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THT Daily: Big Day Out Westby Matthew CarruthMay 11, 2007 Major League News for May 11LinksPlayer News Yesterday’s Results Today’s Games Standings Top Minor League Performances Stats LinksThe All-Mediocre Team - An interesting romp through history to find players at each position who define mediocrity. Boy this brings back a lot of memories. Tex On the Move? - If the Rangers consider moving Mark Teixeira, and there is zero indication that they will at this time, Over the Monster thinks the Red Sox are a good fit. Lin-Done - McCovey Chronicles laments ever believing in Todd Linden. Lucky for them, he just got released so there's no need to worry about him wasting any more at bats while Dave Roberts is injured. Catcher's Interference - Baseball Toaster has a breakdown of the 12 catcher's interference calls so far this season. Of note, 9 have occurred in the NL. Fremont Express - The Oakland Athletics have signed a land deal in Fremont giving them space to build a new stadium. Celebration for Barry - Dayn Perry writes about baseball's plans surrounding Barry Bonds' pursuit of Hank Aaron. THT Links represents the best efforts of our editors in scouring the various tubes of the interweb for both relevant and irrelevant news items. If you have happened upon a story that we have overlooked or wish to give feedback of any sort, please notify us at . Player NewsPlayer news items are provided by RotoworldAlberto Callaspo was arrested Thursday on charges for assaulting his wife. Callaspo was taken into custody on suspicion of assault and criminal damage, according to police who did not release any details. Callaspo was still being interviewed later Thursday night and didn't not accompany the Diamondbacks to Houston for Friday's game. It's possible he'll get the Julio Mateo treatment and be optioned to the minors because of the incident. Tim Wakefield lowered his ERA to 1.79 by tossing seven shutout innings Thursday against the Blue Jays. The Red Sox completed a three-game sweep and expanded their lead int he AL East to seven games. Wakefield has opened 2007 on one of the best runs of his long career, even if he is only 4-3. Tonight's 8-0 victory was just the second time the Red Sox have scored more than four runs in one of his outings, and the club has totaled four runs in his losses. Wakefield now leads the AL in ERA over Dan Haren (1.89) and Gil Meche (2.15). Dave Roberts has decided to have arthroscopic surgery to remove floating bone chips and bone spurs from his left elbow. Roberts is likely to miss about a month after undergoing surgery Friday or Monday. Todd Linden will help fill in for him, and Omar Vizquel will move back to the top of the lineup with Roberts sidelined. Expect the Giants to call up either Nate Schierholtz or Fred Lewis to replace him on the roster. Kelvim Escobar fanned nine Indians in his fourth career shutout Thursday. Escobar allowed seven hits and walked none in an 103-pitch outing. It was his first shutout since he joined the Angels prior to the 2004 season. Escobar has allowed a total of three runs over his last 23 2/3 innings. He'll remain worth using in all formats until he lands back on the disabled list. Adam Dunn missed the cycle by a single and drove in three runs in the Reds' 9-5 win over the Astros on Thursday. Dunn hit his 11th homer, tripled and then doubled in his first three at-bats. Needing only a single, he grounded into a double play in the sixth and never got another chance, as he was left on deck to end the bottom of the eighth. Dunn keeps batting fifth and sixth despite a .286/.384/.635 line this year. He's tied for the NL lead in homers with Barry Bonds. Jose Contreras pitched his second career shutout Thursday against the Twins. He threw 98 pitches as the White Sox won the game 3-0 in 2:14. It was an incredibly encouraging performance from Conteras, even if the Twins are seriously beat up at the moment. There's still not much to like about Contreras' 21/17 K/BB ratio in 40 1/3 innings this season, but since getting lit up by the Indians on Opening Day, he has 2.29 ERA. B.J. Ryan underwent Tommy John surgery Thursday, ending his season. Dr. James Andrews said last month than Ryan didn't need surgery, but a reexamination apparently found something different. The Jays hope Ryan will be ready for the start of 2008, but setbacks are a possibility. Jason Frasor, Jeremy Accardo and Casey Janssen are all candidates for saves in the Toronto pen. Reds optioned third baseman Edwin Encarnacion to Triple-A Louisville. And the Reds wonder why they're consistently a second-division team. Encarnacion is one of the team's best players, and the club is going to need him to bounce back if it has any chance of contending. Instead, it looks like he might be on the Austin Kearns path out of town. There should be several teams looking to find out just how much bullpen help it would take to acquire the 24-year-old. Yesterday’s ResultsAmerican League BAL 11 TB 6 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 14 NYA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 8 TOR 0 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 7 SEA 3 