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THT Daily: Thank Goodness That’s Overby Matthew CarruthJune 25, 2007 Major League News for June 25Today’s LinksPlayer News Yesterday’s Results Today’s Games Standings Top Minor League Performances You can always find the most recent THT Daily at http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/content/thtdaily/ THT LinksRebuilding - Ian Kinsler's scorching hot start and subsequent fall back to Earth has left many people calling him out as part of the Rangers problems. He was ridiculously overrated during April, but Kinsler is nowhere near a problem for the Rangers. More Buehrle - A closer examination of the varying teams expressing interest in Mark Buehrle. Done - Meanwhile on the south side, as the calender marches towards July, some fans come to grips with the reality of the season. On the Other Side - No, not the north side, but the successful side, Jeff Sackmann looks at what the Brewers could do at the deadline to improve the team. The Office -Jonesing for the next new episodes of The Office? Well, never fear, apparently, they took in a baseball game recently, in Minnesota for some reason. 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 Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldRod Beck passed away Saturday in Phoenix at age 38. Beck saved 286 games over 13 big-league seasons before his career ended when the Padres released him in 2004. He had 51 saves for the Cubs in 1998, but his best season came in 1992, when he had a 1.76 ERA and 17 saves in 92 innings for the Giants. Ken Griffey Jr. tied and then passed Mark McGwire for seventh place on the career list with two homers Sunday against the Mariners. Griffey was pressing a bit recently, striking out seven times in his last three games, before coming up big Sunday in the final game of his return to Seattle. He has 584 career homers, including 21 this year. Griffey also singled in the contest, giving him half of the Reds' six hits in the 3-2 loss. Dustin McGowan had his no-hitter broken up in the ninth, but he still managed a complete-game shutout Sunday against the Rockies. Jeff Baker singled to lead off the top of the ninth, giving the Rockies their only hit in a 5-0 loss. McGowan, coming off an outing in which he gave up six runs in 1 2/3 innings, struck out seven, walked one and threw 109 pitches in his first career complete game. He remains a risky play in AL-only leagues, but he has to be active until he turns in a couple of bad outings in a row. In his second ever regular-season relief appearance, Roger Clemens allowed a run in an inning Sunday in the loss to the Giants. The other relief appearance came as a rookie in 1984. Clemens also warmed up in Saturday's 13-inning game. It's amazing that the Yankees are taking such a chance with him, even if he's perfectly willing to go along with the idea. Sure, they were short of relief help today, but they weren't desperate. Mariano Rivera didn't pitch Saturday and Ron Villone has barely seen any action at all. Josh Beckett became the league's first 11-game winner by prevailing in a rare matchup of pitchers with .900 winning percentages Sunday against the Padres. Beckett allowed two runs in eight innings to outduel Jake Peavy, who was removed after surrendering three runs in five innings and fell to 9-2. Both pitchers dealt well with a very small strike zone from Dana Demuth, but the Red Sox were able to string together some singles and the Padres just couldn't. Beckett has given up one run in 14 innings since taking his only loss of the season on June 14. Joe Mauer hit his second and third homers of the year off Byung-Hyun Kim to help the Twins beat the Marlins 7-4 on Sunday. He shouldn't have gotten a chance to hit the second one. With Michael Cuddyer getting tossed in the fourth and Lew Ford going into the lineup as the cleanup hitter, Mauer never should have been thrown a fastball down the middle with a man on third in the sixth inning. It was Mauer's second straight three-RBI game. He has six extra-base hits and nine RBI in his last five games. A second chest X-ray taken Sunday showed no broken bones in Justin Morneau's chest. The Twins hope he'll be able to fly back to Minnesota on Monday. Morneau is scheduled to spend a third night in the hospital first. "They don’t want to have any complications when he gets on an airplane," GM Terry Ryan said. "They’re thinking probably tomorrow. They didn’t want him to go today. They wanted to make sure everything is in order so there’s no possibility of complications." The Twins still hope to have Morneau back in the lineup before