THT Daily: End of June

by Matthew Carruth
June 30, 2007

Major League News for June 30

Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
Stats

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Player News

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The White Sox's unwillingness to give Mark Buehrle the no-trade clause he wants is holding up a contract extension.
The White Sox seemingly expect Buehrle to sign below market and not be rewarded for doing so. Buehrle won't be a 10-and-5 player until mid-2010, so he feels he needs the extra protection. A four-year, $56 million contract is within striking distance if the White Sox relent.

Barry Bonds hit a solo homer off Diamondbacks starter Livan Hernandez for the 750th homer of his career tonight.
The homer tied the game at 3-3, but the Giants ended up losing it 4-3 in extra innings. Bonds is now five homers short of tying Hank Aaron's all-time record. It took Bonds 28 games to hit his last five homers, and if that pace continues he'll hit homer No. 755 on August 3 at Petco Park against the Padres.

Aubrey Huff hit for the cycle against the Angels on Friday but the Orioles still lost the game 9-7.
Huff only came to the plate four times and made each trip count. The three extra-base hits came off starter Kelvim Escobar, with the single coming off reliever Chris Bootcheck in the seventh. Huff drove in three runs and scored three times in the contest while becoming the first Oriole since Cal Ripken Jr. in 1984 to hit for the cycle.

Yesterday’s Results

American League
LAA     9  BAL     7    (Recap and Boxscore)
BOS     2  TEX     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYA     2  OAK     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
CLE     2  TB      1    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIN    11  DET     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
KC      8  CHA     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
SEA     5  TOR     3    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
ATL    12  FLA     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYN     6  PHI     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
NYN     5  PHI     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHN     6  MIL     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     4  CIN     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
HOU     9  COL     8    (Recap and Boxscore)
PIT     3  WAS     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD      7  LAN     6    (Recap and Boxscore)
ARI     4  SF      3    (Recap and Boxscore)

Today’s Games

National League
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 Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs, 3:55 PM
  (R) Ben Sheets (9-3) vs. (L) Sean Marshall (4-2)
 New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies, 3:55 PM
  (R) Jorge Sosa (6-3) vs. (L) James Happ (0-0)
 Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins, 7:05 PM
  (R) Tim Hudson (7-5) vs. (R) Byung-Hyun Kim (3-4)
 Colorado Rockies at Houston Astros, 7:05 PM
  (L) Jeff Francis (7-5) vs. (R) Jason Jennings (1-2)
 Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM
  (R) Jason Simontacchi (5-5) vs. (L) Tom Gorzelanny (7-4)
 St. Louis Cardinals at Cincinnati Reds, 7:10 PM
  (L) Mike Maroth (0-0) vs. (R) Kyle Lohse (3-10)
 Arizona Diamondbacks at San Francisco Giants, 9:05 PM
  (L) Doug Davis (5-8) vs. (L) Noah Lowry (7-6)
 San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM
  (R) Jake Peavy (9-2) vs. (R) Brad Penny (10-1)
 
 American League
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 Oakland Athletics at New York Yankees, 1:05 PM
  (R) Chad Gaudin (6-3) vs. (L) Kei Igawa (2-1)
 Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers, 3:55 PM
  (R) Kevin Slowey (2-0) vs. (L) Andrew Miller (3-1)
 LA Angels of Anaheim at Baltimore Orioles, 7:05 PM
  (R) Bartolo Colon (6-3) vs. (L) Brian Burres (3-2)
 Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox, 7:05 PM
  (R) Robinson Tejeda (5-7) vs. (R) Josh Beckett (11-1)
 Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Cleveland Indians, 7:05 PM
  (L) JP Howell (1-1) vs. (L) CC Sabathia (11-2)
 Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals, 7:10 PM
  (L) John Danks (4-6) vs. (L) Odalis Perez (4-7)
 Toronto Blue Jays at Seattle Mariners, 10:05 PM
  (R) Roy Halladay (9-2) vs. (R) Miguel Batista (7-6)

Standings

The 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     49  29 .628    0.0   47     2    
TOR     39  40 .494   10.5   41    -2    
NYA     37  39 .487   11.0   44    -7    
BAL     34  44 .436   15.0   38    -4    
TB      33  45 .423   16.0   30     3    
American League Central     
CLE     47  32 .595    0.0   45     2    
DET     46  32 .590    0.5   47    -1    
MIN     41  37 .526    5.5   42    -1    
CHA     33  43 .434   12.5   31     2    
KC      34  46 .425   13.5   35    -1    
American League West        
LAA     50  30 .625    0.0   47     3    
SEA     43  33 .566    5.0   39     4    
OAK     40  39 .506    9.5   43    -3    
TEX     32  47 .405   17.5   36    -4    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
NYN     45  33 .577    0.0   44     1    
ATL     42  38 .525    4.0   40     2    
PHI     41  39 .513    5.0   39     2    
FLA     37  43 .463    9.0   37     0    
WAS     32  47 .405   13.5   29     3    
National League Central     
MIL     46  33 .582    0.0   44     2    
CHN     39  39 .500    6.5   42    -3    
STL     35  41 .461    9.5   31     4    
PIT     34  45 .430   12.0   33     1    
HOU     34  46 .425   12.5   35    -1    
CIN     30  50 .375   16.5   35    -5    
National League West        
SD      45  33 .577    0.0   48    -3    
ARI     46  35 .568    0.5   40     6    
LAN     45  35 .563    1.0   43     2    
COL     38  42 .475    8.0   38     0    
SF      33  45 .423   12.0   38    -5

Top Minor League Games

The 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
CLE AAA Andy Marte........ 5  2  0  0  1  0  1  
ARI AAA Alberto Callaspo.. 4  2  1  0  1  1  2  
STL AA  Colby Rasmus...... 3  2  2  0  0  0  0  
CIN AA  Jay Bruce......... 6  1  1  0  0  0  2  
SEA AAA Adam Jones........ 4  3  0  0  0  0  0  
OAK A+  Javier Herrera.... 2  2  0  0  1  0  0  
LA  A+  Travis Denker..... 5  3  1  0  1  0  0  
ARI AAA Chris Carter...... 4  2  2  0  0  0  0  
OAK A-  Matthew Sulentic.. 4  1  1  0  0  1  1  
DET A+  Wilkin Ramirez.... 3  3  1  0  0  1  0  
COL AAA Ian Stewart....... 5  1  1  0  0  0  2  
ARI AA  Carlos Gonzalez... 3  1  0  0  0  1  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
OAK A   Trevor Cahill..... 6  3  3  3  7  3  0  
BAL AAA Garrett Olson..... 7  2  0  0 10  4  0  
TB  AAA Jeff Niemann...... 6  7  4  1  7  4  0  
TEX A   Kasey Kiker....... 6  4  0  0  5  1  0  
FLA AA  G. Hernandez...... 5  3  0  0  3  0  0  
BOS A+  Justin Masterson.. 7  3  0  0  2  0  0  13 GB
TB  A+  M. Wlodarczyk..... 7  5  2  2  8  3  1  
CIN AAA Richie Gardner.... 6  5  1  1  6  0  0  
NYY A-  Dellin Betances... 4  7  3  2  7  2  0  
TOR AAA Josh Banks........ 8  7  2  2  9  0  2  
PHI A+  Joshua Outman..... 5  7  2  2  7  3  0  9 GB
WAN AAA Joel Hanrahan..... 7  5  1  1  6  1  1

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