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Friday, March 31, 2006 |
Pickoff Moves, Bedtime Edition
Friday Night Traffic: Angels 6, Dodgers 6
The unseasonable late spring rain, I think, provided a nice metaphor: for the Dodgers, washing away the old, awful memories of 2005; and for the Angels, providing them with a baptism in preparation of the new year. Anderson and Salmon both homered, Anderson off a surprisingly shaky Eric Gagné, whose velocity is still down. The Dodgers managed some offense of their own; J.D. Drew homered against Hector Carrasco, and the real LA team generally seemed to have Jeff Weaver on the ropes a good bit of the night, perhaps a sign of things to come with him -- a 4.00 ERA and a .500 record. With the NL West still so weak even the Pirates would stand a chance at a postseason berth were the San Andreas to seismically shift them a few thousand miles west, both teams have reasonable hopes of arriving at the postseason -- if they get lucky, and especially for the Dodgers, if they stay healthy.We'll be in the stands tomorrow night at Angel Stadium, and I hope it doesn't rain; so far, so good.
New SB Nation Dodger Blog: True Blue LA
SB Nation rounds out its MLB blog stable with its newest, Dodger-centric addition, True Blue LA, where Michael Nicks is your host. Stop on over, sign up for an account, and say hi. Sidebar links presently.Pinto On PMR
Joe Hamrahi kindly e-mailed me to let me know about his interview with David Pinto on Pinto's Probabilistic Model of Range, or PMR. It's the first of a four-part series about modeling defense, a hot topic in baseball of late.Separated At Birth?
Sure, Vero Beach finally got themselves a mascot, but does anyone else see a familial resemblance between him and Mr. Met?
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Clearly, Squeeze is Mr. Met's younger, better-tanned brother in Florida, and the fact that Squeeze wears Mr. Met's number of 00 is another dead giveaway.
Oakland Acquires Juan Dominguez In Three-Way Trade With Cubs, Rangers
Oakland acquired bullpen depth with Juan Dominguez by moving infielder Freddie Bynum and RHP John Rheinecker to the Rangers, who immediately sent Bynum to the Cubs for RHP John Koronka and a PTBNL."We've been trying to move Freddie most of the spring," assistant general manager David Forst said, noting that Bynum was out of options and there was no room for him to crack the Oakland lineup, "but he certainly played himself onto somebody's club."From what I gather, none of these players had a shot at making their clubs' respective 25-man rosters, so this works out well for the players, anyway.
Fanning The Hate: Diamond Mind 2006 Projections
Good news, Angels fans: Tom Tippett has projected the Angels to finish last. Well, we all know how well that went the last time.Update: BTF thread, including MGL's projections, which have the Angels finishing second at 83-79.
Comments:
Yes...it was 7-6 after the Angels scored in their half of the 8th, but because of the rain, the score goes back to the last full inning, hence 6-6.
Could've sworn Hud said it was 7-6, but then the box would have disabused me of that -- had it been available at the time I wrote this. Thanks for the catch. (I've been saying that way too much lately.)
Ah, thanks for that, Joe. I may be well on into middle age, but at least my hearing isn't that screwed up.
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