And now we know who IS smart enough to figure this out for us.

Well done Iceman.

So, scrap wins and losses, and replace them with this new metric of quality and non-quality starts.

Do we care

Except Dozier, yes.  To me, that is a lot of no's from others for him to make it.

Well a Twin had to be in it and he is leading them no?

I should have "air qouted" "had to be in it"

HAHA I had forgotten about the Cano/Butler incident

with beer throwing and swearing.

Dozier's having a really good year, so it's nice to see him getting some recognition.

Yup - Add Phillips to the list on players either DTD or DL on my team...  I should switch my teams name to "ALL DL"  Though "Up In Smoke" seems appropriate as well

Gennett.  More info in the fantasy area.

Red Sox outfielder Shane Victorino started (or, more accurately, re-started) a minor-league rehab assignment yesterday at Single-A, going 0-for-2 with two strikeouts at the plate and playing five innings defensively in right field.

Victorino has been on the disabled list since mid-May with a strained hamstring, but back problems repeatedly derailed his recovery process and have now taken over as the primary issue for rehabbing. He could be cleared to rejoin the Red Sox’s lineup shortly after the All-Star break, but will have to stay setback free while playing a full nine innings in the minors first and that hasn’t happened yet.

No words from me on this one.

Derek Jeter‘s business interests aren’t limited to children’s books. He’s also into underwear referred to as “Tempur-Pedic banana hammocks.” From Page Six, of course:

Move over, Victoria, Derek Jeter has an even bigger “secret.”

The Yankee slugger’s retirement plan includes becoming an underwear mogul, Page Six has learned.

The slugger is a secret owner of Frigo RevolutionWear — a customized men’s underwear brand that sells skivvies more colloquially known as “Tempur-Pedic banana hammocks.” The high-tech undies sell for $100 a pair and include a “soft lock adjustment system” plus a “patented pouch” dubbed the “Frigo Zone.” (We’ll leave the zone’s location to your imagination.)
The guy who runs the company has said that the product “separates your genitals from the rest of your body . . . It lifts a little bit so [guys] feel the comfort.”

$100 for that? Hasn’t anyone ever heard of Gold Bond?

And while I know it’s a cliche to note this every single time this kind of thing comes up, I really do wonder how this would be received if A-Rod was an investor

ARLINGTON -- The phone rang halfway through the eighth inning.

The call was regarding Chris Gimenez, the Rangers' backup catcher. In just a few moments, he would trot out to the mound for the ninth inning, making his first Major League pitching appearance with Texas trailing by 11 runs.

The Rangers, who lost to the Angels, 15-6, on Thursday night, had decided to use Gimenez to close the game in order to save an already taxed bullpen.

Gimenez's outing marked the eighth instance in Rangers history in which the club decided to call on a position player, Gimenez being the seventh player used. Mitch Moreland pitched in Colorado on May 6.

Immediately, Gimenez attempted to calm himself down.

"Obviously it's not something you ever really want to do, slash, you kind of do," Gimenez said. "You never really want to have to go pitch, but I figured since I was going to have to do it, you might as well have fun with it."

Before the inning began, Gimenez and fellow catcher Robinson Chirinos had agreed that Gimenez would throw mostly fastballs. The last time he pitched was in an Alaskan league of college summer ball. He joked his ERA was 36.00.

With his 87-mph fastball, a few changeups and one knuckleball, Gimenez retired all three Angels batters he faced.

David Freese grounded out, C.J. Cron struck out swinging and Hank Conger flied out to center field.

"I'm a catcher, so I kind of have an idea. I'm not trying to throw the ball 95 [mph], I'm just trying to throw it and let them get themselves out because it's hard enough to hit off a position player as it is," Gimenez said. "In the fourth inning, I didn't really have an idea, but obviously that's a situation where it could present itself, so I went ahead and told [coach Tim Bogar], 'Hey, if you need me, I'm good.'"

Chirinos said that the fact that Gimenez had to pitch was a bad sign in itself.

"It means they've scored a lot of runs," Chirinos said.

But he added he was proud of his fellow catcher.

"He threw a couple pitches," Chirinos said, "got some quick outs and gave us a chance to get out of that inning quick -- saved our bullpen a little bit."