THT Daily: Hurdle’s out
by Dave StudemanMay 30, 2009
Major League News for May 30
Player News
Yesterday’s Results
Today’s Games
Standings
Top Minor League Performances
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Player News
Player Headlines are courtesy of RotoworldAstros placed second baseman Kaz Matsui on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to May 26, with a strained left hamstring.
Edwin Maysonet, who had a nice game filling in tonight, will likely start at second base again on Saturday. He's a pretty weak replacement, but maybe he's getting hot at the right time.
Andy Pettitte left Friday's game against the Indians in the sixth inning with an unknown lower body injury.
The Yankees haven't announced any details about the injury. Consider him day-to-day until more information becomes available.
Brett Myers will have surgery on his right hip and will likely be done for the season, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Myers told the paper that surgery hasn't been scheduled yet, but next Thursday is a possibility. The surgery will repair a torn labrum and bone spurs in his right hip. This is a huge blow. The Phillies may look to trade for a starting pitcher now that Myers is almost guaranteed to be done for the year.
The Rockies have reportedly fired manager Clint Hurdle and replaced him with bench coach Jim Tracy.
From bad to worse. Hurdle never seemed like much of a tactician, and it sounded like the players were prepared for a change. Tracy, though, was a brutal manager in Pittsburgh and hardly seems worthy of another opportunity. The Rockies should look outside of the organization for a long-term replacement.
White Sox placed OF Carlos Quentin on the 15-day disabled list with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
Chicago is acting conservatively with Quentin, hoping to get him healthy for the rest of the season. Considering his .229/.325/.458 start, that makes a lot of sense. Quentin has been dealing with the pain all year, and it shows. He's well off of his 2008 pace. Scott Podsednik has been getting most of the time in left with Quentin out, though considering he hasn't posted a .700 OPS since 2005, saying he's replacing Quentin is a stretch.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday's games, read "And That Happened" at Shysterball.American League BAL 7 DET 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TB 5 MIN 3 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 6 BOS 3 (Recap and Boxscore) NYA 3 CLE 1 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 11 KC 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 5 LAA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 5 OAK 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TEX 6 OAK 3 (Recap and Boxscore) National League NYN 2 FLA 1 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 5 WAS 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 2 LAN 1 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 3 CIN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 6 PIT 1 (Recap and Boxscore) ATL 10 ARI 6 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 3 SD 0 (Recap and Boxscore) SF 4 STL 2 (Recap and Boxscore)Check out Fangraphs' scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Florida Marlins at New York Mets, 1:10 PM (R) Josh Johnson (3-1) vs. (R) Tim Redding (0-1) Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks, 4:10 PM (R) Javier Vazquez (4-4) vs. (L) Doug Davis (2-6) Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 4:10 PM (L) Eric Stults (4-1) vs. (R) Ryan Dempster (3-3) Houston Astros at Pittsburgh Pirates, 7:05 PM (L) Wandy Rodriguez (5-3) vs. (R) Jeff Karstens (1-2) Cincinnati Reds at Milwaukee Brewers, 7:05 PM (R) Aaron Harang (5-4) vs. (R) Dave Bush (3-1) Washington Nationals at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (R) Shairon Martis (5-0) vs. (L) Cole Hamels (2-2) San Diego Padres at Colorado Rockies, 8:10 PM (R) Josh Geer (1-1) vs. (R) Jason Hammel (1-3) St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants, 9:05 PM (R) Chris Carpenter (2-0) vs. (L) Barry Zito (1-5) American League --------------- Boston Red Sox at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 PM (R) Brad Penny (5-1) vs. (L) Brian Tallet (2-3) Minnesota Twins at Tampa Bay Rays, 4:10 PM (L) Francisco Liriano (2-6) vs. (L) David Price (0-0) New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians, 7:05 PM (L) CC Sabathia (4-3) vs. (R) Fausto Carmona (2-4) Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles, 7:05 PM (R) Justin Verlander (5-2) vs. (R) Jeremy Guthrie (4-4) Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals, 7:10 PM (L) Mark Buehrle (6-1) vs. (R) Gil Meche (2-5) Oakland Athletics at Texas Rangers, 8:05 PM (L) Brett Anderson (2-4) vs. (R) Brandon McCarthy (4-2) Seattle Mariners at LA Angels of Anaheim, 9:05 PM (R) Felix Hernandez (5-3) vs. (R) Matt Palmer (5-0)
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 NYA 28 20 .583 0.0 25 3BOS 28 21 .571 0.5 27 1
TOR 28 23 .549 1.5 29 -1
TB 24 27 .471 5.5 28 -4
BAL 23 26 .469 5.5 22 1
American League Central DET 26 21 .553 0.0 27 -1
MIN 24 26 .480 3.5 26 -2
KC 23 25 .479 3.5 22 1
CHA 22 25 .468 4.0 22 0
CLE 21 29 .420 6.5 24 -3
American League West TEX 29 19 .604 0.0 26 3
LAA 24 23 .511 4.5 22 2
SEA 23 26 .469 6.5 21 2
OAK 18 28 .391 10.0 20 -2
National League East Pwins Diff NYN 27 20 .574 0.0 26 1
PHI 26 20 .565 0.5 25 1
ATL 24 24 .500 3.5 23 1
FLA 22 27 .449 6.0 21 1
WAS 13 34 .277 14.0 18 -5
National League Central STL 28 20 .583 0.0 27 1
MIL 28 20 .583 0.0 26 2
CIN 26 21 .553 1.5 25 1
CHN 24 23 .511 3.5 24 0
PIT 21 27 .438 7.0 24 -3
HOU 19 27 .413 8.0 20 -1
National League West LAN 34 16 .680 0.0 34 0
SF 24 23 .511 8.5 23 1
SD 24 24 .500 9.0 21 3
ARI 21 28 .429 12.5 21 0
COL 19 28 .404 13.5 22 -3
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 TB AA Desmond Jennings.. 3 3 1 0 1 2 0 WAN A Derek Norris...... 6 3 1 0 1 1 3 SD A James Darnell..... 3 3 1 1 0 2 0 NYM A Jefry Marte....... 4 3 0 0 2 0 1 BOS A+ Luis Exposito..... 4 4 1 0 1 0 0 SF A+ Nicholas Noonan... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 SF A+ Angel Villalona... 5 3 1 0 1 0 0 CLE AA Beau Mills........ 5 2 0 0 2 0 2 4 RBI PHI AA Michael Taylor.... 6 5 0 0 1 0 1 4 RBI SF AAA Jesus Guzman...... 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 3 R FLA A+ Michael Stanton... 3 2 1 0 0 3 0 CIN A+ Neftali Soto...... 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 LD ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes PHI A+ Kyle Drabek....... 9 5 0 0 7 1 0 ARI AAA Cesar Valdez...... 8 2 0 0 6 1 0 LA AA Scott Elbert...... 6 1 0 0 9 3 0 SD AA Matthew Latos..... 7 1 0 0 7 2 0 ATL AAA Charlie Morton.... 9 7 0 0 7 1 0 NYY A Brett Marshall.... 6 5 0 0 9 1 0 OAK AAA Gio Gonzalez...... 7 2 0 0 6 3 0 SF A+ Scott Barnes...... 6 2 1 1 6 3 0 LAA A+ Alexander Torres.. 6 5 1 1 7 3 0 BOS A+ Kyle Weiland...... 6 5 1 1 4 0 0 11 GB STL AAA P.J. Walters...... 8 6 5 1 4 2 0 16 GB PHI A Jason Knapp....... 6 5 2 2 4 1 0
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