Comments on: Hoping for a quiet Spring Training 2010

By: Yankees spring awfully quiet thus far - BrushbackPitch.com - MLB Blog

Yankees spring awfully quiet thus far - BrushbackPitch.com - MLB Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:59 +0000

[...] few minor exceptions (A-Rod and Cameron Diaz now?) it looks like we’re about to find out. The most conspicuous stories from Yankees camp so far seems to be the lack of conspicuous stories so [...]

By: bexarama

bexarama — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:29:56 +0000

ANDY PETTITTE IS A STAHTING PITCHAHHHH!!!!

Eh, he was kind of sucking in mid-May, late June last year. I’m glad he stuck around in the starting rotation.

By: pollo

pollo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:02:24 +0000

Id rather Use start the season in AAA as a starter, then get called up for the eventual injury. I feel like we’re wasting him as a relieve; it’s probably better to have Melancon in his place.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:56:36 +0000

If the yankees brass operated on a “what the fans think is right” MO, they’d have $260 million payroll and constantly be a 90 win team.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:55:16 +0000

heh

By: pete

pete — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:54:36 +0000

I was actually thinking Granderson-Cano-Posada-Swisher. But you’re right. Posada is, at least to start the season, going to bat 5th. Period. Oh, the horror.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:53:12 +0000

“unless you intend to hit Gardner/Winn/Thames/Hoffman 5th, which we all know you don’t.”

or do i?…2010 projected lineup:

…well i was going to construct a ridiculously dumb lineup, but then i realized that i can’t even think of a single way to order the yankees hitters (apart from playing Gardner, Winn, and Thames simultaneously in the outfield, and other things of that nature) that wouldn’t result in the yankees still having the best offense in baseball next year. jesus i love the yankees.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Archimedes Torquemada

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Archimedes Torquemada — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:52:43 +0000

I could see the value of a Granderson-Posada-Cano-Swish 5-6-7-8.

It’s just not likely to happen, though. Posada would need to utterly collapse in order to not be the #5 hitter. Loyalty, holmes.

By: Jamal G.

Jamal G. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:50:01 +0000

Yeah, it is like the Ronnie Belliard-Orland Hudson situation in Los Angeles down the stretch of the 2009 season – no one could argue that Belliard was hitting like a psycho, but Torre completely benching Hudson, the better player on both sides of the ball, in favor of Belliard was not a decision that I saw as correct.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:49:27 +0000

yeah i did mean do say bat granderson 5th. Pretty much only an idiot could ruin this lineup based on its structure, but i like the idea of Granderson’s speed, rather than johnson’s, in front of the guys who probably won’t hit 30+ HRs like Tex and A-Rod will. I like the idea of a second quality 1-4 starting after A-Rod. To me, Granderson-Cano-Posada-Swisher would be that 1-4 (5-8). I don’t think it’s likely, and the difference in production between that and Posada-Granderson-Cano-Swisher, or pretty much any construction of those 4, is probably miniscule, but I like the idea.