Game 27: Start of something
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Win it for Mo. (Ed Zurga/Getty Images)
It’s early-May, but it would be nice if the Yankees build something off yesterday’s win and go off on a nice little run these next few weeks. They’re due for five or six game winning streak, eight wins in ten games, something like that. Here’s the starting nine…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
DH Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
1B Mark Teixeira
LF Raul Ibanez
C Russell Martin
RF Dewayne Wise
3B Eduardo Nunez
RHP Hiroki Kuroda
Tonight’s game starts a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
Outfield Update: Via Erik Boland and Mark Feinsand, Brett Gardner will hit on the field both today and tomorrow and could play in a minor league rehab game as soon as Monday. Nick Swisher ran the bases before the game and felt fine, so there’s a small chance he’ll play tomorrow. I’m guessing not with the day off on Monday.
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Prediction for Jeter 2012:
.406 (goes 5 for 5 on final day of season)
28 HR
81 RBI
breaks Joe D’s streak
Gold Glove
WS and All Star MVP
Regular MVP
WS#6
You forgot the Cy Young.
And Rookie of the Year.
Don’t be silly, he already won the Rookie of the Year and he’s not a pitcher, so he’s not going to win the Cy Young, barring an extraordinary turn of events.
Everything else is in reach. Don’t bet against Jeter.
I love Jeter, but I feel pretty confident betting against .400 and 28 homers.
http://memegenerator.net/instance/10480446
Well I like to play the optimist usually but damn dude.
wonder if the Brewers would take Nunie off our hands with Gonzalez going down
Does Nunez get 500 AB’ s this year? Bad fielding and an OPS under .700?
I’m getting sick of Girardi adding a “y” onto everyone’s name when he speaks about them. What is he a kindergarden teacher? Between nuney, gardy, grandy, phelpsy, and all the other ones, I have to change the channel when he’s talking.
Joshy Streetery!!!
I’m pretty sure my mom called me Joshy when I was a kid…
Is it because your mom is Joe Girardi? Does she have braces at least? Looking for correlation here…
I’m reprising my strategy from last night. NYY shirt, Cano jersey, 09 WS hat, and 09 WS shot class. Tonight, however, the shot glass is adorned with tequila. Happy Cinco de Mayo folks, may the Yankees forever feast on Paulino and for Kuroda to have a third straight solid start.
Let’s hope the Yanks get an early lead so the trolls will be held at bay.
HIs pitches are up again
Nothing ever comes easy this season, eh?
this team is so bad defensively
Tell me about it. It’s kinda unwatchable sometimes. It seems like anytime anyone makes contact it finds a hole 80% of the time.
Opinions on Avengers? Saw it this morning; thought it was pretty freaking fun. Hulk steals the show.
I think you’re on the wrong website.
This is an open thread. Just throwing the question out there.
Always appreciate first hand scouting reports. Sabremetrics can only take you so far . . . .
I’ve lowered my expectations for it.
I’m more amped for Prometheus and Dark Knight Rises.
Yes for Prometheus
I saw the avengers today too, but I think scarlet Johansen stole the show. couldn’t take my eyes off her
So this hasn’t started well….
Wow. Walking Frenchy is not acceptable.
I played against Moustakas in high school. Not sure if I should feel proud or depressed.
Graduated HS with Mike Lowell. Ponder that one.
Holy shit dude… Didn’t have you at almost 40. Mozel Tov!
Cano if you’re not going to hit at least try to talk your walks!
He didnt do even when he was hitting!
It still boggles my mind how a all around great hitter who hits to all fields and is a relative young age could devolve in 2-3 years. Its astounding. He’s become a Dave Kingman like player (not as bad an average, but you get the idea.)
I’m talking Tex, not Cano
It’s the strangest and most devastating thing ever. He looks like Ramiro Pena in the box.
I remember back in the day when the Yankees had 1-2-3 innings. Good times.
I’ve just been thinking if my diatribe on developing starting pitching and the Yankees’ mostly failure at it goes over to great hitting as well. I’m talking in the last 10 years.
