Late night/early morning news roundup

by Scott Christ on Mar 5, 2007 1:33 AM EST in News & Rumors

Sammy Sosa hit a home run. Apparently, this is news in 2007.

Royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek will have knee surgery, and likely start the season on the disabled list. Grudz is one of those dudes that "Baseball People" just love and then "Baseball Nerds" get all offended by, but the thing is, he's a perfectly solid ballplayer and seems like a cool guy. Plus he has a great name.

Gary Majewski is also likely to start the season on the DL with shoulder problems.

Xavier Nady does not have Crohn's disease, which is very good for him. What an awful thing to have.

Mariners pitchers love Kenji Johjima. It sounds like any pitcher would.

The O's beat the Mets, 6-3, and now stand at 3-1 this spring. Melvin Mora had 4 RBI in the victory.

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3W, 1L

Extrapolating the current (spring) record out, the Birds should play .750 ball, winning 122 games. That sounds about right.

Just found the site. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

by mll410 on Mar 5, 2007 11:07 AM EST reply actions

Welcome to CC

It's a fun place.

by zknower on Mar 7, 2007 10:43 PM EST up reply actions

4 RBI

4 RBI's for Mora! Wohoo!

I like that Bedard and Cabrera are looking decent early on. Could be scary to see what they do once they are warmed up.

Oriole Magic! Feel it Happen!

by Mike Boehm on Mar 5, 2007 1:35 PM EST reply actions

RE: And Loewen

And Loewen struck out 5 in 2 innings of work today; while giving up a BB and a broken bat single. And the 4 of those K's include scrubs like Aaron Boone, Miguel Cabrera, Josh Wilingham and Mike Jacobs.

I know I really shouldn't get excited about the first week of spring training games, but man this team looks like it came ready to play this spring.

momma take a look now at what your boy has done; he's walking around like he's number one; he went downtown and bought him a gun.

by BirdFanInPhilly on Mar 5, 2007 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

no, f that

Get this excited. It's fun. We're going to the playoffs.

"I don't want any credit. I'm not looking for credit. You know what? I don't want any blame if we're horse shit, either." -- Jim Leyland

by Scott Christ on Mar 5, 2007 2:07 PM EST up reply actions

RE:

I promised myself that no matter what, I'm going to remain pessimistic this year; but it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

momma take a look now at what your boy has done; he's walking around like he's number one; he went downtown and bought him a gun.

by BirdFanInPhilly on Mar 5, 2007 2:36 PM EST up reply actions

Guthrie

I really want to see more of this guy. So far he's running circles around Trachsel and he's keeping his nerves from getting the best of him, even when he's put in equally sticky situations (like today, bases loaded in the 3rd).

I hope Sammy lets him start a few times this month and blow Trachsel right out of the rotation. I don't why I hate that guy so much, but I do.

by The Sicilian on Mar 5, 2007 2:34 PM EST reply actions

I am strangely optimistic too

But I always am at this point of the season. I liked picking up Tracshel, but he was the least worst person available, but I want to see Guthrie pick up and do even better, but we need to give him time.

by exitfare on Mar 5, 2007 2:49 PM EST up reply actions

HOPE

is a dangerous thing my friends.

by jeremy52 on Mar 5, 2007 3:02 PM EST reply actions

Agree

But it's no fun if you don't have any. Last year was no fun for me at all. After "The Great Collapse of 2005", I refused to have any hope at all last year to avoid disappointment. I wasn't going to let myself get excited at all about the team or believe in them until they gave me a reason to (and of course, they didn't. They ARE the Orioles, after all).

But it really wasn't any fun at all. So, I'd rather see Loewen's 5K's and project a big year and have fun now (only to be disappointed later) than just be depressed and bored all season long.

"Jaret Wright will be the missing piece in the Orioles quest to return to respectability." --- Jaret Wright's Mom

by BrianS on Mar 5, 2007 6:10 PM EST up reply actions