“I think the biggest improvement in Bastardo is that he has grown up as a pitcher, being around veterans like Baez and Halladay.”

–Charlie Manuel

Well, that makes more sense.  If we’re talking about growing up and not actual pitching ability, than yeah; I could see Baez teaching Bastardo how to clean out an A/C unit or change the oil in his car or fill out a tax form or shoot gophers to feed his starving family.  These are things a man’s got to know to survive in this world, and because “being alive” is all Baez has been doing for a while, he clearly has the most basic of life skills down. (more…)

Kyle Kendrick + David Herdon + Andrew Carpenter + Danys Baez = Extra innings loss to the Marlins.  Danys Baez allowed a walk off home run to Mike Stanton that surprised no one.

Here come the Braves.

“I’m pitching multiple innings now, and I just wanted to get more comfortable at the plate,” Baez said, after joking he might get a few starts in right field.

–David Hale

This was after what I assume was a panicked mob of reporters collectively scrambled over to the cages to demand just what in the hell he thought he was doing.

• “Danys!  Danys!  That’s a bat!  What in gods name are you doing with it?!  Starting a killing spree?!”
• “Danys, would you say you are in the batting cage or have you been trapped in there?!?”
• “Danys, look out!  That’s where the balls from the pitching machine go!”
• “Danys!  Home plate isn’t just a weirdly-shaped pitcher’s mound!  Do you think that it is?!”
• “Look out, Danys!  Here come the baseballs!”
• “How concerned are you about accidentally holding the bat upside-down?!  Are ‘comic mishaps’ a big part of your strategy?!”
• “Does this indicate insane jealousy on your part of the two billion hits you’ve given up this season?!”
• “Danys, you think I could take a few hacks?  Since apparently they’re letting anybody in the cage today?”