Cano and Montero? Does anyone else have any more?
Austin Jackson, Jose Tabata and Brett Gardner are not great hitters, so they don’t count
Montero counts but the other three don’t?
See your point. Okay Montero doesn’t count either. Not enough sample size
So MVP candidate hitters are all that count? How many has all of MLB developed in the last 10 years? Maybe 15? Maybe 20?
I hate it when the record player keeps skipping.
Well.. I gues I recant my earlier ‘didn’t have you down as that old’ comment based on the record skipping reference.
Vinyl’s back in, baby.
I also look a hell of a lot younger than Lowell, FWIW.
Not much.
It actually shocks me how much grey he’s got once he grows out the beard. He looks, easily, five years older than me.
He also has made about 500 times in one year what I’ve made cumulatively in my entire life.
Paulino’s delivery is so unattractive. I don’t enjoy watching it.
I wish Dave Eiland would’ve made our pitchers look this good when he was here…
Oh well, sometimes you run into a guy with unhittable stuff like Felipe Paulino
Tip o’ the cap.
Yankees making Paulino look like Felix Hernandez.
He has stuff like Felix Hernandez right now
I know it’s only been 3 innings, but this is hard to watch.
You don’t like grounders back to the pitcher?
Especially when things you hope happen for the Yankees like clutch hits, lengthy at bats, strikes being called strikes, and good defense happens for the other team but not the Yankees.
I’m normally not a negative guy but, boy, does this rotation need Kuroda to level out and become the pitcher we all thought the team was getting.
This team is a disaster in the early going. Our record could be worse yeah but I don’t see this team going anywhere if they keep pitching horribly like they have. The same goes for our defense.
PERFECT GAME
Please take a 2-0 pitch Yankees. Also the Montero-Pineda trade just keeps getting worse. Campos with inflammation. I get a sick feeling in my stomach just thinking about it.
Yes, because we all know how career-ending a little inflammation is…
Montero isn’t exactly lighting Seattle on fire you know…
There goes the perfect game but the no no is intact.
I’m almost positive the Scranton Wilkes Barre lineup could hit better than this lineup at this point. Hell I’d even take Charleston.
Mo has nice calves
Is that Meredith Marakovits next to him?? Kim Jones never dressed like that!! lol
Meredith Marakovitz > Kim Jones
She’s not awkward and she’s nice to look at.
Hey guys you think the Cubs would do Garza for Hughes, Betances, and maybe someone like JR Murphy? I definitely think Garza is he guy the Yankees should be targeting at the deadline since he actually has pitched in the AL East before and has playoff experience.
So does Meredith.
I know HS hitters in CT with better mechanics than Tex from the left side.
this is just embarrassing
What were you saying?
Is one ball into the OF suddenly not embarrassing?
Two
Not when you replied… is one single (and the only ball out of the infield) in 4.1 IP not embarassing?
You remember the Bryan Bullington game? That was embarassing.
Way to dodge the question…
I dont call it embarassing because Paulino has good stuff. Does that answer your question?
When you treat one single as if it refutes someone’s assessment of the game, seems a bit “prisoner of the moment”-ish.
Almost as if you were looking for a “Ha!” moment (not that you seem prone to that)
I haven’t seen the mowing down of a Yankee lineup this bad since Doc Halladay.
Cliff Lee, 2009 WS game 1. Or was it game 2? Regardless, that was an abortion. This is almost as bad as that
oh great, Bartlo Colon rubbing it our face
Not really. Pitches in an easier division in a big ballpark. Of course he’s going to have good numbers
Return of the Russtache.
Well regardless of outcome, at least the Yankees have the right hitter up in this spot.
Oy Jeets. Why?
Not real angry there. 2 out hits are hard to come by. That inning guaranteed that Paulino will not finish the game
Who are the Yankees kidding? This lineup just isn’t scary anymore. Almost everyone in the lineup has a clear hole in their swing and can be pitched to once the pitchers hit their spots.
