Oh well. Bad starts happen to good pitchers.

Since last night’s contest was so miserable, I guess I’ll just provide some quick links.

- Stephen Drew and Jered Weaver each signed with their respective clubs at the very last minute.

- Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd was solid in his Brockton Rox debut. He’s one of the all-time great Red Sox characters. Go get ‘em, Can!

- The Chicago White Sox extended Ozzie Guillen’s contract yesterday. Guillen is an interesting guy, and he has a lot of people in Chicago believing that Magglio Ordonez and Frank Thomas types only serve to hurt a baseball team. The media line thus far has been that the South Siders have been winning with “small ball” thus far, as though their team 3.41 ERA was just sort of incidental to their early success. As I said, I don’t know what to think of Guillen the manager, but I do know what Jeff Brantley thought of the job Guillen did yesterday. Did anybody hear that? Who the &^$% is Jeff Brantley? Brantley was killing Guillen for not bringing in Dustin Hermanson to close out yesterday’s game against the Angels. It was 3-2 Sox and Mark Buehrle had thrown just 91 pitches through 8 innings. Putting aside for a moment what you think the right move was, bringing in Hermanson, Damaso Marte or sticking with Buehrle were all defensible from my view. For Brantley to go on and on and on about Guillen was more than a little ridiculous. When you’re as ignorant as Brantley, you have to temper yourself. Listening to him rail against Guillen was equal parts hilarious and maddening. Either way, congrats to Guillen on the extension. I am just not sure why he gets so much credit for this year while dodging any responsibility for the trainwreck that was the 2004 Chicago White Sox.

- Sometimes a trip through ESPN’s Stat pages is fun. Your MLB OPS leader so far? Derrek Lee (Brian Roberts is 2nd). These two also lead in RC/27. Trot Nixon, Johnny Damon and David Ortiz all find themselves among the top-25 in this category as well. On the pitching side, there are some less heralded players putting up some phenomenal numbers. Among the top-25 in ERA thus far are Kenny Rogers, Chris Capuano, Aaron Harang, Erik Bedard, Brett Myers, Chris Young, Carlos Silva and Nate Robertson. Go have some fun yourelves! It’s a great way to get caught up on all of MLB in 10 minutes or so.