Which happens more often?
Last night (June 24) Pete Orr played 3B in the ninth inning. This was Pete's first appearance in a game since June 20 when he struckout as a pinch hitter for Oscar Villarreal. His time at the hot corner was the first time he had been on the defensive side of the ball since June 12 (he played a full game at 3B vs. the Twins that day).
Andruw Jones got a hit last night. This was his first hit since June 15.
Orr is hitting .192 this season. Jones is hitting .199.
Orr is making $400,000 for the 2007 season. Jones is making $14,000,000.
Here are a few ways of looking at Orr and Jones ROI:
Orr has 2 RBI at a cost of $200,000 per RBI. Jones has 42 RBI at a cost of $333,333 per RBI.
Defensively, Orr has 9 PO at a cost of $44,444 each. Jones has 210 at a cost of $66,666 per put out.
Now look, I'm not saying Orr is better than Jones...."I'm just sayin'."
Monday, June 25, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Long Island Ducks - A Big League Roster
Wow. This is crazy. On ESPN Page 2 today there is a column by Jeff Pearlman, "These Ducks are waiting for "the call"," that talks about 13, yes, 13 former major league baseball players playing on the Long Island Ducks baseball team, a team in the Independent Atlanta League of Professional Baseball.
Edgardo Alfonzo, yeah he made $8 mil for the Blue Jays and Angels last season. I guess 8 is not enough for Edgardo. After hitting a buck 26 last season he wants back in the bigs. So does Carl Everett. Everett, a .271 career hitter, has played for 8 big league teams over 14 seasons. He hit .227 for the Mariners last year. Eight ain't enough for Carl either.
Danny Graves had 41 saves in his All Star 2004 season, but the wheels came off in 2005 (6.52 ERA for the Redlegs and Mets) and in 2006 (5.79 ERA for the Indians). Jose Offerman, a 2-time all star, hit .229 for the Mets and Phillies in 2005. Donovan Osborne had a 7.13 ERA with the Yanks in 2004.
Alfonzo, Everett, Graves, Offerman, and Osborne are 5 names that most baseball fans would have known during the past decade. There are some others that put some decent MLB time in on the club too (Todd Erdos, John Halama, John Riedling, and Damian Rolls). Even a fella from the Marist School in Atlanta, Mark Watson.
So, you ask, since the Ducks are full of these former big leaguers how is the club doing? Well, Long Island is currently tied for first place in the North Division of the Atlantic League with the Bridgeport Bluefish. The Bluefish, managed by a fella named Tommy John, have a few former Major Leaguers too - 6 of them actually....most notably Junior Spivey (2002 All Star with the Diamondbacks), Quinton McCracken (.274 hitter in 12 seasons with 6 teams), and Brian Boehringer.
So the answer to the age old question "How many former major leaguers does it take to win the the North Division in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball?" will be answered this year.
I don't see any former Braves on those teams - and more importantly, I don't see Pete Orr on either of those clubs.
Edgardo Alfonzo, yeah he made $8 mil for the Blue Jays and Angels last season. I guess 8 is not enough for Edgardo. After hitting a buck 26 last season he wants back in the bigs. So does Carl Everett. Everett, a .271 career hitter, has played for 8 big league teams over 14 seasons. He hit .227 for the Mariners last year. Eight ain't enough for Carl either.
Danny Graves had 41 saves in his All Star 2004 season, but the wheels came off in 2005 (6.52 ERA for the Redlegs and Mets) and in 2006 (5.79 ERA for the Indians). Jose Offerman, a 2-time all star, hit .229 for the Mets and Phillies in 2005. Donovan Osborne had a 7.13 ERA with the Yanks in 2004.
Alfonzo, Everett, Graves, Offerman, and Osborne are 5 names that most baseball fans would have known during the past decade. There are some others that put some decent MLB time in on the club too (Todd Erdos, John Halama, John Riedling, and Damian Rolls). Even a fella from the Marist School in Atlanta, Mark Watson.
So, you ask, since the Ducks are full of these former big leaguers how is the club doing? Well, Long Island is currently tied for first place in the North Division of the Atlantic League with the Bridgeport Bluefish. The Bluefish, managed by a fella named Tommy John, have a few former Major Leaguers too - 6 of them actually....most notably Junior Spivey (2002 All Star with the Diamondbacks), Quinton McCracken (.274 hitter in 12 seasons with 6 teams), and Brian Boehringer.
So the answer to the age old question "How many former major leaguers does it take to win the the North Division in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball?" will be answered this year.
I don't see any former Braves on those teams - and more importantly, I don't see Pete Orr on either of those clubs.
Monday, June 11, 2007
The Good, the Bad, and the Orr
The Braves have started to look like they are back on track with 2 wins in a row over the Cubbies. I was at the game on Friday - everytime I looked up Alfonso Soriano was hitting a homer. I had to leave early so I missed out on Pete Orr striking out in the 8th and playing an inning at the hot corner. That game was ugly. The Cubs had 15 hits in the 9-1 beating of the Bravos.