Every hitter has a hole in their swing. That’s why nobody hits 1.000
And any hitter can be pitched to when the pitcher is hitting their spots.
Something both the Yankees and Red Sox arent doing right now is eating up cupcakes. Red Sox lost a series to the A’s and now the O’s. Yankees lost the series to the O’s and now perhaps to the Royals.
We might have to accept that the O’s are real now.
Nope. I honestly can’t see how the O’s are a contender. They will come back to earth soon.
Winning series back to back in Yankee Stadium and Fenway is not an easy thing to do.
We’ll both look back on this thought and laugh that we ever thought the Os were a contender.
Tell me. Is it easy to do that?
Let’s see how the O’s look after someone disrespects one of their ex-pitchers before we declare them for real.
Ummmmmm, want to get to July before we crown them? Reminds me of what a smart guy I used to know once told me…
You go ahead and accept that, Greg.
Yes, the O’s are for real. As real as the Indians were last year.
Or the Blue Jays.
Its getting to the point where we will know early if Kuroda will have a good start or not.
See, you said that one inning into his last start. And you predicted, just like this time and for the same reasons, that he was going to get hammered. And he didn’t, and we didn’t hear from you for the rest of the night.
Do you see the problem here?
In fact, you’ve done that in each of his last 3 starts I think. It may go back longer, but I’m not sure.
How goes the night gentleman =/
Well, Cy Young took over Felipe Paulinos body and Kuroda is kinda getting hit.
And Tilapia went to school with Mike Lowell and still has a record player
Well, things do sound better off of vinyl compared to CDs or MP3s…
How many sliders can you throw a big league hitter before he hits it? Just lazy game calling and lazy pitching.
The Royals are giving the Yankees a lesson on how to pitch and hit.
So the 8-10 team is giving the 14-12 team pointers?
Clearly.
This just keeps getting more and more embarrassing. Is it to early to start hoping for July to be a better month? Don’t see it improving in May or June, schedule is to hard with under .500 teams
These Yankees make any team look great doesn’t matter if we’re playing a first place team or last place team.
another eh pitching performance and terrible offensive showing. It’s like Groundhog Day starring the 2012 New York Yankees.
They are beginning to corner the market on “sucking”
It’s kinda ridiculous how this team can’t score even one run at times.
Some of Bill Murreys best work.
I’m starting to think Cashman needs to go too. Ever since he gained control, a lot of his decisions have backfired.
Javier Vasquez trade
AJ Burnett pickup
Tex pickup (two bad years to one)
A-Rod contract (dont know if he was directly responsible)
Montero trade (even though I would do that trade, it backfired immediately)
Signing Greg to that two-year, 10-bottle-of-Prozac contract?
I’ve been on Prozac for years. So insensitive.
Now you may all ask yourselves, “how did he know that?”
You and half the country (myself included, though Prozac was like throwing hard boiled eggs at a Leopold tank), though that numbers come down in the last couple years apparently.
I agree. The bad results of his decisions severely outweigh the good returns from his decisions.
Except for all the wins, which outweigh the losses.
He’s contributed nothing to all these above .500 seasons, playoff appearances, and the ring. That’s all the money. The negatives, which have never cost us a season or even a month of a season, obviously outweigh the positives.
Get it right Axisa.
All what you say is true.
The problem is “THE RING”
Not good for the New York Yankees.
If you’re looking for a GM that will win the World Series more often than not, you’ll be looking forever.
I want a GM that can develop young talent and combine that with our veteren players to create a championship contender for many years.
In other words, I want Andrew Friedman to be the GM
And what makes you think he’ll be a good GM in a large market? It’s real easy to wait out the growing pains of young kids in front of 10k fans a night when no one expects you to win.
Or the fact that Friedman is never willing to make a trade to put his team over the top?
That’s where the extra money can come in. You can wait out growing pains and still win. If you have talent surrounding the rookies.
All that money can buy you an anti-aging machine so that those veterans don’t age while you exercise all those oodles and oodles of patience you seem to be champion of (but never show an ounce of while posting on a blog. Funny how that happens.).
