Game 104: Bartday
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Original via AP, Photoshop via Mister Delaware.
Hopefully Bartolo Colon‘s got a perfect game in that arm today, because this lineup … sheesh.
Brett Gardner, CF
Eduardo Nunez, SS
Mark Teixeira, DH
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Jorge Posada, 1B
Chris Dickerson, LF – why sit Granderson vs. Tillman (RHP) in the day game but start him vs. Britton (LHP) in the night game?
Frankie Cervelli, C
Bartolo Colon, SP
The first game of today’s doubleheader starts at 1:05pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
The Experience Update: Via Marc Carig, Sergio Mitre has a nerve issue in his pitching shoulder. There’s no structural damage, but he’ll need to undergo more tests. I’m no doctor, but “nerve issue” just sounds scary. Hopefully everything goes well.
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That must be why Mitre was so terrible.
Also, what burger is that? Is that a BK Double Stacker? Couldn’t find a picture of the Quad Stacker? Seems funnier.
Let’s play two and win two. Subpar lineup so that means at least 8 RS.
Good call.
Yup, good call.
my reaction to that line up
http://i.imgur.com/6dH4c.gif (sfw)
Has anyone else been a bit bored by this trade deadline? It doesn’t feel like it has the excitement it normally does. I mean that for all teams, not just the Yankees.
Personally I haven’t been bored (not that much has happened), but I think the trade deadline has been muted out by my interest in NFL free agency. There’s always a lot of talk, but many of the deals that are made/will be made often go right down to the wire on the 31st.
Dickerson is playing because he is the mostly likely candidate to be sent down to make room for Nova after this game is over.
Does anyone else think Chavez should bat 2nd?
That picture is cold blooded (but well done).
Ahhhh giraldi rulesss…
How has Britton done lately? Is he still dominating?
was in the minors after getting torn up twice. He was mostlty sent down to delay free agency.
*mostly
ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian was told by a source that “someone who should know told me that the Yankees are all over Ubaldo Jimenez.”
It’s the opposite of what we’ve heard from others recently, as both SI.com’s Jon Heyman and FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reported in so many words that the Yankees weren’t among the favorites. We certainly shouldn’t be surprised, though, if it’s the Bronx Bombers that make what could be the biggest trade of the weekend.
gonna be a big day for Bart if the zone is that big
Oh boy, this strike zone is going to make for an interesting day.
Best centerfielder in baseball!
Wow really the B team out there, Dickerson/Cervelli/Nuny in the lineup, runs are gonna be hard to get today…
Tillman is not hard to score on…
And Nunez isn’t any worse offensively than Jeter at this point in their careers, nor is Cervelli that Martin recently.
I have to say, I’m usually not one for gimmicks or catch phrases, but whenever I hear Colon is pitching, I can’t help but excitedly think, “Bartday!”
Never let Nunie try to catch a ball.
bullshit
Wow Jones totally swung on the HBP…
fucking Nunez.
Goddamnit Nunez.
Yay Nunez….
Include Nunez in that Ubaldo deal.
They wouldn’t move him for Lee you think they move him for UJ.
#heisuntouchable
Nunez c’mon man
Fucking Nunez
E-Nunez.
NuniEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Even better!
Fist pump.
lets be honest, yanks don’t care about winning with nunez in the lineup. get rid of him, he sucks
gerardi wants ta loose.
Atleast Bart picked him up
I’m shocked Reynolds struck out. SHOCKED.
That’s the Mark Reynolds we know and love.
Glad we kept him instead of trading for Lee. :/
#stillupsetaboutit
I created a new quiz on Sporcle, all MLB players with 2000+ hits.
Someone made a comment that Pujols would have to be added soon, and of course Pujols got hit number 2000 last night.
Some idiot Cubs fan decided to turn the comments section into a forum to accuse Pujols of steroids rather than making actual comments about the quiz. I asked him to refrain and he basically told me to piss off. Needless to say I’m voting down his comments so that they’ll get hidden.
This is why I hate the internet.
well, has pujols ever used peds? we need to know!
That’s not the point. He should make comments on the quiz, nothing else. He claimed accusing Pujols of using PED’s is relevant to my quiz, which is most certainly not the case.
I wonder if he’d make the same accusations if Pujols signs with the Cubs next year?
I wonder how big of Sammy Sosa fan he was?
these O’s pitchers are just too good.
