Baseball | 2010 Spring Training - Barry Zito - David Wright
by Memphis Bengal on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 07:55pm
—David Wright says he was hurting last year, but that wasn’t why he hit only a few more homeruns than Willy Taveras. I think Mets fans would rather hear that WAS the reason for the power outage, frankly.
—Barry Zito wants to be thought of as a #1 starter again. Which begs the question as to when he was ever thought of that way. Was he ever ahead of Hudson and Mulder? At any rate, he wants to return to those make believe days. Or something. Four years left on that $126 million dollar monstrosity of a contract.
—The Rangers want Julio Borbon to claim CF. Note to self, look up Julio Borbon ahead of fantasy drafts. Ah, there he is. .312/.376/.414 for a .790 OPS and 19 stolen bases in 157 at-bats? Oh. Not half bad. I miss stuff like this at the end of baseball seasons on a regular basis.
—Josh Hamilton nursing an injury? Shocking.
—The Dodgers are ready to take some more of the training wheels off of Clayton Kershaw and let him work later into games. Adjust your pitcher lists accordingly.
Baseball | Barry Zito - Father's Day Weekend
by Bronto on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 11:37am
–During Fox’s coverage of the Rays-Mets game on Saturday, Fox used some stats that Ben Shpigel found in his piece on David Wright’s strange season. They didn’t credit Shpigel. He was not amused.
–Barry Zito actually took a no-hitter into the seventh inning on Sunday against the Rangers. And then lost it on Andruw Jones’ two run HR that wrapped around the foul pole. What’s scarier, that Zito had a no-hitter through six, or that Andruw Jones broke it up?
–Carsten Charles Sabathia left Sunday’s start with a biceps problem. The Yankees feel that it’s a minor problem, and the good news is that bicep problems are usually not a precursor to elbow problems. The bad news is that they’re a precursor/symptom of shoulder problems. Just ask Bert Farv.
–Albert Pujols smashed a grand slam off of the new-but-not-yet-open Royals’ Hall of Fame in left field on Sunday. Pujols has absolutely destroyed the Royals in his career, and helped give Tony La Russa his 2,500th victory.
–Speaking of my awful favorite team, Joe Posnanski did some quick and dirty research about the Royals’ five game losing streak and couldn’t find any other five game stretch in Royals history that were all five run or more losses. Oy. (And his Father’s Day column is worth the read as well.)
–Did anyone else LOL at the awkwardness of Jonathan Papelbon’s high five of Nick Green?
–As mentioned by Swamper degenerasian, the Blue Jays’ starting pitching is absolutely decimated. However, Brett Cecil pitched very well Saturday night.
–Apparently Scott Proctor was a drunk. I wonder if he’ll ever pull a David Wells and claim he pitched drunk? With the amount of times that Joe Torre used him, you’d have to think it was inevitable.
