Today's Fantasy Rx

Here are the two tables from yesterday's column:

AL	K/9	BB/9	H/9	HR/9	G-F
2000	6.3	3.7	9.7	1.2	1.22
2001	6.4	3.2	8.8	1.1	1.20
2002	6.3	3.3	9.2	1.1	1.16
2003	6.1	3.2	9.3	1.1	1.18
2004	6.5	3.3	9.4	1.2	1.17

NL	K/9	BB/9	H/9	HR/9	G-F
2000	6.7	3.8	9.2	1.2	1.23
2001	7.0	3.3	9.0	1.2	1.21
2002	6.8	3.5	8.8	1.0	1.26
2003	6.5	3.4	9.0	1.1	1.29
2004	6.7	3.4	9.1	1.1	1.25

AL	IP	W	S	K	ERA	WHIP
2000	20141	1143	551	14033	4.91	1.49
2001	20213	1138	589	14474	4.47	1.33
2002	20160	1129	558	14020	4.46	1.38
2003	20219	1123	538	13735	4.53	1.39
2004	20248	1134	533	14505	4.63	1.42

NL	IP	W	S	K	ERA	WHIP
2000	23103	1285	627	17323	4.63	1.45
2001	23074	1290	621	17930	4.36	1.37
2002	23098	1296	666	17374	4.11	1.37
2003	23105	1306	661	17066	4.27	1.38
2004	23146	1294	697	17323	4.30	1.39

Today's Fantasy Rx: My predictions for today's games(all times CDT):

3:00 p.m. on ESPN: Anaheim@Boston
7:00 p.m. on ESPN: New York Yankees@Minnesota

Although we didn't expect a Boston sweep, Arroyo should continue squashing Anaheim's attack. Barring a ridiculously dominant performance by the Angels' bullpen, Boston should return to the ALCS. While we have no faith in Kevin Brown, Ron Gardenhire's inane pitching moves Wednesday, combined with Carlos Silva's general inconsistency, leaves us quit worried about the state of the Twins. We knew Gardenhire doesn't know how to assemble a lineup based on his delay in starting Justin Morneau and his repeated sublimation of the team's best OBP sources in the lower half of the order, but we didn't expect him to fail at running a bullpen. At least Santana still should force a Game 5 with a strong performance tomorrow.