Injury Updates
David Price is pitching Monday
Pablo Sandoval is hitting .230 over four rehab games
Junior Guerra will not have a pitch count restriction when he is activated today
Wilson Ramos will catch in two batting practice sessions at Triple-A next week
Jameson Taillon threw all his pitches in his second 35-pitch bullpen session yesterday
This one was more of a competitive bullpen, I’m tired, but it’s all goodJamison Taillon on Outing.
Cam Bedrosian will face live hitters at extended spring training in the coming days, but Bud Norris has done exceptionally well as Closer.
He still has a little work to do, but he’s made some huge jumps in the last 10 days, You knew it was going to happen sometime.Maybe it took a little longer, but he feels good. We hope (to have tough decisions), when you have tough decisions, whether it’s the lineup or who is on your roster, or what roles they are in, that’s definitely a positive reflection on the depth of your team.
Team News
Sandy Alderson says that the Mets will talk less often and with much less specificity about their injuries.
I get in trouble because I try to be as honest as I can with you guys and give you an honest look at things, and then if it doesn’t happen, we look like an idiot because there’s no guarantees.So, we’re going to try to stay away from trying to predict anything except the fact that.
Hey, look, there’s a process involved of getting these injured players back on the field and it changes every day.Terry Collins
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A’s pitchers have matched their total number of errors all last season, nine.
Colorado’s pitchers have a 3.27 ERA on the road, and five of the wins on their recent road trip came from rookie starters. The Rockies have at least 10 hits in each of their last seven road games
Diamondbacks won their 20th game at home last night, they did not win 20 at home last season until Aug 15.
Rangers bats tied the MLB record by striking out 20 times in one game. It has only happened six times in MLB history.
The Mariners have finished in the top ten in runs scored one time over the past ten seasons.
The Astros hit four homers last night for the fourth time this season
Andy Green says Brad Hand is not the Padres closer, but he has had two saves in two days.
It’d be unwise to go into a game and just say, ‘I’m just going to keep Brad for the ninth inning.’Sometimes that’s a really poor use of him. He’s the type of reliever that only honestly really exists in a few places today. High leverage, you need a punchout, he can go get it for you.
High leverage, you need to close out a game, he can go do that for you.
There’s a lot of different ways to utilize him. It would be unwise to limit our team to a declaration that I’m going to obligate myself to use this guy in the ninth inning.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. Andy Green on closer situation
Bartolo Colon has earned at least five runs five times this season
Edwin Diaz should get his job back as the Mariners closer soon since he has now thrown four scoreless innings in three outings.
Jeff Samardzija has only 14 earned runs along with 49 strikeouts over his past six outings. His problem lies mainly with the lack of run support,
Robbie Ray has a 0.81 ERA on the road
Kyle Schwarber struck out four times last night, hitting .181 on the season and leads the team with 55 strikeouts in 160 at-bats. He has been removed from the leadoff spot and sits against lefties.
Carlos Gonzalez went 2-for-5 last night and hit .390 on the road trip (16-41) and .526 (10-for-19) in the four-game series against the Phillies.
- First Six Starts: 1-3, 7.71 ERA
- Last Four Starts: 2-1, 2.55 ERA, 32 K
Antonio Senzatela is now 6-1 on his career, including 4-1 at Coors Field
Justin Verlander has allowed 28 earned runs in 33 innings on the road this season
Hyun-Jin Ryu is allowed to block any assignment to the minor leagues, but he can be traded if he could only get one or two decent starts. He makes roughly $6 million a year and his contract ends after next season
Vince Velasquez has allowed three or more runs in all his starts but one
Carlos Martinez credits Yadier Molina with his recent success on the mound, but the fact that he throws several different pitches probably also helps
Yadier told me, ‘If you have the confidence, we can throw nine innings. He told me, ‘You can accomplish what you’ve never accomplished.’ He noticed that I was focused, and he told me he thought I could accomplish something specialCarlos Martinez on Yadi
- April: 0-3, 4.71 ERA, 15 ER, 14 BB, 39 K, 28 ⅔ IP
- May: 3-0, 1.86 ERA, 6 ER, 8 BB, 23 K, 29 IP
Dexter Fowler hit .158 over 13 games since his shoulder injury before getting a base hit last night. Mike Matheny acknowledged that he and his staff considered moving Fowler out of the leadoff spot.
I want this guy to know we believe in him, We believe him to be a catalyst for our offense, but not the weight of the world on his shoulders. We’re dancing through that right now.If we felt truly our best chance would be to move him to another spot, we’d do that. We’re going to see it. We know it’s going to be there, just a matter of when, when he gets going. And what can we do to help him get there?Mike Matheny on Fowler
- April – 1.62 ERA
- May – 4.40 ERA
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