Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

Opening Day at Fenway today and the boys will get their rings and the banner will be raised. Praise them with great praise. Yankees suck... Torii Hunter looks like a good investment for the Angels. Last night he hit 2 HR with the second being a game winning grand slam... Speaking of last night's Angels game - between closer Joe Borowski of the Indians and Frankie Rodriguez of the Angels 7 runs were given up in less than one combined inning (both closers only managed one out). That's some end of game gasoline... The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be doing the National Anthem and providing general class atmosphere. I hope to God that the Cowsills are not part of Opening Day at Fenway. Or any future games at Fenway for that matter... Mark Reynolds of the Diamondbacks is my darkhorse candidate for NL MVP. I've said it before but if he hits 30 HR and drives in 100 then the Diamondbacks will be representing the NL in the World Series... As great as Tom Seaver was - Tom Glavine has a chance to pass him in wins this season (Seaver has 311 wins to Glavine's 303). What's impressive is the fact that Glavine has accumulated those 303 wins in much fewer innings (Seaver ended up pitching 4782 innings to Glavine's 4361 and counting). I guess that's really a result of pitching in two different eras. Seaver had 231 career complete games compared to 56 for Glavine (and Glavine was top 10 in complete games 8 times in his career). Pitchers just don't finish games like they used to. And no - I'm not implying in any way that Glavine was as good as Seaver. I do think that Glavine gets short shrift in terms of recognition though... On this day in 1974 - Hank Aaron hit HR # 715 to break Babe Ruth's record...