April Epilogue

Just an update here at the end of the month of play­ers I talked about dur­ing the month.

Danny Bautista — Still retired.

Jonny Gomes — Gomes got called up April 22nd, and has made six starts in the last eight games, get­ting into the out­field rota­tion. Bat­ting .263/.364/.474 with one home run dur­ing this run.

Joey Gath­right — Called up when Sanchez failed his drug test. Bat­ted .350/.409/.500 with 3 SB in six games in cen­ter field. Was then promptly sent down when Sanchez returned.

Alex Sanchez — Has since returned from his drug sus­pen­sion and started 9 games in cen­ter field for Tampa. Bat­ting .270/.289/.378 at the time of this writ­ing, with one stolen base and one walk in 37 at-bats. Zero RBI. One field­ing error.

Matt Diaz — Called up by Kansas City on April 22nd after send­ing down Calvin Pick­er­ing. 3 hits in 16 at-bats so far, good for a .188/.188/.250 line.

Barry Bonds — Still hasn’t played, and opti­mistic reports have him return­ing around the all-star break.

Darin Erstad — Has started every game at first base for the Angels this sea­son. Bat­ting .267/.315/.426 dur­ing that time.

Casey Kotch­man — Cel­e­brat­ing his demo­tion by bat­ting .178/.341/.205 for AAA Salt Lake. Cur­rently has more walks than hits.

Steve Fin­ley — Off to a rough April, bat­ting .157/.237/.337 over the first 23 games. Play­ing very good defense in cen­ter field.

Scott Elar­ton — Prov­ing the crit­ics right (and me wrong), going through April with a 0–1 record and an 8.05 ERA. Hasn’t pitched past the 6th inning in any of his four starts so far. Sched­uled to start Sun­day — if he gets ham­mered, he might not be in an Indian uni­form much longer.

Joe Mauer — Play­ing very good, 18 starts at catcher, only one at DH. .288/.392/.424 so far this season.

Corky Miller — Still on the Twins 25 man ros­ter — the Twins sent down Terry Tiffee when Justin Morneau came off the DL. Bat­ting .000/.000/.000 on the sea­son. Made five appear­ances for the twins in April — 3 starts at catcher.

Mitch Jones — Still lead­ing the Colum­bus Clip­pers in bat­ting aver­age (.366), on base per­cent­age (.441), slug­ging per­cent­age (.707), home runs (6), and strike­outs (25). Likely not to see a Yan­kees uni­form any time soon, bar­ring injury.

Colter Bean — Called up to the majors, where he made one appear­ance, pitch­ing two innings and giv­ing up one earned run, walk­ing two and strik­ing out two. Was promptly sent down due to the Yan­kees need to use the ros­ter spot for Chien-Ming Wang, a start­ing pitcher, to take Jaret Wright’s spot in the rota­tion. Has yet to pitch for Colum­bus upon his return.

Jay Wita­sick — Jay hasn’t pitched yet for Col­orado, but appar­ently Witasick’s con­tract assured him of being called up or allow­ing him to seek employ­ment else­where. More info on Witasick’s con­tract is on the Rockie home­page here.