Short Stops Around the Majors for May 1, 2008

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To prove anything can happen in baseball, Sidney Ponson pitches the Rangers to a win over the Royals...Jack Cust and Emil Brown combine to get on base 10 times in Oakland's thrashing of the Los Angeles...Miguel Cabrera and Magglio Ordonez lead the hard charging Tigers to within 1 1/2 games of first place with another win over the Yankees...and Ryan Braun breaks out to help the Brewers stun ... [link]

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Friday's Plastic Cup is Pro-Joe
Published 5/2/2008 by Jeff Sackmann at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... I've got a lot of tabs open right now, which means there are a lot of links to get to.  Let's get at it. FanGraphs Win Probability graph BR Box Score BDD Daily Recaps BP Postseason Odds: 84 wins, 26% shot at the playoffs. The big news this morning is that it's official, Turnbow is DFA'd and Dillon is back.  It's disappointing that D-Bow hasn't been able to turn it around, but I do think it's well past time we cut our losses here.  One interesting thought that has been ...

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