Uh oh, the Yanks need a starter and Igawa pitched well…
ByPedro vs Price … Price wins.
Triple-A Scranton (9-4 win over Pawtucket)
Brett Gardner: 1 for 3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB1 K, 1 SB
Alberto Gonzalez: 3 for 5, 1 R, 1 2B, 4 RBI, 1 K – you know, Derek Jeter has been playing like crap lately…
Jason Lane: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 K
Ben Broussard: 0 for 2, 1 R, 2 HBP – taken out after being hit by a pitch in the 7th … but I think it was for defensive purposes, he was playing RF
Cody Ransom: 2 for 5, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 K, 1 SB
Eric Duncan & JD Closser: both 1 for 5 – Duncan K’ed … gulp … 4 times
Greg Porter: 2 for 4, 3 R, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 7 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 9-10 GB/FB – 73 of 100 pitches, a very un-Kei-like rate
Heath Phillips: 0.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2 WP – I want Ben Kozlowski back
Scott Patterson: 1 IP, zeroes
Double-A Trenton is deep into extras right now, and I’m not waiting around for the game to finish. There’s not much to see, whole lotta 1-fers on the offensive side, and Eric Hacker pitching well in his AA debut. That’s about it. Here’s the box score.
High-A Tampa (4-0 loss to Lakeland)
Mitch Hilligoss: 1 for 4, 1 K, 1 E (fielding)
Jose Gil: 1 for 3, 1 K
rest of lineup: combined 0 for 22, 1 BB, 7 K – James Cooper & Kevin Smith each K’ed three times … Josue Calzado committed a fielding error … Kyle Anson allowed a passed ball
Mike Dunn: 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 8-2 GB/FB - picked a runner off first
Kevin Whelan: 2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 2 WP, 2-0 GB/FB – 13 K in 12 IP
Steven Artz: 1 IP, zeroes
Low-A Charleston had a scheduled off day.
Just as a heads up, Short Season Staten Island’s season starts on June 17th, and the Rookie GCL Yanks start two days later on the 19th. Same great DotF, but with 50% more free in three short weeks.
Igawa joke isn’t funny if it happens.
Tabata another hit today, Claggett had a solid outing for AA, nice to see Hacker move up and have a good albeit short outing (4 innings)
When will the rosters for Class A-Short Season and the GCL be available?
Not until like, 2 days before their seasons start. Almost all of SI will be filled by 2008 draftees, and most of the GCL is draftees or kids from Latin America.
Hopefully we will finally see the return of C.J. Henry, and Eric Hosmer’s yankee orginization debut (one can dream)
Gosh, Brett Gardner is on fiyaaah!
You don’t get a better leadoff hitter than him. . .
(Can’t remember the last time he didn’t get on base 3 times in a game. Ok, but you get my point.)
If they need a starter I don’t see how they can’t give the spot start to Giese.
it’s a crime gardner isn’t in the bigs yet. he would serve a great role on this team (PR/LIDR) as well as being a solid OBP man. unfortunately, we might not see him fulltime until 2010, when matsui and damon are (likely) gone; unless of course they move him to CF next year, let abreu go and move melky to RF.
I wouldn’t call it a crime, Brian Cashman said on Michael kay’s radio show that the only reason he’s not in the Bronx is because he is a LHB. Him serving as a pinch runner or defensive replacement is a detriment to his development, that’s the reason he started the year at Scranton instead of with the New York club after his strong Spring Training.
They’re high on him, and they’ll probably give him a shot at some outfield position next year, one way or another.
it really is a crime people can say all they want about him being a LHB but the point is he is abusing LHP, A-BUS-ING
vs LHP in 50 AB samples in AAA Gardner: .360/.459/.640 and an OPS of 1.099
50 ABs is far, far from significant.
I know Whozat just pointing out how him being a LHB vs LHP might not actually mean much.
But It’s more that it would be a killer to have him rot on the bench as opposed to playing every day than him being a LHB. I firmly believe that even if Abreu, Melky or Shelley (righties) go down, Gardner is the 1st man up. Let alone if Damon & Matsui (lefties) are the players being replaced. . .
Melky to right? Wouldn’ t he be the worst hitting corner OF in the majors?
Gardner shouldn’t just be a pinch runner, he should be the starting centerfielder.
Gardner is a scrub………..stop falling in love with every minor league prospect
He’s been able to adjust & hit at every level, has speed, plays well defensively, and appears to have a good arm from what we saw in spring training, no one is falling in love with him, they want to see what he can do, he could be a Damon type producer (maybe not in his prime or as much power, but a producer).
Trenton game’s over now, for those interested (Bo Hall blew it).
And I agree about Giese getting the start if they decide to call someone up.
Giese- yes, needs to get a shot- at the beginning of the year who’d have thunk the rotation would be Wang, Pettite, Moose, Rasner and Giese?
Baseball is a funny game sometimes.
Is he on the 40-man roster? If not, the Yanks would have to make room for him.
bye Heath Phillips…
It’s actually rather cruel, and sometimes even painful (especially watching Igawa pitch). Good thing the minors provide solace.
I think we see Joba start, and giese or white to follow after joba hits the pitch limit
Go works in Wonderfully Mysterious Ways!!!
Giese is Battle Tested and Ready!!!
Trade Igawa now.
Hell, they could just trade Kei for a bunch of bats.
With the way players are going through maple bats that are shattering, that would just be good business
I never want to see Igawa again.
8 hits in 7 innings. Sounds like he got lucky, again, and only had a couple of runs scored on him.
It seems though that whenever he comes to the big leagues he doesn’t get that lucky and those 8 hits translate into 5 or 6 runs via a couple of homers or whatever.
Trade Igawa to Seattle for a bag of balls and a rainshower to be named later.