Eric Bedard put on the 15 day DL retroactive to April 9th. "inflammation in his left hip".

Yankees and Red Sox locked in another awfully played game.

Yankees and Red Sox locked in another awfully played game.

 

I don't think either of their rotations are really that good and I think their offenses are overrated. Essentially, I'm not a fan of either team, and I could easily see both of them missing the playoffs.

I could definately see NY missing them but Boston is beginning to remind of cockroaches who just don't go away. I actually want NY to make the cut this year strictly because of the Stadium.

 

*edit* Anyone catch Sean Casey avoid getting picked off at second yesterday? Priceless.

Edited April 17, 200818 yr by ChiSox35

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8045068?MSNHPHMA

 

 

Tejada admits he's been lieing about his age. He's 33, not 31

The Brewers just can't hit right handed pitching so far this year. And if you want to talk about overrated players in baseball, Ryan Freel has to be at the top of the list.

Edited April 17, 200818 yr by fathom

The Brewers just can't hit right handed pitching so far this year. And if you want to talk about overrated players in baseball, Ryan Freel has to be at the top of the list.

 

Brewers can't hit period so far this year.

 

Freel was touted but just never lived up to the hype. I wouldn't say he is overrated, he just isn't rated much anymore.

The Brewers just can't hit right handed pitching so far this year. And if you want to talk about overrated players in baseball, Ryan Freel has to be at the top of the list.

 

I haven't considered Ryan Freel a factor in a few years. He's a glorified super utility man as far as I'm concerned.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8045068?MSNHPHMA

 

Tejada admits he's been lieing about his age. He's 33, not 31

 

So he actually used steroids two years later as well.

This is a fascinating statistical note.

The hot topics lately among major league general managers are the high number of injuries, and the increased time it's taking for players to return from them.

 

The guess among some GMs is that one factor in the injury epidemic could be more stringent drug testing, which eliminated one possible aid to get back onto the field faster. It's either that, or a lot of bad luck.

 

Here are the eye-opening figures for the disabled list (numbers given show the number of players on the disabled list on the first Friday of each season):

 

2003: 82

2004: 95

2005: 97

2006: 77

2007: 102

2008: 111

 

As of yesterday, that disabled list total was up to 122. Ouch.

pretty interesting thing with tejada

Rays DFA Calvin Medlock when they pick up Dan Johnson from Oak.

 

Isn't Medlock supposed to be good?

I put this in the Cubs thread, but Ben Sheets left another game due to injury. He arguably had been the best pitcher in baseball so far.

John Smoltz says hi.

John Smoltz says hi.

Yeah. He's at the entrance to my WalMart.

 

 

I just realized that it seems like the Sox and Cards perform fairly similar season in and season out. Both had a disappointing 2007 followed by a nice start in 2008. Looking back 10 years, the teams have finished with the same record twice, within 1 win of each other twice, and both teams had a run of 7 seasons with at least a .500 record sandwiched by 70ish win seasons. They also won WS back-to-back.

I just realized that it seems like the Sox and Cards perform fairly similar season in and season out. Both had a disappointing 2007 followed by a nice start in 2008. Looking back 10 years, the teams have finished with the same record twice, within 1 win of each other twice, and both teams had a run of 7 seasons with at least a .500 record sandwiched by 70ish win seasons. They also won WS back-to-back.

 

Damn... thats pretty crazy/interesting...

What's up with Billingsley?

What's up with DH's this year?

 

Before today's game, not a single DH had an OPS over .725 (Hafner at .723) with only one with a BA over .227(Sweeney .275).

 

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/battin...nd=a&pos=dh

The Pirate's announcers are talking about how they aren't happy about being in the Central because of the time change and they should be in the East.

 

That's fine. Unfortunately that would only serve to make the Pirates suck even more.

The Pirate's announcers are talking about how they aren't happy about being in the Central because of the time change and they should be in the East.

 

That's fine. Unfortunately that would only serve to make the Pirates suck even more.

 

Then the Rangers can b**** hardcore because they have to cross over 2 time zones. That ain't right.

 

Pirates fans/commentators shouldn't be pissed because of time zones, they should be pissed because their team is f***ing terrible.

The Pirate's announcers are talking about how they aren't happy about being in the Central because of the time change and they should be in the East.

 

That's fine. Unfortunately that would only serve to make the Pirates suck even more.

 

They'll just lose games an hour earlier if they switch to the NL East.

Chase Utley -- holy s***.

 

That team, every year, has so much talent, and still nothing.

Got to see a couple of Delgado's ABs last night, boy if he's not done he's pretty darn near done

In case anyone was curious, Gagne is still horrible. He just blew another save