Did David Price need patience?
No.
Did Jeremy Hellickson need patience?
No.
Evan Longoria?
No.
Helickson needed almost SIX HUNDRED INNINGS in the minors. All of their guys needed a ton of time, with Price being the sole exception.
I have no idea how Longo developed, nor am I invested enough in this argument to check.
No, but two of those players were top three draft picks. And Hellickson sucks anyway.
Price & Longoria didnt require patience? tell that to Tampa By Devil Rays fans (note not Rays fans) that had to suffer through last place from 94 to 2007
….and someday someone will show a picture book of that era called “last decade,” which you’re clearly too young to remember, and explain to you why this franchise hasn’t been trying to develop young talent until recently.
And I blame that both on George and Cashman.
Which takes us back to the Horace Clark years, Greg. Would you have been happier then?
Answer: Of course not.
Remember how great player development was under NBC? Those were the days.
CBS?
UPN
…..
Are you a recent fan or something? I mean, did you miss all that time with the Boss & Co running the show and are now blaming Cashman for not developing a farm system? I mean, that would make the most sense here.
No.
I blame that on both George and Cashman
It’s like we didn’t attempt to develop young talent and when we finally started to do it, we’re not good at it.
How’s any of that on Cashman though? That’s my point. He’s singlehandedly built the entire player-development side of this franchise in the last, what, 6 years? 7? Were you actually expecting a side of the franchise that almost hadn’t existed for more than 1 out of the previous 4 decades to suddenly flourish into greatness?
If Tampa Bay could do that quickly, so can we.
Tampa Bay didn’t do it that quickly. Tampa Bay did it with a huge amount of time and patience (brought from not having any fans or contending) in nearly every case. High picks helped too of course. I rip the following off from JohnnyC:
Niemann 273 IP in AAA alone (385 IP in minors)
Davis 211 IP in AAA alone (767 IP in minors)
Shields 554 IP in minors
Moore 497 IP in minors
Hellickson 580 IP in minors
That’s just their current crop. Price was the exception to the rule because, simply put, the dude is great. And that doesn’t even mention that you’re comparing us to the team considered to have the best player development system in the league and possibly the best one in the history of baseball. Sorry, we aren’t going to meet those standards because “we’re the Yankees and we should.”
Greg’s been a Yankee fan all his life, since he was five. Can’t you tell?
I’ll let you finish that joke.
Been going to Yankee games for 14 years. Wasn’t interested in sports then.
Became a full on Yankee fan 7 years ago.
Studied up.
You know, of course, that Andrew Friedman’s experience in baseball was playing college ball at Tulane and then spending the next half decade as a securities analyst for Bear Stearns and other venture capital firms. Sternberg liked his finance ideas and hired him. His finance ideas. He, according to reliable sources, leaves the baseball decisions to his development and personnel people.
The Yankee way is to win a World Series every single year. No excuses.
FACT: Baseball was created only 28 years ago, in 1984.
*just spit out dinner*
0_o
So you’re asking him to do something we’ve done twice in last three and a half decades? And anything less in unacceptable?
Sigh.
There was also the
CC Sabathia signing, twice
development of Brett Gardner
The Nick Swisher steal
The Nova Development
The Robertson Development
The Santana nontrade
The Russel Martin signing
Also Cano’s development into a superstar.
CC- fine
Brett Gardner- No because I don’t think much of Gardner. He doesn’t hit for power or a high average. And he gets injured alot
Swisher- fine
Nova- waiting for more samples
Robertson- fine
Santana nontrade- fine
Russell Martin- No. Bad offensively and is not a Molina behind the plate
Cano- fine
So that’s 5 in the yes and 5 in the no
After thinking about it a little, I agree with your comments about Martin, but you also can’t discount all the bench piece pick ups over the years that Manny has mentioned below. I’m not saying Cashman’s a great manager, just above average in my opinion.
Of course I can counteract that with Hughes and Joba failing to develop.
