It's really come to this?
After the failures of Marcum and Janssen and Zambrano over the last two days, the Blue Jays are looking to Josh Towers to save their sorry butts?
My, my, my.
Everyone's got an opinion and everyone's grumpy. I'll just offer this - why Vermilyea? Presumably, he is going to be used in long relief if a starter gets shelled early.
Two problems with that.
1) the starters aren't getting shelled early. Of course, that could change real, real quick, but even if it does...
2) Marcum, Janssen, and Zambrano should be pitching long relief. Long relief! When the seventh inning comes around, they can take off their uniforms and play gin rummy unless the game goes into extra innings. Long relief! Three guys for the job!
The guy I want to see up here is Brian Tallet. Not because he's so great, but because he's left-handed. Gibbons clearly seems to believe that a man must have a LOOGY and a man must use him as such. Fine, but this means that the second most experienced man in his bullpen, one of - count 'em - two guys with an actual record of successful relief pitching in the major leagues, is basically doing... nothin'
Just hanging around...
So get Gibbons a real live LOOGY, and he'll feel free to put Scott Downs to work doing something a little more constructive...
The two juggernauts continue to roll. Alex Rodriguez is serving notice that Barry Bonds may break Aaron's record this year, but he's not even going to hold it ten years. I said before the season started that he would take a run at Gehrig's AL record for RBI, which has stood more than 70 years, and finally settle for about 175...
Nothing so far has made me want to reconsider...
And hot 'Lanta, showed the Mets who was boss. And Jeff Francoeur drew another walk - that's 7 of in his last 9 games and matches his total through the 4th of July last season. Their Braves Pythag isn't that impressive, but one lopsided loss can skew that pretty good this early. And in the three games started by Mark Redman, the Braves are 0-3 and have allowed 25 runs. I think they'll probably try something else fairly soon.
Oh, one more thing.
GO RAPTORS!
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