May
23
Game 46: The Jays, Again
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And he flies! (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darren Calabrese)
We’ve already seen enough of the Blue Jays this year to know they’re a pesky little bunch. They have a knack for late-inning rallies, and I’m not just talking about that Mariano Rivera blown save a few weeks ago either. Toronto’s been doing that everyone this year, so they force you to play all nine innings. And, of course, they have Joey Bats. Here’s the lineup…
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Russell Martin, C
Jorge Posada, DH
Brett Gardner, LF
Chris Dickerson, RF
Bartolo Colon, SP
The game is scheduled to begin a little after 7:00pm ET, and it can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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I love having Russell Martin in the 6 slot.
3 pop-ups today with 3 RISP…
I hope the Mets trade Beltran to the Yanks for nothing, considering he’s not worth much anyway.
They can throw in Reyes, too, since he’s always injured and clearly has little value.
Steve Nash rules.
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-.....id=6576883
“Joey Bats”
Heh.
Sounds like a Mafia name and he’s not clean-shaven enough to be in the Mafia.
I don’t get it. He’s not a bat or vampire is he? I hope not.
Sounds like Joey Boots.
Or Joey Pants…
No Swisher again?
Jon Heyman is giving the weather report on YES!
He’s infinitely more qualified to talk weather than baseball.
I feel as if the lineups with Dickerson/Cervelli/both should have Gardner batting 9th, as Gardner is hitting with a hot bat and it’d be most effective to use the double leadoff. Likewise, you’d breakup the double play Cervelli or Dickerson could hit into with Gardner’s speed.
I disagree. With a high OBP guy like Gardner hitting 8th he can get on base and you can use Cervelli/Dickerson to bunt him over to 2nd. This gives our soon to be 3,000 hit man and our hottest hitter a chance to drive him in. As we learned yesterday, the Yankees can play smallball, too.
Bunt? I’ve never noticed Girardi likes to bunt.
Valid point
Reply fail
Don’t over think things. Zen baseball. Lineups don’t matter.
Double leadoff is what you tell the kid batting 9th in little league, stop giving worse hitters more ABs than your better hitters
tonight, Bartolo gets his GCSO
CGSO*
Paul O’Neill always reminds me of Kimmy Gibbler from Full House. They have a similar look around the face and neck area. Hair, too, I guess.
I’m not nuts.
http://crujonessociety.com/wor.....ibbler.jpg
Is there a reason why YES isn’t showing velocity?
My9 >>>>>>>>>>> YES
This guy is unbelievable. Holy shit
Theres a fucking surprise….
fuck.
They just keep pitching to him and keep getting burned.
Didn’t see that coming…
Just enjoy watching greatness.
This. I could care less that we’re down 1-0, Bautista’s season has me in awe right now.
“I
couldcouldn’t care less that we’re down 1-0, Bautista’s season has me in awe right now.”FTFY
Obvious Homerun is Obvious
Wow, just walk the guy already
I literally burst out laughing when he hit it out. Bautista is ridiculous right now.
im sick of everyone just saying “oh wow this guy is amazing. he hasnt hit shit for his entire career until the last two years. he HAS to be on something
Why haven’t they caught him yet?
Why haven’t they caught anyone ever? I’m not saying one way or the other on Bautista, but the fact that MLB hasn’t caught him doesn’t do anything for me one way or the other.
Well no. He doesn’t HAVE to be. I admit, his extreme spike raises suspicions. After the steroid era, they have to.
But there is literally no evidence. There aren’t even rumors. The only support for the argument that is he on something is the fact that he has hit all of these homeruns.
Is some suspicion understandable? Sure. But we need a little something else before we say he is DEFINITELY on something.
Roger Maris had a huge spike in HR too. Here, look how out of the ordinary 1961 was…
http://www.baseball-reference......ro01.shtml
Did he take steroids?
Only explanation possible, because steroids and HGH are PROVEN to give any hitter that takes them 50 HR power.
It’s pretty terrible and unfair that people are suspecting Bautista of ‘something’ just because they can’t accept that he’s become a great player. He always had a good walk rate, and maybe, just maybe, he changed his hitting approach and swing and everything clicked.
I didn’t even have time to finsh typing my lengthy suggestion on Bautista before he hit it out: Walk him!
bonds lite
Hopefully this is not a sign his conmand is off.
He is the most fascinating story in baseball since the Steriods story broke. No question.
There is literally no historical comparison. We have never seen anything like this before.
