May
11
Damon named AL Player of the Week
ByI like to call this award the Small Sample Size Award, but there’s no doubt that Johnny Damon deserves. For the week ending May 10, Damon walked away with Player of the Week honors. He hit .419/.455/1.032 with 5 HR and 15 RBI. Despite the home run barrage, he scored just two other runs the whole week as the Yanks went 2-5. It is the second time in his career that Damon has taken home the award.
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Good for you, Johnnie. He’s really on a tear, let’s hope he keeps it up.
Damon had an unreal week. to the point where i was EXPECTING him to hit a HR late in every game to tie the game or give them a lead.
and he did it almost every time.
Yeah, I knew that the home run off Johnson was coming.
bust out the oaktag and lets build those bullseye signs.
Is that where this new Oaktag meme came from?
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-378519
sorry meant for this to be here in resposne to you.
me = fail
So you’re saying we should get some oaktag and make some Damon bullseye signs out of that oaktag? Is that what you’re saying? Oaktag.
dude. totally.
LMFAOOOOOOO @ Small Sample Size award
Despite the home run barrage, he scored just two other runs the whole week as the Yanks went 2-5.
Considering he’s getting on over 45% of the time that’s just ugly at driving him in.
Especially considering who hits behind him. That’s beyond ugly. That’s inexcusable.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-373788
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-373819
and i havent even done it yet. hanvet seen a comment worthy of my oaktag ire….but methinks some people got a wee bti carried away from perusing a few of the game threads. me. im biding my time. when the time comes, and believe me it will (and it will be oh so appropriate i assure you), you will know. oh, you will know.
Another mystery solved. I think me might RAB dictionary, so people don’t always have to ask “What does IETC mean” or “Who is this Nails Krzyzewski?”.
If he keeps this up (which he won’t, holy small sample size, Batman,) he’d be on pace for 50 home runs.
Even if he hit 30 home runs that would be amazing.
and then the trolls come out with their brady anderson comparisons and their steroid whispers….
ill take it!
Damn, I always thought Brady Anderson gritted all those singles into homeruns. No way he was on ‘roids!!!
There would also be complaints about the wind tunnel effect at Yankee Stadium.
I say he’ll hit 27.
it’ll be a classic yankees move to re-sign him to a 2 year deal, and he’ll be decrepit and old and horrible the entire time
Damon and Matsui: The only Yankees who can hit good pitchers.
adam eaton is a good pitcher now?
I wasn’t saying that. I’m just saying, he and Matsui are the only guys on the Yankees who seem to be able to hit good pitchers.
The issue that frustrates me more is the seeming inability of the Yanks to hit SHITTY pitchers. Junkballing righties. I feel like a rotation fronted by Jeff Karstens, Darrel Rasner, Tim Redding and Alfredo Simon would shut them down handily.
You know, that’s a great point. How many times do teams trot out no-name guys with 7.09 ERAs and the Yankees score 1 run in 6 innings.
Sure enough, I left Damon on the bench all week for the RAB fantasy league, FML.
Good for him.
To bring this day at RAB full circle… Johnny had a 83 OPS+ in his first 3 seasons. Melky had a 84 OPS+ in his first 3+ seasons.
Wow. I’m not seeing Melky as a superstar, but before anyone gives up on the guy, it is enlightening to look at stats like that. Look at Bernie Williams’ and George Brett’s stats through age 24. Like I said in another thread, it would be a big mistake to get rid of Melky. Unless you had someone you knew was better, and younger, to replace him…
Comparing Melky to Bernie and George Brett is an insult to those guys. Come on, just because those guys blossomed into absolute stars after early struggles does not mean Melky will. Those two are entirely different hitters from Melky; Damon is semi-comparable since they both have relatively long swings and don’t have all that much power (Damon’s got more, obviously) but putting Melky and Bernie/Brett into the same category is insane.
Damon was a 1st round draft pick, and Brett a 2nd. Melky has never been considered any type of stud prospect.
Well, he was, but only because the farm system was so awful. I’m not high on Melky at all but I’m willing to admit that, for the time being, I was wrong about him for ’09.
hmm, i see you reference an erin durkin article on your blog…i went to college with an erin durkin…wonder if its the same erin durkin.
erin durkin
/ERIN DURKIN
Sigh. In the LAST thread, we talked about why comparing Melky to Bernie doesn’t make any sense. Do the raw numbers look superficially similar? Yes. Is there any other reason to think Melky will have a career like those guys? No. Is there reason to think that this April is a fluke just like last April? Yes: it’s happened before, and his swing is long and has some holes in it. Might he have a decent MLB career? Yes. Will he be an All-Star? Probably not.
I’m psyched to see Damon getting some recognition for his play. We’ve discussed the lack of appreciation for Damon before around here. Hopefully people will start noticing what he actually does on the field, instead of relying on old stereotypes, and he’ll get some All-Star voting love.
geez even back then whitey was chiming in as a sox fan defending his team
while i respect that, ill never understand why a red sox fan would be going thru comments during a yankees game thread on a yankees blog
do you think yankees get rid of damon and matsui and sign bey at end of the year.
yes to getting rid of damon and matsui… no to signing bay
i still think theyll go after crawford
Damon and Matsui are both gone. Maybe if they can’t get anyone, they’d offer Damon 1 year. But I agree, they will be going after Bay or Crawford or Holliday.