May
24
Game 49: Joba the almost-starter
ByShort game thread today because I’m working to restore our posts (but not our comments) from the last two days. We’ll be back up too full strength soon.
The big news of the day is of course the pitching plan for the day. Joba Chamberlain will be throwing 45 pitches in relief of Mike Mussina this afternoon. For Mussina, he’s looking to recover from the shortest outing of his career, and instead of facing Felix Hernandez, he’ll go against Carlos Silva. The Yanks are 3-1 with A-Rod back in the lineup.
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Giambi 1B
Cano 2B
Molina C
Cabrera CF
Mussina P
Ben, what was your opinion of last night’s starting lineup with Jeter hitting lead off?
I can’t complain. They scored 13 runs.
“We’re building for the future, too,” Steinbrenner said. “You can’t just do it year by year. Before the great team we had in the late ’90s, there were some real lean years there. We don’t expect to have it to be that lean this year or next year, but people forget there were some really tough years before the great teams of the late ’90s. We have to look at it both ways.”
“With the exception of the Red Sox, who have some youth like us and some veterans like us, most of the other teams winning right now seem to be on youth movements,” Steinbrenner said. “We’ve got to keep going with the farm system and build them up as strong as we can — get everybody we can.
“If we have to, we’ll hoard everybody. We’ll do what we’ve got to do in the U.S. and in Latin America to get all the best young talent we can. That’s what the Yankees used to do.” – Hank Steinbrenner
He’s the best.
Sorry, here’s the link:
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....p;c_id=nyy
Sounds good to me!
Hank doesn’t seem to know what he wants
I believe he does, I believe he’s been horribly misunderstood by the media (purposely so IMO). If you actually read the entire quote when he said he wanted Joba in the rotation, he actually said at the end of the article that he understood there was a process in place and you can’t just jam him in the rotation now. Of course the media completely ignored that quote and just focused on the part of him saying he wanted Joba in the rotation, complete BS.
Now with this quote there’s nothing to misunderstand, but of course this will get ZERO attention.
Seems to me he’s pretty inarticulate, to add to that.
Giambi may acutally get to 400HRs this year…
I mean career HRs…
The Yanks are scoring runs. I guess that means the weather is warm.
Or they’re playing Seattle.
Take what you can get.
Mussina may want to throw his fastball a little bit more. The Mariners are sitting on his breaking pitches.
Might we see Chamberlain earlier than expected?
It must suck to be Mike Mussina right now, knowing the guy who’s pitching after you today will likely be taking his job if he continues to screw up
Clayton Kershaw to start Sunday for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Oh happy day!!!
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....p;c_id=mlb
Anybody think that Chad Moeller should be getting a couple more starts, he has ben swinging the bat somewhat better than Jose Molina.
I agree might as well see what Moeller can do, and take a bit more pressure off Molina, they’re essentially the same defensively
Cabrera is clutch.
For someone who is so damn impatient, Melky Cabrera has great numbers with the bases loaded.
And there he goes with a bases loaded RBI single, nice.
Looks like it’s setting up perfectly, if Mussina can get through these next two frames you can go to Joba for the 6th, 7th and 8th. Then MO can do his thing if necessary.
I wonder if Jeter’s throws to first will ever improve.
Good 1-2-3 inning for Mike Mussina.
I appreciate Jeter’s toughness, but if he is not in condition to play the best thing he can do for the team is say so. I’d rather not have Jeter in the lineup for a week or two than this Jeter for the rest of the season.
Nice job by Joba using the Slider for a strike instead of the strikeout pitch.
Between Susan on the radio and Michael Kay I have heard the “How they asked Joba about being a starter story” a 100 times.
Can someone PLEASE tell them to stop.
As if we’ve never heard it. You’d have to live under a rock to have not heard it.
Can’t wait too see Ichiro and Jose Vidro come to bat, want to see that Changeup.
It should be against the rules to bring Joba in after seeing Mussina and his 86 MPH fastball for 5 innings.
HEEEEEEEEEEEE
I love that.
No luck for Jeter today; just can’t buy a hit.
Abooboo has opposite field power?! Who knew?!
He showed it in ChiTown earlier this season but yeah, haven’t seen it much.
I’m having fun again.
162-Game season man, to say the baseball regular season is a roller coaster would be an understatement.
You must be in some kind of Big Three happy land.
It’s fun to watch.
Like said before if they don’t do it in this 35 game stretch they are not going too.
It’s a good start.
I doubt Hughes is in this Big Three happy land (don’t you mean Generation Trey?). Or did Rasner get thrown into this now?
You’re right about Hughes, but he will be fine.
No Rasner is not in it.
Can’t believe the path the Mets and Yankees have taken since last weekend.
Baseball is nuts
That Curveball is just gross.
Man Mussina’s line of 4 runs in 5 innings doesn’t look horrible when we can score runs, plus the fact Joba is in there now
Jeter shows range!