I wonder how it ends.
the last time a player went from 16 hrms to 50 the following year….Brady Anderson…KNOWN roid user…
Or is Swisher OFF the stuff? Did I just blow your mind?
nope. Swisher didn’t go from garbage to best hitter in the show. Swisher 08′ was just his worst year and the Cash Ninja swiped him from Kenny Williams. And then he returned to his basic effective high on-base/ decent power approach.
Bautista was an absolute zero who became Pujols good out of nowhere. It is not humanly possible. And how does he hide the drug use? Simple, HGH can’t be detected with the current testing and that was the elite PED a few years ago.
Give Joey Bats credit he’s got one hell of a mystery cousin helping him. Just like Alex, Ortiz, Clemens, Bonds, all had. Of course with a nickname like that, I wouldn’t fink him out or face lethal retribution.
Kinda crazy that in the 50th anniversary year of Roger Maris’ 61 homer season, Bautista could possibly top it.
Possibly?
well that was an interesting inning. do you think colon will struggle against the jays since he really loves throwing fastballs and thats all they hit
Why are we pitching meatballs over the plate to Bautista?
Swisher and Papelbon are terrrrrible actors.
Swisher was entertaining on How I Met Your Mother, but that commercial is pretty bad.
What he’s been doing in the last 2 years is impossible. You can’t go from a crappy batter to the best freaking hitter in the league!!! He’s on roids.
How many shitty hitters have been caught, though?
And all those guys stayed shitty. Steroids are not a magic HR pill, unless Bautista is the only one in the league on them.
The obvious explanation is that Pujols and Bautista switched bodiesover the offseason.
THIS. I am in awe how they went all ‘Body Snatchers’ on Pujols like that…
Freaky Friday, y’all!!
Wait, so it was a bad idea to pitch to Bautista?
1st inning, 2 outs no one on base. Why not try to get him out?
I think he showed you why.
I will add that his OBP is over .500. So thus far on the season, odds are it would have been better to walk him than pitch to him.
So when should they pitch to him? Never?
with the rest of that line up it might make sense not to, ever.
Batshit insane. No player is good enough to never pitch to.
Just about, yea. Just like we shouldn’t have pitched to Josh Hamilton in last years ALCS. Just my strategy with those guys.
Meh, Bautista’s ‘true talent level’ OBP is lost due to the intentional walks and the intentional unintentional walks. Ditto Bonds at his peak.
If pitchers just pitched to Bautista, he would not have an OBP > .500.
Bautista is on the same shit that most athletes competing for millions of dollars is on. No reason to single him out other than he is doing it better than anyone else right now.
Hey, if he’s not taking the juice, he can just sue the next person who accuses him!
/MSM narrative’d
When will the Yankees learn not to pitch to Bautista. Anytime he comes up with a chance to either tie the game or give his team the lead, he should be walked.
I agree but the Yankees continually let these guys beat them. They let Konerko take a game from them in the White Sox series, let Michael Young destroy them in the Texas series, and this is now how many HRs Bautista has hit against us? Stop it.
Good grief. There were two outs in the first inning and he hit a solo shot, who gives a shit?
he got the bat all the way out to Jeter, impressive.
Joba has pink eye???
What happened did Soriano fart on his pillow??
I LOLed.
two relievers, one cup.
Bautista can’t win the triple crown because like 90% of his HRs are solo shots, lol.
Cano, I understand they told you to not swing at the first pitch every at-bat but you seriously need to at least look like you’re going to try
Yankees will be no hit today. Lol jaykay, but their offense is really frustrating to watch nowadays…
They just scored eight runs like, four innings ago.
I was partially being sarcastic, but even with the Met’s game yesterday, they’ve still been pretty darn inconsistent.
2nd inning?
Do not pitch to Bautista…..Letting the best hitter on a crap team beat you is worse than bunting your best hitter!!
Honestly, 1 run is not a big deal.
Yankees, just score some runs.
They must not let themselves get beaten by Bautista.
Guy seems like a dick, no offense to him. He just has this air to him.
Are the Yankees ever gonna have an off day?
Bautista’s wOBA is .549 (coming into this game). Walking him every time would give him a .720 wOBA. So on average you’re losing runs if you walk him every time.
In other words, don’t walk him every time, as good as he is.
(By the way, Bonds in his greatest years had a similar wOBA, so he also wasn’t worth walking every time. I’m pretty sure no one in history has been.)
My opinion is that a walk every time is only necessary when SLG >1.00. But considering no one’s touched that… we’re good.
What’s the best way to pitch to Bautista? Don’t. I don’t care if there’s runners on 1st and 2nd here, walk Bautista.
Even if it means giving up more runs on average?
But you can’t let Bautista beat you!