I heard the Yankees are going to make a trade for the ghost of Buster Keaton. I hope Cashman takes a chance on this gritty veteran because I still believe he’s got gas in the tank. His fastball may not be what it once was but he’s still got good control on the curve ball. And another big plus is that he looks like David Cone and he’s a ghost.
Wheeee.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=7.gif
If it helps Bart I’m cool with it.
Over the middle of the plate?
That’s a ball.
Who did the Tigers trade for Fister?
Furbush. Really.
Who would you say won that trade? I didn’t see why Seattle needed to trade Fister.
I’m not sure why Seattle made it. They needed bats in the worst way, but Martinez is two years away.
I think I’d rather have Furbush than Fister. Geez, these names sound like something from a porn movie.
Francisco Martinez, Casper Wells, Charlie Furbush and a PTBNL.
hard to hit a ball up the middle and get it past Bart
That was the fastest Jorge has run in a long time…
This will be one of those games he tries to stretch a single into a double. He’s feeling it.
Different day, same shit show at the plate.
Robbie is just oh so fucking smooth.
He no try meng.
It’s casual.
That was strike 3. Ump is awful.
Strike six, you’re out!
Paul O’Neill could still hit a 434 foot homer off Arthur Rhodes
Vlad makes Cano look like Swisher.
Am I just reading the balls of the bats really poorly or is the ball not carrying? Seemed like both Chavez and Guerrero put a lot more juice on their respective flyouts than where they ended up being caught.
I was thinking the same thing
Same here. I thought Chavez’s would at least go for an XBH off his bat.
FIST PUMP!
That … was nasty.
Colon needs to keep that pitch count down.
I can’t tell if Colon is just slightly off, or if the ump has been creating the higher pitch count. Can’t get a grip on his strikezone.
Bartolo struck out Markakis but that homeplate ump is terrible. Almost cost him a run or two.
You can say that again:
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
Or seven!
Bunt fail.
Huh, the sac bunt didn’t work. Weird.
never never never never never bunt with Jorge on the bases
Free outs! Get your free outs here!
Dickerson has to steal now. I’m 99% sure he did that on his own.
Wow… just saw the line up. Is Joe’s objective to actually win this game or give his elders time to let their vitamins absorb in their system?
Cervelli?
what.the.fuck
lol.
Should have “Sterling’d” that comment….#predictingbaseball
It’s a Girardi move. He’d rather sacrifice one third of the offense to put the faster runner on base.
LOL, Cervelli hits a double and we don’t score because of that idiotic bunt.
??? You assuming Dickerson would have got a hit???
Huh? How you figure?
Bunting in the 3rd inning against the Orioles??
doesn’t that compare to waving a white flag?
Niceee Cervi!!
that better not cost us runs
Girardi’s genius continuing to pay off. If that was Posada, he would have tried to score and would have been out.
And yes I’m kidding.
in fairness to Girardi, that definitely did not look like a sac bunt.
It looked like Dickerson was trying to bunt for a hit on his own.
I know. That was most likely Dickerson’s call, hoping he’d catch the defense napping.
the closer backstop just cost us a run.
in the old stadium that ball would’ve rolled away and scored a run…why did they have to make things closer and different in this place…
Question: Going back to what Kay was talking about with a possible Nova/Hughes battle…IF the Yanks get Ubaldo, who would he replace in the rota?
Has to be Hughes. Not even a question in my mind.
Relegation to the pen or sent down to SWB?
I’d send him down. He’s not going to fix what he needs to fix by throwing one inning at a time.
Cashman is against that based on his comments on Hughes in 2009 and Joba in 2010 so I doubt they go that route.
should be Hughes, but with Girardi’s logic, it might be Colon to the BP
…of course the decision could be made easy if Hughes is included in the trade.
Agree with MikeA, it’s not even a question. Hughes has been the weakest. Perhaps a trip back to the pen where he only has to pitch an inning at a time will help him regain some velocity and confidence. It worked once before. I want to still see him as a starter, but no problem moving him to the pen for the last two months of this year.
Woot. Gardner.
heyoooo gardy
He can be the leadoff hitter today.
When did the Yankees decide to start swinging at the first pitcher EVERY TIME? Work the pitch count! And Brett, when you have a 2-0 count, don’t swing at one over your head!
But nice RBIs
Brett Gardner is probably the last player in all of MLB I would lecture on discipline.
Mark Reynolds must have blue eves.
