Draft day always generates a lot of draft-specific traffic. If you’re one of those people only interested in the draft, you can find two preview posts I did last week here and here. I have more about the draft coming this afternoon after today’s game ends, so make sure to check back for that later today.
It figures that the annual Arts Fest Rainy Season would force us to briefly divert our attention from which teenager Neal Huntington is about to make a multi-millionaire, but here we are. Who needs Manny Machado or Jameson Taillon when we can talk about Dana Eveland?!
OK, that’s really not fair at all to Eveland. I’m still not a huge fan of the trade that brought Eveland to Pittsburgh, but the following things remain true: he is not Brian Burres, he is moving from the American League to the National League, and he can throw four pitches capably, if not exceptionally. If he can keep the ball on the ground, he probably won’t be worse than Zach Duke. If he can’t … he probably won’t be in the rotation for long.
Eveland’s opponent is the improbably on-fire Carlos Silva, who’s 7-0 with a 3.12 ERA after he nearly pitched his way out of baseball with Seattle in 2008 and 2009. He’s certainly pitching much better for the Cubs than he ever did in Seattle, but … I mean he’s got to lose some time, right?
First pitch today is 12:35. Clemente/Cangelosi is after the jump.
Not sure what this is? Check here and here. Short version: in the comments pick the Pirates you think will be most and least valuable in today’s game. If you haven’t jumped aboard yet, it’s been a lot of fun so far and now’s as good a time as any to join in.
Delwyn Young’s huge, mammothly clutch home run in the bottom of the ninth inning makes him yesterday’s obvious Clemente choice, while Garrett Jones’ similar, game-tying two-run blast that came earlier in the game makes him the runner up. The big negative points go to Jeff Clement, for his ugly 0-for-4 night, including the last out of the game with the tying and winning runs on base (WPA never treats those outs kindly), and Octavio Dotel for giving up the eventual winning run. Sometimes the eventual Clementes and Cangelosis are painfully obvious during the course of the game. Yesterday’s game was one of those games.
Today’s standings:
- Don_Madden: 32
- North Shore Ryan: 21
- North Shore Ryan, brian2: 20
- dafletch, ndbrian: 19
- Woodward: 18
- Carnegie Chip: 16
- hisjazziness: 15
- Wizard of Woz, J. Latrobe: 14
- hwtrine68, pdiddy0020: 13
- michaelbro8, whygavs, Garrett122: 12
- UtesFan890, bwzimmerman: 8
- apk, edgeman2k: 7
- Nate, TuckerD13, dboz, edgeman2k, Dave_Mesing: 6
- TheHulk, Mornacale: 5
- TomKaikis, Joek, tylerrcurtis, TheJewelryMan!, fruitbat, Cecilio_Guante, WallyR, appeal2smail: 3
- PatrickHealy, MattB, SteelCity66, BadAndy, spazaru, Adam_Reynolds, Mr. Ando, cocktailsfor2: 2
- FSU Bucs, Christy, appeal2smail, SeanGentile, shsteimer, TheHulk, Traco Bucco, Tate, Neopold, IndianaJohns04, wk kortas, jac8, Mr. Ando, DoctorGeeves, CoryR: 1
- Everyone else: 0
- NSN, Mosca, danatural, Teflon, John Sparrow, matt w, Fielding Yost, PHook4000: -1
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