Daily blurb
Although Jose Bautista led the majors with 54 home runs last year, almost none of the “experts” expected him to repeat this year. But so far, he’s two weeks ahead of last year’s pace, when he hit his 16th HR in his 52nd game on May 30. Yesterday’s 3-HR outburst gave him #16 in just his 32nd game of 2011. On average, he was a late 2nd round pick in the RIBC leagues this year, as the 6th 3B-eligible player drafted. That’s looking like pretty good value so far.

Four more baseball games were washed out this weekend, bringing the season total to 26. Last year, only 20 games were washed out all year. In 2005, only 25 games “bit the mud.” For the 2006-2009 seasons, total postponements ranged from 33-38 games. We might still end up in that mid-30s range, but at the current pace, we’ll have about a 100 games rained out!