Let me get this straight...

Let me get this straight. The Arizona Diamondbacks are on schedule to lose 100 games this season. Defensively, outs are hard to come by and on the offensive side of things, well finding a player capable of putting together a timely hit just doesn't seem to be in the cards. So what do the Diamondbacks' powers to be do? They shuffle the cards and deal their star pitcher Dan Haren to the Angels. Now Haren, who had pitched 141 innings for the D'backs and for most of the season has led the National League in strikeouts, is probably a happy camper as he joins a team with playoff aspirations. Gone is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He left the D'backs after posting 141 strikeouts. That's one K per every inning pitched. That alone takes a lot of pressure off the position players. Well, now the pressure is really on the Diamondbacks' defense. There is a lot of games left and I doubt the entire D'backs' pitching staff can accumulate 141 strikeouts by September. I hate to get down on the Diamondbacks, but who's making these crazy decisions? As for Haren, he pitched 4 2/3 innings last night with the Angels and struck out eight. He left the game after being hit by a line drive off the bat of Boston's Kevin Youkilis. The Angel didn't give Haren any support offensively. Sound familiar. He allowed no earned runs and the Angels lost the game,6-3. Let's hope things get better for the Diamondbacks in 2011.