Apr 13 2008
Just a reminder that Greg turns 42 tomorrow. He’s always said he thought it would be cool to be the oldest guy in the league after being the youngest when he started.
Well… Jamie Moyer is still going strong at 45 so I guess Greg is going to just have to keep paying for a few more seasons.
May 10 2007
John Smoltz picked up his fifth win of the season after going seven innings Wednesday against the Padres. Greg Maddux received a no-decision after leaving with the lead after 5 1/3 innings. Maddux gave up three hits and two walks allowing one run and striking out three.
Reliever Cla Meredith was charged with a blown save after Chipper Jones hit a decisive double in the 7th.
Braver relievers Mike Gonzalez and Rafael Soriano closed out the game for the Brave win.
May 08 2007
Wednesday, Greg Maddux and John Smoltz will face off on the mound when the San Diego Padres visit the Atlanta Braves. The two met last season in a game but neither received a decision.
Apr 29 2007
Maddux haunts former team
At the end of last season Greg Maddux was helping the Los Angeles Dodgers into the post season. On Saturday Maddux faced off against his old team and pitched a gem.
Maddux had his best outting of the season going 7 innings allowing just 2 runs on 5 hits and a walk, striking out three.
Scott Linebrink and Trevor Hoffman finished out the game, which was Maddux’s second win of the season.
Apr 12 2007
Greg Maddux pitched six scoreless innings Wednesday allowing six hits and striking out five to pick up his first win of the season.
The Padres went on to win 4-0 after relievers Cla Meredith, Scott Linebrink and Doug Brocail pitched scoreless relief innings.
On the reason for his success Maddux spoke “Down and away … there’s no secret, Just locate the ball and change speeds.”
The win was the 334th of his career.
Mar 23 2007
Even though it was just a spring training game it’s worth nothing that Greg Maddux held the Cubs scoreless for five innings in a rain shortened game. Maddux pitched four scoreless a few days ago in a minor league game.
Mar 18 2007
Greg Maddux struck out eight in four scoreless innings in a minor league game Saturday.
Maddux, who missed his last start due to a mild abdominal strain, said he didn’t have any problems today. He even had a double at the plate.
Mar 13 2007
Greg Maddux missed a scheduled spring start due to abdominal pain. The Padres say he hurt himself during one of his last pitches of his last start.I suppose some of us will now laugh about his statements about how running in the outfield during spring training games is stupid.
Either way it’s not thought to be anything significant and Maddux said that had this been the regular season he would have been pitching.
Lopez released
Former teammate Javy Lopez was released Monday by the Colorado Rockies. Lopez was hitting .375 with a .625 slugging percentage but was cut due to the improvements in youngster Chris Iannetta’s game. Iannetta now looks likely to start the season as the Rockies opening day catcher with Yorvit Torrealba playing backup.
Javy says he does not want to play as a backup on any team unless it’s the Atlanta Braves, who currently have Brian McCann as their starter and Bryan Pena as their backup.
He’s also said he doesn’t have the desire to play DH, which severely limits the number of interested teams to about zero.
Best of luck to Javy but even he said it’s not about the money at this point.
Mar 10 2007
After two starts in the Cactus League, Greg Maddux has pitched 5 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits. Maddux has struck out four while walking two. Currently the Padres plan to start Maddux for the second game of the season in San Francisco.
Nov 03 2006
Greg Maddux won his 16th gold glove tying Jim Kaat for the record. Maddux has won the gold glove 16 of the last 17 seasons with 2003 being the exception.
Omar Vizquel won his 11th, Andruw Jones won his 9th and even Albert Pujols (wtf) and Brad Ausmus (third, even though throwing out 22% of runners would be considered Gawd awful in any season) were given out the award.
