- The Twins may have been swept by the Yankees recently, but Minnesota's M & M, Justin Morneau and Joe Mauer, have been killing the ball. Morneau is second in the AL in homers and is currently batting .340 with 33 RBI. Mauer has been equally impressive batting .417 with 16 RBI in 17 games. Even more impressive with Mauer is his display of power. He already has 6 HR which isn't bad for a guy that never hit more than 13 in a season.
(Photo by AP)
- If you're missing the services of Carlos Delgado, I have more bad news for you. He's going to undergo hip surgery and is out indefinitely. A-Rod had a similar surgery and was out for a couple months, so you can probably plan on Delgado being out for about that long as well.
- Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks, who was having a career year, will miss the remainder of the season with a wrist injury. Tough break for his owners who were pleasantly surprised by his earlier production. On the bright side, maybe this wrist injury will prevent him from snapping his wrists back and forth while standing in the batters box.
- Some good news, Vladimir Guerrero could be back as soon as next Monday. He'll be doing a rehab assignment in the minors later this week and could be with the team by Monday as a DH.
- Let's see, out of all the things that could go wrong what didn't I want to see the most? Manny Ramirez gets suspended for 50 games. Okay, besides that. After missing two weeks for a rib injury, Josh Hamilton gets back in the lineup does great, then crashes into the center field wall and straining his groin. Really Josh? Was it that important to catch that fly ball? The Rangers are a much better team with you IN the lineup, so please be careful. He's currently day to day.
- Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter is scheduled to return and pitch tomorrow against the Chicago Cubs. With his injury history, I wouldn't count on him for too much, but at the same time he'll be better than anyone you have at the bottom of your rotation, so he's a good gamble pickup.
- So after missing the first month and a half of the season John Lackey returned to the mound Saturday, threw literally two pitches and was ejected. Good job, way to help the team. Lackey started again last night and gave up 4 earned runs in 5 IP against the Mariners. It may take him some time to get back into form so be patient.
- Can someone out there please explain to me why Brandon Morrow is still the closer for the Seattle Mariners? In his first appearance this season he gave up 3 runs in 0.2 IP. After that he was pretty good, not allowing any runs and racking up 6 saves. But this month he's been a train wreck and that's putting it lightly. He's given up runs in every appearance, blown two saves, lost two games and his ERA is 19.64. Enough is enough, get him out.
- Rockies catcher Chris Iannetta was a disaster in the first month of the season, but since then has come back in a big way. After batting just .174 in April, Iannetta is hitting .318 in May and has 4 HR and 12 RBI in 13 games.
Posted
May 19 2009, 09:26 AM
by
Nick Fruscello