I of course than counteract that with the Granderson trade.
How about the Granderson trade?
Shit, I absolutely meant to include that….
Alot of good things have happened too you know. On the risk of fcking up the narrative:
Traded Betemit and a bag of balls for swisher
Lightening in a bottle colon, Prior & freddy
Got Granderson pretty cheap
Thames/Jones/Hinske/Hairston/Chavez in the best bench pieces this team has seen in decades.
But nah, fuck Cashman, he sucks
Andohbytheway… That ring in 2009 didn’t suck
One ring in 5 years “isn’t good enough for New York” for him according to what he said above.
You talk to most Yankee fans, they will say exactly that
Uhh. So would fans in many cities, in a multitude of sports. You know why? THEY’RE FANS. Does that make them correct?
I repeat, because you didn’t respond to this above yet, that we’ve only won multiple rings in a 5 year span twice in 35 years. It is not a reasonable expectation simply because “we’re the Yankees and we expect better.” Hell, making the playoffs, what, 15 of the last 16 seasons or whatever the streak is up to now, isn’t reasonable to expect. We only expect it because we put together solidly above average teams every year regardless of injuries, bad years from players, and terrible contracts handed down from ownership.
Because whenever we’ve won rings, we’ve won them in bunches. Michael Kay said this once and I looked it up and he’s right. The Yankees have not won one title only and then go under for 6 or 7 years. In the 20s 30s
40s 50s 60s 70s and 90s, we won our championships in bunches. So it is not an unreasonable expectation
The Yankees have existed for roughly 100 years, in that 100 years we’ve won the World Series 28 times, or just over 1 every four years, by that logic we’re due for one in the next couple.
Except that the vast majority of their WS titles came before the introduction of free agency.
That makes absolutely zero sense.
Hey, he said it. I;m just the messenger
He said it, and you’re repeating it as if you believe it and its true. That’s on you.
And that’s because the evidence backs up what he said
And the evidence backs up what Kay said.
So because they won the WS in bunches several decades ago, they’ll do it again?
Sure, if you ignore the way the game has changed in the last century, Kay is absolutely correct.
Of course, that would be an incredibly silly thing to do, but whatever. Roll with it.
It’s like the Madden curse. There should be nothing to it, but its happened so many times (including after free agency was introduced) that the data can’t be ignored
Its happened TWICE IN 35 YEARS. You’re making me repeat myself.
Of course it is you ninny. Twice. In. Thirty-five. Years.
If you want to go back to the times before free agency, before any the playoff system, and before the freaking BREAKING BALL, then sure. You’re expectations are right in line with…something. I’m not sure what. Not reason.
It happened twice after free agency and once after the playoff system was introduced.
In fact, if I’m not mistaken we’ve won at least 2 WS in every decade since 1920 except for the 1980s.
How does once in the modern playoff system and twice in 40 years equal a pattern?
By the way, if you’re going on that twice per decade thing….we’re actually still on schedule.
>> Lightening in a bottle colon, Prior & freddy
what?
>> Got Granderson pretty cheap
I would re-do that trade 10 out of 10 times, but the Yankees gave up a ton. If you’re going to give Cashman credit for Granderson blowing up after the trade (which I think is fair), then you also have to dock him for IPK’s post-trade success.
Btw, I’m not a Cashman hater – just injecting some reality, both sides could use it.
Yeah, no clue where Prior came from.
I agree on IPK, though the question will always be, could he do that here? I think he could do a lot of it here, but I can see both sides of that argument.
I honestly don’t know…I mean he doesn’t exactly have overpowering stuff, and his control is slightly above average…I think he could be decent in the AL, average in the AL East, but not as good as he is in the NL, because anybody with eyes can see that the AL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NL
Oops. I just mean the comment that rookie was quoting.
But your thing works too.
Sorry, not Prior, I meant Kerry Wood. My bad
Out pitched and hit by the royals. Good times
It’s not even August yet.
