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Fan Confidence Poll: August 24th, 2009
ByRecord Last Week: 4-2 (39 RS, 36 RA)
Season Record: 78-46 (696 RS, 589 RA), 7.5 games up
Opponents This Week: vs. Texas (3 games), vs. White Sox (3 games)
Top stories from last week:
- After a pretty demoralizing loss in Seattle on Sunday, the Yanks proceeded to get blanked by ex-mate Brett Tomko on Monday. Thankfully CC Sabathia restored order to the universe and led the club to a win the next day, and Mark Teixeira almost singlehandedly gave the Yanks the series win on Wednesday.
- After an off-day, Hideki Matsui started the Fenway series in style, chipping in two homers in a 20-run outburst. The Red Sox turned the tables the next day, bludgeoning AJ Burnett for the third time in Boston this year. The Bombers stayed true to their name last night, homering their way to their sixth win against the Sox in their last seven contests. It was glorious.
- Brett Gardner‘s return from a finger injury will take a little longer than expected, probably into September. Ian Kennedy won’t get into a game before the regular season ends as he recovers from an aneurysm, but he will play in the Arizona Fall League. Damaso Marte finally made his return for a bum shoulder, and the team will go with a 13-man pitching staff until Sept. callups. We also finally got definitive word on The Joba Plan.
- The Yankees reached agreements with first round pick Slade Heathcott for $2.2M and second rounder JR Murphy for $1.25M before Monday’s midnight signing deadline. They also signed fifth rounder Caleb Cotham and 16th rounder Bryan Mitchell to six-figure, above slot deals. The Chad Gaudin trade was completed when the Yanks sent San Diego $100,000.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
Given the team's current roster construction, farm system, management, etc., how confident are you in the Yankees' overall future?
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Every victory is a step closer to October, and a step closer to clinching before that final west coast trip
22 games between now and the West Coast trip.
With a magic # of 32. We’re gonna have to put some serious work in to clinch before then
There’s only one question left to be answered this year:
Will Joe Girardi be changing his number to 28 during the offseason, or will he decide to keep 27 because the first title is the only one that’s symbolic?
Wow. On a scale of 1 to 10, your confidence is at 11
Love that movie.
He’ll be changing numbers, yes.
But he’ll be swapping with D-Rob for #30.
My head said nine, my heart said ten. I listened to my heart ’cause Babe Ruth came to me in a dream and before he left he said “Follow your heart, kid, and you’ll never go wrong.”
/Benny the Jet’d
Sandlot reference FTW.
+10
My username at a music/sports forum I used to use was “thejetstolehome.”
Speaking of baseball movies…How were the Yankees able to sign Steve Nebraska? Being an American by birth, wouldn’t he have been subject to the Rule IV draft?
Perhaps he changed citizenship and was thus an IFA…but that 81 pitch perfect game was impressive. Do I hear 5th starter?
Yeah striking out a “suddenly powerful” Ozzie Smith on 3 pitches to end the game was pretty impressive, but apparently he had already down it twice before.
And why was a “powerful” Ozzie Smith batting 9th anyway?
How come Steve Nebraska only had 1 measly home run? Bust!!!
How could the pitcher be hitting in a game at an AL ballpark?
I know it’s possible but would anybody really do it?
Love any A. Brooks movie. Also, Mr. Steinbrenner did a a fantastic job playing himself.
I spent much of the game last night listening to Sterling and Suzyn so my confidence level is a 15 right now. Those two just looooove themselves some Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter, CC Sabathia and Hideki Matsui right now.
The only minor league teams in the Yankees farm system that definitely will not make the playoffs are the DSL Yankees 1 and the Charleston Riverdogs.
I like that, even though it doesn’t mean that much.
Via Twitter, Bronx Banter’s Cliff Corcoran brings us this tidbit:
That possibility makes me so confident in this team’s future. With a quintet of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Joba Chamberlain, Andy Pettitte and Phil Hughes, and Ian Kennedy, Zach McAllister, Ivan Nova and Wilkins De la Rosa backing them up for depth in 2010, this team’s pitching looks like a perennial powerhouse.
Also, those nine names don’t even factor in the potential contributions from rehabilitating starters Chien-Ming Wang (shoulder) and George Kontos (elbow), and wild cards in Alan Horne and Christian Garcia. Now, the latter might be turned into a reliever, but the point still stands: that is what you call pitching depth.
thats very true. Everybody talks about the red sox pitching depth in the minors but i think the yankees have just as much depth or even more than they do. look at what the yankees have done to bowden and bard who are considered the future of the sox rotation while hughes, joba, robertson have faired pretty well against the sox. Cashman and the rest of the organization dont get enough credit for starting to turn around the minor leagues and getting major contributions from the farm system like they did in the 90′s.
*lays down a fiver and four ones*
Now, if Joba has a good start this week I’ll splurge for more.
