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Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
More Pickoff Moves
Brown's Back Acting Up
Kevin Brown's back is acting up again, and his ERA has balooned to 4.13. Yeah, I know -- whew.Update: Mariners Wheelhouse passes on a column by Newsday writer Jon Heyman imploring the Yanks to go for Freddie Garcia. There are some stupid GMs in the game, and Bavasi has made some stupid moves this year, but moving his best starter for whatever twigs and berries the Yanks have in their minors is unlikely to happen. If this marks the beginning of the Yankees descent into the lower regions of the AL East, don't say you weren't warned. (Incidentally, I still cling to my romantic notion of a portable A-Rod curse that can migrate to the Yankees.)
Warning: Don't Catch Foul Balls With Your Face
The surprise isn't that the Red Sox don't have to pay nearly a half million dollars compensation to a woman injured by a foul ball, but that "three to four dozen patrons each season are injured by foul balls." Is that per team or throughout MLB?Dodgers 6, Blue Jays 1
What miracle caught Ishii on this one? He only surrendered a lone walk, one run -- by a solo homer -- and got four strikeouts. Meantime, Belly caught a two run shot, Encarnacion a solo homer, and Greenie goes 3-5, with twofer days for Roberts, Izzy, Paulie, Belly, and Encarnacion. (Man, if ever somebody needed a nickname, it's Juan.)
Comments:
I think it's unlikely that the Yankees don't continue to dominate the AL east; at least more years than not. Their payroll, while massive, still hasn't come close to reaching Steinbrenner's limits. And their current players, no matter how bad they play, if even just 50% of their players play at 50% of their potential, that's still an excellent ballclub. Finally, the closest competition, Boston, cannot maintain their 120-130M payroll year in year out, or so I have read. Plus, the Boston farm system is just as barren as the Yankee's.
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