Tuesday's Roto Roundup: Milledge Sent Down, Carpenter Injured

by Ray Guilfoyle on Apr 15, 2009 10:23 AM EDT in Baseball

A slow night in the majors on Tuesday night with only a handful of games in either league, but there was lots of news:

Lastings Milledge-Milledge was sent to AAA for several reasons: 1. he wasn't hitting a lick, 2. he misplayed a few balls in CF, and 3. he decided it was ok to arrive late for a few games in the first week of the season. Who benefits: Elijah Dukes takes over in CF, and Austin Kearns and Josh Willingham will battle for the RF job until one of them is traded. My money is on Willingham.

Chris Carpenter-Carpenter was removed from his start against Arizona with an apparent oblique injury. A DL stint is likely.

Carl Pavano-he rebounded from his awful first start to pitch 6 innings, giving up 4 runs on 8 hits, but he struck out 8 while walking none.

Javier Vazquez-Vazquez struck out 12 Marlins in 6 innings of work. He walked one and gave up 3 runs. It appears the 2009 Marlins strikeout as much as the 2008 Marlins.

Chris Volstad-Volstad pitched 7 innings of 3 hit, 2 walk ball to beat the Braves. He gave up only one run and struck out 4. Man, the Marlins have some GOOD young pitchers, don't they?

A.J. Burnett-Burnett had a no-hitter broken up in the 7th inning vs the Rays. He struck out 9 Rays, giving up 2 runs on 3 hits. He's won his first two starts for the Yankees.

Diamondbacks lineup-the consensus is that the Diamondbacks young lineup will improve in 2009, but the only one to show some improvement is Chris Young. Is there anyone in the D-backs lineup that you wouldn't want to pitch to with the game on the line?

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Justin Upton got his 1st hit of the season. Man, an outfield that had Milledge and Upton in it looked much better three weeks ago, didn’t it?

The Kyle Davies Bandwagon hit a speed bump yesterdat with 3 ER in 5.2 innings. Note he did strike out 5 while walking just one. A speed bump is all this was pending further data.

Related to Carl Pavano’s Ks, should you be starting your pitchers against the Royals? How can Pavano strikeout 8 batters? The Royals hitting ranks 4th overall in most Ks. At the top of the list? The Cleveland Indians.

Seattle bullpen threw three shutout innings. With Dave Aardsma pitching the 8th, he walked two. Brandon Morrow pitched the 9th and walked one, and Roy Corcoran pitched the 1oth for the Win and walked two. All three allowed a hit in their inning of work. Not as impressive as I initially thought.

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