Monday, May 14, 2007

Baseball is Poop

I'm American Honey, Our Names Don't Mean Shit
In Sunday night's Tigers-Twins game, Placido Polanco stepped up to the plate to bat against Boof Bonser.

We Hardly Knew Ye
On April 29th the Braves traded Ryan Langerhans to Oakland. He was 3-44 (.068) with Atlanta.
In two games with Oakland he went 0-4 (lowering his average to .063), then the A's had seen enough and they sent him to the Washington Nationals on May 3. He's caught fire with Washington going 4-14 (.286), raising his season's average to .113.

But Langerhans' two week odyssey is nothing compared to the past two years for Jorge Julio.
Before the 2006 season the Mets acquired Julio from the Orioles, for Kris Benson. The Orioles also threw in a minor league pitcher named John Maine.
Julio didn't work out with the Mets so they traded him to Arizona on May 24, for Orlando Hernandez.
Then in the offseason, the Marlins needed a closer so they acquired Julio from the Diamondbacks for Yusmeiro Petit (whom they got from the Mets for Carlos Delgado).
Julio was terrible this season for the Marlins getting blitzed every single time he pitched in April. When he gave up the game winning grand slam to Ryan Zimmerman, the Marlins gave up. They sent Julio and his 12.54 ERA to the Rockies for Bung-Hole Kim.
That's 5 teams in a little more than a year, Orioles, Mets, Diamondbacks, Marlins, Rockies.

Not Missing Piazza
The Oakland A's are not missing their decripit DH, Mike Piazza. When Piazza, not surprisingly got injured, the A's called up Jack Cust. Cust used to be a top prospect but never reached his potential. Until now. In 7 games, Cust has 6 homers and 14 RBI. Prior to this point in his career, he'd hit 5 homers in 70 games.

Trivia Question
Brother-in-Law Derick aka BILD, posed this one:
Name the three pitchers who won 10 games in a season at the age of 44 or later.

2 comments:

Dan said...

The answer is...
Tommy John, Nolan Ryan and Satchel Paige

Anonymous said...

we have a winner!!!!