.
The whacked out Charlie Finley A's won three.
The We Are Family Pirates won one. Two if you want to be really generous and give them 71.
I just don't see why the players have to like each other to play baseball.
But, now that you mention it...
Now this is the beat down I was hoping for tonight...
Would you walk Alex here?
Nice job by AG(Hey that works for both Alberto Gonzales and Attorney General, maybe that is what Bush was thinking...)
I'm looking forward to seeing some true SS range with Gonzalez instead of the cap'n out there.
I didn't really think that was going out. Not really. But man, that would have been cool.
Oh, the humanity!!
I bet that didn't come from Joe. Good move IMO.
Give me a team who really get along and pull for each other on and off the field anyday of the week.
This club seems to have a great vibe to it. How can that be a bad thing?
ACE!
This is what I hate about intelligent baseball fans (not directed at you, Mattpat; I'm including myself in this group). Because so much of this game is easily rationalized and explained, we start to do the same to the players as well.
For example, I commented that the Yankees looked terrible the day Scooter died, and it might be because they have heavy hearts. Someone quickly told me that the Yanks won the day they had to bury Munson.
That was ridiculous, IMO. I might (and probably was) totally wrong. But using a Yankees team from 3 decades ago to make an argument like that is crap. Everybody deals with death differently. Just because one group of guys was able to block it out and play in no way means that a completely different group of guys will be able to do the same. Some people are blessed with a godlike ability to focus. It's a gift that not everybody has.
Pete Abraham made what I thought was a good point the other day. The few starts after Mike Myers, Ace Wang's best friend on the team, was DFA'd, Wang didn't pitch well. It's entirely possible that he didn't pitch well because of other circumstances, like a finger injury or sheer bad luck. But it's definitely possible that he struggled because he wasn't in his usual comfort zone. None of us knows how Wang personally reacted to it. I get the feeling that if someone had made that point here, they would have been ridiculed.
If Arod and Jeter had an argument before a game, maybe they both can block it out and go 3-4 apiece. But if Melky steals a girl from Cano, how the hell do we know that's not weighing down on him the next day? Playing baseball is an incredibly hard thing to do that requires the utmost concentration. The slightest distraction could make your pitch miss two inches two high, resulting in a home run. The slightest distraction could delay your decision to swing a split second, resulting in a weak grounder to second. There is definitely a mental aspect to the game, and everybody's ability to focus can be compromised by other circumstances.
As you can see, I've been bottling this post up for a while.
8-5 Tigers
Turns out to be the perfect game to have Joba and Vizcaino unavailable, huh? I guess they'll be unavailable again tomorrow, come to think of it. Joba not until Tuesday?? Even in a pinch on Monday?
204 Britton for the ninth?
True confessions: I like both these guys as announcers. (Ducks as tomatoes get thrown ...)
Well, no, hang on. Let's have one pitcher throw the eighth and ninth.
With Joba and Vizcaino unavailable tomorrow, we need as many bullets in the bullpen as possible.
Well, maybe it's just a difference in their tonalities.
(I like both of them, too.)
Who's gonna make the call to the dugout?
Lowell, Youk, Drew, Tek, Coco, all out for scrubs.
Or Veras, sure. Who the hell is Veras? Pitching for the Red Sox: Devern Hansack. Who the hell is Devern Hansack??
Maybe somebody should throw something hard into Doug's knee before every AB.
And you can't really complain about that! It's worked out awfully well.
I think. I'm pretty sure it was.
I don't understand the point of calling them up if we're not going to use them. We can't afford to use them in a pennant race.
So either we're calling them up for the sake of it, or we're going to get Kei Igawa ROUND THREE.
JD Drew is really, really bad this year. I didn't realize how bad until I looked at FanGraphs, where they just love Win Expectancy Added. Drew is an absolute disaster by that measure, one of the very worst players in baseball.
I'd rather have him ready to go tomorrow. Maybe Joe thinks he needs a low-pressure situation, given his last couple of outings.
If you think that group should all be DFA'd tomorrow because they "suck", you'd probably have a short career in a front office.
Who's to say they have to (or are going to) be used? You? Relax.
Let some of the lower tier kids/players experience a pennant race from the bench, which is where they'll be most likely be viewing it from.
Are we rooting for Cleveland or Anaheim? I guess I say the Angels. But a little torn.
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(I just cut and pasted yours.)
Sigh. It's old BB doing his stuff.
Well, better Bruney gets this type of inning in this type of game, I guess.
Why are you 'yanster' and not 'yankster'?
Edwar, dude. Not your fault. Keep plugging.
250 Swéét (Same thing on the 'e'...)
If Andy had finished the seventh, the game could have been a lot tidier. Britton could have finished it.
God, the last three innings were dreadful and took forever. And hold on, isn't our ridiculously big inning supposed to be the seventh? What gives?
Anyway, Wanger needs a win tomorrow, and he'll have to pitch seven innings. Eight would be better.
Later.
Kim didn't look too bad either...
That lady was screaming, "This is it, yeah!!" Like the world was coming to an end or something...
Jeter has fluid in his knee. Dealing with it since Anaheim. It won't be fixed until he gets off it for a while (i.e., it won't be healed until after the season). Derek wanted to stay in the game, but Joe was firm.
They'll be very careful with him on turf.
Or he can be the ice cream man, serving Frozen Ropes…
but the best job for him would be as a sentinel for the Royal British Guard, because he has no movement… >;)
Bedtime now, g'nite!
Are you wsporter? I know he disappeared when I (and yes, it was me) figured out his name, but he said he'd made a return.
209 Thanks, my man.
"They play 'Yankeeography' on Paul O'Neill every day," Youkilis said, referring to the Yankees' practice of showing highlight films on the stadium scoreboard of Paul O'Neill, a beloved former Yankee known for his dramatic mood swings. "So, what's the problem? I've been compared to Paul O'Neill. I know Paul O'Neill. We have the same agent."
I prefer to take Jetes out of the lineup, with DH'ing him every other day, to see if he can stiil hit.
We need him more IN the PS then to GET TO the PS. The team's goal should be to get him as healthy as possible for October. As is, he is a massive liability on defense (because his knee is bad) and is NOT as good as Betemin on offense.
He needs to sit. He does nothing for our team in his present condition. But his healthy bat IS needed for October.
306 William Sydney Porter, for whom wsporter named himself, is better known as the short-story writer O.Henry, who led an interesting life as quite a few turn-of-the-century writers had. The thread that prompted wsporter's semi-retirement is below; I recommend starting from an earlier post than where it opens for context; I had initiated the conversation about the meaning of his name; which prompted an amusing challenge, an interesting-yet-very wrong hypothesis and Yankz' blunt discovery of the true meaning of Christmas... er, his name, rather >;)
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Sox players are concerned with the opposition's ERA. Shouldn't he just say, "we score a run and try to win the ballgame"?
Hey Youkillis, here's why nobody likes you: You don't know what STFU stands for.
... I am surprised there is not more Banter on the "Jeter situation". I see this as a fairly major issue, as I expect JT to handle it poorly, by playing Jetes as opposed to resting him until the PS.
... We are 1/2 game behind the Mutts.
... Cleveland is 2 games behind the Angels. If they overtake LA, we play Cleveland (not LA) in the first round. For all reasons, including travel, this would be really nice.
Anyone know who we play if LA and Cleveland finish with the same record?
... Only 2 AL Central teams are over .500. Who'ld have thunk it?
... AVG .339 | HR 18 | RBI 91 | OBP .419 | SLG .572
Chase Utley. Some pretty sick numbers... for a 2nd baseman who missed 25 games to injury.
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