It's No Joke

In case you missed it, Alex Rodriguez, at $28 Million/year, now makes more than the entire Florida Marlins team (opening-day roster and disabled list), at $21.8 Million/year. You won't find that in a box score anywhere, but you will find these nuggets.

Busy Infielders
Jon Garland pitched his first game of the season in last night's Angels/Twins game. He threw 95 pitches over eight innings and allowed just one run to pick up the win. But that just tells part of the story.

The other part is that over 2/3 of his pitches were for strikes (67.4%) and yet he didn't record a single strikeout. Instead, he had the opposition hitting a LOT of groundballs.

                         IP    H   R   ER  BB  K   HR
J. Garland (W, 1-0)      8.0   6   1   1   1   0   0

Pitches-strikes - J Garland 95-64.

Ground balls-fly balls - J Garland 17-7.

It's Still Early
It's still early in the season, so it's understandable that teams need to shake off some of the rust from Winter. Maybe that's the reason the Rangers and Mariners had such a hard time with fielding last night and had a combined five errors.

E - I Kinsler 2 (2, catch, ground ball);
   M Young (2, throw).

E - F Hernandez (1, throw);
   R Sexson (1, ground ball).