It’s a good thing the Angels have pitching depth

This broke a few days ago, but I didn’t see this until today. Kelvim Escobar will be on the DL to start the season.

Missing Escobar will hurt the team, but the Angels did have six starting pitchers — it may be a blessing in disguese to let Ervin Santana and Joe Saunders battle out for the fifth rotation spot in regular season games, not just Spring Training.

My projected Angels’ rotation (without Escobar):

1. John Lackey
2. Jered Weaver
3. Jon Garland
4. Joe Saunders
5. Ervin Santana

50 days ’til Opening Day

There are 50 days left until that best day of the year, MLB Opening Day.

Instead of my usual statistical anecdote, I’ll just laugh at an excerpt of this old story from the Onion: (give me a break, it’s the weekend, and it has the number 50 in it)

MILWAUKEE—In what Major League Baseball officials are calling a “long overdue correction of a gross oversight,” Commissioner Bud Selig announced Tuesday the discovery that Hall of Famer Hank Aaron had in fact accumulated 50 previously unaccounted-for home runs during his illustrious 22-year baseball career, bringing his once record total of 755 to an even higher 805 and putting the all-time home-run record perhaps forever out of reach.

Ah, if only that were true.