I was away for just one week and wow did the baseball world change. The trade that shocked me the most was the Red Sox picking up Victor Martinez. The best pick up I felt was Jared Washburn by the Tigers which now gives them three top ERA starting pitchers along with Verlander and Edwin Jackson.
I was also surprised by the trade that did not happen, though I do think it was the right decision to keep Roy Halladay as a Blue Jay. When you have arguably the best pitcher in all of baseball, why swap him for potential prospects unless you can reload the entire system.
Here are some of the highlights from the week I was out of town.
Monday July 27:
Jamie Moyer picks up a victory against the D Backs for # 10 on the year and #256 of his career.
Tim Lincecum beat the Pirates for win #11 on the year striking out 15 batters for his 37th win. He pitched a shutout and allowed no earned runs.
Tuesday July 28:
Cole Hamels led the Phillies over the D' Backs once again for his 45th career win as he struck out 9.
Mark Reynolds of the D'Backs hit another HR for his 28th of the season
Wednesday July 29th:
Justin Verlander joined Lincecum with an impressive performance against the Rangers with a 13 strikeout performance. He recorded win #58 of his career. In that game he got a 2 HR performance from Curtis Granderson. On the Rangers side Andruw Jones hit 2 HR's for #388 of his career.
Adrian Gonzalez of the Padres hit a HR for the third consecutive game to support young pitching prospect Mat Latos. Latos picked up win #2 of the season and his career.
Thursday July 30th:
Johan Santana and the Mets shutout the Rockies with an impressive 7-0 win for his twelfth on the season and #121 of his impressive career.
David Ortiz hit a HR during the week that he was exposed as another cheater.
Friday July 31st:
Cliff Lee made his first start for the Phillies after his trade and pitched a solid game for his first victory in the NL.
Mark Reynolds hit another HR for #29 on the season. Can he cathc Albert Pujols who has slowed his pace.
Saturday Aug 1st:
Andrew McCutcheon of the Pirates hit 3 HR in one game against the Nationals. Pretty impressive for a player known as a speed guy. Is it possible he could be a 30-30 guy in the future?
Mark Reynolds hits his 30th of the season, wow what a week.
Felix Hernandez took on the Rangers and picked up win #12 on the season. He now has 51 wins on the career with the support of HR #622 from Griffey Jr.
Tim Lincecum added to his win total with a dominant performance against the Phillies with 8 shutout innings of 8 K's. That is win #38 of his young career.
Sunday August 2nd:
CC Sabathia outdueled Mark Buehrle for his 11th win of the season and #128 of his career. He was supported by a cycle from the bat of Melky Cabrera.
Jered Weaver picked up his 11th win of the season with a dominant 11 K effort against the Twins. He now has 46 wins in his young career.
Chad Billingsley beat up on the Braves striking out 9 batters in 5 innings before leaving with cramps. Like Weaver he picked up his 11th season win and 46th of his career.
I would say that the most impressive performances of the week were by Mark Reynolds and Tim Lincecum. I wish I had seen some of the games, but I had a great week away.
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