More On Mohr-on

Let’s start with the following bit of news on Pickled favorite, Dustan Mohr-on:

According to the Rocky Mountain News, "Dustan Mohr batted cleanup for only the second time this season, while Cory Sullivan batted second for the second time. Hurdle said he hopes to give a day off in Pittsburgh to Todd Helton, who has started every game at first base. Sullivan went 3-for-4 after entering the game with only one hit in his previous 13 at-bats."

What this report omitted is that Mr. Cleanup Hitter struck out all four times he came up. It’s getting pretty clear that the Giants did the right thing by getting rid of this knucklehead, and it’s looking like the Pecklers’ trade of Jim Edmonds for Chad Tracy and Mohr-on is questionable. Actually, Tracy at $5 has closer stats to Edmonds ($29) than you realize:

Tracy…… 6-22-0-.269
Edmonds 7-24-1-.290

I still think Tracy has a big upside, particularly at the price. He’s a no brainer keeper next year, possibly extendable to $10. Edmonds is also a no brainer keeper, but I doubt George would extend him to $34, particularly given his age and injury history. I’ll grant him this, though: he’s one hell of a baseball player.

Here is an item in our team notes at TQStats I found interesting:

After Tyler Walker earned his fourth save on Wednesday, Giants manager Felipe Alou had positive things to say about his de facto closer, according to the San Jose Mercury News. "He's the closest thing to a closer that I have used" (since Armando Benitez's injury), Alou said. "There's something about him.

Yeah, there certainly is something about him. He’s had 9 outs in a row, all fly balls and line drive outs. Not one ground ball in those 3 saves during the past week. Felipe, what I think you are sensing is that he may suck less than the rest of that feckless bullpen staff you’ve been overworking. (That's a lifetime first -- using "feckless" in a sentence.)

Brett Tomko had another decent outing with no run support. The Giants miss Barry in the worst way. I noticed that AJ Pierzynski has 7 homers already, which is pretty close to his total for last year. I also noticed his teammate on the Chisox, Scott Podsednik already has 24 steals. If you’ll remember, the Giants made a strong pitch to the Brewers for him in their search for a fleet footed centerfielder.

Thursday save for the D-Backs: Jose Valverde. Hmmmm….what happened to that Bruney idea? Speaking of saves, is anybody thinking of biting on Larry’s offer of Kolb? And now the Lickers are offering up their strange assortment of “closers”: Mesa (suddenly Mesa again), Dempster (semi-temporary and scary) and Turnbow (well, maybe they are not really offering him, but the other guys). We have absolutely no idea where Turnbow has found these stats. There is nothing in his background that suggests he’s this year’s Brad Lidge.

Finally, does anyone have any steals for trade. Heh, heh, heh. I’m starting to hold my breath right now….