THT Daily: Oops

by Dave Studeman
April 13, 2009

Major League News for April 13

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

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Player News

Player Headlines are courtesy of Rotoworld
Diamondbacks placed RHP Brandon Webb on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 7, with a sore right shoulder.
It still sounds like the Diamondbacks expects Webb to miss just one more start. He wasn't immediately replaced on the roster, so it appears the the team will just go ahead and activate Max Scherzer in his place. Scherzer, the team's fifth starter, is scheduled to pitch Tuesday. Yusmeiro Petit will continue to fill in for Webb.

Milton Bradley left Sunday's game in the fourth inning with an apparent right leg injury.
Not even a week. Bradley, who had some trouble with his left quad during spring training, appeared to hurt his right groin tonight. Reed Johnson pinch-ran for him. If Bradley lands on the DL, then Johnson and Kosuke Fukudome would both play pretty regularly.

Tom Glavine left his rehab start for Double-A Mississippi on Sunday after just two innings because of shoulder discomfort.
The plan was for Glavine to start for the Braves on Saturday, but it's hard to imagine that happening now. We're guessing that the team will turn back to Jorge Campillo as its fifth starter. Tommy Hanson will probably have to wait a while longer.

Torii Hunter was ejected from Sunday's game in the first inning following a benches-clearing incident against the Red Sox.
There hadn't been any previous incidents in the series, but after Bobby Abreu called time just before Josh Beckett was ready to throw him a pitch in the first, the pitch sailed up and in over his head. Abreu took offense and started pointing at Beckett, causing Beckett to walk towards him. The benches cleared, but it still looked like nothing would materialize until Mike Scioscia ramped up his arguing and the Angels wouldn't get off the field. Hunter and Justin Speier were the only players tossed.

Yesterday’s Results

American League
TB     11  BAL     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHA     6  MIN     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
CLE     8  TOR     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
DET     6  TEX     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
KC      6  NYA     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA     5  BOS     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
SEA     1  OAK     0    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
ATL     8  WAS     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
FLA     2  NYN     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
CIN     2  PIT     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHN     8  MIL     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     3  HOU     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAN     3  ARI     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
PHI     7  COL     5    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD      6  SF      1    (Recap and Boxscore)

First Inning's Major and Minor League Daily Reports:

Today’s Games

National League
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 Houston Astros at Pittsburgh Pirates, 1:35 PM
  (R) Brian Moehler (0-1) vs. (L) Zach Duke (1-0)
 Colorado Rockies at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM
  (R) Ubaldo Jimenez (1-0) vs. (L) Ted Lilly (1-0)
 Philadelphia Phillies at Washington Nationals, 3:05 PM
  (L) Jamie Moyer (0-1) vs. (R) Daniel Cabrera (0-1)
 San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers, 4:10 PM
  (L) Randy Johnson (0-1) vs. (R) Chad Billingsley (1-0)
 San Diego Padres at New York Mets, 7:10 PM
  (R) Walter Silva (0-0) vs. (R) Mike Pelfrey (1-0)
 Cincinnati Reds at Milwaukee Brewers, 8:05 PM
  (R) Edinson Volquez (0-1) vs. (R) Yovani Gallardo (1-0)
 St. Louis Cardinals at Arizona Diamondbacks, 9:40 PM
  (R) Todd Wellemeyer (0-1) vs. (L) Doug Davis (0-1)
 
 American League
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 Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers, 1:05 PM
  (R) Gavin Floyd (0-1) vs. (R) Zach Miner (1-0)
 New York Yankees at Tampa Bay Rays, 7:08 PM
  (R) Chien-Ming Wang (0-1) vs. (L) Scott Kazmir (1-0)
 Baltimore Orioles at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM
  (R) Koji Uehara (1-0) vs. (R) Vicente Padilla (1-0)
 Toronto Blue Jays at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM
  (R) Jesse Litsch (0-1) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (1-0)
 Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals, 8:10 PM
  (R) Fausto Carmona (0-1) vs. (R) Zack Greinke (1-0)
 Boston Red Sox at Oakland Athletics, 10:05 PM
  (L) Jon Lester (0-1) vs. (L) Dallas Braden (0-1)

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
TOR      5   2 .714    0.0    4     1    
BAL      4   2 .667    0.5    3     1    
NYA      3   3 .500    1.5    4    -1    
TB       3   3 .500    1.5    4    -1    
BOS      2   4 .333    2.5    2     0    
American League Central     
DET      4   3 .571    0.0    4     0    
CHA      3   3 .500    0.5    4    -1    
KC       3   3 .500    0.5    2     1    
MIN      3   4 .429    1.0    2     1    
CLE      1   5 .167    2.5    2    -1    
American League West        
SEA      5   2 .714    0.0    5     0    
LAA      3   3 .500    1.5    3     0    
TEX      3   3 .500    1.5    3     0    
OAK      2   4 .333    2.5    3    -1    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
ATL      5   1 .833    0.0    4     1    
FLA      5   1 .833    0.0    4     1    
NYN      3   3 .500    2.0    3     0    
PHI      3   3 .500    2.0    2     1    
WAS      0   6 .000    5.0    1    -1    
National League Central     
STL      5   2 .714    0.0    5     0    
CHN      4   2 .667    0.5    4     0    
PIT      3   3 .500    1.5    3     0    
CIN      2   3 .400    2.0    2     0    
MIL      2   4 .333    2.5    2     0    
HOU      1   5 .167    3.5    1     0    
National League West        
SD       5   2 .714    0.0    5     0    
LAN      4   3 .571    1.0    5    -1    
COL      3   3 .500    1.5    4    -1    
ARI      2   4 .333    2.5    2     0    
SF       2   4 .333    2.5    3    -1

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
SF  A+  Brandon Crawford.. 3  3  0  0  1  0  0  
OAK AA  Corey Brown....... 3  2  0  0  0  2  0  2 SB
OAK AA  Chris Carter...... 4  2  1  0  0  2  1  
PHI AAA Jason Donald...... 4  2  2  0  0  0  1  
NYM AAA Gaby Sanchez...... 6  3  0  0  1  0  1  
SEA AAA Mike Carp......... 3  2  1  0  0  2  0  
ATL A+  F. Freeman........ 4  3  1  0  0  0  1  
BOS AA  Josh Reddick...... 4  1  0  0  1  1  3  
SF  A+  Conor Gillaspie... 5  3  1  0  0  0  0  
SF  A+  Buster Posey...... 4  2  0  0  1  0  0  
ATL AA  Brandon Hicks..... 4  2  0  0  1  0  1  
CHW AA  Gordon Beckham.... 3  1  1  0  0  2  1  

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
ATL AAA Charlie Morton.... 6  1  1  1 12  1  0  
COL A   C. Friedrich...... 6  1  0  0  9  2  0  
LA  A+  C. Withrow........ 5  0  0  0  6  2  0  
BAL AAA David Hernandez... 5  2  1  1  9  2  1  
ATL A+  Cole Rohrbough.... 5  4  1  1  6  1  0  
BOS A   Casey Kelly....... 5  4  0  0  4  1  0  
TB  AAA Wade Davis........ 4  2  1  1  5  3  0  
BOS AAA Daniel Bard....... 2  0  0  0  2  0  0  
PIT A   Wilmer Font....... 2  1  0  0  4  2  0  
NYY AAA Philip Hughes..... 6  6  3  3  6  2  2  
ATL A   Randall Delgado... 3  5  2  2  4  2  0  
MIN AAA Jose Mijares...... 1  0  0  0  1  0  0

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