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We here at Blangraphs embrace all baseball teams (except the Braves, Mets, and Yankees). So I'm going to take this opportunity to liveblog one of our favorite pitchers opening day start. World Series MVP Livan Hernandez!

Joe Blanton is often described as an "innings eater". This is usually regarded as a good quality is an otherwise ho-hum pitcher. But no one has analyzed the numbers like we do here at BG. From just 6 of Blanton's starts this spring we were able to analyze just how incredible an innings eater we can project Blanton to be this summer. Look at this graph.

Using the equation derived from this graph we estimate Joe Blanton will pitch 224 innings in his 30th start. And assuming he is able to reach his average of about 30 starts...


Blanton is expected to pitch 1605.57 innings this year! Incredible.

12:49 PM: Joe Blanton getting ready to start his first second spring training game of 2011 against Pittsburgh in Bradenton, Florida.  Joe will throw his first pitch in the bottom of the 1st.
12:56 PM: The game is scheduled to begin at 1:05.  Blanton will face Jose Tabata, Pedro Ciriaco, and Neil Walker in the first.


continued in the live blog above