- Jordan Bastian leads his Covering the Bases with some nice notes about Josh Tomlin. Also covered: the rest of the rotation, Bryan Shaw and yesterday's bullpen performance, and the accompanying bad defense.
- Clayton Kershaw pitched for the first time since Opening Day (Australian edition) yesterday. The 2-time Cy Young winner went 7 scoreless innings before being lifted for Chris Perez
's Dog.
- In what is certainly bad news for the Orioles, Matt Wieters will have his sore elbow looked at James Andrews today.
- The Pirates made their AAA star Gregory Polanco a 7-year contract offer for $25 million. "The deal also included three option years and could have paid Polanco between $50 million and $60 million if all three options were picked up." Polanco did not accept the offer and remains in AAA. Whether these things are related is up to you to decide, but it would be no surprise that the Pirates would like to hold down his service time.
We may have these discussions about Lindor next year.
- The Athletics play a doubleheader today and LGFT Drew Pomeranz is likely to start one of the games.
- Troy Tulowitzki continues to do absurd things in 2014: In addition to having a higher WAR than the entire Indians lineup (it isn't close), he is now hitting .421/.522/.794 on the season. If that's not gaudy enough for you, he's hitting .609 at home (that's not his OBP, SLG or OPS). "He's now 18 for 21 with men on base at Coors Field this season. Yes, 18 for 21!!"
- It took a little longer for his season to start, but Gavin Floyd pitched yesterday like the guy I wanted the Indians to sign this offseason, allowing 1 run over 7 innings. He struck out 5 and walked 2 in the no-decision.
Depending on which cutoff date you prefer...
"Indians rotation in May: 1.34 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 4.63 K:BB, 9.1 K/9, 33.2 IP, 5 starts."
"Indians starting pitchers over the last four days: 28.2 innings, 2 runs allowed"
LGT Goes Meta
The Indians are on pace to make more errors this season than any MLB team has in the 2000s. (I'm not kidding)
— Let's Go Tribe (@LetsGoTribe) May 7, 2014