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Friday, September 08, 2006

Around the Majors

Er, Minors.

Guillermo Mota
with Cleveland: 6.21 ERA
with NYM: 1.00 ERA

So lay off Theo, okay? The Beckett trade was not a mistake, it's just that Hanley Ramirez and Anibal Sanchez are still tearing up AAA.

posted by Josh at Friday, September 08, 2006

5 Comments:

  • The AAA season is over.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:45 AM  

  • Since Ottawa has a team in the International League, the name "Governors' Cup" is a slight against the premier of Ontario.

    I were a challenger in the race for premiership, I'd accuse the incumbent of cozying up to the Americans and not standing strong in the face of the discriminatory Governors' Cup.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:49 AM  

  • My point is that the National League, for this season, IS a minor league.

    I expect this will balance out a little in the offseason, a little more the year after, and the leagues will be indistiguishable in talent in 3 season.

    By Blogger Josh, at 11:07 AM  

  • When England ruled Canada, was the fellow running the place known as a governor, or a viceroy? I always thought it was a governor, which would then make "Governor's Cup" at least somewhat appropriate.

    Apart from the Mets, and maybe, with a bunch of luck, the Dodgers, there's not an NL team that would be even .500 in the AL this year.

    You're right; the success of Sanchez and Ramirez doesn't invalidate the Beckett trade. Beckett's 5.09 ERA and rate of one home run every 5.6 innings do a fine job of that. Oh yeah, and that $10 million per season extension he just signed, too. If indeed the NL is so inferior, Epstein ought to have known better than to put his trust in an oft-injured pitcher who had been good but not spectacular against NL lineups.

    (Incidentally, at the time, I liked the trade too, for the Red Sox, so this is entirely hindsight on my part.)

    By Blogger Unknown, at 2:34 PM  

  • The Cardinals are doing pretty well in the World Series for a "minor league team." Then again, that's baseball — it's so random that even an honest-to-goodness minor league team could win a few games against an AL team.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:00 PM  

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