Gardy comes through.
and now he must steal
Haha that graphic is awesome
Fatty is throwing a fuckton of pitches here. Not good for twinbill bullpen issues.
Would Tex have had that ball or was it well out of reach?
Nah they were holding the runner at first. Tex wouldn’t have gotten there.
i didn’t know yanks were in the give business, get 2 runs, give 1 run.
no shutdown inning
K, ground out, pls.
Another popup would be nice right here
Hope the Yankees have some more runs in them. I don’t see Colon shutting them down from here.
Bartolo panic sets in and the Yankees cave to Rockies demand for Ubaldo – who performs as expected getting lit up by AL East competitors. Mission accomplished.
and why would he be expected to get lit up by AL East?
Because he’s a pitcher who has never pitched in the AL, has questions about diminished velocity and doesn’t have all that much of a track record of success.
Josh Beckett never pitched in the AL before he came to Boston.
And since he’s been in Boston he’s been bad, great, OK, good, terrible and now great again.
That’s not completely good.
Josh Beckett and Ubaldo Jimenez comparison is the same as saying AJ Burnett is the same pitcher as CC Sabathia.
It’s actually a pretty apt comparison. Look at Beckett’s numbers at the time of the trade.
…doesn’t have all that much of a track record of success.
Except for being one of the 15 best pitchers in baseball since the start of 2009.
and he pitches in Coors.
With a 3.50ish FIP in the NL. He doesn’t pitch deep in ballgames either. I’m not saying it sucks but he’s not a clear cut ace.
He doesn’t have to be a “clear cut ace”
He just has to be a good #2 which is what we need.
What do you pay for a good number two then? It’s serious, not snark btw.
well, it was 5 years/ $85Million for a bad #2
I can only imagine what a good #2 would cost
He’s averaged 6.53 IP/GS since 2009. Sabathia’s at 6.99. Remember that Ubaldo gets pinch-hit for in the later innings.
big difference between not a clear cut ace and “expected to get lit up by AL East competitors”
Sorry, I was largely being sarcastic/saying what the naysayers would say.
Also, I saw an Andrew Marchand tweet today where he said “Big U is hot and cold…has had one ace half in his career.” So that’s where the track record statement came from.
But he pitches in the NL West. Not exactly even 1 grade below the AL East with three out of his four opponents containing players that would be periodic starters or bench players for teams like Boston, Yankees, Phillies.
He also pitches half his games in COORS FIELD. Even with the humidifier, it’s still a huge hitters park.
Even if we put him in a neutral park his numbers don’t increase dramatically.
but do you think AJ, Garcia, Hughes, or Nova are better
Ubaldo would be easily at least the #3, and more likely the #2 on this team
Easily #2.
Guy has a top 10 FIP and xFIP for 3.5 years now… how much better are you looking for his numbers to get?
People spend way too much time focusing on the negatives and not looking at the bigger picture. You can find something wrong about anyone, there’s not such thing as a perfect pitcher.
Ubaldo’s young, throws hard, misses bats, signed for dirt cheap. Try to find something better and you’ll be looking forever.
Clayton Kershaw is better.
But seriously, I wasn’t criticizing Ubaldo. I was just saying that he pitches in Coors Field which is comprable to the AL east.
I know you’re not. I was just saying in general.
Interpretation fail.
” doesn’t have all that much of a track record of success.”
3.5 seasons at 27 years old isn’t much of a track record? What do you want, every 20 year old to be Doc Gooden?
” has questions about diminished velocity”
He’s averaging 93.4 with his FB this season… let’s not act like he’s a soft tosser.
You missed the comment where I said I was being sarcastic.
Calm down.
How many innings can Noesi throw today?
Start warming up Noesi. Bartolo hasn’t looked good today.
come on Colon
TWSS. It prevents pregnancy.
Comment of the day.
Pat always delivers, haha.
Is being fat a prerequisite to being a major league umpire?
Yes. Ugly Stash is a bonus.
It’s a coincidence. The real basis of being an umpire is you are blind.
not fully blind. Like legally blind.
toooooooo many pitches
Exhale.
Big K….he has one more inning in him at most…battle of the PEN!
Colon’s weak performance this game may force the Yanks’ hand to get Jimenez.
Swisherian
Decline that option and get a gamer like DeJesus in there.
WE NEED TEH MELKMAN!!!
No, not DeJesus.
Melky, duh.
Swish!
Needed that. Great walk by Robbie, too.