I’ve been a 9 all along. The farm continues to improve and the big club has pitchers in the rotation in their prime (minus Andy) for the 1st time in years. The only thing that worries you a little is the age of the lineup. But Derek and Jorge seem like a strong bet to keep it for at least one more year. Arod is a question mark because he may or may not get the 2nd surgery this offseason.
we need to win the series in 4 so he can get it sooner…
I know a lot of people are down on Brackman, but this piece from Ashmore has a couple of confidence building tidbits in it. Seems like his velocity is back based on Nardi’s comments.
http://thunderbaseball.wordpre.....formation/
Mike: This has probably been asked before, but are there any plans on creating a chart at season’s end tracking mean fan confidence ratings? Maybe with key points marked along the X-axis, i.e. ARod’s return, our 8th loss to the Sawx, the sweep at Fenway…
http://tinyurl.com/nzezvb
That’s available at all times via the “Fan Confidence Poll” link under the banner. I can add important points in the future, sure.
You can find the season-long FCP results in chart form right here.
A-ha, hidden in plain sight. Thank you gentlemen!
“Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.”
it doesnt say thank you for reading, just voting….
Sheesh. After six months, I don’t read every word of every fan confidence post. Sue me.
I have to ask – when we’re talking about confidence… What do we mean? What are the expectations that the team is supposed to meet?
Right now,, for me a 10 this year is at least a WS apperance, 8 is making the LCS and 6 is making the post season
Longer term, to feel great (10) I’d have to reasonably expect us to
1) Reach post season 9/10 years
2) Reach at least 3 WS in the next 10 years
3) Win at least 2 WS in the next 10 years
I think that would be fair to view as a very good outcome for the next 10 years. 8/10 2/10 and 1/10 would be acceptable but not good
Do people agree with this? Otherwise one persons 10 might be another persons 7…
I do not want to see Matsui sign as a free agent with Boston.
Just mentioning…
They already have one DH who’s all but broke down, why would they want another whose knees could explode at any moment?
Ah, I see the option year on Ortiz is 2011, not next like I thought.
Are there no contenders we have to worry about Matsui signing with, then?
i’m def giving a 10 again
It’s a 10 again for me. You can’t get any better than the best record in baseball. In the next month it’ll be about clinching the division, clinching HFA, and getting prepared for the playoffs. The sooner they officially clinch those first two, the better they can rest players that are dinged up/fatigued and align their rotation for the first round.
Girardi is an idiot sometimes, but I think he really has done a good job thus far of keeping players fresh and I expect more of that down the stretch with such a big lead.
Did anyone see this? Rice is out of his mind…he is a DBag now that he is in the hall….
I didn’t mind him before but now….
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9972738
Yeah that’s been said before. Later he said he was “misquoted” and not included A-Rod and Jeter but he’s lying.
I very rarely defend the media, but people need to stop claiming they were “misquoted” or that their statements were “taken out of context” unless they’re prepared to explain exactly how they were misquoted or exactly what about the context of their statements would have changed those statements’ meaning/interpretation. If you’re not willing to do that, then you’re basically accusing a journalist of either lying, in the case of claiming one was “misquoted,” or twisting your intent, in the case of being “taken out of context,” without explaining how or why.
And if you’re not willing and prepared to explain such things, then it’s reasonable for your audience to conclude that you’re full of shit and just trying to defend yourself for saying something stupid by taking cheap shots at an easy target (the media).
So, basically… Jim Rice = Asshole.
IETCVVM
9.
The positives for the immediate future are obvious so I wont focus on ‘em. My concerns focus on how Joba is going to respond to his intermittent starts. I also am intrigued with AJ’s continuing philosophical divide over Posada’s pitch calling.
9–for me, only issue is the future, although it seems good. Once at the top only way to go is down. So needs to improve where we can and stay hungry with fresh new blood. Infield appears set for seeable future, starting pitching is close, bullpen always needs tinkering. So that leaves outfield and bench. Sentiments aside for me Swish is #4 Gardy #5 sith room for improvement in all starting OF.
and I am sorry if this is an off track topic i posted before.
10. All that’s left is to play the games. This team is absolutely ready and able to bring home #27. Time to get it done.
I’m a 9. Been an 8 all year. Bumped it up a few weeks back. I can’t go 10, because that would mean no room for improvement and there is always room for improvement. I like our farm system, but I would like to see a possible replacement for Jeter (down the line. he’s killing it right now) and some outfield sluggers. That’s all nitpicking, because this team that we have right here is ridiculous. I’d say just below the 98 team. I may slip in a 10 when we win #27.
Right now I’m feeling an 8 in confidence. Honestly, it would have been 9 if not for what happened on Saturday. Still, I must say after last night’s tremendous win, my vote is far closer to 9 as it has ever been this year. We finally prove we could win on the road, CC is growing into a legend and this team had the familar flare of confidence & groove in their eyes- I have not seen that in awhile. I’ll say this the only way my vote ever gets to 9 is after we get past the 1st round again & a 10 if we get to the W.S. againg. I do believe a 9 is coming this year; hoping a 10 as well
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