The Pirates and Nationals finally pull the trigger on the Nyjer Morgan/Lastings Milledge deal:
The Pirates, who have pushed to restock a thin farm system by making numerous trades over the last year, get Milledge and reliever Joel Hanrahan from the Nationals for the fleet Morgan and left-hander Sean Burnett, a former first-round draft pick.
I like [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 5:48 pm | Trades | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2009
Hip to the DL
Mike Lowell goes on the disabled list due to his hip acting up:
The decision to disable Lowell, who underwent offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right hip, was made the day after he’d had 15 CCs of fluid removed from that joint. Lowell had also received an injection of Synvisc on Monday. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 5:30 pm | Injuries | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2009
Breaking Down Interleague Attendance
Maury Brown presents the 2009 numbers on interleague attendance.
Posted by David Pinto at 5:23 pm | Attendance | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2009
Games of the Day
I’m still on vacation, so this will be short and sweet.
Mariners at Yankees features Brandon Morrow against Joba Chamberlain. The Mariners open the three game series four games behind wild care leading New York. Watch for Ichiro, who is chasing a struggling Joe Mauer for the batting title.
The Angels and Rangers offer another [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:56 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2009
Hinske Joins Yankees
The Yankees traded two minor leaguers to the Pirates for Eric Hinske:
Pittsburgh will receive right-hander Casey Erickson and outfielder Eric Fryer for the utilityman. In addition, the Pirates will give the Yankees cash.
The 31-year-old Hinske hit .255 in 106 at-bats this season with nine doubles, one homer and 11 RBIs, playing right field, first base [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:46 pm | Trades | Permalink | 3 Comments
June 30, 2009
Down on the Mets
Metstradamus isn’t predicting a bring future for his team:
And here’s how you know the worst is yet to come: When Luis Castillo drops a pop-up by trying to catch it with one hand, the Mets lose and become a national joke. But when Casey McGehee drops a pop-up by trying to catch it with one [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:12 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | 3 Comments
June 30, 2009
Rating the Two Great Yankees
Pinstripe Alley tries to make the case that Mariano Rivera is a greater Yankee than Derek Jeter. Sorry, I’m not buying it. Over their careers, Jeter produced about 15 more wins than Rivera, or about one per year.
At first blush, you might think Murti’s is an outlandish statement. Think about it, though, and [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:55 am | Players | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 30, 2009
Solo Homers
The Texas Rangers lost to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Monday night 5-2. The Rangers scored their two runs on solo home runs. This is a sign of the offensive slide they’ve been on for over a month.
I saw the Rangers succeeding if they were able to get their ERA around 4.50. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:20 am | Team Evaluation | Permalink | No Comments
June 30, 2009
Impressive Relief
The Dodgers defeated the Rockies Monday night by a score of 4-2 in 13 innings. The Dodgers bullpen posted one of the great relief performances of the year. In seven innings of work, not only did they keep Colorado off the scoreboard, they allowed just two hits (both by Jeff Weaver), walked one, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 7:44 am | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
June 30, 2009
Tuesday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Posted by David Pinto at 7:09 am | Day by Day | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Rays on a Roll
The Tampa Bay Rays won their sixth straight games, defeating Roy Halladay in his comeback from his injury. Jeff Niemann used his defense as 24 of the 27 batters he faced put the ball in play. He only gave up four hits as the Rays turned those batted balls into outs. Tampa [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:01 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
June 29, 2009
The Return of Rich Harden
Rich Harden pitches his best game of the season, going seven innings against the Pirates, giving up one run, one walk and striking out nine. Harden’s ERA goes down to 4.57, still over one run higher than his career mark. He didn’t give up a home run, which was his problem this season. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:38 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Watch Lincecum
I’m on vacation for a couple of days, so I can’t watch, but Tim Lincecum is perfect through four.
Update: Ankiel singled in the fifth. The Giants lead 4-0, and Lincecum has four strikeouts through five innings.
Update: Lincecum pitches a complete game two-hitter. He walks none and strikes out eight. It’s his second [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:16 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Snell-a-Vision
It really appears that the Pittsburgh Pirates and Ian Snell just don’t like each other.
Snell should have pitched back in the 1920s when independent minor leagues were still prevalent. He might have done very well for himself as a regular at that level.
Posted by David Pinto at 1:51 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Weeding Out Ballplayers
Jeremy Jeffress, a pitcher in the Brewers system, received a 100 game suspension for his second positive test of a drug of abuse. The drug appears to be marijuana.
