Last Sunday’s Giants game, Bochy gave Tejada, Burrell and Posey the day off. He probably figured that with Zito on the mound the game was lost anyway – give the bench some AB’s and the starters some rest.
Pitchers?
And catchers, generally.
I think Purcey’s out of options, but yeah, he’s just not good enough. And he’ll be 29 in a week and a half, so if he’s gonna get any better, he might want to hurry up and do it.
Our catchers rotate between plate duty and DH.
I hope Travis Wood and the Redlegs get out the brooms for the Padres tonight, especially after their debacle of a series against the Diamondbacks.
Serious question: are the D-backs better than what everyone thought they would be? So far, they seem to be doing pretty well. I know they are only 5-5, but they took two out of three from the Reds and just put the whupping stick to St Louis.
Also, jeez louise the Red Sox with the worst record in baseball! Ouch!
I don’t know what you can conclude from that, but it was an uncommonly bad night for Cardinals pitching, with the usually-reliable Chris Carpenter allowing 8 runs in 4 innings, and two relievers ending up injured. WTF?
When you guys start playing real baseball over there just let me know. 
Better hurry!
The other day, I realized I’d seen this movie - fast start, ultimately amounting to nothing - a few times already, during the ‘curse of Davey Johnson’ years. (The O’s haven’t had a winning season since Angelos fired Dave Johnson as their manager after the 1997 season.)
So I looked up some numbers on Baseball-Reference.com:
Year Start Final
1998 10- 2 79-83
2000 11- 5 74-88
2003 15-12 71-91
2004 10- 5 78-84
2005 26-13 74-88
2006 11- 7 70-92
2007 11- 7 69-93
2008 6- 1 68-93
2009 6- 2 64-98
2011 6- 1 ???
It was a more pronounced pattern than I realized.
This could always be the year they break the curse. It has to happen sometime, after all. 
Well Buck should give the O’s more hope then usual. Also the very slow Red Sox start helps.
We’re defining “anchored in cement” as “very slow” now? 
I dunno, don’t know anyone by that name.
The Jays have DFAed David Purcey, and recalled Brad Mills and Casey Janssen from Vegas.
Holy crap, the Mariners won again last night! 22-year-old rookie pitcher Michael Pineda, in two starts so far, doesn’t seem to be the least bit intimidated by Major League hitters.
Well you know as a Yankee fan I cannot get too hopeful, especially as their only wins are against the Yanks.
Barry Bonds guilty of one charge of obstruction of justice.
Mistrial on the other three counts.
Have they differentiated his head from the rest of the proceedings?
The Rockies, a noriously slow starting team, have the best record in baseball. Troy Tulowitzki leads the league with five homeruns and Huston Street leads with six saves (the last three being one-two-three.)
They do have to play a double header tomorow and then fly back through two time zones to Colorado to play the Cubs on Friday.
RTFirefly has made me totally paranoid about being a hot team in April. You better watch out too, Lamar.
I think the significant correlation is not the number of wins in April, it’s the fact that they are the Orioles in April.
For the record, the O’s are my favorite American League team.