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It's Jake here giving you that baseball update you all have been craving!

Some interesting news came out of Detroit today. Miggy Cabrera a 3rd baseman his whole career( 6 yrs) is getting moved to 1st base. He just got a huge deal to play 3rd and now going to first. My guess is they want him worry about his O and not his D. Problem is there are a lot of 1st baseman who can put up similar numbers but not a lot of 3rd baseman. 1st base is where players go when they lose a step.. Not a 24 year old kid getting into the prime of his career. Says a lot about a guys defense ability when they are going to put a guy who hasn't played 3rd base since 2004 there.

Royals... What are you doing? I like that they brought up Luke H. He was ok in his first outing until he decided to nibble on the plate. Any young pitcher needs to understand that the first rule is throw strikes. An ump isn't going to give you the call until your established. Throw strikes = winning games. If you get ahead then you can expand.

Frank Thomas got released and while some in the media think that it was for money reason but mostly because he lost it they are wrong. It was all about money. Frank T always starts slow. Last year he hit worst and got better, hitting .270, 25 hrs and 95 ribi's. Those are pretty good numbers especially since he wasn't getting any protection because Vernon Wells was tanking it all season long. If the Royals were smart they would put a flier out on him, they have to pay him the minimum and that's all. Give it a try, move Butler to 1st and hope that the pitchers strike everyone out.


Minor league notes now. Here is an update on the two prospects I told you guys to look out for
Dan Cortes...
0 wins so far, 1 lost in 3 games started. Only pitched 13.1 innings so far. My guess is he is on a pitch count since his first 2 starts he didn't get to the 5th inning. Era.. 1.35 which is excellent. 9 ks. Now 8 BB's isn't helping. If he can lower his walk total he will go deeper into games. It's still very early for the minors and all prospects unless they are 25 are on innings limit or pitch count. You will see that rise here shortly.

Matt Mitchell
Looking very impressive so far. Same record as above. Thrown 12 innings with 2 of those coming in starts and 1 relief appearance for 1 inning. 8 ks to 1 bb. Great so far. ERA is 1.5. Looks very impressive so far and since he only has walked 1 he has thrown 6 innings in 1 game.

The Royals have lost some games here but there is hope. Butler and Gordon have been good so far this year. SP is what they need. Meche who was great last year as bombed in all but his 1st start. He needs to adjust and they will be back on the winning ways.