Guest Submission: Blanton and Fossum

Sorry for the big delay folks - life as billionaire playboy takes its toll every now and then. This week, we have a guest submission by foreign correspondent, VidaBlue. He writes:

For this week, just wanted to raise a green flag on the sneaky emergence of Joe Blanton and Casey Fossum. While neither of them will ever be accused of producing high win totals, their last 2 outings give ample reason to consider adding them. Fossum is striking them out at a clip of 1 per IP, while Blanton is posting higher SO totals than he has when he was doing well during the first few games of the season. And their perifpheral numbers may
be signalling a break-out.

Will it last? Are they for real?

Well, if you've been using fringe starters like K Davies and E Santana, it may be time for a switch-over. Both of the latter face tough competition in their next outings, and chances are, neither will be picked up in a non-keeper setting.

We're going to find out if Fossum was a fluke during his last outing against the Yanks -- he faces them again, next.

---

Thanks for the submission, Vida. Management here at the "No Pepper Games" home office will run a guest column every Wednesday for those budding young writers out there yearning to break free (or see their names in print, whatever the case may be). Either way, I get an extra day to go play golf each week, so keep those submissions coming!