Other people beating you is okay, apparently.
Buck Showalter once intentionally walked Barry Bonds with the bases loaded to make it a one run game.
If Bonds was on the Yankees Buck would just have his pitcher hit him.
When faces with such a difficult decision, I somtimes have to sit back and ask myself… WWTFD?
What Would Tito Francona do?
I’m not accusatory by nature, but it’s just so hard to believe in this Bautista story after going through the whole steroid era and just given the stats
This is a guy who has been in the bigs since 2004, and has a big career sample size
’04-’09: 1753 ABs, 59 home runs (1 HR per 29.7 ABs)
’10-’11: 706 ABs, 73 home runs (1 HR per 9.7 ABs)
I’m sorry, that just doesn’t happen. There’s no historical precedent for that kind of jump, other than guys who cheated. And even amongst cheaters I’m not sure anyone other than Brady Anderson did something that dramatic. It’s a completely fair question, without a clear answer, but I know the answer isn’t as simple as a change in his foot tap.
Roger Maris: 1957-1959, 1374 AB, 58 HRs
1960-1961, 1089 AB, 100 HRs
What was that?
I’m sure that surprised people, but there were a couple of factors Maris had in his advantage that Bautista doesn’t
1) He moved to Yankee Stadium, which especially then was a HUGE advantage for lefties
2) He was hitting in front of a member of the 500 home run club who is one of the greatest players ever
Besides, Maris’s jump in terms of HR/PA wasn’t anywhere near as big as Bautista’s
If you pay attention to the numbers only, you lose out on the bigger picture.
How do you explain Granderson? Aren’t his numbers pretty bizarre?
As Yankees’ fans, we’re familiar with the fact that he revamped his swing in early August, 2010, and went from not being able to TOUCH lefties to being a > 1.000 OPS hitter vs. lefties seemingly overnight. Anyone that suggests he’s going to revert to pre-fix Granderson because ‘that’s what the numbers suggest’, is going to get a guffaw from me.
But there’s a concrete date where you can split pre-fix and post-fix Granderson. We don’t know that date with Bautista, but it appears to be ~September, 2009. The Blue Jays’ hitting coach was working with him, and it’s not utterly insane to think he fixed something with his swing.
How do you explain Granderson? Aren’t his numbers pretty bizarre?
wellll, not really. He has shown 30HR power in a giant ballpark like Commerica. BA is relative, K rate was through the roof and still is…
so if anything, his 1st 1/2 of 2010 was the ‘bizzare’, not what has happened before and after.
Um, he’s not been showing ’30 HR power’ over the past 3 months of baseball. He’s been showing ’60 HR power’.
Here we go … Bautista.
Its amazing Grandy is only 3 homers off Bautista’s ML lead. It seems like Bautista’s been hitting one every other nite since the season started. … helps to have a 3 homer game though.
Russell FTW
That was such a stupid steal attempt.
Michael Kay is right, stupid steal. Bautista was either going to get a pitch to hit or walk.
No Michael Kay, teams are not necessarily getting out the guys in front of Bautista, they’re walking him when there’s guys on base.
He has 95PA with bases empty and 83PA with men on. 24 BB with mean on.
Tulo is a SS that bats cleanup.
Did the Braves give up Yunel for peanuts? I cant remember what the Braves got back.
Alex Gonzalez, some SS prospect, and Tim Collins, the Royals reliever. Toronto got Jo-Jo Reyes in the same deal.
One of the Alex Gonzalez’s. Not sure which one.
the shortstop? didn’t realize there was another well known alex gonzalez
Wow, awesome steal attempt by Davis. Gotta love that!
Who gets the first hit for the no hit Yanks? C’mon Jorge
Jeter.
I mean Gardner. I see a double.
Quick, I need an explanation on why RBIs suck as a stat. Can anybody help me out?
Because they don’t measure individual skill per se. RBI totals are largely a product of opportunities, which are provided by teammates.
Because 2/3 of the stat is reliant on things you can’t control.
They don’t tell you anything, just that someone scored a run. Doesn’t tell you who or how. Could have been a ground out or a homerun. No context.
Too dependent on those around an individual. Impossible to be looked at independently.
Because RBIs depend on who hits in front of you.
Even though I don’t actually think RBIs suck.
Because fans look at it as one of the most important measures when evaluating a hitter, when in fact, it is only one relatively small factor in how good a hitter is.
OK, thanks very much guys.
stand up double off that hit is impressive.
I was thinking the same exact thing.
no hitter over!
I wonder if Mike Trout is as fast as Gardner.
Wait what? We wish. Trout ran a sub 6.40 60 yard dash. Gardner is a 6.60.
