Eck is back tonight and I'm psyched!
As for all the randos that have filled in:
Gomes > Walker > Dinardo > Timlin > Salty > Boggs
Gomes really struggled at first and was boring as dirt. I think he upped the energy in later appearances and had an overall enjoyable vibe. Walker and Dinardo were both replacement level guys. Timlin, Salty and Boggs should never do a game again though.
Archer left his start last weekend after eight pitches due to tightness in his forearm, but no structural damage was found upon examination and he played catch Tuesday without any lingering discomfort.
@jay_jaffe
a good reminder for panicky-ass Dodger fans: there's no correlation between September performance & playoff success
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=9617
As the postseason unfolds over the next few weeks, you're going to hear a lot about momentum and its importance to a ballclub, and while it's undoubtedly a good idea to bear Earl Weaver's famous maxim in mind, the take-home message is that the conventional wisdom that a team's recent performances foreshadows their playoff fate is generally wrong. The fact that there are no shortage of pundits who elevate the 2007 Rockies as their evidence while forgetting the 2006 Cardinals underscores either how little attention some talking heads pay to actual results, or how short their attention spans are.