Yay for Swish. Please don’t give this one back.
Swishalicious!!!
Chavez is a legit pro too. I really wish he could stay healthy.
Swisher sucks because batting average.
#nicepieceofhitting
Cervelli’s numbers are starting to look acceptable
Banner day for Frankie.
Cervelli and Posada are hitting just enough now to keep Montero down even longer.
yeah, I think were going to have to wait til Sept. for Jesus
Cervelli needs to get more of Martin’s AB if Montero isn’t coming up soon.
Montero will get called up soon enough…. By the Rockies but he will get the call.
Cervelli batting over .310 with R.I.S.P.
why don’t they shift for Teix?
cano looks awful, one good at bat, then he has an awful one
Melky would have muscled that out.
I was just going to say that
Mrs. Swish must have given Mr. Swish some comfort food last night. Tearing it up.
“why sit Granderson vs. Tillman (RHP) in the day game but start him vs. Britton (LHP) in the night game?”
Among other reasons–resting Granderson in the sun, maybe optioning Dickerson for Nova–Tillman’s xFIP is a run higher than Brittons’s and Nova’s is a run higher than Colon’s… so offense should theoretically be more important for the Yankees in the second game.
Not to mention that Granderson actually has a slight reverse split so far this season.
that guy got fucking owned
Why didn’t that guy put his glove up? Instead, let it hit him right in the face.
Those damn corporates not paying attention to the game
/Msm’d
IN THE FACE, IN THE FACE!!!
Check out the Prince of Rabmunda.
Right in the face lmao
Chavez #awesome
He is soooo slow
The Lolineup is doing better than the serious one
Two hits for Dickerson, one against a LHP.
/you can’t predict baseball
Chris Dickerson’s got a career .341 wOBA in 554 PAs. He’s had two seasons above 1.5 fWAR. I wouldn’t have predicted 2 hits necessarily, but I’m not surprised either.
He’s solid, does enough of everything to be useful. The Yankees never had depth like this stashed in Triple-A. From about 1999-2008, they always had to scramble for a fifth outfielder or extra infielder after an injury.
It’s merely a goof on a Sterlingism.
LOL, 2nd comment of the game I said at least 8 RS with this subpar lineup. It always seems to happen this way. Tonight we’ll probably struggle to get 3.
Good to see some RISP hits, w/ 2 outs makes it even more sweet.
Unless you can state the obvious like Joel Sherman, you should refrain from watching baseball:
I have asked no fewer than 10 exec/scouts not working for #Yankees #Rockies is Jimenez an AL East ace and yet to hear 1 yes. Hence the dilemma #Rockies selling like ace, #Yankees not believing that is who he is, especially if has to move to AL East
I don’t follow the MSM much, but this is honestly the first time I have heard someone refer to Joel Sherman in a positive light.
I don’t think citing him helps your case.
If you had an actual statistical argument for pitching in the AL East hurting performance… ok. And remember, as a Yankee he would not have to face the Yankees.
What you’re using a voodoo argument that he will fall apart in the AL East because you say so and Joel Sherman says so. Stop. It’s illogical. It insults your intelligence and everyone else here’s. Stop.
It also comes down to someone’s interpretation of an ace. If you want to say he’s not Roy Halladay or Cy Young… ok. If you want to say that he’s not a damn good pitcher, you are out on a ledge.
Sherman’s a fantastic reporter, is one of the very best at reporting the facts. Anytime he starts analyzing stuff … yikes. If he doesn’t like you for any reason, he’ll trash you for all eternity.
Thanks for the info.
I should have just said that MLB execs are wrong an awful lot of the time as is asking them a somewhat loaded question, and avoided Sherman altogether.
Of course, the only issues are what he’s worth and why does Colorado want to trade him given his very reasonable contract.
My take, for what that’s work, is that Colorado wants to trade him mostly to get a great return. They see a situation where the Yankees are loaded with 3 top 25-40 talents in the upper minors, have questionable SP, and there’s not much on the market. Plus maybe there’s something to them not liking his attitude, so maybe they’re not going to lock him up long-term and dealing him while he’s still dirt cheap could help bring back more value.
They were hoping that the Yankees or someone else–and there aren’t many someone else’s with this kind of upper minors talent–gives them the kind of package the Indians got for Colon. The kind of package that makes their team better.
