THT Daily: Rehabbing

by Matthew Carruth
July 16, 2009

Major League News for July 16

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
Jed Lowrie is expected to return to the Red Sox on Saturday.
Lowrie has been sidelined since April following wrist surgery. “Every day I play I feel like I’m getting better,” he said Tuesday. “I know the major league game is different no matter how you approach it. No matter how ready I am down here, I’m going to have to shake out some rust, but I feel like I’m ready.” Nick Green may be headed back to the minors, unless the Red Sox can figure out a way to dump Julio Lugo. Perhaps a release is in order.

Carlos Quentin (foot) went 0-for-1 with two walks in a rehab appearance with Single-A Kannapolis on Tuesday night.
Quentin played six innings in left field, representing a major stride in his recovery from plantar fasciitis. He has already racked up several rehab games with Triple-A Charlotte, and is about a week from returning to the bigs. His bat should provide a nice mid-season boost for the White Sox.

Phillies signed RHP Pedro Martinez to a one-year, $1 million contract.
The transaction was made official with a press conference Wednesday morning. Martinez is expected to immediately slide into the Phillies’ starting rotation after two minor league warmup outings and is probably worth a look in NL-only leagues. He looked solid during six short innings at the World Baseball Classic and the Phils made sure he was healthy before agreeing to write a couple of large checks. It should be a fun experiment, if anything.

Yesterday’s Results

For the full scoop regarding yesterday’s games, read “And That Happened” at Shysterball.

American League
BAL     4  TOR     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
BOS     6  KC      0    (Recap and Boxscore)
OAK     7  TB      3    (Recap and Boxscore)
DET    10  CLE     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
MIN    13  CHA     7    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAA     5  NYA     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
SEA     5  TEX     3    (Recap and Boxscore)

National League
NYN     9  CIN     7    (Recap and Boxscore)
PHI     5  PIT     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
CHN     7  STL     3    (Recap and Boxscore)
STL     4  CHN     2    (Recap and Boxscore)
HOU     5  WAS     0    (Recap and Boxscore)
LAN     7  MIL     4    (Recap and Boxscore)
FLA     8  ARI     1    (Recap and Boxscore)
COL     8  ATL     7    (Recap and Boxscore)
SD     10  SF      4    (Recap and Boxscore)

Check out Fangraphs’ scoreboard to see all the games in action.

Today’s Games

National League
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 Chicago Cubs at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM
  (R) Rich Harden (5-6) vs. (L) John Lannan (6-6)
 Milwaukee Brewers at Cincinnati Reds, 7:10 PM
  (R) Braden Looper (7-4) vs. (R) Homer Bailey (1-0)
 Philadelphia Phillies at Florida Marlins, 7:10 PM
  (L) Jamie Moyer (8-6) vs. (R) Chris Volstad (6-8)
 New York Mets at Atlanta Braves, 7:10 PM
  (L) Oliver Perez (2-2) vs. (R) Derek Lowe (8-7)
 Colorado Rockies at San Diego Padres, 10:05 PM
  (R) Aaron Cook (8-3) vs. (R) Chad Gaudin (4-7)
 Houston Astros at Los Angeles Dodgers, 10:10 PM
  (L) Wandy Rodriguez (8-6) vs. (L) Randy Wolf (4-3)
 
 American League
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 Seattle Mariners at Cleveland Indians, 7:05 PM
  (L) Garrett Olson (3-2) vs. (L) Cliff Lee (4-9)
 LA Angels of Anaheim at Oakland Athletics, 10:05 PM
  (R) Ervin Santana (1-5) vs. (L) Dallas Braden (7-7)

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     54  34 .614    0.0   52     2    
NYA     51  37 .580    3.0   50     1    
TB      48  41 .539    6.5   52    -4    
TOR     44  46 .489   11.0   48    -4    
BAL     40  48 .455   14.0   38     2    
American League Central     
DET     48  39 .552    0.0   47     1    
CHA     45  43 .511    3.5   44     1    
MIN     45  44 .506    4.0   47    -2    
KC      37  51 .420   11.5   36     1    
CLE     35  54 .393   14.0   40    -5    
American League West        
LAA     49  37 .570    0.0   46     3    
TEX     48  39 .552    1.5   47     1    
SEA     46  42 .523    4.0   42     4    
OAK     37  49 .430   12.0   39    -2    


National League East        Pwins  Diff
PHI     48  38 .558    0.0   48     0    
FLA     46  44 .511    4.0   44     2    
ATL     43  45 .489    6.0   43     0    
NYN     42  45 .483    6.5   40     2    
WAS     26  61 .299   22.5   33    -7    
National League Central     
STL     49  42 .538    0.0   49     0    
MIL     45  43 .511    2.5   43     2    
CHN     43  43 .500    3.5   43     0    
HOU     44  44 .500    3.5   41     3    
CIN     42  45 .483    5.0   38     4    
PIT     38  50 .432    9.5   43    -5    
National League West        
LAN     56  32 .636    0.0   55     1    
SF      49  39 .557    7.0   49     0    
COL     47  41 .534    9.0   48    -1    
ARI     38  51 .427   18.5   41    -3    
SD      36  52 .409   20.0   33     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.. 2  2  1  0  1  3  0  
LAA A   Alexia Amarista... 4  3  2  1  0  0  0  3 R
PIT A+  L. Milledge....... 4  2  0  0  2  0  0  
CHC A+  Starlin Castro.... 4  4  1  0  0  0  0  
TEX A+  Engel Beltre...... 5  4  0  1  0  0  0  
MIN A+  Ben Revere........ 5  3  0  1  0  1  0  
BOS A+  Luis Exposito..... 4  3  0  0  1  0  1  
COL A+  Hector Gomez...... 4  3  1  0  0  0  0  
HOU A+  Jack Shuck........ 5  2  1  1  0  0  1  
FLA A   Isaac Galloway.... 7  3  1  0  0  0  0  
ARI A   Marc Krauss....... 4  2  1  0  0  1  0  
ARI A   Reynaldo Navarro.. 5  3  0  0  0  0  1  2 SB

ORG LVL PLAYER            IP  H  R ER SO BB HR  Notes
LA  A   Ethan Martin...... 4  1  0  0  7  0  0  
BAL A+  Richard Zagone.... 7  3  1  1  6  0  1  
CLE A+  Alexander Perez... 7  5  1  1  5  0  0  12 GB
NYM A   Jeurys Familia.... 6  1  1  1  4  1  0  
SF  A   Eric Surkamp...... 6  7  2  2  8  2  0  
BOS A+  Bryan Price....... 6  3  3  3  7  3  1  
LA  A   Nathan Eovaldi.... 5  4  1  1  5  2  0  
TEX A   Wilmer Font....... 6  2  0  0  4  3  0  
ATL AA  Edgar Osuna....... 5  3  0  0  3  1  0  
TOR A+  Tim Collins....... 2  1  0  0  4  0  0  
LA  A+  C. Withrow........ 5  5  4  3  6  3  0  
CHC AA  Andrew Cashner.... 4  4  2  2  5  2  0

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