Just curious, but where do those stats come from?
A scout clocked Trout in the 2009 draft.
http://thedailydugout.com/inde.....;Itemid=76
Gardner’s timed was when he was from college so it’s possible it’s outdated. But here you go.
http://bronxbaseballdaily.com/.....ash-times/
Thanks.
I saw Piliere graded Trout out as a 70 on the scouting scale (20-80) for speed, which is where he also graded Gardner. Doesn’t necessarily says which one is faster, but it’s got to be pretty damn close.
Chris Dickfacerson.
Oy. Dribblers go for hits, and line drives get caught. Such is baseball.
Sterling’d
just can’t predict it…
BABIPfail
is this guy related to marcus thames?
half brother
Kay stumbling over OPS twenty years after it’s been around. Can’t wait for 2031 wehn a 70-year-old Kay talks about WAR.
that last pitch to Thames is unfair
You know it’s a good pitch when Paul O’Neil says it is.
that 2 seamer is death
Step 1; break up the perfect game/no hitter
Step 2: break up the shutout
Step 3: break up the win
…Make it happen!
Eric Thames strikes out too much to be a viable major league. His AAA #s in 2010-2011 are pretty good though.
Eric ThamesAustin Jackson strikes out too much to be a viable major league. His AAA #s in 2010-2011 are pretty good though.past a diving hill sounds very nice
Nice to see the shift work for Teix, lol
Lol Arod had like 1/2 a left eyebrow.
damn, that was a knee buckler
Man that was nasty
He was so far out in front of that pitch he could have swung twice.
Not disagreeing with Long, but didnt’ I see a stat that showed Cano hit .350 on pitches outside the strikezone last year?
Long called. said advanced stats are for pussys. he coaches by gut and estimation
There’s a difference, however.
If he’s a free swinger, odds are he’s not swinging at ‘meatball’ OOZ pitches (think those pitches that are a few inches inside that he can turn on and crush out of the park), but swinging at ‘pitchers pitches’ (such as down and away sinkers).
A-Fraud should have tried to bunt the go-ahead run to second.
nice job, ribbie
Colin Curtis looks like the guy from Avatar. Parker I think.
Nice frame job.
O’Neill has the best job ever, he talks Yankees and gets to see a ton of games and he eats ice cream.
They are too busy plugging turkey hill to replay that sick strikeout.
or not laugh through it. the consummate professionals
So what’s Colon’s status? Type A, B or unranked?
prob unranked
So instead of every night being a frustrating offensive night, the Yanks have moved to every other or every two. Marked improvement to slowly attack the RISP… like a twelve step program.
Colon = best offseason signing, I would definitely say he is in the running. Especially considering it was just a minor league signing. Amazing how Cashman got Colon, Garcia, and Ayala all on minor league deals and each of them are contributing.
so you know what chaps my ass? MLB.tv. not only do they give you the Bone for $100 a season, but then they make you watch commercials. the same 3 goddam commercials. over and over and over.
for $100, give me some in-game stuff from other games of the night. or just stay quiet
I think it’s a pretty fair deal for what you get, especially if you compare it to what you’d pay on cable, and also taking into account the incredible variety of things you can use nowadays to watch the games.
But you are completely correct about those commercials. They succeed in making me hate the product being advertised every time. And those Coors spots for the bottles with the super cold idiocy on them are THE STUPIDEST THINGS OF ALL TIME.
Hey Axisa. You think Reyes is really getting anything close to ‘Crawford Money’? can’t see him getting more than 5/75 (and thats generous)… right?
I don’t think he’ll get Crawford money, but I’m thinking $18M per year for 5-6. Some of it isn’t his fault, teams see how bad Crawford is and they don’t want to end up with that.
who has that kind of scratch? Sox won’t spend it, we can’t, both CHI teams are set, can’t see either LA team pulling the trigger…
that kinda leaves all the teams who rarely overpay for guys like Reyes, no??
Washington or Anaheim. I read they are interested and they would then move Aybar to second and Kendrick to RF.
didnt think they had the scratch… plus haven’t they made this exact mistake already? Reyes=Torii Hunter 2.0…
He’s a shortstop that isn’t a black hole. Someone will ignore injuries and give him a hefty paycheck. It won’t match Crawford though.
How is that not a balk? He’s not even coming close to a rest at the set position
goddamit Gardner how is that even close with your speed.
gritster is tough
holy shit, Kay you asshole
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MICHAEL KAY WAS FOOOOOLED
I was so sure that was out…
Haha, nice try Derek.