No player is untradeable. It took a few years, but the Rangers are a lot better now than they were with A-Rod, when they were among the worst in the league. Seattle stinks even with Felix. This isn’t the NBA where one LeBron can make you a contender. There are some players whose value is so high that it’s hard to see them getting traded as long as they’re affordable, but Ubaldo isn’t necessarily one of them. I would call him an ace and since he’s 27 the best might be yet to come, but he’s not the best pitcher in baseball or anything like that.
It should be noted, however, that this supposed quest for a great return happens to coincide with a season in which Jimenez has underperformed while his FB velo has declined.
For example, on 9/17/11 his average FB velo was 96.47; in his last start it was 93.31.
That’s enough of a red flag to be very wary of giving up a “great return,” and to be very skeptical of Colorado’s motivation for trading him.
that should be 9/17/10
It’s worth noting that most Colorado pitchers have seen their FB velo drop this year, could be a ballpark gun thing. If they trade for him, maybe I’ll look into it further.
If it’s a physical thing in his medicals or delivery I don’t see how the Rockies would know it and the Yankees wouldn’t see it on tape or when he takes his physical. I doubt the Rockies can do much more than speculate on his velo drop, unless it’s a radar gun thing or a conscious effort to take a little off to try to throw more strikes. Look at how clueless the Yankees were with Hughes’ injury. Could be, but I see no reason to believe that the Rockies scouts and Drs are significantly better than the Yankees’.
There are examples of guys like Verlander who have velo dips for a year. Guys like Burnett in Toronto who take a couple MPH off the average FB and have better results.
And he’s still throwing hard even with the dip in velo.
how is there no gif of the guy getting hit in the face yet? come on internets.
Kenny/O’neil tonight? That should be fun.
WOw, Dante Bichette Jr goes 3-4 with a HR today.. Jesus!!!
Bichette now hitting 619BA 3hr 21RBI 6double 1triple over last 10games, and is hitting 350BA on the season.. GCL scores 10runs again… What a fun teams boxscores to check out..
september call up! lol
LOL
WOw, Dante Bichette Jr goes 3-4 with a HR today.. Jesus!!!
hitting 619BA over his last 10games.. batting 350BA on the season now… Dudes en-fuego.. 10runs for GCL yanks today.. Fun team to follow…
Totally. Keith Law is still dismissive, saying the real prospects won’t sign until 8/15, so he probably feels like he’s playing against High School competition. He might be right, but can’t ignore how dominant he’s been since his slow start.
John Danks not available according to MLBTR.
Paul O’Neill still hasn’t looked at Swisher’s splits. Probably thinks Jorge is hitting better right handed.
wow is Paul O’Neil the most oblivious announcer ever
Second time that he has said Swish needs to turn it around hitting right handed
Hmm. Does this mean Cory Wade is getting sent down? Can he be sent down?
I doubt they send down Wade (not sure if they can or not). They probably just want as many fresh arms as possible available for the second game.
Most likely Dickerson will be sent down
Nice job by Wade
Great job Cory.
i really like dickerson, seems like a good dude. am i wrong to think he could be a nice starter in the NL? looks like he had some good numbers when he had a cup of coffee with the reds.
He was a platoon guy with the Brewers last year, played CF pretty regularly.
It wouldn’t be surprising if he put up a decent year as a regular if he was given the chance. He’s had a couple of untimely injuries, or other events that have not quite helped him.
Overall he was a excellent pickup for depth, especially since we got him for nothing, also known as Mitre.
can somebody please post a side by side pic of andino’s pictures
Why used the only lefty in the first game of doubleheader when the game is 8-3 in the 9th. GIRALDI RULESSS…….
would you rather Logan pitch in a more important situation??
Strategic move by Girardi. He removes Logan as an option in game two, increasing the team’s chance of winning game 2.
It’s also possible he’ll use him again to face a batter.
No need to warm Rivera, its 2 runners on with a 5 run lead
Why would Joe burn our only lefty against no lefthanded hitters in game 1 of a double header? Why not throw Noesi, he hasn’t thrown in 3 days and he’s better suited for longer appearances
need to save Noesi in case Nova gets knocked out early tonight
Also, most of the Yankee RH relievers are better against LH than Logan is anyways
and it wasn’t no lefthanded hitters. Markakis is lefty
anybody watching mlb network? theres some sort of baseball game and theres literally like 10 people in the stands.
There’s at least 15 people there.
I have no idea what it is beyond it’s name: Breakthrough Series Championship. Seems like only relatives of the players attend.