• As David Pinto notes, Manny Corpas has now blown three saves, after blowing only three saves all last season. I like Corpas. I expected him to pitch well this season. But it seems to me that a lot of Rockies fans assumed that all the young players who did so well last year would do roughly as well this year. Which wasn't (and isn't) likely.
• ShysterBall offers a
well-reasoned piece about Curt Flood's Hall of Fame candidacy. I'm actually a little bit surprised that this keeps coming up, but it seems like once these things get started they tend to live forever.
•
This story includes the only photo you're ever likely to see of Albert Pujols trying to nab a guy stealing second base. In other news, the Brewers are still carrying 14 pitchers. About which, the less said the better, probably.
• You gotta love
Joe Posnanski's take on the controversy surrounding
LaTroy Hawkins wearing No. 21.
• Gee, maybe
C.C. Sabathia's just fine, after all. Or maybe he just needed to
face the Royals, MLB's
worst-hitting team.
• Hey, MLB's
going green. Better (way) late than never, I guess (and I dig those
Earth Day patches the Red Sox wore last night).
• New this spring: 20th-anniversary releases of Bull Durham and Eight Men Out, and Slate's Matthew McGough
ties both movies into the steroids mess. Whether that works or not, what does work is the embedded Bull Durham clip, my favorite scene from my favorite baseball movie.
• Remember when minor-league pitcher Randy Newsom was going to sell shares of his future earnings? I actually bought a few shares, only to have my money refunded a few days later when the adults apparently realized this project demanded a good deal more thought. Well, Darren Rovell has an
update that boils down to: the adults are still thinking about it.
• Yesterday, Replacement Level Yankees Weblog made a
pretty good case for
not releasing
Jason Giambi (a measure I half-heartedly supported before reading this). Last night, Giambi homered against a right-handed finesse pitcher. So I guess the jury's still out.
• This might be the
strangest baseball photo you'll ever see.
Rob Neyer
