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~So the Red Sox are giving Dice-K the Pedro treatment, aka not scoring any runs for him. Pedro in his prime should have won 20 games every single season but didn't because the Red Sox for some reason seemingly shut down their potent offense when he took the mound, and thus far this season the Red Sox have done the same in 2 of the 3 Dice-K starts. Not saying that this pattern necessarily will continue, but he certainly has pitched very well. And it's not like the Red Sox should struggle to score runs against Gustavo Chacin, not like he's dominating at all.

~John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, and Greg Maddux all pitched yesterday, how weird is that.

~Has anyone in baseball this season been worse than Jorge Julio thus far this season? The Marlins desperate to pick up a closer sent a supposedly decent prospect to the D-Backs to get Julio to close. Within a week and a half Julio was bounced as the teams closer, sits on the roster at 0-2 with 2 blown saves. He's walked atleast one batter in every appearance, including a one inning outing where he walked 4 batters, including one with the bases loaded. His ERA currently sits at 19.06, ouch.

~At the opposite end of the spectrum how great of a start is Ian Kinsler on. While Arod is off to a fantastic start and is getting a lot of attention, not many people are saying anything about Kinsler who currently is hitting .360 and has 7 homers over the first 2 1/2 weeks of action. I targeted Kinsler when I made my draft rankings for second baseman, and in one of my 3 leagues I got him, and am very pleased. In my keeper league he was actually protected, which was pretty surprising but so far it looks like a pretty darn good decision.

~Wow the Phillies are pretty terrible right now. Not one their 2,3,4 hitters Victorino, Utley and Howard is hitting above .250 and combined they have 3 homeruns. Their opening day starter, Brett Myers, has more runs allowed than innings pitched, and lets just say their bullpen has been less than stellar. It's a sad thing when Pat Burrell has been your second best player thus far this season.

~Had my first triple save night last night which is stellar. Basically in my keeper league everyone has 3 closers on their roster, if you have a night where you get a save from each it's a pretty solid night. I went 3 for 3 with Hoffman, Reyes (who's been great so far) and the newly picked up Jason Frasor (dumped Julio thank the lord).
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