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More Weaver Postmortem
There has been talk in various places that Jered Weaver's fastball was slow and missing life. Mike Scioscia disagrees:"It gets back down to command, repeating pitches," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "A couple breaking balls just rolled into the zone. ... I thought there was life on his fastball, but he had trouble getting it into some good zones."The Register article linked above noted that the eight hits and runs allowed were season highs for the Weav; in fact, it's his worst career outing for runs, and ties a career mark for extra-base hits with six....
"Right now, he's not as crisp as we've seen in the past. In spring training, he really looked like he was where he needed to be. He hasn't carried some things forward as consistently as he needs to."
Riding Andruw Jones To The Bottom, Joe?
Once a stupid mistake gets made, a good baseball man makes sure to repeat it until it's dead:Asked when he might reach the point when he wanted to bench Jones, Torre said somewhat emphatically, "I can't. I can't do it. He needs to perform here if we're going to do something special."Ride that '77, Joe.
Howie Kendrick, We Miss You: 2008 Win Shares Leaders
Dave Studeman:The top AL second baseman is, um, Howie Kendrick of the Angels. Kendrick has three Win Shares above bench, despite playing only 10 games. A .500 batting average will do that for you. Among qualified AL second basemen, Dustin Pedroia is the leader. The Yankees' Robinson Cano is bringing up the rear among all second basemen, at four Win Shares below bench. That makes him the worst position player thus far this year.Chone Figgins is the AL 3B Win Shares leader, too, and likewise Erick Aybar at SS; Ervin Santana leads the AL in pitching win shares.
On the Dodgers, Rafael Furcal leads the NL in win shares at short; Blake DeWitt places third at third, and has the second-highest win shares of the team.
Tony Jackson: The Minotaur Stays In The Labyrinth
The hed sounds kinda like a passphrase from a spy novel, yeah? Anyway, Tony Jackson says the Dodgers won't go to Clayton Kershaw for their fifth starter, but it will be Chan Ho Park, who has pitched well in relief this year.Labels: angels, dodgers, stupid ideas
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