During Spring Training I went on record and said that Jeff Weaver's first start or two of the regular season would be rough ones as he became acclimated to his new team and new environment. Calling today's outing rough would be an understatement - he lasted for only 2 innings and gave up 7 hits (including one HR), 7 runs and 2 walks. He picked up 1 strikeout.
I'm not sure that this outing can really be blamed on Weaver, though - or on any of the Seattle team that looks completely over matched by the Boston Red Sox this afternoon. As of this writing it's the 5th inning and the score is 11-1. Seattle hasn't played since the farcical Friday in Cleveland when the Indians home opener was put on hold only one strike away from being ruled an official game. Weaver was supposed to start on Saturday in one of the double header games. Those games were postponed and a double header was scheduled for Sunday. Those games were also postponed. Of course when Monday came the games were postponed again and MLB announced that the Indians would be taking to the road to start their "home" season as there was doubt about just when Cleveland would be conducive to baseball games again.
All of these postponements and the passing of so many days can be easily used to explain Weaver's poor performance - pitchers have routines for a reason and his was more disturbed than any other pitcher's in recent memory.
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