Holy fuck Kay made me think that was long gone
LOL someone get Kay a wet wipe… I think he made hisself sticky
Man that ball was high, it was far, it was caught on the track.
sucks
Gardy needs a sliding glove under his wrist guard.
Jeets with warning track power on changeups. If he could catch up to and pull a fastball, the speed of the pitch would take the ball over the fence.
Oh well.
Freakin Sterling made me think that was gone. But hey– I’m in the sky and listening to the game. I love airplane internets.
That made me sad.
“he’s kind of a crafty lefthander, even though he’s a righthander” -Kay
Kay seriously needs to relax.
Give the fat man some run support for gods sakes!
Kay: When Jeter turns on a ball like that, he usually does get it out”
Lol
about once every 500 ab’s
im worried thats the extent of jeter’s power
are you really surprised?
Swisher would be getting killed for running a bad route after that ball.
I was thinking the same thing, and also about the throw…
I would walk him too….He is like 97.5% of the team….its just math
Bautista is unimpressive physically for such a dominant homerun hitter.
/Babe Ruth
/Roid Era?
Um what? He’s hitting .224
brutal.
I would be far from shocked if the Yankees signed Reyes this offseason. There won’t be many good shortstops in FA except for Stephen Drew in 2014. Yanks will have plenty of money too.
Then where place Jeter? He’d be worth 0.0 WAR at most if he becomes the DH.
When it comes to free agents the Yankees don’t always think practically about this stuff, but like I said if Montero is out of the picture the DH is open. If they can get Reyes to play SS and take some lessons from Arod on moving to 3B and let Jeter and Arod DH a lot more often. Practical? No, but Yankees like to spend their money and he probably makes the most sense out of all the available players in the 2012 class.
Yeah but that’ll piss off Jeter’s ego. This will be an infinite times worse than the Jorge situation. I doubt they’ll take that risk.
no gonna happen…let him be some one elses mistake. but I see what you are saying.
I disagree. Jeter is going to play out his contract at SS and then sign a new one for another four years.
I laughed…and cried.
well, he got his ground ball
And you walked Rivera because…?
Just dumb that’s why. And that’s the ballgame.
super brutal.
What a stupid intentional walk (to Rivera).
Suzyn claimed credit for the Rivera walk because she thought it was a good idea. So…I guess we can blame her.
+1
Fuck are you kidding me?
Well this sucks.
JP Longname….hits a long ball….uch
LIFE IS PAIN
beyond brutal.
Fancy that. Giving free baserunners = bad idea.
That meltdown was AJ-esque
40m yr old fat guy with Stem Cell arm… was bound to happen at some point, right?
It was one inning. Jeez.
my point it that he was bound to have that one bad inning and one bad game. he has more than impressed over the course of the past few months.
Wow
And that’ll do it. Disappointing game offensively. Will probably have more problems tomorrow with Romero. The Jays are just gonna keep giving us fits all year.
2 free runs courtesy of Joe Girardi
Fuck the Blue Jays.
hard or side to side?i don’t do beastiality though
Well that about does it. Just have to win tomorrow and Wednesday.
#Idiocy
That is funny. Somewhere you thought the Yankees were smashing the ball tonight and would mount a comeback. Believe that is #idiocy.
Not for nothing, but you’re both being idiots.
*Whimpers*
Yes, because it’s been so long since the Yankees came back late to suddenly score a lot of runs in an inning. I mean, it’s almost been a day.
#WhatHaveYouDoneForMeLately
I hate that Colon doesn’t look at all upset after that inning. He had a smerk on his face the whole time and was just smiling in the dougout. At least AJ looks like he wants to kill himself when he implodes.
I’m all about grit (as you can tell from my handle) but the guy has given us extremely quality innings so far this season from being carefree so I wouldn’t think too much of it.
Waaaaaah.
I like Colon, for whatever it matters. Who gives a shit? It’s one game, and not the end of the world. Paul O’Neill smashing shit doesn’t take runs off the board or put runs on the board.
I doubt he’d be having a good time if this was game 7 of the World Series.
Paul O’neill smashing shit definitely did take runs off the board.
Especially if he chose to smash the scoreboard itself.
he proly would be smiling if it was game 7 of the world series because:
– it is essentially 6 months longer than anyone (inlcuding himself) thought his career would last…
– CC is pitching into the 8th…
Teix with his 100000th pop up…
Tex is terrible. Uppercut swing and he drops his back knee.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......id=3475707
That is what we paid for.
Don’t forget about a 140 OPS+ and a .384 wOBA.
And there is the break we needed. Lets make them pay even more.
