Under The Knife: Rain Delay Theater by Will Carroll

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Rangers Quote(s) Of The Week: Tom Grieve Edition
Published 5/12/2008 by Joey Matschulat at Baseball Time in Arlington
... Baseball Prospectus injury guru Will Carroll offered up his own set of ruminations on last Thursday’s extracurriculars in his Monday morning “Under The Knife” column: ...

Pickoff Moves, Pregame Edition
Published 5/13/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... have some value, but apparently the Red Sox haven't been able to get anything of value for him. Speaking of the Red Sox, Boston DFA'd Abe Alvarez, a former top draft pick out of Long Beach State. He's 25 with a career 5.14 ERA in 378 career innings at Triple-A. Jeff Weaver, working for the Brewers in their minor league system at AAA, gave up five runs in 4.2 innings yesterday; some of those came off the bat of Andy LaRoche. UTK Quickies In today's UTK: Chone Figgins (15 DXL) The Angels handle the DL as well ...

Catfish Stew: Game Show Time!
Published 5/13/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... the batting order. Oh, no, I'm sorry. The correct answer is: If you play a catcher as often as Jason Kendall, he'll eventually end up hitting like Jason Kendall. He needs some days off. Rich Harden. What's wrong with him? Harden's first start off the DL Sunday against Texas was pretty weird. He got the first two outs fairly easily in each of his first three innings, and also the leadoff batter in the fourth, but thereafter got smacked around before he could finish off each inning. Will Carroll remarked on BP that "Harden didn't have his control, but he did have his mid-90's ...