We’ve got quite a few alumni in the Majors at the moment, as you know, so let’s take a minute to see where they all are.

Jeremy Guthrie is having what might be his most unfortunate season ever, and his win-loss record reflects nothing more than his bad luck. (He’s 3-13.) Despite that record, he has a fairly respectable 4.45 ERA and 1.35 WHIP. If anything, Guthrie’s season in Baltimore is proof that wins should be thrown out the window as a measure of a pitcher’s true success. Typically, Guthrie pitches extremely well, but gets no run support. He then is tagged with a loss. Basically, Guthrie would have had at least ten wins on any other team. It’s just that he’s on the Orioles.

Jed Lowrie is alive. He’s been out with a shoulder strain inflicted upon him in a collision with Carl Crawford which took away his ability to swing for some time. He’s healing and should be able to pick up a bat soon, but whether or not he’ll be able to swing as well prior to the injury for some time remains to be answered. These things take time to heal, after all. Remember how his mono gave his wrist time to fully recover.

Cord Phelps finally made his Major League debut, and he’s played 19 games so far in Cleveland this season. Unfortunately, he’s only batting .196 in those games (full triple slash /196/.315/.326). My guess is he’ll be back in AAA to get some more seasoning if that’s all he can put out at the moment.

Sam Fuld has come back down to earth in the hitting department, batting .241 on the year. Amazingly, this still puts him in ninth place on the team in terms of average. Huh. At any rate, however, his defense is what keeps him in that starting lineup, although nobody seems to be immediately knocking on the door and trying to push their way in. Oh, and he almost got to pitch earlier this month, but that ended up not working out. Oh, well.

Carlos Quentin is batting a respectable .260 and has driven in 55 men for the White Sox so far this season. Whether or not he has learned to smile is another question entirely, but at the very least he’s been a consistent force for Chicago this year. We know what to expect from Carlos at this point.

Greg Reynolds seems to have disappeared. Before he did so, however, he went 3-0 with a 5.16 ERA. He’s only been in six games, though, and three of those were games he started. Write your epitaphs now.

Jason Castro is still recovering from his injuries. He can be expected to play next season, of course. At the moment, it doesn’t look like he’ll be back in time for September, but he’s young and might heal a little faster than expected.

Drew Storen has 25 saves on the season and has become the anchor in the Nationals’ bullpen this year. He’s 5-2 with a 2.42 ERA in 46 appearances. He’s only blown three saves total this year, so he’s pretty good. Yeah. We knew he’d be good, though.

And finally, John Mayberry Jr. has actually been acquitting himself fairly well for the Phillies, who play in a town with pretty high standards. He’s batting .243 in the 54 games he’s started, although his future with the team is uncertain as he doesn’t fully fill the team’s needs and is just a stand-in out in right field. Let’s send him to Boston so he and Jed can be together again.

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And it’s definitely confirmed, since David Price convinced him to join and David Price retweeted his first update. So it’s him.

Steph is happy.

You can follow Sammy over at @SamFuld5. You should do it. In fact, I will force you to do it if possible because Sammy is awesome and if you don’t follow him there will be some sort of mathematical consequences in your life.

Besides, you can tweet problems from your math homework at him that you don’t understand and he might be able to help you out if he’s got some time on his hands! He’s pretty good at math, you know.

Yeah, this turned up in my military history notes today.

Sam Fuld and Jed Lowrie are utterly dominating the internet.

Seriously.

It all started with the #LegendOfSamFuld hashtag on Twitter. That became a Twitter account. Then #LegendOfJedLowrie sprung up after that.

Now they both have websites.

Legend of Sam Fuld is here and Legend of Jed Lowrie is here. Both are actually running for charities – LOSF is asking for donations to the Tampa Bay food bank and LOJL is donating to the Jimmy Fund. I highly recommend checking them both out.

These two are probably enjoying a popularity that they never would have had in high school due to their nerdiness. So I’m sure they’re both thrilled, in a way. Now we just need to get them to do some kind of webcast together and we’re all set. Exploit your internet fame for good, not evil, boys!

And hey, to you folks running the sites – if you ever need me to, I can draw. I’ve been drawing Jedders since 2007. My sketchbooks and him are very old friends. So if you ever need Lowrie-related cartoons, here I am!

I really don't know what to say to this, so I'll just laugh.

Really, what else can be said about this? The image was originally tweeted by @RaysRepublic and was then linked to by @jasoncollette.

I suppose I should try and come up with something to say about it, but I’m just too busy laughing hysterically at it, so it’s a little hard. This is going to be given away at a Rays game on May 29th, where it’s replacing a Manny Ramirez bobblehead because Manny basically up and left baseball instead of go through a drug suspension. At the very least, Sam is a better role model for your child because he is extremely diligent, a hard worker, and a diabetes advocate (Sam has type-1).

Then again, do you really want your child jumping into walls like a human crash test dummy? Because that’s essentially what Sam is. Miraculously, he survives every single time intact (have you ever seen him literally smash into the brick wall at Wrigley?), but there’s a good chance your child will not. So maybe this isn’t the best promotional giveaway.

Hey, at least you can get it for free, which is pretty darn neat. And Sam Fuld is finally getting the recognition he deserves, which makes me really proud – there’s even a #LegendofSamFuld hashtag going around on Twitter these days. But since it’s Sam Fuld, you might want to consider giving away a copy of something Bill James wrote. It’d capture his spirit just as well as a cape does.

Except then you have the problem of paper cuts. Yeah, let’s stick to the stupid cape.

I wish I could remember where I found this. If you took this photo, let me know so I can credit you!

Now, Tito decided not to put Jed in the lineup, and I don’t quite have a Rays lineup yet, so I’m not sure if even 50% of this will actually happen tonight. But they’re on opposing teams that are actually playing against each other for the first time in their careers, so I’m quite excited to see how this goes.

Despite ceasing to play at Stanford together in 2004 and 2005 respectively, Sam Fuld and Jed Lowrie were most recently teammates in Mesa in 2007 during the Arizona Fall League, which was where I discovered them and was therefore instantly converted to Stanford-dom. So basically, you can thank these two for the reason this site exists today.

I’m just hoping that at some point in this Rays-Red Sox series they get to play against each other. At the very least, you two had better go out to dinner or something.

So I went to check one of my fantasy teams in my two leagues. In both of those leagues, I kinda sorta hold monopolies on Stanford players in the Majors/AAA ball. When I was looking at player news, I was greeted with this lovely news: namely that ESPN1040.com had reported that our favorite statistician was going to be on the Rays roster to start the season off as the 4th outfielder. Needless to say, I am beyond thrilled.

Maybe now Sam can actually sit down and prove Maddon’s theorem about how 9 = 8. If there’s anyone who could make that work, it’s this guy.