Or not.
ahahahahah oh man that’s funny.
Lol @ Escobar
You don’t deserve the call botching a play like that.
(even though he was out)
Lolz, needed that
Should of bunted!
*Should’ve
not enough (yankee) homeruns
Can’t capitalize on the error, typical
They scored a run on the error.
Indeed, but more risp fail with runners on 1st and 2nd with only one out. Couldn’t tack on more runs
Posada is killing us
Bring up vasquez
isn’t he hurt right now?
I think Colon was left in too long.
How about you guys?
No, but I think the IBB to Rivera was overmanaging at it’s finest.
Yeah that was pretty stupid.
But he was missing his spots in the 5th and lost it in the 6th.
I would have put in Robertson.
agree. should pitch to ANYONE not named Bautista or Arrencevia (or something relatively similar)…
… in that situation
No, he was the best option. They shouldn’t have walked two men. With Soriano and Joba out this isn’t a deep pen.
“I think Colon was left in too long.”
This is what we would have been saying if he had pitched like this in the ninth inning of that 15 inning game against Baltimore.
/beating a dead horse’d
Would never have happened. If the first guy got on in the 9th, he would have been taken out.
True, true
I had to take a business call, so I couldn’t actually pay close attention to what was happening, but it appeared Colon lost the strikezone. My guess is he is going to be bad when his command fails, so I would have yanked him, unless it all fell apart quickly. As said, I couldn’t quite focus on it. Need to pay the bills!
What an ugly neck tattoo. Well any neck tattoo is ugly.
Tattoo-removal business is going to be a real money-maker in a few short years judging by the ugly tats I see on a lot of late teens/20-somethings. I know, that probably includes people here, but you are not going to want them in a few years.
not just ugly, but not very well placed. at some point you got to go on a job interview and its tough to hide neck tats and some of the peircing…seemed like a good idea at the time, i guess…
i’m amazed at the number of tatted people i see out there…even old fat grandmas have tramp stamps.
its nasty
this… if there’s one thing worse than a shitty tat, its a shitty tat for the whole world to see. at least I had the sense to get ink’d under my shirt.
but MikeD is so right..what looks ok on an 18-24 yr old body will not look so good on wrinkled and stretched skin.
umless its another 18-24 y.o. chick. b/c 18-24 y.o. chicks look great on ANYTHING
Ryan Roberts of the Diamondbacks says hi
So….
Doesn’t Toronto’s offense suck outside of Bautista?
Not really, 4th highest wOBA in the AL, but Joey Bats might be propping that up, so maybe you’re not all wrong.
Considering both Travis Snider and Adam Lind aren’t in the line-up…yeah. Makes Colon’s 6th inning implosion even more puzzling.
Obviously implosions happen, but I think it’s a little annoying that it came from crap players.
You have to throw strikes to everyone, not just the good hitters. His command left him really quickly. Maybe it was the intentional walks. Maybe not (he was losing it in the 5th).
even the so called crap players are major league players…they do have talent.
The Yankees will have the tying run 4 batters away in this game.
Dickerson is a nice player but in a few weeks we will see he is not a major leagur hitter. He has a bad hitch in his swing and is a guess hitter. He will play most of the year in Scranton.
This is too bad because Swish will not come close to last year’s stats.
Sign me up for 65-70% of Carlos Beltran.
The 5th OF spot can be a revolving door with all the guys we have down in Scranton (Parraz, Maxwell, Golson when he returns). You just hope they each have a week or two of effective play in them.
The Chris Dickerson fan club is gonna be upset with you. Just yesterday, Dickerson was credited with the 8 run 7th inning.
i just bought his jersey
Hey, Yankees haven’t committed an error yet!
There’s something positive to take from this game.
good point, lol
When was the last time the Yanks and Blue Jays played a 3 game series where Bitchtista didn’t homer?
2008, when Bautista didn’t hit but 15 HR’s
Mike Axisa says:
May 23, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Not for nothing, but you’re both being idiots.
Ok timeout is over.
buchholz is a lucky pitcher….or he’s really good…i can’t tell but my jaded view says he’s a lucky sob
No, he’s good…just not THAT good.
i still hate him.
You can thank the Mets for the Red Sox drafting him in the supplemental round of the 2005 draft. They signed Pedro Martinez.
fucking mets…its like Carl Pavano…wasn’t he traded to montreal for pavano and the yanks get the shaft on that one also?
