Posted: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 12:39 PM | 25 comments |
 

Baez lit up in B game
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TAMPA, Fla. -- We're less than an hour from the first Grapefruit League game, but there was already baseball this morning back in Clearwater. And it wasn't pretty for Danys Baez.

Baez allowed five earned runs on five hits and a walk in two-thirds of an inning in a B game against Toronto. Mostly minor leaguers and non-roster players played in the game. The Blue Jays won, 8-1.

The righthander's roster spot is not viewed as tenuous right now, but a shaky spring can change things. He is owed $2.75 million in 2011 after a lost 2010 in which he had a 5.48 ERA in 51 games.

Some other pitching lines:

Brian Bass: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, BB, 3 K

Dan Meyer: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, BB, 2 K

Jose Contreras: 1.0 IP, BB, K

David Herndon: 1.1 IP, K

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Posted by Matt Gelb @ 12:39 PM  Permalink | 25 comments
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  • 0 like this / 1 don't   •   Posted 2:19 PM, 02/26/2011
    Hey--did folks see that Durbin signed with Cleveland? Too bad for the Indians, good for us. Now, if we could move Baez somewhere and get something. Maybe a new water cooler for the clubhouse. That sounds fair.
    — Rando
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:30 PM, 02/26/2011
    We'd be lucky to get an OLD, USED water cooler that doesn't even work. Even THAT sounds fair.
    — SEEK313
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:06 PM, 02/26/2011
    Phils should have signed Durbin for the low price Cleveland got him for.
    — P Even
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:21 PM, 02/26/2011
    Please PLEASE Cut this clown. He kills us all the time!Enough already he was a mistake!Give him to the Mets!
    — Longboat
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:22 PM, 02/26/2011
    Obviously talking about Baez in last post. It was a darn B league game.
    — Longboat
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:31 PM, 02/26/2011
    Hardly an encouraging outing.
    — PhightinPhil
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:32 PM, 02/26/2011
    Baez can work miracles. He's the only pitcher on the roster who makes Phillies fans hope they put Kyle Kendrick in the game.
    — riles1875
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:31 PM, 02/26/2011
    Baez should be traded for a 5 gallon bucket of sunflower seeds, and then we would get the best of the deal !!
    — Snowbird Bob
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:34 PM, 02/26/2011
    ....LOL....how original....whining already....losers....
    — most_of_the_commentors_here_are_losers
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:03 PM, 02/26/2011
    Baez's spot on the roster SHOULD be "tenuous," at best!
    — VicM
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:17 PM, 02/26/2011
    Baez getting lit up is as common as rain in April.
    — TheGuyInCharge69
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:30 PM, 02/26/2011
    Baez gave up 5 earned runs at a time when pitchers are way ahead of hitters in early spring, and in a B game with B talents playing......cut him already and spare us from hearing about him again.
    — Dan in Holmesburg
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:40 PM, 02/26/2011
    Who would want him? 2.75 million is alot of sunflower seeds
    — eicholson
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:42 PM, 02/26/2011
    "Most of": The fact that a grown man would have that kind of screen name shows just how much of a loser you are. Now go back down stairs. Your mom is calling you for dinner.
    — riles1875
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:37 PM, 02/26/2011
    Why is Baez still on team, he should be one of the first cuts.
    — btsucceed


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