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Friday, September 08, 2006 |
Mid-Day Notes
- The Dodgers' video-on-demand deal with Fox is a dead letter, according to the league.
- Sportswriters at the Times and Daily News (not to mention Ken Gurnick of MLB.com) continue to be incredulous that the Dodgers haven't figured out who's gonna make Sunday's start. Greg Maddux and Derek Lowe will probably be used on short rest before the season is over, but not this weekend. Eric Stults is most likely to get the nod. That trick only works for Joe Saunders, not guys with 4.39 ERAs in AAA.
- Andre Ethier is a good player.
- Julio Lugo would like to be a Met next year.
- Despite my earlier comment (yes, the Angels have their fate in their own hands, but they would have to go 22-0 on the rest of the season to take the season outright), the Angels will need some help to take the division.
Comments:
If the Angels went 22-0 the rest of the way, they would finish 97-65. The best Oakland could finish then would by 96-66. Oakland has 23 games left, seven with the Angels. So if the Angels go 23-0, the A's couldn't do better than 16-7.
Oh my God, did you just say something positive about one of the Dodgers? Ironically, Ethier is playing better in the majors than he did in the minors. You went on to state that there is no chance that Stults could do that, despite pitching in a notorious hitters park and hitters league in AAA. Kuo, on the other hand, may have had his most successful outing of the year tonight in a major league start.
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: 9/08/2006 11:48:00 PM
: 9/08/2006 11:48:00 PM
Anonymous -- right. And the fact that he repeated AA three times with mediocre strikeout rates at each turn (okay, one of those was a one-inning callup, but ...) -- why, that has nothing to do with it. Stults has never been on anybody's top prospect rankings, and for a reason.
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