He’s more like a 4.00 ERA pitcher. SOlid in the AL beast but not a sub 3 FIP pitcher.
wearing a Dickerson Shirsey under my Cervelli jersey
reply fail…
what I meant to say was Bucholtz is a poor man’s AJ burnett. great stuff, but is gonna shock you alot and not in the good way.
again, just like AJ, could be a mental thing
Nah he’s good
Yanks probably won’t win, so let me say 2 things:
1. I’m already over this game/series. Whatever.
2. I prefer losing blowouts than close games like last Friday.
Yeah it’s better when the offense and pitching both perform poorly. Less heartbreaking and maddening.
Not so thrilled about seeing Pineda and Felix in Seattle…
Why the heck is Cano a POG candidate?
No player on the Yankees should be on that list, no offense.
Precisely…no offense tonight.
Haha that was unintential, I promise.
Teixeira may have had a good shot at getting a hit if he bunted (before Hranderson stole)
Take a strike Alex!
Arod seems fast on the basepaths, but so slow running to first.
Is it me or does Teix swing and miss at basically anything that’s not a fastball?
pretty much.
His weakness is the change of speed.
I’d throw it underhand and see what he could do with it.
Rauch is one scary looking motherfucker
he’s 27 foot tall if he’s an inch
A HR now would be nice.
We are down by 4. Take a damn walk Tex/Martin
Geez, Martin hasn’t done much offensively lately, has he?
Didn’t he homer on Saturday?
Oh yeah.
Still seems like he hasn’t done much besides that.
Different era. Can’t compare.
What? he hit a homerun saturday.
PH Andruw….
Why not just have him bat left handed against lefties?
Sick of these stupid infield popups
Posada should not be allowed to hit lefties anymore… ever.
I have to think Girardi’s binder should have said that pinch-hitting for Jorge there was the move.
Good grief, Posada’s numbers are terrible.
If you’re a DH and hitting poorly, then what’s the point?
If I’m the owner, you know what I say?
I say get the hell off my team. That’s what I say.
Whatever, I’m over it.
Looks like Posada won the battle against Girardi. Let’s see how long this lasts. They’ve probably tacitly agreed to give him until the middle of June. Love how the Yankees don’t seem too worried about actually winning some games.
Haha. I know. That last sentence says it all.
Okay, I’ve been a Jorge supporter but DFA day is coming soon, hopefully.
I hope he just gracefully retires because imagine what will happen with the MSM if he’s DFA’d/released.
Derek Jeter .250/.300 here we come. Isn’t a captain supposed to put the team ahead of his ego? Hopefully after 3000 he’ll check the ego at the door and suggest to Girardi that he be moved down in the order. That’s what a captain would do.
Jorge hasn’t hit a home run in a month and he’s now hitting a crisp .176/.295. This can’t go on. I say, as soon as Montero heats up and gets back to back multi-hit games at AAA, the Yanks bring him up and let him roll.
How are the Yankees sucking such phenomenal ass at home? Is it me or does it eerily not feel like much of an advantage this year?
Noesi v. Bautista…hmmmm
I thought Tex could hit for average? Doesn’t reall seem like it since he’s been a Yankee.
If average was based on pop-ups then Teix’s average would be much, much higher.
That’s been my beef for a while. I expected the world from him. Perhaps that was idiotic on my part but I was seriously looking forward to a present-day Adrian Gonzalez figure when NY signed Tex.
As did I, seemed like he should have been for the money anyway.
ummm, 2009? Did he not put up MVP numbers or was that my imagination. God, he still plays gold glove defense, provides very good power/ OBP numbers but you complain about the BA average?
Isn’t that stat just a tad outdated for judging offensive efficiency? For me, if he gets on base at about a .400% clip & slugs in the 470s- 500s, then I am perfectly fine with Tex. Also, don’t forget last year, in his “doomsday level awful panic bad off-year” he still hit over .280 for the last 4 months of the season.
So what is the record for 0-???? in terms of Posada’s total ineptness from the right side? How many ab’s can a batter go without getting a hit if you are on the roster for a whole season?
he is 0-30 now? or close to it…..
Why aren’t they walking Bautista here?
/pretty much everyone scared of a first inning solo homer
2 for 12 with RISP again today. I feel like this chapter of the season just won’t end.
The remedy? I know this bickering gets played out like Lady Gaga, but all they’ve got to do is bench Jeter and Posada, shuffle the lineup (move Tex DOWN!), and ignite the rapture (fo’ realz this time). Just plugging in a solid prospect would do WONDERS for this tiresome bunch of girly-men.
41 HR increase between seasons.
What’d he say he did? Change his swing?
Yeah, okay. I want every player on the Yankees doing that, then.
He’s getting tested for PEDs a lot, its totally unfair to say that without proof. The 41 HR jump also came with a 230 at-bat jump as well, lets tell the whole story.