I once speculated, though I’ve never gone through the game logs to confirm, that in any game that Mo blew (either by losing the lead or losing a tie game) where the offense still had a chance to come back, they’d always lose because they were too shell-shocked that some team bested Mo on that particular day.
Now this is way off base, I admit, but I will say that if they continue to struggle offensively like this for a few more days I’m going to start to wonder if Mo’s injury isn’t messing with their heads.
Note: I also say this without having seen any of yesterday’s or tonight’s game.
Cano needs to get going. Tex is who he is and A-Rod is who he is. I don’t expect either of them to do much, but Cano, he’s a stud. They need him.
Watching Kuroda isn’t particularly making me feel inspired as to how this team’s going to put a rotation out there this season. He needs to be a lynchpin here and it’s not happening in the soon-to-be-not-early-going. The pressure this puts on CC and Nova is not the type I think they can live up to….well, half of them can live up to.
Not what I was expecting for sure. Plenty of time but, yeah, not encouraged by Kuroda thus far. I was one of the loudest supporters of signing him as well.
Still plenty of time in this game, but I will leave you all to Greg, Athenian, and The Dude. Have fun.
They over-evaluated Kuroda’s stuff. He really needed the oasis at the bottom of NL lineups. He likes to walk batters to get to the weak spot of a lineup…not feasible on most AL teams. More than likely this is what he is in the AL: back of the rotation, somewhat of an innings eater, ERA ~ 4.50. Good value for $10 million, eh?
Tip of the cap to Rapada and Eppley there.
While it seems like the score is 10-0, they got out of a tough spot there and at least kept the game within shouting distance at 3 runs
God damnit Franceor…and god damnit Grandy.
Why the hell are you running on him?
What the fuck is wrong with this team?
who would have known Francoeur’s got a great arm?
That sucked.
Most outfield assist since 2005. Shallow hit ball, of course run on him and of course cano gets a hit that would of put the yanks on the board
what the heck. LOL
This team has become baseball dysfunctional. Can’t hit, pitch run the bases, field, it to like the Bad News Bears only worse. Just stupid baseball.
this team is a joke
I wonder what this website would’ve looked like in the Dark Times of the mid-late 80s
Would have been different. They were not good teams as they are built today. This team is just underperforming, overpaid, essentially they look like what Yankee fans see the Royals, A’s, Pirates, Cubs, etc.
Probably better because we weren’t spoiled by winning 4 WS in 5 years
Half these idiots would have been Mets fans.
Deserted.
Me yelling to myself about how they shouldn’t hit and run with Mattingly at the plate lol
You may well find out, this year.
I normally don’t dislike players on a team a cheer for. But I am going to break that rule for Mark Texeiria. I loathe him.
Call me a ledge jumper but I can’t watch this team anymore.
Did anybody ever find out why Eiland took that extended leave of absence in the last year of his contract?
Greg hurt his feelings.
+1
If that had hit a Yankee player they would be out for the year
It’s not fun watching games right now. It’s more than “that’s because they’re losing.”
When our 6,7,8,9 rivals NL teams, it’s somewhat of a downer.
The real problem is our 3-4-5 is worse.
Would you trade Tex and his contract for Pujols and his? How about Arod?
I would strongly consider it…especially Arod’s.
After living through the first 4+ years of A-Rod’s deal, you’re willing to take on ANOTHER ten-year contract for a player over 30? Especially when Pujols showed signs of decline last year (nevermind this year)?
Oh, it would be stupid, but I was thinking of possible improvement over Arod’s current performance.
Uhhhh. What? You want to watch another decline phase? We’re halfway through ARods.
True, but maybe Pujols would be productive through those few years and maybe I’ll be dead by the severe decline phase…lol
So after this game Eppley gets sent back down & recall Mitchell?
After all, it is Hughes pitching tomorrow. And I can’t think Joe will give it all to Sweaty Freddy.
Can’t come back up for 10 days or unless an injury happens.
Good point. Crap
It’s early yet. An injury will still happen.
Can’t bring Mitchell back up for 10 days, unless there’s an injury.
