From Last Night:

• Marcum goes 8 scoreless to beat the Sox
• Gordon walks off on the Braves
• Kazmir flirts with a no-hitter, but it took a Johnson blown save to win it
• Zimmermann leads the Nats over the Dbacks
• Lackey dominates the Rockies
• Felix strikes out 11, gives up 2 ER, somehow doesn’t win…
• AJ Griffin CGSO
• Dickey CGSO

What I’m Watching Today:

• Corbin and Strasburg in DC (4p Eastern)
  
• NERD favorite Kluber in Baltimore (7p Eastern)
• Greinke faces the Phillies, hopes not to get in a fight (10p Eastern)

The Big Question:

• Didn’t 2B used to be a glove first position?

We live in a world in which Robinson Cano is 5th among 2B in WAR this season. Carpenter and Kipnis are taking the league by storm and Pedroia and Kendrick are ahead of him too. Cano is 7th among qualifiers in wRC+ for 2B. When did this happen? I remember just a couple seasons back you had like two second basemen who could hit and everyone else was Ramon Santiago. The game is changing, it’s pretty cool. Here’s Dave Cameron writing on a similar subject a little ways back.