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So, Yeah. Vicente Padila Is The Yankees’ B**** This Year
I mean, in general Vicente Padilla is the b**** of any team with an above .500 record but the Yankees really have been taking him to the wood shed in 2012.
| I | Split | W | L | G | GF | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Yankees | 0 | 0 | 135.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15.000 | ||
| WP of .500+ | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 6.59 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 13.2 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 1.390 |
Don’t Say We Didn’t Tell You So Tigers Fans
By Aaron Gleeman @ Hardball Talk
Earlier this season I posted some snarky tweet about how few things in life have ever lived up to the hype as much as the Tigers’ terrible defense, which predictably led to tons of Tigers fans telling me that defense hadn’t actually hurt the team very much. Or something, I mostly just remember that there was a lot name-calling involved.
Now that we’re at the halfway point of the season and the Tigers are one of the most disappointing teams in baseball at 40-42 that whole “their defense isn’t that bad” stuff has quieted down, it seems.
After all, among AL teams they rank 10th in errors and dead last in both turning balls in play into outs and Ultimate Zone Rating. In other words, the Tigers’ defense has been every bit as bad as everyone expected.
Anyway, today I’ve been watching the Tigers-Twins game and it featured this beauty from Detroit’s defense:
And not to be outdone, the umpires called that a foul ball even though Rick Porcello clearly touched it (and Prince Fielder and Gerald Laird) in fair territory.
It has come to this: Ben Sheets may be in the Braves rotation within two weeks
From Craig Calcaterra @ Hardball Talk:
We noted yesterday that the Braves have signed Ben Sheets. Hey, he used to have something, let’s see if he still has something again. No harm, no foul.
Except now we learn that Sheets will get all of two rehab starts and, assuming his arm doesn’t disintegrate, will join the Braves rotation by mid-July. Atlanta’s starting pitching has been a weakness all year, beset by injury and mediocrity, but I didn’t feel like things were so bad that they were reanimating corpses and plugging them in a week after the All-Star break.
Oh well, I won’t worry. Because I think the odds favor his arm actually disintegrating over him actually being a starter the Braves will depend on to turn a somewhat frustrating season around.
Not sure what’s better, the part about his arm disintegrating or the reanimating corpses bit, but damn if that isn’t some funny s***.