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 17 KC 3 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 3 MIN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 8 CLE 0 (Recap and Boxscore) National League ATL 5 SD 3 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 3 LAN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 6 CHN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 9 HOU 5 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 5 SF 3 (Recap and Boxscore) Today’s GamesNational League --------------- Atlanta Braves at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM (R) Kyle Davies (0-1) vs. (L) Zach Duke (1-3) Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (L) Rich Hill (4-1) vs. (L) Cole Hamels (4-1) Florida Marlins at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM (L) Scott Olsen (3-2) vs. (R) Shawn Hill (2-3) Milwaukee Brewers at New York Mets, 7:10 PM (R) Jeff Suppan (5-2) vs. (R) Jorge Sosa (1-0) Arizona Diamondbacks at Houston Astros, 8:05 PM (R) Brandon Webb (2-2) vs. (R) Chris Sampson (3-2) San Francisco Giants at Colorado Rockies, 9:05 PM (R) Tim Lincecum (0-0) vs. (R) Josh Fogg (1-3) St. Louis Cardinals at San Diego Padres, 10:05 PM (R) Kip Wells (1-6) vs. (R) Jake Peavy (4-1) Cincinnati Reds at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:40 PM (R) Bronson Arroyo (2-2) vs. (L) Randy Wolf (3-3) American League --------------- Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox, 7:05 PM (L) Brian Burres (0-1) vs. (R) Julian Tavarez (1-3) Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Toronto Blue Jays, 7:07 PM (L) Scott Kazmir (2-1) vs. (R) AJ Burnett (2-3) LA Angels of Anaheim at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM (R) John Lackey (4-3) vs. (R) Vicente Padilla (1-4) Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM (L) Mike Maroth (2-0) vs. (L) Johan Santana (4-2) Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox, 8:11 PM (L) Odalis Perez (2-3) vs. (R) Jon Garland (1-2) New York Yankees at Seattle Mariners, 10:05 PM (R) Darrell Rasner (1-1) vs. (L) Jarrod Washburn (2-3) Cleveland Indians at Oakland Athletics, 10:05 PM (L) CC Sabathia (5-0) vs. (R) Joe Blanton (3-1) StandingsThe graphics next to each team are called "sparklines.” They depict each team’s performance over the last month. Each "up" bar is a victory and a "down" bar is a loss. There are horizontal lines for home games and red bars represent games decided by two runs or less. "PWins" is short for Projected Wins, based on each team’s Run Differential, and is often a better measure of a team’s true strength. Other team graphs and stats can be found on our Team Page.American League East Pwins Diff BOS 23 10 .697 0.0 23 0 Top Minor League GamesThe following list, provided by First Inning, includes the top minor league batting (based on Runs Created) and pitching (based on Game Score) performances from yesterday.ORG LVL PLAYER AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO Notes CIN A+ Jay Bruce......... 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 SEA AAA Jeff Clement...... 4 4 2 0 1 1 0 ARI A+ Justin Upton...... 5 2 1 0 0 0 1 SEA AAA Adam Jones........ 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 CHW AAA Josh Fields....... 4 2 0 0 1 1 0 4 RBI COL AAA Joseph Koshansky.. 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 BAL A C. Vinyard........ 5 3 1 0 2 0 0 3 R LAA AAA Brandon Wood...... 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 LAA AAA Terry Evans....... 5 3 1 1 0 0 1 CIN A Drew Stubbs....... 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 LA AAA Matt Kemp......... 5 1 0 0 1 1 1 LA AAA Matt Kemp......... 5 1 0 0 1 1 1 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes MIN AAA Kevin Slowey...... 9 3 2 2 7 0 1 TB AAA Mitch Talbot...... 6 3 2 2 7 1 1 CHC AA Donald Veal....... 6 3 2 2 6 1 1 14 GB COL AA Gregory Reynolds.. 5 3 1 0 5 1 0 CHC AA Donald Veal....... 6 3 2 2 6 1 1 14 GB PHI A Kyle Drabek....... 8 2 1 1 7 3 0 14 GB NYM AA Kevin Mulvey...... 5 7 2 2 7 1 0 9 GB PHI AA Kyle Kendrick..... 6 9 4 3 5 0 0 ATL A Thomas Hanson..... 6 5 1 1 4 1 0 LAA A+ Robert Mosebach... 6 5 0 0 3 1 0 13 GB SD AA Cesar Ramos....... 6 4 1 0 3 3 0 11 GB LAA AA Nick Adenhart..... 5 8 5 5 3 3 0 10 GB THT StatsAccess all of THT’s stats here…
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BAL 17 18 .486 7.0 17 0 
NYA 16 17 .485 7.0 19 -3 
TB 14 20 .412 9.5 12 2 
TOR 13 21 .382 10.5 15 -2 
American League Central
DET 21 12 .636 0.0 19 2 
CLE 20 12 .625 0.5 18 2 
CHA 16 15 .516 4.0 15 1 
MIN 17 17 .500 4.5 18 -1 
KC 11 24 .314 11.0 11 0 
American League West
LAA 19 16 .543 0.0 19 0 
OAK 17 16 .515 1.0 20 -3 
SEA 15 15 .500 1.5 13 2 
TEX 14 20 .412 4.5 15 -1 
National League East Pwins Diff
ATL 22 12 .647 0.0 19 3 
NYN 21 12 .636 0.5 22 -1 
FLA 16 18 .471 6.0 17 -1 
PHI 15 19 .441 7.0 17 -2 
WAS 9 25 .265 13.0 9 0 
National League Central
MIL 24 10 .706 0.0 21 3 
CHN 16 16 .500 7.0 19 -3 
HOU 16 18 .471 8.0 17 -1 
PIT 15 18 .455 8.5 12 3 
STL 14 18 .438 9.0 11 3 
CIN 15 20 .429 9.5 18 -3 
National League West
LAN 20 15 .571 0.0 20 0 
ARI 19 17 .528 1.5 17 2 
SD 18 17 .514 2.0 19 -1 
SF 17 17 .500 2.5 18 -1 
COL 15 20 .429 5.0 14 1 