Baseball Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous baseball thoughts and observations.

Matt Stairs is hitting .364 in his last 10 games for the Blue Jays. I still say that Toronto did the right thing in jettisoning Frank Thomas who meanwhile has hit .135 in his last 10 games... Today would have been Rogers Hornsby's 112th birthday. Bill James said Horsby would have gotten his vote for the biggest horse's ass in baseball history. Hornsby has the second highest batting average in history. What is it with high batting averages and horse's asses? Ty Cobb is first and Hornsby second... David Ortiz was out of the Red Sox line-up last night because he bruised his knee driving headfirst into 1st base trying to beat out an infield hit. That's a damn stupid play and it worries me that Ortiz was that concerned about being safe. I like hustle but Ortiz was 0-6 for the night and him pressing to the point of head-first slides is not a good sign... Great pitching match-up today between Brandon Webb of the Diamondbacks and Jake Peavy of the Padres. The over / under on that game is just 6.5 runs. I'm not placing a bet on that game but if I did - I'd take the over. The great pitching duels never wind up meeting the build-up this early in the season...