That couldn't have been good for either team's bullpen.

His BABIP is .415. Just a streak of bad luck...he'll come around when the defense starts picking him up.

That being said, he HAS walked an equal number of batters as he's stricken out and given up 5 homers, so maybe luck is only partly the problem.

Give Sabathia the best defense in the league and his ERA is still in the high tens. Defense has almost nothing to do with Sabathia's problems right now, his nonexistent control/location does.

The Astros suck dicks.

THe Blue Jay DFA'd Frank Thomas and are going to have Matt Stairs DH for them now. Mariners seem to be the favorites to pick him up.

Was Zambrano on coke tonight or does he really intake that much caffeine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wagner

lol

Edit: It got re-edited, here's the screen shot

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/6452/lolwagnerte8.jpg

lolz

Smoltz - 3,000 Ks. Way2go!

grandersoons baaaaaack!

19 runs baby

Looks like the Giants are going to dump Zito in the bullpen

There are still 6 years and $112 million left on his contract and he will probably never get his fastball back

L O L

I almost feel bad for them.

tigers are lighting shit up baby they've gone 8-2 in their last 10 including a sweep over the yanks in NY and have gone 12-6 since starting 9-2

over 500 in no time :!

Yankees get swept, then they sweep. Well, at least they're over 500 with only 1 good starter, and a fuck load of injuries.

tigers sweep, then get swept

sad too we were up 6 nothing before i left

Oh yeah Cards!

And loltigers.

Gavin Floyd has been quite the pleasant surprise for the White Sox. Hes pitching a bit over his head at this point, but I think his numbers at the end of the season could be very good for a 5th starter.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ozzie has Buerhle throw at Mauer tonight.

Fuck Brandon Webb why are you so dreamy.

How is detroit doing? Anyone knows?

I'm not sure there's a word to describe the let down that is the '08 season thus far for the Tigers.

A lot worse than they should be doing.

lol verlander

Astros aren't quite as gay now.

16-22 now.

I think as of last night Carlos Quentin leads the AL in OPS and HRs. Hes been a fantastic pick up for the White Sox as has Gavin Floyd considering what the D-Backs and the Phillies have done with the players the White Sox sent them for these players.

The ChiSox actually did pretty well for themselves last offseason. Nick Swisher was exactly the kind of player they needed...a young power hitter who gets on base well. Personally, though, I think they gave up too many prospects in the offseason. If they draft well or trade to get some other prospects, then they made the right move, but it's always a bad idea to mortgage the future unless you're making a legit run at the Series, which I don't think the Sox can do yet this year.

Brewers relieved Gagne of his reliever role. lolz

I fucking hate Aaron Heilman.

Cardinals C'mon, damn pitching...

The Twins are just beyond me, they make me want to strangle children. We can kick Boston's ass but we drop a series to fucking Toronto?

Pirates continue to suck, Nate McLouth continues to be really, really good at baseball. I really hope they don't trade this kid. If they can unload Jason Bay for a prospect package, when Steve Pearce and Andrew McCutchen come up we can slot McLouth over to left and suddenly have a pretty potent outfield.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=280521125

Pujols is gonna kill someone.

It looks like a fire sale is in the works for Rockies, Fuentes is on the block and Helton would probably go to

It'd be a bad move to trade Helton right now. If they're going to trade him, they should hold onto him until next year when he has a chance to play better and maximize his trade value. Right now he wouldn't command much more than a middling and a low-quality prospect.

Pedro v. Zito and Joba v. Halladay tonight.

not quite what the Yankees wanted from Joba but if they really wanted to ease him into the starter's role with limited pitch counts he should probably be doing it in AAA while they have Rasner or someone else start and eat up innings

Speaking of Todd Helton, I don't think there's a better example of someone who stuggles without steroids/HGH or whatever he took.

Cards

Congrats on 600 Griffey. It's a shame there isn't more like you in pro baseball these days.

Congrats Griffey! Still one of the classiest ballplayers ever, and he did it cleanly.

so dontrelle willis made his second start after coming off the dl

8 runs 3 hits and 5 walks in 1 and a 1/3 inning

really comfortable with that three year contract

Big milestone for Griffey. Kind of makes you wonder what could have been without injuries, though. He could probably be the all-time HR leader right now, and nobody would be mad about it like they are with Bonds.

Bavasi should be fired and given a compimentary fleshlight on the way out

Pirates had an excellent draft. Nice to see a GM that knows WTF he's doing. Their draft was rated second only to the Tigers in the major leagues by scout.com.

Pujols may be hurt!

Smoltz career looks like it might be over since it seems he has a damaged labrum which will be difficult to recover enough from at his age to be able to pitch successfully at the big league level.

He'll be a first ballot hall of famer for sure with his unique and long pitching career where he had great success as both a starter and a closer (200 wins, 150 saves, 3000 Ks)

Smoltz has surprised before. I'm not counting him out until he makes it official.

Even if it ended right now, though, he's still one of the most dominant pitchers of a generation. Much respect for him, even from an avid Braves hater like myself.

Sorry, you're retarded. Helton is one of the best all around hitters in the past decade and has never used steroids. He has been in a steady decline because of age most likely.

Pujols out for at least 3 weeks! FUCK!

Ah well, least they put a beatdown on Cinci.

...or a tougher testing policy.