Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

What's up with Jake Peavy? He's normally an elite pitcher but this year his ERA is pretty high at 4.81 (and 5.13 at home - at a pitcher's park). It seems his big problem is giving up runs with 2 outs. Almost half of his earned runs (22 of 46) have come with 2 outs... Dan Johnson of the A's was supposed to be a stud hitter but the first couple of months of the season he was a complete bust. He was hitting just .196 going into the month of June but what a June he's having. For the month he's batting .429 with an OPS of 1.301. If you are in a fantasy baseball league - you might want to see if he's available and gobble him up because he's gobbling up pitchers right now... I was skeptical about Phil Nevin filling in for Derek Lee but Nevin has had 3 HR in 12 games and on OPS of .945 so far for the Cubs... Dan Uggla of the Marlins has to be the front runner for NL ROY. Right now he's hitting .307 with 12 HR (the same as fellow rookie Prince Fielder)... I continue to say that the Tigers have a fatal flaw that needs fixing and that flaw is closer Todd Jones. The Tigers may make the playoffs but they won't win anything with a closer with an ERA of 7.00. Fernando Rodney is going to have to take over as closer and the soon the better for Detroit... The Twins have won 2 in a row on the road. Stop the presses!... Do you think Anna Benson gave her husband anything special for beating the Mets yesterday?... I really like Luis Gonzalez but I have to say that the 57 HR he hit in 2001 are really sticking out like a sore thumb. That was 26 more HR then he hit in any other season. Everyone always points out Brady Anderson's 50 in 1996 as a freak accomplishment but that was exactly 26 more that his second best season too...