Early season stats are so much fun. Just cutting and pasting Phillies stats from BRef, look at the ridiculously bad OPS+ for most of the BRef starters (Bruntlet has played more SS than Rollins, Victorino has a 1 inning edge on Werth in CF)
C-RF
26
65 (HOWARD)
224 (Guess which perfect ballplayer this is)
67
38
210
49
55
Note: Cole Hamels at a 78 OPS+ is hitting better than 6 of 8 nominal starters

Bench
144
117
153
56
198
304 (Chris Snelling did get 3 PAs before hitting the disabled list)
276
-100

The starters are reasonably where you'd expect them to be, this being April, but look at the feast or famine bullpen, by ERA. All have pitched between 7 and 15 innings.
0.00
0.60 (Chad Durbin! sitting with a 713 ERA+)
0.00
7.27
5.06
7.04
0.00

Utley on a pace for 63 doubles and 70 HRs, 140 XBH.

Utley on a pace for 63 doubles and 70 HRs, 140 XBH.

Troy Glaus on pace for 76 doubles and 0 HRs.

Jason Giambi is on pace for 26 HRs, 26 2B, and 27 1B.

I'm probably the last person on this site not to know this, but just in case, I found out last night that the old Home Run Derby TV show is on DVD now.

Very cool, although when I watched reruns on ESPN it never seemed like there were only 26 ever made.

If Giambi actually kept that up, incidentally, his 79 hits would be--far and away--the fewest ever for someone with more than 25 HR and 25 doubles. The current "leader" is Darryl Strawberry's 1989 when he had 107 hits. Right behind that is Giambi's 2006 with 25 doubles, 37 homers and 113 total hits.

I'm probably the last person on this site not to know this, but just in case, I found out last night that the old Home Run Derby TV show is on DVD now.

The best part of Home Run Derby are the awkward attempts at conversation bewteen the announcer--who seems to be keeping score himself--and the player waiting for his turn. Good stuff! I used to watch it religiously when it was on ESPN back in the day.

Seems Chipper Jones b'day is Apr 24 ( 1972 ), and my one of my favourite cricket players, and an alltime top 5 player, shares his b'day ( 1973 though ). Heh, I thought it was pretty amazing that the two best hitters on the teams I follow ( in slightly different sports ) share their b'day.
When I have kids, I think I need to somehow make sure he/she is born on Apr 24 !!

I used to watch it religiously when it was on ESPN back in the day.
I used to watch it back in the day whenever I could wrest control of the TV from my sisters.

Beltran was born on 24th Apr too ( 1977 )!

I definitely know when my kid is gonna be born :)

Cliff Lee's ERA+ is 1563. That is insane.

Rany points out here is the first in the retrosheet era to have three straight starts in which he:

1. Pitched 8 innings or more
2. Surrendered no more than three hits
3. Surrendered no more than one walk
4. Struck out at least eight batters

I definitely know when my kid is gonna be born :)

I was born on the same day as Wayne Gretzky (not just the same date).

It didn't help.

Trivia Question:

What do the following 10 players have in common?

Ichiro Suzuki
Sandy Alomar
Todd Walker
Jay Bell
Marquis Grissom
Lenny Harris
Dave Roberts
Vlad Guerrero
John Olerud
Benny Agbayani

They all...drove in Rickey Henderson?

(I don't know how that could be true for Vlad Guerrero or Jay Bell, but I don't claim to remember everything)

no
that group of ten is exclusive

the list of people who drove in Rickey is in the hundreds or thousands