Belisle, Weathers and Hermanson are also supposed to pitch today
Looks like Jay Bruce will play in another exhibition game. He's out warming up with the major league squad and has the major league pants on (the big league squad wears the pinstriped white pants, while the minor leaguers wear grey.) Homer was over with the minor league pitchers.
Eddie Guardado threw off the mound this morning. Just saw him for a second and he gave me a thumbs up. Then he said, "Kremcheck did a good job," referring to Tim Kremcheck, the Reds doctor who performed Tommy John surgery on his left elbow last September. Many pitchers report increased velocity after Tommy John surgery, so Guardado had been joking that if he wasn't throwing 95 today, he was going to be pretty upset at Kremcheck.
I said to Eddie, "You up to 98 today?" Eddie responded, "felt like it."
Dude had a huge smile on his face, which is far from unusual. But today there was a good reason behind it.