Good article on Sean Burroughs over at ESPN.

Small sample warning. It’s way early in the season, but I find this stuff fascinating so here it is. Stats are through games of Monday, May 6. For the pitchers, numbers represent what opposing batters have done against them.

Lake Elsinore

                 vs LHP                 vs RHP
          AB  BA OBP SLG BB SO   AB  BA OBP SLG BB SO
Bozied    36 222 300 361  4  9   65 400 500 769 13  9
Gautreau  31 290 389 290  5  7   62 306 338 565  3 12
Nady      33 303 395 606  5 10   73 260 407 575 18 18

Perez     26 115 179 115  2 14  105 248 358 305 18 34
Phillips  21 286 464 429  7  5   74 216 363 365 17 16
Wiedmeyer 18 333 400 667  2  5  105 248 288 448  6 22

Oddly enough, Bozied is struggling against lefties. Gautreau is showing much better patience against them but zero power. More than half his hits against righties, on the other hand, are for extra bases. And Nady, well, he pretty much hits everybody.

Perez has allowed only four extra base hits in 36.2 innings so far, none homers. Phillips isn’t dominating the way he did at the end of last season, but here’s something interesting. His groundball:flyball ratio so far is 33:14. Wiedmeyer, meantime, is about as far from Phillips as you can get: a soft-tossing flyball pitcher. His ratio so far is 20:42. That .220 ISO (SLG – BA) is a bit troubling, too.

Greg Sain is back, DHing at Ft. Wayne.

Bruce Bochy emptied his bench in yesterday’s 12-4 loss at Florida, so the final out of the game came when pinch-hitter Steve Reed struck out swinging. Reed, a right-handed reliever, hadn’t batted since 1998.