I'm not sure Liriano is that much of a surprise since he appeared to be well on his way to stardom before having TJS. I think it was just a matter of time until he completed his comeback.
Silva has been released from the hospital. He will be examined by a cardiologist when he returns to Chicago and it seems likely that his next start will be skipped with the off-day on Thursday.
Based on worst record, with fewest points to break ties. 1. Bazingas (4-13) 2. Quakers (4-12-1) 3. NC Cubs (5-11-1) 4. Habitual Linesteppers (7-10; 4200.5 points) 5. Sock It Thome (7-10; 4254.2 points) 6. Mighty D-Block (8-9; 4293.2 points) 7. Tootielicious (8-9; 4328.5 points) 8. Saber Metrics (8-9; 4365 points) 9. The Eyes of Texas (8-9; 4482.5 points) 10. Harrys Budcrew (10-7; 4275 points) 11. Fuzzy Logistics (10-7; 4723.8 points) 12. Ron Washington's Dealers (11-6; 4366.8 points) 13. Kid Rodelo (11-6; 4400.2 points) 14. Galesburg Hand Sanitizers (11-6; 4657.5 points) 15. Northside Baseball (11-6; 4902.8 points) 16. Alamo Stealth (12-5) Still five weeks remaining in the Bryce Harper Sweepstakes. It would probably be a good idea for somebody else to look at the standings on Roadkill and make sure I didn't misread something.
Between that and DeWitt's performance today (especially considering that he wasn't even going to start) I'd say early returns from the trade are favorable.
Lefty going today. Hope he's in there anyway but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Baker. Originally that was going to be the case until Trammel decided to give Ramirez the day off and shifted Baker to 3B. And DeWitt so far has been about the only bright spot for the Cubs.
Considering that he now has three short outings in his last four starts I think he should at least be skipped over one start even if he says he's OK. With an off day on Thursday they could simply skip his turn in the rotation and keep everybody else on normal rest.
Personally, I think if there would be any realignment it would come along with adding two expansion teams to have two 16-team leagues. If they don't want to put both expansion teams in the L I could see one team being shifted from the NL to the AL and adding one expansion team to each league. I think any real realignment would come within the leagues rather than between (maybe similar to when the NFL went to 32 teams).
I didn't want to start a new thread for this, but Lou will miss the next three games to travel to Florida for his uncle's funeral. Alan Trammel will be acting manager and Matt Sinatro will serve as bench coach.
Apparently it was also the highest scoring inning in Rockies' history. That surprised me a bit; playing in Coors Field I would have thought they would have had a few gigantic innings, especially in the days of Larry Walker, Dante Bichette, etc.
The guy who couldn't even come up with a team to guess is far more embarrassing. True. I didn't know the answer but guessed right. I was almost positive what the answer was and I was right. Other than the fact that the lady guessed a nonexistent team, and that the real team in that city isn't in the NFC, she had a good guess. Her best move was betting so little.