Bullet points today.

• Baseball is a funny game. In Monday night’s contest, Steve Reed worked a scoreless seventh, then came out to start the eighth, against none other than Barry Bonds. Over 1999-2001, left-handers have hit him to the tune of .333/.434/.626 (basically Lance Berkman), so this came as something of a surprise to yours truly. But I figured he was just going to pitch around Bonds and go to work on Jeff "Car Wash" Kent, a right-handed hitter. Over that same three-year period, Reed has held righties to .235/.275/.331 (Rey Ordonez, more or less). Reed promptly gets Bonds to pop up and then serves up a homer to Kent.
• Ryan Klesko continues to see the ball very well against lefties. He hit a laser shot to right off Aaron Fultz last night, then drew a walk against Jason Christiansen in his next at-bat. Two of his three bombs this year have come off southpaws.
• The numbers might not bear it out just yet, but D’Angelo Jimenez is looking good at the plate so far this season. He’s not drawing walks, but he is making pitchers work. The 10-pitch affair leading off Saturday’s game against Kevin Brown was sweet. He’s averaging 4.45 pitches/plate appearance so far. Expect Jimenez’ OBP to be up around .360-.370 come August.
• Last night at Mobile, USDHS grad Mark Prior shut down Jake Peavy and the Bay Bears, 7-0. Prior worked seven scoreless innings, allowing just two hits and a walk while fanning eight. Those two will hook up in the bigs before too long.
• Cool site: Padre Prospects Report. Webmaster Hank Chase is doing some nice work over here, so be sure to check out his site.

That’s all for now. More as it happens…