Miguel Tejada's "Pride of the Yankees" Moment

The weekly Orioles/Astros trade update:

	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	OPS
Tejada	126	24	44	10	2	5	25	7	.964
Scott	92	7	26	9	0	1	9	11	.778

	G	IP	W	L	K	ERA	WHIP
Albers	10	22.1	2	1	12	2.42	0.940
Sarfate	14	14.2	2	1	17	4.30	1.636

Miguel Tejada is having a great season. He is apparently even dabbling in Ruth-ian promises of home runs. Lance Berkman called Tejada the "Next Nostradamus" after Tejada promised a muscular dystrophy patient that he'd hit a big fly.

Luke Scott has come back down to earth. He still has more walks than the free-swinging Tejada, but, his remarkable start to the season seems to have given way to the stat line predicted for Scott in Baseball Prospectus. In calling Scott a "platoon left fielder" Prospectus prophesied a .252 Batting Average and a .794 OPS season. Thats about where Luuuuuuuuuuuuke is heading at present.

Sarfate has brought his ERA to a respectable 4.30. His strikeout to walk ratio (17:12 or 1.417:1 ) is nowhere near Carlos Silva level. Nor is it even near the level of the 2002 Diamondbacks team K:BB ratio of 3.10:1. As a team, the Orioles are currently rockin a 1.287:1 K:BB ratio. That will not win too many games. If the Birds pitchers don't grow the K:BB ratio significantly, the .500 start to the season is going to quickly become a distant memory!