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On the ups: Jason Marquis had a great debut for the Colorado Rockies, earning the 10-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on April 10, giving up just five hits and two runs in seven innings. Kevin Youkilis is batting .526 early on, with 10 hits (two doubles) in 19 at bats; he’s still looking for his first home run. Since his opening day victory, John Grabow has appeared in two more games and has still not yielded a run. Brad Ausmus made the start in the April 10 lost to Arizona, getting two hits in four at bats.
On the downs: Scott Feldman appeared in the April 9 game against the Cleveland Indians. Although the Rangers won, 12-8, Feldman gave up five hits (including two homers) and four earned runs in just 2.1 innings. Ian Kinsler is on a mini-slump, hitless in his last two games. Overall, he has seven hits in 20 at bats, including three doubles and a home run, with three runs scored and six RBI. Gabe Kapler is batting just .143 (1-7 with a double and run scored).
Pareve: Ryan Braun is batting .238 with five hits in 21 at bats, two doubles and no homers. Craig Breslow last appearance came in the April 8 win over the Seattle Mariners, earning a hold for one scoreless inning. Scott Schoeneweis retired the only to batters to face him in the April 10 game against the Dodgers. He is also one of the subjects in today’s front-page story in The New York Times, “Inside a tempting world of easy steroids.” Schoeneweis, who pitched for the Mets in 2007-08,
Once the testing program began, though, Schoeneweis was concerned about getting in trouble, the investigators wrote.
“Schoeneweis stated that he only used steroids one time during the season, and because he was a player representative, he knew when players got tested,” their report says….Schoeneweis, a 10-year veteran now with the Arizona Diamondbacks, said in an interview during spring training that he was simply stating that all players knew they were going to be tested in 2003. He said he never received advance notice about a test.
“Player reps know the information to tell the rest of the players union, the rest of the body and the league,” Schoeneweis said. “We were knowledgeable ahead of time about what the testing program was going to be because we were negotiating it, O.K.? That’s it.”
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