Let me go to my wheels chart. Mark Fidrych... Not any more Jim Field... Not any more Nate Field... Nope Cecil Fielder... Nope Prince Fielder... Umm... Let's see... No... He does not have the wheels to upset this strategy.
Too soon to tell... The Starters just need to avoid looking like Blackie, Liriano, and Marquis from last year. They can absolutely do that in my opinion.
Yeah the errors were unfortunate. However... The passed ball was clearly a cross up. New battery combo... It happens. Joe was clearly expecting the ball to break and it didn't.
I love the first week of baseball... Free MLB extra innings... Between innings I can turn over to any game and I just had a question/thought. Is it possible to watch Lucas Duda bat without Camp Town Races coming into your head?
"Said Sugar... Take it slow and we'll come together fine... All we need is just a little patience". A little patience and 15 years later "Chinese Democracy".
25 man roster... Play em all... You never know who will be Escobar in a given day. If you are good enough to play in the majors... You are good enough to do something good every once in awhile.
That ending is so... Baseball... How can u not love this game. Corriea... Escobar... Ramirez... Thumbs up... Mauer... Morneau... Willingham... Doumit... Nothin... Just the way you draw it up.
Personally I'm Bummed... I have Darvish on one of my fantasy teams and my opponent has Kershaw... Kershaw threw a complete game and that gave my opponent 1 of those puppies and getting a complete game is hard to do in the early season. I was one pitch from tying up that catagory and now it's probably lost. That aside... I was watching the game... Darvish threw nothing but fastball strikes in the ninth... He was probably instructed to end it quick with a 7-0 lead. You didn't see that slider that was killing Astro's all game long once in the ninth... It was fastball after fastball and they were up. He wasn't trying to nibble as far as I can tell. Darvish had a much different approach in the 9th compared to the other 8 innings.