Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Moving On Up
The Mets trade Robbie Alomar to White Sox for Royce Ring, Edwin Almonte, and Andrew Salvo. Ring, a hard throwing left handed reliever, has 19 saves in the Southern League for Birmingham and probably will closing out games for the Mets before long. The trade probably means that Armando Benitez will be traded very soon. Perhaps to the aforementioned bleek Red Sox bullpen. The White Sox? They get to banish the laziest baseball player in the world to the bench. Of course, they still have to worry about short, third, center, and catcher. Whew.
Update: later in the day the Sox traded a can of warm peas to the Rangers for Carl Everett. I'm sure Crazy Carl will fit right in at US Cellular.
The Mets trade Robbie Alomar to White Sox for Royce Ring, Edwin Almonte, and Andrew Salvo. Ring, a hard throwing left handed reliever, has 19 saves in the Southern League for Birmingham and probably will closing out games for the Mets before long. The trade probably means that Armando Benitez will be traded very soon. Perhaps to the aforementioned bleek Red Sox bullpen. The White Sox? They get to banish the laziest baseball player in the world to the bench. Of course, they still have to worry about short, third, center, and catcher. Whew.
Update: later in the day the Sox traded a can of warm peas to the Rangers for Carl Everett. I'm sure Crazy Carl will fit right in at US Cellular.
Monday, June 30, 2003
Loaded Carmine Hose
My take on the Red Sox is that they're a deadly combination of last year's Angels (leading the majors with a .300 batting average) and the Yankees and A's (leading the majors in both OBP and SLG). If they can keep this up and get better production out of their bullpen, they could run away with the East, regardless what the Yankees do. Also: anyone notice that for the second year in a row a team just plain given up on Jeremy Giambi. Oops, I mean Giambi is on the "DL". Question: is a year too long for a rehab assignment?
Other stuff:
-Did Bubba Trammel really quit the Yankees over the weekend?
-The Reds are going with a four man rotation for the next couple weeks and Ryan Dempster is none too happy about it.
-Mizzo blues: Matt Morris will miss a start due to shoulder 'tenderness.' The Cards start today in first place. How long will that continue without Morris? Same goes for first place Kansas City, who wait on the prognosis of Mark Sweeney, who apparently celebrated a win too much.
-Who woulda thunk that Kevin Young was one of the most popular guys in the Pirates clubhouse.
-Alex Sanchez fled Cuba on a raft that measured 8x12 feet. Funny, that's exactly the same size raft he used on balmy Lake Michigan to flee Milwaukee.
-Interleague baseball is a contact sport in Chicago (that's shocking, I'm sure). Thank god there's a 56,000 capacity holding cell on the South Side.
-This just in: Japanese players are fundamentally sound, unless your name is Shinjo.
-Baseball in Portland? With growth trends in Oregon off the charts and local support for teams way high, MLB should see that putting a team in the Rose City would be right as rain.
My take on the Red Sox is that they're a deadly combination of last year's Angels (leading the majors with a .300 batting average) and the Yankees and A's (leading the majors in both OBP and SLG). If they can keep this up and get better production out of their bullpen, they could run away with the East, regardless what the Yankees do. Also: anyone notice that for the second year in a row a team just plain given up on Jeremy Giambi. Oops, I mean Giambi is on the "DL". Question: is a year too long for a rehab assignment?
Other stuff:
-Did Bubba Trammel really quit the Yankees over the weekend?
-The Reds are going with a four man rotation for the next couple weeks and Ryan Dempster is none too happy about it.
-Mizzo blues: Matt Morris will miss a start due to shoulder 'tenderness.' The Cards start today in first place. How long will that continue without Morris? Same goes for first place Kansas City, who wait on the prognosis of Mark Sweeney, who apparently celebrated a win too much.
-Who woulda thunk that Kevin Young was one of the most popular guys in the Pirates clubhouse.
-Alex Sanchez fled Cuba on a raft that measured 8x12 feet. Funny, that's exactly the same size raft he used on balmy Lake Michigan to flee Milwaukee.
-Interleague baseball is a contact sport in Chicago (that's shocking, I'm sure). Thank god there's a 56,000 capacity holding cell on the South Side.
-This just in: Japanese players are fundamentally sound, unless your name is Shinjo.
-Baseball in Portland? With growth trends in Oregon off the charts and local support for teams way high, MLB should see that putting a team in the Rose City would be right as rain.
