Quotes & Notes: The Job Market

■ MU alum Cody Ehlers (01-04) gets some ink in a piece apparently written by fellow Tiger alum Garrett Broshuis (01-04) in Baseball America:

Those who have found work consider themselves fortunate, such as vetern minor league first baseman Cody Ehlers, who spent the last two years at Double-A Trenton (Yankees).
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The 2006 Florida State League MVP can now be found rushing sandwiches around Tampa, adhering to the sandwich shop's mantra of "subs so fast, you'll freak." It has provided him with income, which is all minor leaguers are after these days.

"I was really lucky to have this job lined up," Ehlers said. "One of my buddies sent his resume out to practically every place in Tampa and it took forever to find something."

■ MLB.com says Max Scherzer (04-06) is ready to join the rotation:

"We'll see," Arizona GM Josh Byrnes said about what an ideal number of innings would be for Scherzer. "He's probably conditioned at his age to where 170 is a possibility. We also want to be careful for his first go as a wire-to-wire starting pitcher and we hope there's a seventh month of play."

Scherzer is itching to get Spring Training started, and even though everyone seems to have him penciled into the rotation, he is taking nothing for granted.

"What everyone else writes about how the rotation is going to be or whatever, my approach is to go in and have a good Spring Training and everything will take care of itself," he said. "If I get caught up in whether I'm going to make the rotation or not I'm not going to be as productive as I could be. So for me, it's a matter of going in healthy in Spring Training and the rest of the stuff will work itself out."

■ More on UT Coach Augie Garrido from The Austin American-Statesman:

Garrido, 69, said that the university still is looking into the facts surrounding the case and that he does not know what his future with the Longhorns would be or when his suspension would be lifted. The Longhorns begin practice Feb. 1 and their first game is Feb. 20 against University of Illinois-Chicago at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

Garrido, who often tells people baseball is his life and he doesn't have any other passions, had tears in his eyes as he talked briefly about his future as longtime girlfriend Jean Grass stood by his side.

■ Can't pass up this comment from a blog appropriately called Major League Jerk:

I have Missouri a couple spots higher than Baseball America because, although I hate that entire university and hope it gets wiped off the planet, they have a ton of talent back, and I gave them a bit of a boost due to them having Kyle Gibson, who is probably the second best pitcher in the nation. One thing that could get in the Tigers’ way is a lack of speed. Their projected starters combined for just 14 stolen bases last season and sometime in regional play they are going to need to run in order to advance