Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy will have his next shock moved back to Saturday to give him an superfluous day of rest.
MLB Baseball NewsReigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy will have his next surprise back to Saturday to give him an extra day of rest.
Peavy was scheduled to onset on Friday night against San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum in the introduction of a -game succession. But the club obvious to give Peavy one further day of rest subsequent his 127-pitch trip in his last foundation, a 3-1 win at Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Padres leader Bud Black said he rod about it with Peavy and pitching instructor Darren Balsley.
They determined “decided since Jake was coming off a somatic performance, he could use the day off,” Black said.
Peavy is 8-6 with an ERA of 2.67, subsequent in the NL coming into Wednesday night’s battle. Lincecum, 11-3 with a 2.78 ERA, will now face tyro Josh Banks (3-4).
The move will push back Greg Maddux (4-8) to Sunday, assuming he is not traded before Thursday’s non-abandonment employment limit, and leave Chris Young (4-4) to face the New York Mets on Tuesday.
Maddux snapped a job-high 14-game winless quality on Monday night in an 8-5 win over Arizona. Maddux, who has a full no-clientele clause, has told Padres universal executive Kevin Towers he will only acquiesce to a deal with a West Coast to be close to his home in Las Vegas.
“It’s on the cards,” Black said. “I wouldn’t be surprised either way. If it happens, not many players will be knotty.”
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Casey Kotchman is excited to be with the Atlanta Braves.
Seriously.
Despite working from a team that has the best track record in the majors to one that has essentially assumed up on this season, the Braves’ new head baseman had no complaints Wednesday about the craft that sent slugger Mark Teixeira to the Los Angeles Angels.
“I’ll be pulling for them over there,” Kotchman said before his principal game in Atlanta. “But I’m really excited to be a Brave now.”
Kotchman took over Teixeira’s locker in the Turner Field and batted third for the game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Beset by injuries, the Braves have fallen well below .500 and have little hope of rallying in the NL East, which is why they categorical to business Teixeira before he left as a free agent at the end of the spell.
“I was excited to come back to the East Coast,” said Kotchman, a aboriginal of St. Petersburg, Fla. “This is closer to home, definitely, so I’m really excited to be here.”
The 25-year-old Kotchman was hitting .287 with 12 homers and 54 RBIs with the Angels, including a two-run shot that accounted for all the in a 2-0 win over the Braves on June 15.
“I express regret for that,” he quipped.
While Kotchman doesn’t have Teixeira’s sinew, Braves manager Bobby Cox was happy with the deal. He knew the team didn’t have really have a best the way clothes are going this season.
“We were really, really lucky to get a guy of this caliber,” Cox said. “It was up for grabs to be terrible to keep Tex here.”
Even yet Kotchman knows he’ll liable be watching his anterior team in the playoffs – the Angels have a commanding lead in the AL West – he’s even now moved on.
“Pour the whole shebang into the nearby and you won’t have any regrets in the impending,” he said. “That’s how I was raised.”
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