link - Police have charged former major league pitcher Ambiorix Burgos with kidnapping and attempted murder after his ex-wife said she was forced to eat rat poison. Judge Freddy Frias ordered Burgos on Saturday to remain in jail for three months while prosecutors prepare the case. The 26-year-old is suspected of kidnapping Dilenia Reynoso on Thursday from a prosecutor's home where she was hiding after allegedly receiving death threats from him. In 2008, authorities dropped charges against Burgos, who was accused in a fatal hit-and-run involving two women.
8-22-10: - link - Kyle Allen is already on the disabled list with a back injury. The injury, it turns out, is a cracked vertebrae which has been the cause for him pitching through pain throughout at least the last four weeks. There may have been some early signs before that. Regardless, he's shut down. He can still work out but he will be down for at least 6-8 weeks. Ideally, the injury heals without issue and he can get ready for the season. The possible down side, the injury takes longer to heal and he starts in Extended Spring Training. It at least a partial reason for why he has been so inconsistent over the last two months if not the whole season. There's been a drop in velocity in his fastball and his pitches have flattened out. A contact I know who saw him in Tampa in his last start noticed Allen was off not only with his pitches but noticed Allen pitching hurt
link - The Brooklyn Cyclones clinched their fifth McNamara Division title Saturday and are headed to the New York-Penn League playoffs for the seventh time in 10 years. Yohan Almonte pitched a six-hitter for the league's first complete-game shutout of the season as Brooklyn locked up its first division crown since 2007 with a 10-0 romp over the Connecticut Tigers. "There are a lot of expectations in Brooklyn, but the players have done what they were expected to do," first-year manager Wally Backman said. "I felt confident with the players that we have here and I was confident we would compete. For this level, the players are very fundamentally sound. Winning is part of their development."
link - The Mets once again all but ignored the option to hand-out bonuses that exceed slot recommendation, aside from 1st Rounder Matt Harvey (RHP, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) (who incidentally was a top 5 talent on our final Top 300 and one of the better gets in the top of the 1st Round). In addition to a crushingly conservative approach to talent selection, the Mets managed to swing-and-miss on the probability front with their second and third selections -- Blake Forsythe (C, Univ. of Tennessee) and Cory Vaughn (OF, San Diego St. Univ.) -- high-risk/moderate upside selections whose risk profile is further are amplified by the loss of their 2nd Round pick (due to Free Agency compensation rules). Quite simply, the Mets draft show a general lack of upside, safety and creativity, making it perhaps the most disappointing of all 2010 classes, which says something considering the strength of their 1st Rounder, Harvey.
link - We still need a number two starter and we still need a setup man, but mostly we still need a 30+ home run bat for the middle of the lineup. I guess we’ve just been spinning our wheels in the past 12 months. Damn, that burns me up. Sure we’ve had some nice surprises like the emergence of Ike Davis, but didn’t we feel the same way about Daniel Murphy a year earlier? In fact looking at Ike’s numbers now, is he really all that different from Murph? - •Ike Davis: 250 BA – .756 OPS - 39 extra-base hits - •Daniel Murphy: .266 BA – .741 OPS – 54 extra-base hits
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