Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Jake Peavy will have his next plus back to Saturday to give him an extra day of rest.
Peavy was scheduled to inception on Friday night against San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum in the preamble of a three-game chain. But the club decided to give Peavy one second day of rest resulting his 127-pitch day out in his last foundation, a 3-1 win at Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Padres leader Bud Black said he bar about it with Peavy and pitching trainer Darren Balsley.
They emphatic “unambiguous since Jake was coming off a brute performance, he could use the day off,” Black said.
Peavy is 8-6 with an ERA of 2.67, following in the NL coming into Wednesday night’s warfare. Lincecum, 11-3 with a 2.78 ERA, will now face beginner Josh Banks (3-4).
The move will push back Greg Maddux (4-8) to Sunday, assuming he is not before Thursday’s non-disclaimer industry cutoff date, and leave Chris Young (4-4) to face the New York Mets on Tuesday.
Maddux a career-high 14-game winless trace on Monday night in an 8-5 win over Arizona. Maddux, who has a full no-customers clause, has told Padres widespread supervisor Kevin Towers he will only grant to a deal with a West Coast to be close to his home in Las Vegas.
“It’s likely,” Black said. “I wouldn’t be surprised either way. If it happens, not many will be elaborate.”
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Casey Kotchman is thrilled to be with the Atlanta Braves.
Seriously.
Despite up for grabs from a team that has the best personal best in the majors to one that has essentially fixed up on contending this period, the Braves’ new fundamental had no complaints Wednesday about the public that sent slugger Mark Teixeira to the Los Angeles Angels.
“I’ll be pulling for them over there,” Kotchman said before his principal game in Atlanta. “But I’m really excited to be a Brave now.”
Kotchman took over Teixeira’s locker in the Turner Field clubhouse and for the game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Beset by injuries, the Braves have fallen well below .500 and have little hope of in the NL East, which is why they distinct to trade Teixeira before he left as a free agent at the end of the spell.
“I was excited to come back to the East Coast,” said Kotchman, a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla. “This is closer to home, self-evidently, so I’m really excited to be here.”
The 25-year-old Kotchman was hitting .287 with 12 homers and 54 RBIs with the Angels, including a two-run shot that accounted for all the in a 2-0 win over the Braves on June 15.
“I act contrite for that,” he quipped.
While Kotchman doesn’t have Teixeira’s supremacy, Braves executive Bobby Cox was happy with the deal. He knew the team didn’t have really have a choice the way kit are on offer this term.
“We were really, really lucky to get a guy of this caliber,” Cox said. “It was valid to be incredible to keep Tex here.”
Even all the same Kotchman knows he’ll apt be watching his last team in the playoffs – the Angels have a commanding lead in the AL West – he’s by this time moved on.
“Pour the lot into the contemporaneous and you won’t have any in the future,” he said. “That’s how I was raised.”