Here’s to hoping that Joba can get through another inning.
And I have to throw in this, I though Joba was supposed to throw a 98 mph fastball?? He’s throwing only 93, there’s no way he can succeed in the majors with that, let’s trade him
Definitely. And his body type shouts out injury. The Yankees always overhype their prospects.
Very funny, but in all seriousness though, Gameday has him at 96 consistently, what is the reading on YES?
Around 93
I think it’s been established that the gameday gun is generally quite accurate. Given that 96 is consistent with that he was doing as a starter in the minors, that seems pretty reasonable.
Yes always has a slow gun. They never address it but it is. Usually by 3 MPH.
ok so it’s 94.5
LOL
A triple and Giambi hits for the cycle! With the shift, a well placed bunt could get him just that…
Seriously, A-rod must have rubbed some of his A-rod juice in everybody’s bats tnite. I mean Giambi just hit a SINGLE to LEFT!!!!!! And Cano now has 3 doubles in the game. Just think how good this offense could be right now with Posada (and yes I know that Molina will probably hit a 3-run homer now that I said that)
Yeah I figured Molina would make me look bad there
With the game getting kind of out-of-hand, I hope Joe G. & Co. let him go out there for the 8th.
I completely agree, he’s only at 40 pitches so just have somebody warm and let him get up to 55 or so. He threw like 35 last time so that should be now problem unless he shows obvious signs of fatigue. Obviously we should keep him in the bullpen so we wouldn’t have had to bring him in so early. I mean getting a 1-2-3 ninth is the most important thing right now right?
LoL at Jose Molina, talk about running into a hit.
These Mariners are terrible, good for the batting averages mind you.
Shows you that Jeter shouldn’t be playing, he’s the only one without a hit.
He looks hurt to me, hopefully Girardi gives him a few days to rest the hand
We need the little league designated runner rule for Molina
According to PeteAbe, Joba is done for the day except to throw a bit in the bullpen. It’s Farns time!!!!
So who would be more valuable today to have on this team, Matsui or Matt Cain? Matsui is just destroying the ball
Why take out A-Rod and not Jeter, or will he do both?
I’d imagine he’ll put Ensberg at third and Alberto at short.
Just had this thought, wouldn’t it be great if Giambi, Farns and Mussina all played their way into Type B free agents?
mussina is an A, farnsworth, if keeps this up, can be an A, and giambi is firmly into a B with a shot at A
They all currently are type B free agents, and it’s based on the past 2 years so as long as they perform similar to 2006 it hopefully will remain the same
We could have a hell of a draft next year!
And I forgot to mention Abreu who could be gone next year, obviously an A
Probably both, just wanted to maximize the use of Gonzalez by bringing him in to pinch-run for A-Rod.
What was the point of that move? Get Ensberg an at bat? His days are numbered anyway. Girardi took away Giambi’s shot at the cycle!
They wanted the inning to end before midnight.
Yeah I could feel the triple coming. Giambi hits a liner to the gap, Ichiro gets tackled by an unruly fan, Ibanez comes over and faints from heat stroke while Lopez runs all the way to the ball and fires to third with Giambi sliding in right under the tag
Nah, Giambi hits a bomb to deep left that hangs in the air and has everyone transfixed. He casually turns left out of the batters box and walks to third base. When the ball finally drops and hits the wall, no one’s noticed and Giambi has himself a cycle.
One thing and I love Joba.
But if the TV announcers are going to repeat everything he did twice I’m cutting the volume.
Shit how many times can you say the same fucking thing?
It’s OK, we have a big lead. Just get the next guys.
Farnsworth pissing on the party again.
Could Ichiro have been any faster when he was 22?
That’s why Joba should stay in the pen. The Yanks have no reliable 8th inning guys.
Ok
You’re beating the point to death.
LOL
Sorry, but it’s one worth beating!
Not really no. He shouldn’t give up his career as a starter and the Yankees shouldn’t give up a potential ace because Farnsworth sucks.
Hey,
He looks great enjoy it.
I’m sure somewhere down the line that fight will come up again.
For what it’s worth I’m starting to believe.
As long as they win I don’t care.
Another “good thing there’s a big lead” moment.
Cano’s pissed off that Giambi has a higher average than him.
Great game. Can we play these guys every day?
Joba is that much closer to being a starter. Sweet.
Game, set, match. The world is right again
Tomorrows headline for RAB: “Seeking .500 Part Deux” (or are we are Part III or IV now?)
Good win.
Enjoy your day guys.
I was just disappointed to see only one curve and no changes from Joba tonight. I guess I’ll have to wait for that one. Also, what game do you think Joba will pitch in against the Twins? I’m close and planning on going to one but I’m not sure which to go to
my god can someone update the TJS board Garcia went 6 IP, 2H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 10 K’s on Thursday and his ERA is at 0.84