Phillies vs. Pirates, 26 April 2008
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 4:48 PM EDT
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PrintPhiladelphia Phillies at Pittsburgh Pirates, Apr 26, 2008 7:05 PM EDT
Kyle Kendrick vs. Matt Morris, 7:05. Enjoy. Here's the box. Ronny Paulino's behind the plate; Doug Mientkiewicz is at third. Some links while you wait:
-P- Indy leagues are awesome:
The dream of pitching once again for a professional organization lives on for 53-year-old knuckleballer Jon Secrist. The St. Paul Saints invited him into their spring training camp on Friday. The Saints also invited into camp right-handed pitcher Mitch Wylie and signed former University of Minnesota right-handed pitcher Craig Molldrem and first baseman Tim Brown.
Despite two days of open tryouts being washed out, Secrist threw for manager George Tsamis and impressed him enough that he will have an opportunity to earn a spot on the club. He is scheduled to make his 2008 debut on Tuesday night in a 7:05 p.m. exhibition game against the Ibaraki Golden Golds from Japan.
-P- Andrew McCutchen is going nuts -- he's got a 13-game hitting streak going, and he's hitting .294/.375/.576. It's too early to call him up; he probably needs a couple hundred more at bats, and anyway there won't be any place for him until the Pirates pull off a trade or two -- but his fast start gives hope that his lackluster 2007 was the exception, not the rule.
By the way, there have been a couple of dominating performances by relievers at Indianapolis. There's Sean Burnett, sure, but Jesse Chavez and Marino Salas have been even better. With the awful performances so far by Evan Meek and Franquelis Osoria (not to mention the eight-strikeout, twelve-walk line posted by Phil Dumatrait), we should start getting looks at some of these AAA guys within the next six weeks or so.
-P- The Twins' Francisco Liriano is headed to the minors after a three-start beginning to his season in which he showed few signs of being fully recovered from injury.
-P- Mariners GM Bill Bavasi is at it again, signing Kenji Johjima to a long-term deal despite possessing some good catching talent in the minors.
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This is so mindlessly predictable
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 7:19 PM EDT reply actions
I actually picked up Jayson Werth to start against Morris for one of my fantasy teams, and he went 0-for-2 in that inning. Nice work, Charlie.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 7:27 PM EDT reply actions
LOL
Nothing like kicking you while you’re down.
Yeah. Worst of both worlds. I figure if Morris is going to get eaten alive, I might as well enjoy it somehow. But no.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't worry
He’ll probably get 2 or 3 more at bats against Morris.
How well
is Morris keeping the ball down? (At least when Howard isn’t hitting it into orbit.)
Sort of
Calling in Dumatrait is just like putting a fresh Morris out there.
That’s not fair to Dumatrait, and I’m no fan of Dumatrait.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I guess you're right
Morri$ IS a lot wealthier!
Odd
Blass just referenced his battle with the disease that bears his name again. He just did during the Cardinals series when he talked about an interview he did with Ankiel. I can’t really remember him ever talking about it before, and that’s twice now in the past week he’s mentioned it.
How was he referring to it? Not like Morris has been particularly wild…just been getting the tar knocked out of anything he throws across the plate.
with a score of 6-0. la de da, right?
by Charlie Wilmoth on Apr 26, 2008 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I think
we may be seeing the starting pitcher for next Thursday instead of Morris.
What now?
Since I can’t see the game from work…what did RoPaul do now? Miss a throw or two at the plate?
What now for Morris?
My suggestion: he goes on the DL, takes a week or two off, then makes 3 or 4 “rehab” starts at AAA. If he’s still terrible, we activate and release him. If he’s not terrible, we bring him back.
But, he can’t stay in the rotation. Its gotten absurd.
I can think he can be tried in the bullpen first… he is getting 10$ million. That is kind of hard to eat up.
It's not as difficult
to eat the money when his ERA is around 10. Gotta at least give your team a chance to win…and Morris isn’t doing that. I’m not so sure that he doesn’t retire.
Hmmm...
maybe Nate is done with his 5 game nap.
Hmm
I just remembered I’ve got Morri$ on my HACKING MASS team over at Baseball Prospectus. So I kind of hope he sticks around somehow. He’s been my team MVP so far.
And I thought the other day that Morris
would get two to three more starts before the team pulls the plug.
I don`t think he gets even one more. I don`t think they will move him to the bullpen, either. He has nothing left. Period. I bet he retires. Well, he`ll stay “active” for the rest of the season if someone wants to give him another chance, but I wouldn`t be surprised if he just made his last start.
Welcome back, JVB, next week!
JVB
should be starting for Indy tomorrow…we might want to check his pitch count. Frankly, I expect Dumatrait to get Matt’s start on Thursday, unless Morris retires between now and then.
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