Off-Day Puzzle #9: Solution

The answer to yesterday's puzzle is Chad Billingsley. The puzzle's title ("Now Batting...Josh Bard") refers to Shakespeare, and the lines are from Shakespeare's sonnets. Missing words are represented by pictured players, which you had to identify by sight, browsing team rosters, working backwards, or (if you were really crafty) looking up their MLB.com profile URLs using the numbers in the picture file names. Filling in the clues gives us: .nobrtable br { display: none } The offender's sorrow lends but weak [relief (Javy Guerra)] Sonnet #34 dot null And they are [rich (Harden)] and [ransom (Cody)] all ill deeds Sonnet #34 And they shall live, and he in them still [green (Shawn)] Sonnet #63 They that have power to [hurt (Frank Thomas, a.k.a. The Big)] and will do none Sonnet #94 comma dash And that fresh blood which [young (Eric Jr.)]-ly thou bestow'st Sonnet #11 [Mark (Reynolds)] how one string, sweet husband to another Sonnet #8 dot To the clear [da...