I know the drug is illegal, but should pot abuse fall under the same punishment scheme as amphetamines, cocaine and heroin? One could argue that [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:32 pm | Crime | Permalink | 3 Comments
June 29, 2009
Rays Trades
Rays Index notes the positives for the Rays in trading Edwin Jackson and Jason Hammel:
If there is a silver-lining to the emergence of Jackson and Hammel as very good starting pitchers, it is that the Rays will soon have a reputation as developers of great start pitching, much as the Braves were in the 90s.
Being [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:51 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Games of the Day
The Tampa Bay Rays head north of the border to face the Toronto Blue Jays in a battle for third place in the AL East. The Rays are riding a five game winning streak which sent them one-game ahead of Toronto. Jeff Niemann faces Roy Halladay in Roy’s return from the disabled list. [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 12:33 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Pitching for the Birds
A young softball pitcher takes out a bird:
Channeling her inner Randy Johnson*, official oldest daughter of env-econ and number 1 pitcher for the local 12U travel softball team (that’s her on the right, last year) unleashes a 70 mph fastball** in a tournament game this weekend. From my signal calling perch in the first [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:12 am | Pitchers | Permalink | 4 Comments
June 29, 2009
Remembering Forbes Field
An exhibit at the Senator John Heinz History Center and Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum displays rare artifacts of Forbes Field on the 100th anniversary of its opening. One of my college roommates lives in Pittsburgh, and when I visited him in the mid 1980s we took a walk down to the site of the [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:07 am | Stadiums | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Comparing Greinke
Upon Further Review compares Zack Greinke’s season to other Kansas City Royals greats.
Posted by David Pinto at 11:02 am | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
K-Rod’s Excuse
Francisco Rodriguez discussed pitching to Mariano Rivera:
“The last couple of outings I haven’t been able to make pitches when I needed to,” Rodriguez said. “It’s been a little while like that. I just have to find a way to figure it out quick. (Today) I’ll watch some tape and find out what I’m doing wrong [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:09 am | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 29, 2009
Monday Update
The Day by Day Database is up to date.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:55 am | Day by Day | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Half a Grand
Mariano Riveria comes into the Yankees/Mets game with two out and two on in the 8th inning. He’d going for his 500th save.
Update: If Rivera converts this save, he’ll earn his 110th long save, a save of more than one inning. That will double the next closest total from 1996 on, 55 by [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:08 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | 2 Comments
June 28, 2009
Low Probability Game
The Padres defeat the Rangers 2-0 behind the one-hit pitching of Chad Gaudin. He came into the game with a 5.60 ERA and goes eight innings, allowing just two walks while striking out nine. Heath Bell pitched the ninth with just one walk to complete the combined one-hitter. Given this was against [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:44 pm | Games | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Chemical Pitcher
There seems to be some excitement in Detroit about the promotion of Ni Fu-Te.
Pitching for the Triple-A Mud Hens, Fu-Te Ni (FOO’-tay-nee) has 14 strikeouts and no walks in 14-1/3 innigs with a .184 average against versus left handers. He’s not too shabby against right-handers, though he projects to be best-equipped as a lefty-one-out-guy.
Right handers [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:36 pm | Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Mack the Knife
You might want to call him Bobby Darren Dreifort. The LA Times profiles the former Dodgers pitcher who recently underwent his 22nd surgery.
Posted by David Pinto at 9:40 pm | Injuries, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Not Jim Palmer
Might Matt Palmer become the worst pitcher ever with a .900 or better winning percentage? He’s 7-1 after a win today in which he allowed six runs in five innings, getting tagged for ten hits and two walks without a strikeout. The outing raises his ERA to 5.16. Could he end up [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:23 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Rockies Starters Keep Winning
Aaron Cook allowed just one run in eight innings of work as Colorado keeps winning, defeating the Athletics 3-1. Since they started their winning streak on June 4th, Rockies starters are 18-3 with a 3.64 ERA. That’s not even the best ERA in the majors (the White Sox at 3.22 lead the majors [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:12 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
G.I. Tract
Curtis Granderson and Bradon Inge supplied most of the offense for the Tigers Sunday afternoon as they combined to go five for eight with two home runs, and scored or drove in all four runs. Inge’s blow was the big one, a two-run shot in the top of the ninth to hang a blown [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:37 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2009
Danks for the Quality
John Danks earns his fourth quality start in a row as he shuts out the Cubs for seven innings as the White win 6-0, taking two out of three from their cross-town rivals. He’s gone at least seven innings in each of the four starts, allowing just six runs, all earned. He gave [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:25 pm | Games, Pitchers | Permalink | No Comments
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