Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

You could make an argument for Chien-Ming Wang as the MVP of the Yankees. He has the most innings pitched on the staff and his 12 wins are tied for tops with Mike Mussina. Can you imagine where the Yankees would be without Wang? Yankees fans love the Wang... The top 6 players in runs scored in the NL are all from the NL East. I'm not sure if that says something about the potent offenses in the NL East or the lousy pitching... People keep talking about rookies Franscico Liriano and Justin Verlander as Cy Young candidates as well as ROY leaders but don't forget about Josh Johnson of the Marlins who just happens to be leading the NL in ERA (2.60 - Lirano is tops in MLB with his 1.96 and Verlander is at 2.69)... Everyone seems to want to push Joe Crede for the AL Gold Glove at 3rd but he has twice as many errors as Mike Lowell (8 to 4). Of course this argument could be moot seeing how the Gold Glove seems to be the personal property of Oakland's Eric Chavez who has won the last 5 Gold Gloves at 3rd... If it seems like there's been a lot of offense in the AL this year - that's because there has been. The average team OPS in the AL is .775. That's the highest its been since the league average OPS was .792 in 2000...