Saturday things looked a bit brighter. I was happy to see former Brave Jason Marquis get abused by the Braves (1.2 IP, 4H, 6R, 2ER, 3BB, 1K).
It looks like Chipper Jones is going to be back on the club this week and John Smoltz will resume his spot in the rotation in Cleveland this weekend.
The Mets have been slumping recently too, so the Braves are 2.5 games back in the standings. In June, The Mets (36-25) are 3-7 and the Braves (35-29) are 4-6.
I realize we are not at the half way point, yet, but here are the NL Wild Card Standings:
Saturday things looked a bit brighter. I was happy to see former Brave Jason Marquis get abused by the Braves (1.2 IP, 4H, 6R, 2ER, 3BB, 1K).
It looks like Chipper Jones is going to be back on the club this week and John Smoltz will resume his spot in the rotation in Cleveland this weekend.
The Mets have been slumping recently too, so the Braves are 2.5 games back in the standings. In June, The Mets (36-25) are 3-7 and the Braves (35-29) are 4-6.
I realize we are not at the half way point, yet, but here are the NL Wild Card Standings:
- Arizona Diamondbacks (37-27, .578)
- Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles (35-28, .556)
- Atlanta Braves (35-29, .547)
- Philadelphia Phillies (32-31, .508)
Pete Orr (born in Canada) is hitting .196 and has not had a hit since he had 2 on June 1 vs. the Cub (at Wrigley Field). Yunel Escobar (born in Cuba) is hitting .333. There have been a total of 210 players in Major League Baseball who were born in Canada and there have been 153 big leaguers born in Cuba.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
My Buddy and Me
Buddy Carlyle allowed 1 hit (a solo homer) in 7 innings today (7IP, 1H, 1R, 1ER, 3BB, 5K) and picked up the W for the Bravos today in their 3-1 victory over the Miami Marlins.
Carlyle, who pitched for the LG Twins in Seoul Korea last year, was immediately sent to Richmond after the game today to allow the Braves to promote RHP Blaine Boyer. Now, this is interesting because a couple days ago when I signed on to ajc.com I read a headline that Boyer was dead. Of course after clicking into the article I realized that they were talking about the 70 year old former 3B Clete Boyer (whom I had never heard of before that moment).
With Bobby Cox and company worried that John Smoltz might need to come out of the game early due to his tender right shoulder they had not choice but to add a bullpen hand - thus the "Congratulations Buddy Carlyle on your first MLB win this century, now go back to the minors" roster move. Carlyle's last, and only, big league win came on September 9, 1999 when he went 6 innings for the San Diego Padres.
Pete Orr went 0-2 in the game in which he started at second base.
Carlyle, who pitched for the LG Twins in Seoul Korea last year, was immediately sent to Richmond after the game today to allow the Braves to promote RHP Blaine Boyer. Now, this is interesting because a couple days ago when I signed on to ajc.com I read a headline that Boyer was dead. Of course after clicking into the article I realized that they were talking about the 70 year old former 3B Clete Boyer (whom I had never heard of before that moment).
With Bobby Cox and company worried that John Smoltz might need to come out of the game early due to his tender right shoulder they had not choice but to add a bullpen hand - thus the "Congratulations Buddy Carlyle on your first MLB win this century, now go back to the minors" roster move. Carlyle's last, and only, big league win came on September 9, 1999 when he went 6 innings for the San Diego Padres.
Pete Orr went 0-2 in the game in which he started at second base.
Sunday, June 03, 2007
'Bout Time
No, not that the Cubs won a game, but rather that Jarrod Saltalamacchia got some PT at the first sack. With a stick like Salty's got and the lack of production from the current firstbaseman (Scott Thorman) it seems only logical to give the switch hitting Salty a shot over there.
See my May 17 post about the Bravos first base situation.
The fact is that Salty is too good to not be in the lineup. It will be interesting, however, when both he and McCann are playing - leaving no backup catcher on the bench.
The Braves got thumped today by the Cubs (10-1), so Bobby gave Salty a couple innings in the field. He's been taking ground balls at first for a couple weeks during BP.
Pete Orr, went 0-1 today, after collecting a pair of hits and scoring twice in the Braves 8-5 win over the Cubs on Friday - a game in which he started at the hot corner. Despite Pete's performance on Friday the Braves still called up highly rated prospect, Yunel Escobar. Escobar went 2-4 in his big league debut and drove in the winning run in Saturday's 5-3 win over the Cubbies.
See my May 17 post about the Bravos first base situation.
The fact is that Salty is too good to not be in the lineup. It will be interesting, however, when both he and McCann are playing - leaving no backup catcher on the bench.
The Braves got thumped today by the Cubs (10-1), so Bobby gave Salty a couple innings in the field. He's been taking ground balls at first for a couple weeks during BP.
Pete Orr, went 0-1 today, after collecting a pair of hits and scoring twice in the Braves 8-5 win over the Cubs on Friday - a game in which he started at the hot corner. Despite Pete's performance on Friday the Braves still called up highly rated prospect, Yunel Escobar. Escobar went 2-4 in his big league debut and drove in the winning run in Saturday's 5-3 win over the Cubbies.
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