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” MY BASEBALL NOTEBOOK”
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PADRES…Into the month of May we go, after a pretty good April.  If the Padres are to consider themselves a true team in a pennant race with the Dodgers, then it has to start this weekend.  The Friars play 15-games in the next month against the weak teams in the National league, the Pirates, Rockies, Marlins-Angels.   By June 1st, they need to be atop the standings or close to it.

DODGERS..Hard to believe they are wafer-thin in the pitching ranks, but look at the situation.  Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow are now both on the 60-day DL.  Three of their top young pitchers have been up and sent back after bad outings and are still in the PCL.  Clayton Kershaw isst ill a month away from returning.  And Shohei Ohtani is being brought along at a slow pace.  They are not very deep right now in the rotation and still without Michael Kopech-Blake Treinen, still on the DL too.  And the Dodgers are headed out on a 10-game road haul too.

ANGELS..It’s a mess in Anaheim.  They have lost 8-of-9.  They have a team BA (.211).  An ERA of (4.78) from the pitching staff.  The bulk of the free agents they brought in are not doing much.  And Mike Trout is out of the lineup with a knee ailment, and he was hitting (.170) at this point.  An awful start to the season.
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