THT Daily: News in San Diego
Major League News for June 19
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
According to Baseball America, the Padres have promoted top hitting prospect Kyle Blanks from Triple-A Portland.
Blanks, 22, was hitting .283/.393/.485 with nine doubles, 12 home runs and 38 RBI for Portland. The 6’6″, 285 lb. slugger can play left field or first base. San Diego isn’t calling him up to sit on the bench, so there’s a strong chance he’ll gather some amount fantasy value. A corresponding move should be announced shortly.
According to the L.A. Times, Manny Ramirez is scheduled to join Triple-A Albuquerque on Tuesday for the beginning of a rehab assignment.
As the Times reports, “Ramirez will then go to Class A Inland Empire for a three-game series starting June 27. Following that stint, he’ll work out in Los Angeles on July 1, travel with the Dodgers to San Diego on July 2 and rejoin the lineup on July 3 against the Padres.” He’s been out on a 50-game suspension since May 7.
Craig Stammen blanked the Yankees for 6 1/3 innings as the Nationals pulled off a shutout at Yankee Stadium on Thursday.
The Nats won 3-0 in the first game at new Yankee Stadium to end without a homer. There were 119 hit in the 34 games going into today. The Nationals scored exactly three runs in all three games of the series against the Yankees, yet still won two out of three. The victory was the first for Stammen, who entered 0-2 with a 5.86 ERA in five starts. He still looks like a weak play in NL-only leagues.
Jim Leyland has benched Magglio Ordonez indefinitely.
Leyland wants to get Ordonez “away from it.” The manager is clearly frustrated with the slugger’s play this season, and we can’t blame him. He’s has just two home runs and owns a pedestrian .273/.347/.343 line. We can’t imagine the benching will be too long, but it may last for more than just a game or two. Stay tuned. Ryan Raburn will likely take his spot in right.
Tigers placed LHP Dontrelle Willis on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 15, with an anxiety disorder.
Willis was 1-4 with a 7.49 ERA. He walked eight and gave up six earned runs against the Pirates on Sunday. Tigers manager Jim Leyland announced on Tuesday that Willis would not make his next scheduled start.
Cardinals activated infielder Khalil Greene from the 15-day disabled list.
Greene will be available to play third base in Thursday evening’s game. Greene batted .200/.287/.295 prior to being shelved with anxiety issues.
Nick Blackburn tossed a complete game and allowed only one run in a 5-1 victory over the Pirates on Thursday.
Blackburn improved to 6-2 with a 3.09 ERA. He pitched to contact, walking only one and striking out two. Blackburn allowed six hits. He was one out away from a shutout but gave up an RBI single to Adam LaRoche. It was the first complete game of Blackburn’s career. If you’ve been sleeping on the right-hander, wake up. He should be starting in all formats. Blackburn has been stellar since since his last loss on May 5. He draws the Brewers in Milwaukee next week.
Yesterday’s Results
For the full scoop regarding yesterday’s games, read “And That Happened” at Shysterball.
American League BAL 5 NYN 4 (Recap and Boxscore) FLA 2 BOS 1 (Recap and Boxscore) WAS 3 NYA 0 (Recap and Boxscore) ARI 12 KC 5 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 5 PIT 1 (Recap and Boxscore) HOU 5 TEX 3 (Recap and Boxscore) National League TOR 8 PHI 7 (Recap and Boxscore) CHN 6 CHA 5 (Recap and Boxscore) ATL 7 CIN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) DET 6 STL 3 (Recap and Boxscore) COL 4 TB 3 (Recap and Boxscore) LAN 3 OAK 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SD 4 SEA 3 (Recap and Boxscore)
Check out Fangraphs’ scoreboard to see all the games in action.
