Red Sox @ Yankees 8/19

Still no Mark Teixeira with a sore wrist

Yankees take a 1-0 lead early on a Curtis Granderson double

Yankees win 4-1

Hero? NO It Hiroki!

The Yankees will finish their three game weekend series with the Boston Red Sox tonight at Yankees Stadium. This also is game 17 in a 20 games in 20 days stretch that has been grueling on the bullpen and on the players. A much needed day off is in the cards for Thursday but until then we need to finish this strong. On the mound for the Yankees will be Hiroki "My Hiro" Kuroda and will be facing off against Mr. Fried Chicken himself Josh Beckett, blister and blood pressure withstanding.The game will be televised at 8:05 pm ET on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.

Lineups

Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Curtis Granderson CF
Eric Chavez 3B
Raul Ibanez LF
Russell Martin C
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Casey McGhee DH

Go Yankees!!

Look Around The NL West Disabled Lists

My post about the Yankees 2012 Disabled list, seen HERE, got me thinking on how this injury riddled season stacks up against everyone else. Now granted that post took me a very long time to do and I do not plan on doing one that detailed for every team but rather I am going to look at all the teams CURRENT disabled lists and compare them.

Today we're going to start with the NL West Here is an up to date look at the standings.

These are the disabled list and salaries of every team in the NL West.

Arizona Diamondbacks

5 Players Currently On DL

$5.04 Million On DL of $74,284,833

6.8% of Total Payroll

Takashi Saito - 1.75 Million

Willie Bloomquist - 1.1 Million

Josh Collmenter - 486 K

Henry Blanco - 1.2 Million

Daniel Hudson - 504 K

Colorado Rockies

9 Players Currently On DL

$31.51 Million On DL of $78,069,571

40.4% of Total Payroll

Edgmer Escalona - 400 K

Todd Helton - 4.9 Million

Jonathan Sanchez - 5.6 Million

Christian Friedrich - 400 K

Jason Giambi - 1 Million

Juan Nicasio - 480 K

Troy Tulowitzki - 8.25 Million

Jhoulys Chacin - 482 K

Jorge De La Rosa - 10 Million

Los Angeles Dodgers

9 Players Currently On DL

$21.73 Million On DL of $95,143,575

22.8% of Total Payroll

Jerry Hairston Jr - 3.75 Million

Scott Elbert - 486 K

Dee Gordon - 485 K

Todd Coffey - 1.3 Million

Ted Lilly - 10.5 Million

Justin Sellers - 481 K

Matt Guerrier - 3.75 Million

Blake Hawksworth - 495 K

Rubby De La Rosa - 483 K

San Diego Padres

12 Players Currently On DL

 $22.69 Million On DL of $55,244,700

41.1% of Total Payroll

Huston Street - 7.5 Million

Joe Thatcher - 700 K

Andrew Cashner - 496 K

Anthony Bass - 485 K

James Darnell - 400 K

Jason Bartlett - 5.5 Million

Tim Stauffer - 3.2 Million

Joe Weiland - 400 K

Cory Luebke - 500 K

Micah Owings - 1 Million

Kyle Blanks - 492 K

Dustin Moseley - 2.0125 Million

San Francisco Giants

6 Players Currently On DL

$24.5 Million On DL of  $117,620,683

20.83% of Total Payroll

Brad Penny - 400 K

Shane Loux - 400 K

Aubrey Huff - 10 Million

Brian Wilson - 8.5 Million

Freddy Sanchez - 6 Million

Eric Surkamp - 480 K

Is there any correlation between the injuries and the standings? I do not know so you be the judge. Leave me a comment in the comment box because I am always down for baseball debate and banter.

Feliciano Throws Another Scoreless Inning In Rehab

Damn Baby! You Know I Have $8 Million bucks right?

Pedro Feliciano took one step closer to becoming a Yankee, for real this time, today in his latest rehab assignment. In his third rehab appearance for the GCL Yankees Pedro struck out a batter in a scoreless inning. No word on the velocity or the pitch count but if the velocity was way down we would have heard about it by now. All signs look for Feliciano coming back to the Yankees when rosters expand this September as a 3rd left handed pitcher in the bullpen.