Baseball 2009: Early Impressions

Maybe it's too soon to make overarching judgements about the 2009 baseball season, but we all have our early impressions.

• Is the offense better around the league or the pitching worse?
• Break up the Marlins?
• Balls are flying out of Yankee Stadium.
• The Red Sox pitching may not be nearly as good as we thought.
• Fortunately, the Yankee pitching may not be as good either.
• Maybe Zack Greinke (ERA 0.00 after three games) IS the real deal.
• You knew Tim Lincecum wasn't going to keep getting lit up forever.
• Lou Groza's five field goals and a Browns touchdown were too much for the Yankees.
• Kansas City. First place.
• Does Gary Sheffield's 500th homer (25th guy to do it) get a steroid asterisk?
• Some think Bob Watson still acts in the Yankees' interest.
• The New Look Giants have a record like the 2008 Giants.
• Manny continues to hit (and field) like Godzilla.
• Anybody wondering whether the balls are juiced?
• Johan Santana sure looks good. Should that surprise us?
• Are the Orioles trying to keep Matt Wieters from reaching free agency earlier by keeping him down on the farm?
• Speaking of catchers...Joe Mauer...get well soon.
• Ryan Ludwick is on a 180 plus RBI pace (yeah, it's early)
• Is Tampa crazy for keeping David Price at Durham?
• The best team in the AL East (by run differential) by a lot... is Toronto.
• Think that Roy Halladay has anything to do with that?
• The worst team by run differential? The Yankees. Okay, so an 18 run defeat yesterday caused that.
• Major league attendance figures? Eyeballing 'em... they're down. The median 2008 attendance was 31K and change. So far, it's 29K and change.

DeutscherRed-Shirting

220 days ago

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I dont really like baseball or know too much about it but started watching last year because of Roy Haladay, hes a beast.

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Ron Sen, MDRed-Shirting

220 days ago

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I remember watching Haladay (very ineffective that day) and commenting that something was wrong with his delivery. The next day he had his appendix out. Good diagnosis on that one...

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Tmil42AAA-er

220 days ago

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Roy Halladay is my favorite pitcher in baseball. He's not the best pitcher in baseball (I'd put him #2 behind Santana), but he's damn close, he's a horse, and I loved his palmball in MVP Baseball 2005.

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RomiezzoLegend

219 days ago

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I love MVP Baseball 2005 PERIOD!

Halladay is a great pitcher to use in that game (Randy Johnson is probably the easiest to use).

I personally loved Zack Greinke's 56 mile per hour curveball in the game the best.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

219 days ago

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Batters are better prepared this year than most because - thanks to the WBC - Spring Training was so damned long.

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