THT Daily: End of a Career?
by Matthew CarruthJune 21, 2008
Major League News for June 21
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldCubs placed Carlos Zambrano on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 19 with a minor strain in his right shoulder.
It's the second career DL stint for Zambrano. He shouldn't be out too long. Big Z had a 8-3 record with a 3.13 ERA in 16 starts this season.
The Marlins plan to activate Josh Willingham from the disabled list on Tuesday.
Willingham will be eased back into the lineup. 'I'm not going to run him out there the first seven days in a row,'' manager Fredi Gonzalez said. He has been on the DL since April 28 with lower back pain.
Chipper Jones said he expects to be sidelined through the weekend after aggravating his strained right quad.
"It's happened so many times I can't recall," Jones said. "This is definitely the worst, though." Omar Infante will start at either third or short on Saturday, depending on whether Yunel Escobar plays.
Erik Bedard was taken out of Friday's game against the Braves with back spasms.
Bedard threw three scoreless innings being unable to continue. With the trade talk already heating up, one wonders if he's really willing to give it his all for the Mariners at this point.
Gerald Laird left Friday's game in the fourth inning with a right leg injury.
The apparent hamstring injury seems likely to put him on the disabled list. That'd make Jarrod Saltalamacchia a strong play in mixed leagues. Taylor Teagarden or Max Ramirez could be called up to serve as a part-time player.
Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Blue Jays will fire manager John Gibbons prior to Friday night's game and replace him with Cito Gaston.
There's a press conference scheduled shortly. Gibbons has gone 305-305 in parts of five seasons with the Blue Jays, including this year's disappointing 35-39 mark that has the team in the AL East basement. General manager J.P. Ricciardi may also be on the hot seat at some point, but unlike in Seattle this time the manager takes the first fall. Gaston managed the Blue Jays from 1989-1997 and led the team to a pair of championships, but hasn't managed since then, hasn't skippered a winning team since 1994 and is now 64 years old.
Curt Schilling told WEEI that he'll have surgery on his right shoulder on Monday, and that his season - and possibly career - is over.
The 41-year-old wasn't sure what type of surgery he'd be undergoing, and said that would be figured out on Monday. He left open the possibility that he'd be able to pitch again next season, but said "there's a decent chance that I have thrown my last pitch, forever." He had been rehabbing shoulder and biceps injuries, but hit a setback while throwing before last Friday's game.
Yesterday’s Results
American League STL 5 BOS 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 4 NYA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 4 TB 3 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 9 KC 4 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 7 ARI 2 (Recap and Boxscore) OAK 7 FLA 6 (Recap and Boxscore) National League SEA 10 ATL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) LAA 7 PHI 1 (Recap and Boxscore) WAS 4 TEX 3 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 4 CHA 3 (Recap and Boxscore) BAL 8 MIL 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PIT 1 TOR 0 (Recap and Boxscore) NYN 7 COL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 6 LAN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 6 DET 2 (Recap and Boxscore)
Today’s Games