Today’s Games
National League --------------- Pittsburgh Pirates at Colorado Rockies, 9:10 PM (R) Ross Ohlendorf (6-5) vs. (R) Jason Marquis (8-4) Inter-League ------------ Cleveland Indians at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 PM (L) Cliff Lee (4-6) vs. (R) Rich Harden (4-3) Baltimore Orioles at Philadelphia Phillies, 7:05 PM (L) Rich Hill (2-1) vs. (L) Antonio Bastardo (2-1) Toronto Blue Jays at Washington Nationals, 7:05 PM (L) Brian Tallet (4-4) vs. (R) Jordan Zimmermann (2-3) Milwaukee Brewers at Detroit Tigers, 7:05 PM (R) Braden Looper (5-3) vs. (R) Armando Galarraga (3-7) Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati Reds, 7:10 PM (R) Jose Contreras (2-5) vs. (R) Bronson Arroyo (7-5) New York Yankees at Florida Marlins, 7:10 PM (L) Andy Pettitte (6-3) vs. (L) Sean West (2-1) Tampa Bay Rays at New York Mets, 7:10 PM (R) Andy Sonnanstine (5-6) vs. (R) Fernando Nieve (1-0) Atlanta Braves at Boston Red Sox, 7:10 PM (R) Kenshin Kawakami (3-6) vs. (R) Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-4) Houston Astros at Minnesota Twins, 8:10 PM (R) Roy Oswalt (3-3) vs. (R) Kevin Slowey (9-2) St. Louis Cardinals at Kansas City Royals, 8:10 PM (R) Brad Thompson (1-2) vs. (R) Kyle Davies (3-6) Los Angeles Dodgers at LA Angels of Anaheim, 10:05 PM (R) Chad Billingsley (9-3) vs. (L) Joe Saunders (7-4) Oakland Athletics at San Diego Padres, 10:05 PM (L) Josh Outman (4-1) vs. (L) Wade LeBlanc (0-0) Arizona Diamondbacks at Seattle Mariners, 10:10 PM (R) Jon Garland (4-7) vs. (L) Jarrod Washburn (3-5) Texas Rangers at San Francisco Giants, 10:15 PM (R) Scott Feldman (5-1) vs. (L) Randy Johnson (6-5)
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 40 26 .606 0.0 39 1NYA 37 29 .561 3.0 36 1
TOR 37 31 .544 4.0 38 -1
TB 35 33 .515 6.0 41 -6
BAL 29 37 .439 11.0 28 1
American League Central DET 35 31 .530 0.0 35 0
MIN 34 34 .500 2.0 36 -2
CHA 31 35 .470 4.0 30 1
KC 29 36 .446 5.5 29 0
CLE 29 39 .426 7.0 33 -4
American League West TEX 37 28 .569 0.0 35 2
LAA 35 29 .547 1.5 33 2
SEA 32 34 .485 5.5 30 2
OAK 28 37 .431 9.0 29 -1
National League East Pwins Diff PHI 36 28 .563 0.0 35 1
NYN 33 31 .516 3.0 32 1
FLA 33 35 .485 5.0 31 2
ATL 31 34 .477 5.5 31 0
WAS 18 46 .281 18.0 25 -7
National League Central MIL 37 29 .561 0.0 35 2
STL 36 31 .537 1.5 35 1
CIN 33 32 .508 3.5 32 1
CHN 31 31 .500 4.0 32 -1
PIT 31 35 .470 6.0 33 -2
HOU 30 34 .469 6.0 29 1
National League West LAN 44 23 .657 0.0 42 2
SF 34 31 .523 9.0 33 1
COL 33 33 .500 10.5 35 -2
SD 29 36 .446 14.0 25 4
ARI 29 38 .433 15.0 31 -2
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 PIT A Robbie Grossman... 6 5 1 1 0 0 1 5 RBI ! CIN AA Zachary Cozart.... 4 2 0 0 2 1 1 LAA AA Mark Trumbo....... 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 3 LD LA AA Joshua Bell....... 4 3 2 0 0 0 1 OAK AA Chris Carter...... 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 NYM AA Joshua Thole...... 5 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 R SD AA Lance Zawadzki.... 3 2 0 0 1 2 0 FLA AAA Cameron Maybin.... 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 SF AAA Kevin Frandsen.... 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 PHI A Travis D'Arnaud... 6 3 0 0 1 0 2 HOU A+ Jack Shuck........ 5 3 1 0 0 1 1 CIN AA Juan Francisco.... 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 RBI ORG LVL PLAYER IP H R ER SO BB HR Notes OAK AAA Gio Gonzalez...... 5 4 0 0 10 1 0 KC A M. Montgomery..... 6 2 1 1 7 0 0 TOR AA Marc Rzepczynski.. 7 5 1 1 8 1 0 NYY A+ D.J. Mitchell..... 7 7 5 5 7 2 0 12 GB NYY A Manuel Banuelos... 6 4 2 1 3 0 0 SEA A+ Juan Ramirez...... 6 7 5 4 5 1 0 CIN AA Travis Wood....... 5 8 3 3 6 1 0 CIN A Matthew Fairel.... 7 6 4 3 6 4 0 LAA A Manuarys Correa... 7 5 1 0 2 1 0 13 GB CHC A+ Dan McDaniel...... 6 5 1 1 3 1 0 14 GB BAL AAA C. Tillman........ 6 4 3 3 4 2 1 CHC A C. Archer......... 3 4 2 2 5 2 0
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