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Game Thread #32: Brewers vs. Royals

It's Dave Bush vs. Zack Greinke.  Gwynn will be starting in center, since Bud Selig sent Mike Cameron to his room without dessert.  I don't think anybody doubted this, but it's now official that TGJ is your opening day starter.

I don't know if we're getting a Mug today, so consider this your catch-all thread until and unless we do:

  • Both Greg Aquino and Dennis Sarfate have made the Orioles pen.  Through some combination of pitching well and having no competition, Aquino appears to have worked his way into a set-up role.

  • Jose Capellan, not so much.  The Rockies demoted him.

  • If you wondered just how bad the Johan Santana trade leaves the Twins this year, Livan Hernandez is their opening day starter.  They will get Francisco Liriano back in a couple of weeks, though.

  • The wild and woolly Cardinals outfield appears to be set: Schumaker in right, Ankiel in center, and Duncan in left.  If I were a Cards fan, I wouldn't be terribly excited about the season based on that news, but I would be really curious to see how it would play out.

  • This article from David Pinto suggests that the Rays have the best rotation in their division.  When I ran my MINER projections back in October, I came to the same conclusion, and that was before TB traded for Matt Garza.  Actually, my projections are even more optimistic than Pinto is: they say that TB has the best rotation in all of baseball.  Granted, it may not look that way once the Rays defense gets done with them.

  • The bad news is that it's now official: Doug Davis has thyroid cancer.  The good news is that it appears to be treatable.  It has not been a good spring for players involved in that trade.

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Yabuta
Royals Review has a update about the guy who took Braun's liner off his shin.

Hopefully no one else gets dinged up today.

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by TheJay on Mar 29, 2008 12:44 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Yeah
The other guy (21-year-old) was a Rule 5 pick just returned to the Red Sox by the Reds.
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by TheJay on Mar 29, 2008 12:48 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Confusing because
if I remember correctly, the Rockies had the lefty Capellan last year for a while.

by Jordan M on Mar 29, 2008 12:51 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Rays
The five guys in the rotation Pinto uses are a combined nine games under .500 in the major league careers. Ergo, they must suck and he's using voodoo. Livan Hernandez is a gutty, winning pitcher in his career, something the Brewers can't say about their Opening Day starter. </pfft>
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by TheJay on Mar 29, 2008 1:14 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Lineups

Royals              Brewers
DeJesus, CF         Weeks, 2B
Grudzielanek, 2B    Gwynn, CF
Gordon, 3B          Dillon, 1B
Guillen, RF         Braun, LF
Butler, DH          Hall, 3B
Teahen, LF          Hart, RF
Olivo, C            Gross, DH
Gload, 1B           Hardy, SS
Berroa, SS          Kendall, C
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by TheJay on Mar 29, 2008 1:19 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Small victories
Kendall threw out a runner trying to steal!
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by TheJay on Mar 29, 2008 3:07 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Did the runner trip?
:)
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"

by roguejim on Mar 29, 2008 5:45 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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