Former Twin/Yankee/Phillie Eric Milton made his way back to the majors on Tuesday night, giving up just 1 run on his way to earning his first win in the bigs since 2006. LA’s 7-1 victory included a 3 for 4 performance from Juan Pierre that included a triple. Pierre has really flourished in Manny Ramirez’s absence and is showing the star quality that was once expected of him and predicted by every baseball video game of the early 2000’s (go ahead and try a season simulation on MLB 2001, 75% of the time Pierre breaks the record for hits in a season).

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Manny Ramirez may be suspended until early July, but he’s still running 4th in All Star voting with well over a million votes. Manny will be back just in time for the game should he receive enough votes to be selected, and for the National League’s sake fans should be hoping he is. I don’t think there’s any sane people out there who could convince me that Manny isn’t better than 3 other outfielders in the NL.

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