USD moves up a notch in the BA poll to #23 after their weekend sweep of Michigan.

New culinary discovery: habañero pistachios. If garlic and Mexican food burn your mouth, steer clear; but if you like Thai food or Indian vindaloo, you’ll do just fine. Man, they rock. Found ‘em at Trader Joe’s.

Early returns on D’Angelo Jimenez’ move to second base aren’t encouraging. The brass hasn’t been thrilled with his agility this spring. Damian Jackson, arguably the best defensive second baseman in the NL, is trying to keep his job. Damian is infuriating in his insistence at swinging at pitches out of the strike zone, but he sure is fun to watch in the field.

If you’re anything like me, you have about a half-dozen or so sites you visit all the time, and a few others you get to every once in a while. I rediscovered Minor League Baseball the other day. They’ve done some real nice work there, especially in terms of information such as box scores and stats. For example, you can now find out that Sean Burroughs hit .349/.400/.434 against lefties last year and .312/.374/.471 against righties. Pretty cool.