National League --------------- New York Mets at Colorado Rockies, 8:05 PM (R) Pedro Martinez (2-0) vs. (R) Ubaldo Jimenez (1-7) Inter-League ------------ Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 1:05 PM (R) Jose Contreras (6-5) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (5-3) Cincinnati Reds at New York Yankees, 1:05 PM (R) Daryl Thompson (0-0) vs. (R) Dan Giese (1-1) St. Louis Cardinals at Boston Red Sox, 3:55 PM (R) Mitchell Boggs (1-0) vs. (R) Daisuke Matsuzaka (8-0) Cleveland Indians at Los Angeles Dodgers, 3:55 PM (L) C.C. Sabathia (5-8) vs. (R) Chan Ho Park (2-2) Houston Astros at Tampa Bay Rays, 6:10 PM (L) Wandy Rodriguez (2-3) vs. (R) Edwin Jackson (4-6) LA Angels of Anaheim at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (L) Joe Saunders (10-3) vs. (R) Brett Myers (3-8) Toronto Blue Jays at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM (R) Jesse Litsch (7-3) vs. (L) Paul Maholm (4-5) Baltimore Orioles at Milwaukee Brewers, 7:05 PM (R) Daniel Cabrera (5-2) vs. (R) Seth McClung (4-3) Arizona Diamondbacks at Minnesota Twins, 7:10 PM (R) Micah Owings (6-5) vs. (R) Nick Blackburn (5-4) Texas Rangers at Washington Nationals, 7:10 PM (L) Kason Gabbard (1-3) vs. (R) Garrett Mock (0-1) Seattle Mariners at Atlanta Braves, 7:10 PM (L) Jarrod Washburn (2-7) vs. (R) Jair Jurrjens (7-3) San Francisco Giants at Kansas City Royals, 7:10 PM (R) Kevin Correia (1-4) vs. (R) Gil Meche (4-8) Florida Marlins at Oakland Athletics, 9:05 PM (R) Ricky Nolasco (7-4) vs. (L) Dana Eveland (5-5) Detroit Tigers at San Diego Padres, 10:05 PM (L) Nate Robertson (5-6) vs. (R) Cha Seung Baek (1-1)
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 BOS 46 30 .605 0.0 45 1TB 43 30 .589 1.5 40 3
NYA 40 34 .541 5.0 39 1
BAL 38 34 .528 6.0 36 2
TOR 35 40 .467 10.5 39 -4
American League Central CHA 41 32 .562 0.0 46 -5
MIN 38 36 .514 3.5 36 2
DET 34 39 .466 7.0 36 -2
CLE 34 40 .459 7.5 38 -4
KC 31 43 .419 10.5 31 0
American League West LAA 44 30 .595 0.0 38 6
OAK 40 33 .548 3.5 43 -3
TEX 37 38 .493 7.5 36 1
SEA 26 47 .356 17.5 29 -3
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 42 33 .560 0.0 46 -4
FLA 39 34 .534 2.0 37 2
NYN 36 36 .500 4.5 37 -1
ATL 36 39 .480 6.0 41 -5
WAS 30 45 .400 12.0 28 2
National League Central CHN 46 28 .622 0.0 47 -1
STL 43 32 .573 3.5 40 3
MIL 39 34 .534 6.5 36 3
PIT 35 39 .473 11.0 33 2
HOU 34 40 .459 12.0 33 1
CIN 34 41 .453 12.5 33 1
National League West ARI 39 35 .527 0.0 39 0
LAN 34 39 .466 4.5 37 -3
SF 32 42 .432 7.0 32 0
SD 32 43 .427 7.5 31 1
COL 31 43 .419 8.0 31 0
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 ATL A+ Tyler Flowers..... 4 3 1 0 2 2 0 7 RBI ! PIT AAA Steven Pearce..... 4 3 1 0 1 1 0 4 RBI MIN AAA Jason Pridie...... 5 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 R KC AAA Billy Butler...... 6 3 0 0 2 0 1 NYY AAA Juan Miranda...... 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 CLE AA Trevor Crowe...... 5 4 1 0 1 0 0 4 RBI COL A+ Michael McKenry... 5 2 0 0 2 0 1 OAK A+ Chris Carter...... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 4 RBI ATL A+ Gorkys Hernandez.. 6 3 2 0 0 1 0 3 R FLA A Michael Stanton... 4 2 1 0 1 1 1 CHC AAA Josh Kroeger...... 5 2 1 0 1 0 0 PIT AAA Neil Walker....... 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes COL A Jhoulys Chacin.... 6 4 0 0 9 2 0 BOS AAA Clay Buchholz..... 5 1 0 0 6 0 0 NYM AA Bobby Parnell..... 6 4 1 1 6 1 0 LA A+ Josh Wall......... 6 2 2 2 7 3 0 CHW AA Aaron Poreda...... 6 5 0 0 6 1 0 OAK AA Trevor Cahill..... 6 2 1 1 6 3 0 SF A Daryl Maday....... 6 2 0 0 7 4 0 OAK A+ Brett Anderson.... 6 3 3 3 8 3 1 MIN A+ Tyler Robertson... 4 3 0 0 5 1 0 TOR AA Brett Cecil....... 5 3 1 1 4 2 0 BAL AA Bradley Bergesen.. 6 7 2 1 3 0 0 13 GB CLE AAA Jensen Lewis...... 2 1 0 0 4 0 0
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