All in one day, (yesterday):
-Lee has been feeling some abdominal pain and may start the season on the 15 day DL. Too bad he can't get those suspension games waive as part of a major league LI deal.
-Doug Fister lasted only 2/3 innings after being smacked on the fore arm by a line drive courtesy of Reds' first baseman Joey Votto. Sounds like its only a soft tissue bruise and shouldn't keep Fister out long, but we don't need anymore of these starting rotation injuries. What's Jarrod Washburn's # again?
-Jason Vargas relieved Fister and threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings only to then get clobbered by the Reds for 6 runs, making it harder to find Bedard's placeholder to start the season. Again, Washburn is jonesing to get back here and if the fifth start spot is undecided and now Cliff Lee is out for the start of the season, we might want to snag him at what should be a bargain.
-Oh, and Bradley got ejected. Again third strike on which Bradley questioned but did not throw the tantrum over. So, probably the first record breaking moment of the 2010 campaign: 3 ejections in 3 consectuvie spring training games. I doubt that's even happened in the regular season. While I don't like that the umpires seem to be doling out a revenge on past altercations by being uber strict on Bradley's criticism, I do like that Bradley seems pretty mild mannered about the whole thing. Hopefully, he can keepo brushing it off and let the umpires make themselves look ridiculous.
Okay, we need some good news:
-Felix took Lee's start today against the Diamondbacks and has thrown 3 scoreless innings giving up 2 hits and 1 walk and 1 strikeout. Great speed on his fastball and the split finger is dropping wickedly. Oh! Add another a k!
-Gutierrez slammed a homer in the first inning off Dan Haren that seemed effortless.
-In one of these ken griffey Jr. unscripted segments, Junior talks about when he retires, "in 2 years." So, 2010 hasn't even started and Griffey is already planning his 2011 return.
-And make that 4 scoreless by king Felix!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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