Is he getting tested?
I didn’t know that.
There’s no test for HGH.
If look at Bautista in the dugout with his helmet off, you’ll notice the wide neck and massive upper body and chest. From the waist up that guy is geeked. Of course, he could just be doing a lot of work with weights. And body builders have never been known to use steroids or HGH.
A professional athlete thats muscular? Theres the damning proof. Guy looks the same as he always did.
I have to agree with you FTLT, I just don’t see any way that I’ll ever believe that he’s not doing some shiny and new form of B-12.
Do you believe that about Granderson too. He’s on pace for 56 HR.
Sure, if he hits 56.
Granderson hit 22, 23, 30 and 24 home runs from 2007-2010. Bautista’s best year was 16 home runs in 2006 in 469 plate appearances. The next year he hit 15 HRs in 614 plate appearances. Funny, but the additional 240 plate appearances didn’t help him then.
I’m not saying that they’re the same. I’m just saying that changing his swing led to a big jump in production for Granderson. Bautista also changed his swing before his power surge. Taking PEDs isn’t going to turn a scrub into Babe Ruth.
I think it’s more likely that the jump came from PEDs than changing a swing, though.
And who even knows what’s available to people up there in Canadia?
/irresponsiblerumormongering’d
Dr. Anthony Galea, MD. Toronto.
Well done sir.
For what it’s worth, he has made drastic changes to his swing that pretty much coincide with this monstrous tear that he’s been on for a year +, and it doesn’t take a hitting coach to notice the differences. If you look at tape of him pre-2010, it’s like looking at a different guy at the plate.
remember when people wanted to get rid of Gardy?
good times
http://www.fangraphs.com/graph.....erid5=1109
/WAR graph fail
I feel mean for having even looked at that.
Wrong link. But that one is humorous as well.
Oh Gardy, just trying to pad our RISP ineptitude stats now.
So glad we get to deal with Jeter and his fucking 650 OPS for the next 3.5 years…
I hate Kay so much.
What did he say this time?
He just started freaking out at Granderson’s foul ball kinda like he did with Jeter’s.
Got me all excited from nothing.
I wasn’t watching but were the balls clearly foul?
Collectively, the Jays performed a Colectomy on us tonight.
Not as frustrating/painful as several other losses this year.
Exactly. Hideous 6th inning and offense, but nowhere near as bad as:
- Mo’s blown save vs them
- losing 3 to Detroit
- Soriano vs Twins
- losing to KC
Among others.
The Lillibridge game and the Humber game.
Which ones were those?
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......d=14205963
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......d=14158983
Hawk Harrelson alert.
Lillibridge game was where Brent Lillibridge robbed the Yankees of 2 potential game tying hits in the ninth inning with agonizingly good defensive plays. Humber game was when Philip Humber almost no-hit the Yankees in a game that featured virtually no offense.
Whatever.
Although, this series does look somewhat ominous considering they face Romero and Lefty they’ve never
faced before.
Why is Toronto only .500?
b/c they roll over for the other teams.
Colon is now = CC
pathetic…the players can shove this game right up their collective cornholes!
At least our 2-15 with RISP today didn’t waste a good start. Much more of a team loss. Solidarity, brothers.
Meh Colon will rebound, everyone has a shitty game once in a while.
People say the hits will eventually come, but why is that such a guarantee?
They have an obvious approach which trades batting average for home runs at the plate. Look at Martin’s AB’s with runners on base in the last few innings. Both times, he got into hitters’ counts and swung out of his shoes and hit a lazy fly ball and a pop up.
It’s difficult to hit for a high average when you are always uppercutting pitches trying to hit home runs. Hitters go to the plate hunting fastballs and when they guess wrong, they look like deer in the headlights.
This has been going on for nearly a month now. Is it still a slump when it’s a month later and nothing has changed? Home run, or almost nothing. Literally with this team. These guys aren’t veterans like Damon and Matsui who know when to load up and when to keep the line moving with an opposite field approach. Unless they stop trying to do so much with every swing, it’s unlikely that the batting averages will rebound a ton, except for guys like Cano who are balanced hitters.
This doesn’t mean that they won’t win games and score runs. It simply means that they may simply be a streaky team throughout this season.
Runs totals are high because when they score, boy do they score. But when they don’t hit the home runs, they really struggle most of the time to get more than 2 or 3 runs across.
Unless adjustments are made, maybe this is just the frustrating team we will be stuck watching this season. They aren’t necessarily choking, but rather have an approach which doesn’t work as often in situations with runners in scoring position.