Comments on: Moving out the mop-up man

By: River Ave. Blues | Bad luck, bad bullpen, bad breaking pitches doom Yanks

River Ave. Blues | Bad luck, bad bullpen, bad breaking pitches doom Yanks — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:06:10 +0000

[...] had done 512 times prior, deposited the ball over the fence. If Hawkins — Wednesday night’s sacrificial lamb — does his job, the Yanks take a 6-5 lead into the [...]

By: mustang

mustang — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:38:01 +0000

Ok. Lets look deeper into LaTroy Hawkins numbers: (warning it’s scary)
At Fenway- 21 IP- ERA 6.00- BAA- .296
At the Stadium- 33 IP- ERA 10.00- BAA- .396
I don’t know if Hawkins’ agent and Cashman were out for drinks and Cashman had one to many. He had to be drunk to sign this guy.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:33:16 +0000

Also why didn’t Ohlendorf mop up last night?

because Hughes hasn’t gone more than 5+ innings in his last 4 starts?

saving Ohlendorf for tonight made a ton of sense.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:27:51 +0000

Why would any reliever bother to sign with the Yankees when fans want to dump them after 17 games?

By: RustyJohn

RustyJohn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:54 +0000

I disagree on some of the Hawkins stuff- he got a one-year deal at a reasonable market price when other middle relievers were costing an arm and a leg (thanks for taking Vizcaino in FA, Colorado) and when the Yankee pen was questionable (thanks for not using anyone but Proctor and Vizcaino, Torre). He is easily tradeable by any team who wants an established name and thinks that a change of scenary will do him good.

Personally, I would rather have both Hawkins and Farnsworth traded and give the youngsters a shot at it to trim payroll and build for the future and, more importantly, because they’ll probably be better. If only one were to go I’d rather see Farnsworth- probably more because he is so maddeningly inconsistent and a dick.

By: mustang

mustang — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:30:34 +0000

7.0 IP-4 hits-2 runs and passing Bob Gibson in career wins.
Not bad for TOAST.
2 win down and 6 more to go.
MOOOOSE !!!!!!!!!!

By: mustang

mustang — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:23:38 +0000

“We didn’t need Hawkins in the pen when Brian Cashman signed him out of some requirement for veteran bullpen stability, and we don’t need him now when three guys at AAA could outperform him”
I AGREE.
Oh my God! I totally 100% agree. I’m going out and playing lotto or something. LOL
Apparently, Hell Just Froze Over.

By: A.D.

A.D. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:07:21 +0000

I definitly agree that the yankees need to clear some avg. to below avg. vets that they currently have in the pen to free up room for upside guys in the minors. Hawkins wasn’t a bad signing, a 1 yr deal is never a bad signing, and there’s lots of teams in need of bullpen arms due to injury (see Detroit & Atlanta among others).

Now obviously we can throw out trades we’d love to see such as Hawkins for Lillebridge, but that won’t happen, Hawkins for a prospect, or farnsworth for a prospect would be good, clear out some room for someone from the minors to get his shot. Best case scenario would be packaging farnsworth and hawkins for a desperate team who may give up a real prospect.

Also why didn’t Ohlendorf mop up last night?

By: zack

zack — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:11:55 +0000

You’re all missing the real story of last night, at least according to many Mediots, and thats that Mo had to pitch in the 8th inning, which proves that Joba needs to be a reliever. As if he had already moved. You see, there is this correlation once again that Joba to the rotation means total bedlam in the BP…sigh.

By: WRT

WRT — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:00 +0000

I’ve really never understood why the front office hates Britton so much.