the end of the week. Yesterday’s ResultsInter-League TB 9 LAN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 5 COL 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 3 CHA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 4 PIT 3 (Recap and Boxscore) 10 innings SEA 3 CIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 12 TEX 9 (Recap and Boxscore) 10 innings DET 5 ATL 0 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 7 FLA 4 (Recap and Boxscore) NYN 10 OAK 2 (Recap and Boxscore) WAS 3 CLE 1 (Recap and Boxscore) KC 4 MIL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 8 BAL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 4 SD 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 7 NYA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) National League PHI 5 STL 1 (Recap and Boxscore)
Today’s GamesNational League --------------- Washington Nationals at Atlanta Braves, 7:05 PM (R) Jason Bergmann (1-3) vs. (R) Tim Hudson (6-5) St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets, 7:10 PM (L) Mike Maroth (0-0) vs. (R) Jorge Sosa (6-3) Colorado Rockies at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 PM (L) Jeff Francis (7-5) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (5-4) Houston Astros at Milwaukee Brewers, 8:05 PM (R) Jason Jennings (1-1) vs. (R) Ben Sheets (8-3) Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona Diamondbacks, 9:40 PM (R) Brad Penny (9-1) vs. (R) Micah Owings (5-1) San Diego Padres at San Francisco Giants, 10:15 PM (R) Justin Germano (5-1) vs. (R) Tim Lincecum (2-2) American League --------------- Texas Rangers at Detroit Tigers, 7:05 PM (R) Kameron Loe (3-6) vs. (R) Jeremy Bonderman (8-0) Oakland Athletics at Cleveland Indians, 7:05 PM (R) Chad Gaudin (6-2) vs. (L) Cliff Lee (4-4) Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 7:10 PM (L) John Danks (3-6) vs. (L) JP Howell (1-1) Toronto Blue Jays at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM (R) Roy Halladay (8-2) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (2-0) Boston Red Sox at Seattle Mariners, 10:05 PM (R) Julian Tavarez (5-4) vs. (R) Jeff Weaver (1-6) Kansas City Royals at LA Angels of Anaheim, 10:05 PM (R) John Thomson (0-0) vs. (R) John Lackey (10-4) 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 48 26 .649 0.0 46 2 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, with a focus on each team’s top prospects.ORG LVL PLAYER AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO Notes LAA AAA Brandon Wood...... 4 2 0 0 1 0 1 ATL A+ Eric Campbell..... 5 3 0 0 2 0 0 4 RBI OAK AAA Daric Barton...... 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 COL AAA Joseph Koshansky.. 4 2 0 0 1 1 1 SEA AAA Jeff Clement...... 4 3 2 0 0 1 0 STL AA Colby Rasmus...... 3 1 0 0 1 2 1 CIN AA Jay Bruce......... 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 TB AA Evan Longoria..... 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 NYY A+ Jose Tabata....... 5 3 0 0 0 1 0 DET A Scott Sizemore.... 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 3 LD CHC A+ Brian Dopirak..... 5 3 1 0 1 0 1 TEX AAA Jason Botts....... 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes BOS A- Jose Capellan..... 5 2 0 0 9 0 0 MIN A+ Yohan Pino........ 7 5 1 0 6 0 0 BAL A+ Brandon Erbe...... 6 4 0 0 7 3 0 OAK A Trevor Cahill..... 6 7 3 3 5 2 0 12 GB TB AAA Jeff Niemann...... 6 6 1 1 3 1 0 11 GB CHC AAA Sean Gallagher.... 5 1 0 0 4 2 0 KC AA Jarod Plummer..... 4 1 0 0 5 1 0 BOS A+ Justin Masterson.. 7 3 2 2 4 0 1 SF A+ Darren Sack....... 5 4 0 0 4 0 0 10 GB ATL AA Matt Harrison..... 7 7 3 3 2 0 0 14 GB MIN AAA Jason Miller...... 5 5 3 3 5 1 0 LAA A+ Stephen Marek..... 6 3 2 2 8 4 1 Access THT’s stats here…
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TOR 37 37 .500 11.0 39 -2 
NYA 36 37 .493 11.5 42 -6 
TB 33 40 .452 14.5 29 4 
BAL 32 43 .427 16.5 36 -4 
American League Central
DET 45 29 .608 0.0 46 -1 
CLE 43 31 .581 2.0 42 1 
MIN 38 35 .521 6.5 39 -1 
CHA 29 42 .408 14.5 28 1 
KC 30 46 .395 16.0 31 -1 
American League West
LAA 49 27 .645 0.0 46 3 
SEA 39 33 .542 8.0 36 3 
OAK 39 35 .527 9.0 41 -2 
TEX 30 45 .400 18.5 33 -3 
National League East Pwins Diff
NYN 41 32 .562 0.0 41 0 
PHI 39 36 .520 3.0 37 2 
ATL 38 38 .500 4.5 35 3 
FLA 36 40 .474 6.5 36 0 
WAS 32 43 .427 10.0 29 3 
National League Central
MIL 43 32 .573 0.0 40 3 
CHN 35 39 .473 7.5 40 -5 
STL 33 39 .458 8.5 29 4 
HOU 32 43 .427 11.0 34 -2 
PIT 31 44 .413 12.0 30 1 
CIN 29 47 .382 14.5 34 -5 
National League West
ARI 44 32 .579 0.0 39 5 
SD 42 32 .568 1.0 46 -4 
LAN 42 33 .560 1.5 40 2 
COL 38 37 .507 5.5 36 2 
SF 32 42 .432 11.0 37 -5 