Today is the last day to set 40-man rosters to protect players from the Rule 5 draft later this month. Per Mark Bowman, the Braves added five pitchers, left-handers Lee Hyde, Jose Ortegano and Jonny Venters and right-handers Jeff Lyman and Kyle Coffield. Bowman has a writeup of each player here . Lee Hyde and Jeff Lyman will be reviewed today and tomorrow respectively here as Talking Chop presents...
More photos » by John Heller - AP Atlanta Braves reliever Peter Moylan was one of the most valuable members of any team's bullpen last year. Browse more photos » Middle relief is never a sure thing in baseball. The Atlanta Braves have been lucky in the past to have cobbled together good middle relief corps. They haven't been so lucky the last few years, but last year they did a decent job...
Nothing exemplifies the Hot Stove season quite like worrying about the Rule 5 draft. Most of the players don't stick it out all year; most of the ones that do are eventually traded for Ronnie Belliard or Blaine Boyer ; and most of the time it would be completely absurd to spend time thinking about this. Fangraphs won't return my calls, but according to my new WARP/seconds-in-your-limited-lifespan converter...
More photos » by Ross D. Franklin - AP Somehow, this pic - Qualls yelling to the bench for help after hurting his knee against Houston - sums up the bullpen's entire season... Browse more photos » The Arizona bullpen allowed 271 runs and finished the season with a 4.61 ERA, both numbers which put them ahead only of Washington among National League relief corps. We've previously discussed...
Jon Garland RHP, 9-11, 4.23 Dan Haren RHP, 13-8, 2.78 A somewhat later start tonight, so the Diamondbacks and Dodgers can play on national TV over on ESPN - so the whole country will get to see the nightmare unfolding in the eighth inning. Ok, it's not certain , but last night was the eighteenth time this year we've allowed four runs or more in that frame - the next-ranked Nationals have just 13, with...
Jason Giambi drove a pinch-hit single to left-center in the eighth inning off Blaine Boyer on Friday night, chasing home Yorvit Torrealba and giving the Rockies a 5-4 victory over the Diamondbacks.
Jason Giambi drove a pinch-hit single to left-center in the eighth inning off Blaine Boyer on Friday night, scoring Yorvit Torrealba and lifting the Rockies to a 5-4 victory over the Diamondbacks.
More photos » by Paul Connors - AP Assume the position, David. Browse more photos » Absurd. Absurd. For some reason, as Blaine Boyer was closing the door in the ninth inning this song came to mind: I don't think it really has any connection to the Astros , or baseball in general, although the melancholy lyrics and deliberate rhythms do sort of parallel our team's slide towards an irrelevant...
More photos » by John Amis - AP Browse more photos » What an awesome picture of Tommy Hanson . Despite the claims and threats of rain, Mother Nature kept to herself to allow in this long-overdue makeup game with with Diamondbacks. In a way, the long delay prior to finishing out this series might not have been such a bad thing - back in May, the Diamondbacks with Scherzer on the mound stomped...
PHOENIX, July 26 (UPI) -- Max Scherzer and Blaine Boyer combined on a five-hit shutout Sunday to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 9-0 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Scherzer (6-6) scattered the five hits over seven innings with no walks and eight strikeouts. Boyer retired the six batters he faced in relief. Gerardo Parr had three hits -- one a two-run homer -- and four RBI. Mark Reynolds had two...
More photos » by Matt York - AP Clay Zavada - surely a lock for Most Valuable Mustache of 2009. Browse more photos » As we head towards the second-half of the season, it seems like a good time to review the major players in the first half of the season and grade them according to their performance. A couple of things to note before we go into the 25 chosen ones: I'm grading on a curve,...
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Arizona was cruising 7-4 entering the eighth of last night's game in Phoenix when the Marlins broke out the can of whoopass and went all medieval on the Snakes' bullpen, with Juan Gutierrez, Scott Schoeneweis, and Blaine Boyer combining to surrender ten runs before changing sides. As David Pinto noted, it's the first time the Fish have scored so many runs this year, and the most in one inning in franchise...
More photos » by Jim Bryant - AP Yes, another picture whose caption got vetoed by the SB Nation lawyers... Browse more photos » Record: 29-40. Pace: 68-94. Change on last season: -8. Change on 2004: +2. As noted in the GDT, I didn't see any of this game, attending a sketch comedy show. This will therefore be one of my less enlightened recaps, since the highlight of my evening was having...
More photos » by Ross D. Franklin - AP The most effective time the ball left Buckner's hand all day... Browse more photos » Record: 27-37. Pace: 68-94. Change on last season: -7. Change on 2004: +1. To start by repeating something I said in the Gameday Thread, Billy Buckner is not the answer, or if he is, we probably don’t want to be asking the question. At the very least, we need...
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