A few minutes before today's first pitch at Camden Yards, here's an update on some injured Phillies, from assistant GM Ruben Amaro Jr.
Jon Lieber, P (groin tear): After allowing four runs in five innings Tuesday night for Class A Clearwater, he will pitch Sunday either for Clearwater for Class AA Reading. "He threw OK," Amaro said. "He wasn't super sharp. But he's on track."
Randy Wolf, P (elbow, hand): A non-displaced fracture of his fifth metacarpals bone in his left hand prevented him from pitching Tuesday night for low-Class A Lakewood. Amaro said his rehab from Tommy John elbow surgery will be pushed back by about 10 days, but the Phillies are still hoping he can pitch for them by late July.
Mike Lieberthal, C (strained hip): He still has discomfort when he runs the bases, and Amaro said he probably won't be ready to play for the Phillies until after the All-Star break either in San Francisco or San Diego.
Here's today's lineup, which includes Pat Burrell. Manager Charlie Manuel thought about giving the badly slumping Burrell a few days off, but wanted his right-handed power in the lineup against O's lefty Erik Bedard.
SS Jimmy Rollins
2B Chase Utley
RF Bobby Abreu
DH Pat Burrell
1B Ryan Howard
CF Aaron Rowand
LF Shane Victorino
3B David Bell
C Sal Fasano
More later.
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Lieberthal $7,500,000 salary, Wolf $9,125,000 salary, Lieber $7,583,000 salary, Meyers $3,300,000 salary. Who's running the Phillies; Mr. Magoo???
Yes, because we all remember the Mr. Magoo episode where he was not able to predict injuries and domestic violence. That was a good one.
You forgot Bell and his $4,500,000 salary. However, as Amaro also said (on Wednesday night's radio pregame show), Abraham Nunez is not getting starts at third because "David Bell is our third baseman." He can't buy a day off, but he can hit into plenty of 6-4-3 DPs. This team is so pathetic, it makes me cry. Glad my tickets to Wednesday night's game were free.
Thanks for printing the lineup. Excellent reporting.
Not able to predict that Lieberthal and Wolfe would be injured?? That just sounds like a bad memory to me!
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