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2. Jeter, SS
3. A-Rod, 3B
4. Posada, 1B
5. Betemit, 2B
6. Melky, CF
7. Molina, C
8. Christian, RF
9. Rasner, SP
Okay, so where’s the real lineup Joe?
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So wait, that’s really it? Let me get this straight: you’re sitting three very good lefty batters in Abreu, Giambi and a surging Robbie Cano against a mediocre southpaw in Oliver Perez, but you started them against a premium lefty in Johan Santana yesterday after they played 3 games in 3 different stadiums in a span of 48 hours. Okay cool, that makes sense.
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Wait, no it doesn’t. Whatever, let’s hope Perez has one of those games.
Well…wouldn’t you want your A lineup against their A pitcher? Besides…Perez’s platoon split is WAY bigger than Santana’s. Perez has been much harder on lefties.
Though…that is a HEINOUS defensive right side of the infield.
Heh, you said “einous.”
Could have been worse. He could have said ‘Hiney”.
Or Hiney-ous.
HAHA thats exactly the word I used to describe the lineup when I first saw it.
Oliver Perez has given the Yankee hitters fits since he became a met. Another reason why he sit his lefties is that Perez is tougher on lefties than Santana.
I too would of sit some lefties out, like a Giambi or Cano . Personally I wouldn’t sit Abreu because he works counts and a pitcher like Perez can certainly throw alot of pitches.
I understand the descion here by Joe here. I don’t mind it.
Except Bobby is 0-10 with 4 walks lifetime against Perez.
Well put it this way, I will sit two lefties but not all three.
This is an argument to PLAY Abreu?
The walks are a function of Perez being wild, everyone draws walks off him when he loses the strike zone. The fact that he’s 0-10 is much more telling of how comfortable he is facing him.
No, it is an argument to sit him. The person I was responding to sais he would have played Abreu. Personally, I like the decision. Cano is in a groove, but you dont want him to come up against a tough lefty and lose that, Giambi had a tough day yesterday, and Bobby cant hit Perez.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I happen to agree with you, look at my post a few spots down with Perez’s splits.
Gotta tell you I don’t like the idea of sitting Robby right now. Looks like his bat was finally coming around, Joe should have kept him in the lineup!
1st girardi keeps showing faith in farnsworthless, now look at todays lineup !?! Hope Hank fires him today!
im not gonna lie.. i think cone is money in the tv booth
I like sitting all 3.
Giambi has always had trouble against hard throwing lefties.
Cano is just breaking out his slump, the last thing he needs is a tough lefty to screw him up again.
Abreu has yet to get a hit off Perez.
And as was mentioned earlier, Perez’s splits are pretty stark.
vs Lefties .167 BA .295 OBP .333 SLG .628 OPS
vs Righties .281 BA .394 OBP .459 SLG .853 OPS
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....yerId=5192
Oh, and one more reason to like this lineup. We have one HELL of a bench today. I have a feeling we’ll be using it by the 5th inning.
Shit why is rasner so suckish now.
The better question, Manimal, is “how was Rasner so good in May?” This is far less of a surprise than what we he did during his first four starts last month.
seriously. Michael Kay just said something about his cutter being flat. If thats the case send him down for a couple of starts to work on it.
I’m starting to think maybe the whole yankee team should tape their pinky and ring finger together. It works for Farnsworth…
Sorry for the technical issues folks, all should be well now.
Which issues…. I didnt see anything wrong?
The site wasn’t loading for a while, but the mobile version was still working. It was down for about a half-hour on my end.
Well, he got out of it somehow.
Wilson Betemit has a 66 OPS+ for his career vs LHP.
Nice at-bat there, even though he K’ed.
Wow the yankees are making him look like cy young.
You have to admit, when this dude is on, he’s on.
It doesn’t help the Yanks that the lineup is Damon-Jeter-ARod-Posada and 5 pitchers.
Yeah doesnt mean the yankees have to look like the jv high school team vs the varsity team.
Just when the Detroit Tigers were starting to get hot they get some bad news, Magglio Ordonez is going to the 15-Day DL. Over/Under at five games under .500 when he returns? I’d say over, their pitching is just horrid and now they have even less of an offense to bludgeon a team with.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....p;c_id=mlb
Oliver Perez hit 96-MPH in this AB to Melky Cabrera, yeah, this is not looking fun.
Horne didn’t make it through the first. Hopefully Mr Jennings will tell us shortly that it was just a bad outing.
I’ll watch the game, see if the broadcasters say anything.
32 pitches, 12 strikes. Yanks have a rule that the pitcher leaves the game if he tops 30 pitches in an inning.
Chad said he was shaking his hand every pitch.
That’s not good. Hopefully he was still getting good velocity on his pitches.
Loss fo Control = elbow, loss of velocity = shoulder.
Radio broadcaster did say he left the game due to an injury, he did not specify.
Lets go Rass
Kay: “Then the rains came. For a while it looked like they were going to pair up animals in Pittsburgh”
30 seconds of silence
Singleton: “Heh”
I can live with Rasner walking Reyes and getting to Castillo.
Are we really already committing Rasner to a start against Boston? I guess there’s literally no one else that can start - Karstens? Ugh
He has done well past couple of starts.
Against Josh Beckett no less. At least he’s got a 5.87 ERA in 10 career starts vs the Yanks.
Does that include the playoffs?
Outside of those two games we’ve pretty much been a thorn in that dude’s side.
I doubt it. I got the info from B-Ref’s splits.
Friday’s game isn’t a playoff game though, is it?
Please Rass don’t walk Castillo
Well that ball wasn’t exactly tattooed. Nice range by Jeter though.
betemit is an idiot, what the hell is jeter doing fielding a ball on the right side of the infield.
Are you serious?
Betemit is a not a idiot, is just that he has minimal range.
The only way Castillo gets hits
Anyone else notice the Snigh broadcast is a full pitch ahead of the YES?
areyou serious? Check TBS too.
Really, they’re almost synced up for me. YES is a little behind, but not a full pitch.
Nice job limiting the damage. Let’s try to actually get a baserunner against Perez now.
rasner needs to sit in a video room and see what is happening. What is different from his first couple of starts and now.
It’s easy, the league has caught up to him combined with the fact that he’s not good. You don’t need to go to the video room, that’s the answer
Am I the only one that wants them to get Sidney Ponson away from Chamberlain?
Maybe Joba’s mentoring him.
Joba’s saying Sidney there is a high rate of alcoholism on the reservation and I managed to rise above it. You can beat this thing bro. Stop being fat drunki and stupid, son.
25 strikes, 9 balls for Perez? Oof.
Brett Gardner was out by a step on a chopper to the third basemen…he was playing on the grass.
this is the same perez mets fans see every five days right?
cuz i could have sworn he was posting a 6+ ERA
No, he is very inconsistent. He has games like this then follows them up with games like he had vs. the M’s. That’s the reason why Mets fans hate him so much.
This dope is no-hitting the Yankees.