Apparently John Olerud is no longer interested in retiring at the end of the season. And while I wish him the best of luck, I certainly hope he won’t be back with the M’s in 2005.
In other news, Chris over at At Least the Red Sox Have 1918 has developed a new stat. Using this new calculation, he determined that Jay Buhner’s 1997 season sucked the 4th most ass of all-time. I beg to differ — Buhner hit 40 homers (4th in the AL), got on base at a .383 clip and walked 119 times (2nd in the AL) that season. The M’s aren’t going to get that kind of production out of any of their outfielders this season.