We can fight about the hyperbole but, yes, this game shows how actually worried I am about this team’s pitching staff. This is not going to be easy unless some breaks start going this team’s way.
The pitching? Have you been watching this team hit and run the bases?
We’re talking two different things here.
One has been a problem all year. The other has been a problem for a week to 10 days.
*shrug*
Can’t take this anymore.
You guys remember how we were all bragging how stacked the rotation and depth are?
Hard to believe that was only a month ago.
CAN SOMEONE get Ramiro Mendoza on the horn?
and, on the upright bass, Tom “Flash” Gordon!
This actually isn’t as bad as I recall the team playing. Last year about this time the Yankees lost five in a row, everyone was calling for Girardi/Cashman’s head, even me. And everyone was healthy then, too.
That’s not to say this isn’t bad, because it clearly is. But I’m not about to damn the team because of a bit of a rough patch in early May. Or at any moment, really. It’s the long haul that matters.
That said, I promised myself to drink bleach the day I saw Wise in our OF…
What’s up with Twitchy there?
some damn offense please
looks like they answered that one…and can I get a hottub
Whatever you want…..Leo Getz!
wow that’s more like it Russell.
Martin started growing the porn stache again. U better not shave it!!!!
What is the official Yankee policy? No facial hair?
That policy has become a little less well explained in recent years. I notice every year that the players have stretched it just a liiiiiiiiitttlllee farther.
No beard.
A wise policy. Some of these millionaire ballplayers look like they’ve never been to a decent barber.
wish they left Mijares in for Jeter, probably would have been a 5-3 game.
That’s just not fair
What a 100mph fastball, followed by a 85mph change that breaks down at least four inches? Because I agree that’s just something that shouldn’t be possible.
Yep
Can’t watch the Yanks anymore tonight. Going out to the great northwest. The King and Jesus.
Will we get an update if he goes 0-5, or does that only happen when he’s 4-5?
Tonight’s update is he is catching one of the best pitchers in the game and batting cleanup.
Enough said.
completely off topic, but some shit about MCA, huh? Only 47…
I know. ‘Sucks! He will be greatly missed.
I was sad I couldn’t watch the game (blackout).
Then I was glad I couldn’t watch the game.
Then my baseball boyfriend hit a home run.
But I understand the mustache is back?
I am conflicted.
Man fire Kevin Long.
It is interesting to see how the hitting and pitching coaches can’t do very much with so many people this year. Freddy and Hughes certainly, Cano, ARod, Teixeira. I doubt anyone could have solved those problems, and it may be a lesson in the limits of coaching intervention.
In ARod’s case, it may well just be a case of sudden aging.
yeah, I wouldn’t include ARod in that group.
His numbers are pretty much right in line with what he has done over the last 2 years.
I’m not sure any pitching coach would be able to make Hughes a good starter.
Really just speaking out of anger. Can’t keep having A-Rod Tex and Cano bat 3-4-5 when Jeter and Granderson are your best hitters though.
In all seriousness, when everyone’s healthy next week they should go
1. Jeter
2. Gardner
3. Granderson
4. Swisher
5-9
At least until Cano gets his shit straight.
Tex at the plate looks like he is wearing a blindfold
Aura and Mystique migrated South to Tampa Bay and Texas. la de freakin’ da
Three more groundouts to the right side for Cano.
Girardi really needs to just give him a day off (and not at DH).
Who ordered the Tom Collins?
I thought when I read this, knowing that my stream was well behind, that Raul smashed a homer. Then my hopes were crushed. Its all your fault.
oppo field double. only good thing about this night is that it appears Russell is coming out of the slump.
Martin’s average is now over 200!
(“Our expectations must be reasonable . . . ” Nah, fuck that. But I am going to take pleasure in small things.)
Maybe they should all sport mustaches?
God, did they look old and slow against this team.
Just painful to watch.
well…at least they didnt need mariano tonight….
this here game sucked pure and simple over and out stick a fork in them they are toast
The first half of that is true and reasonable.
The second half may be true, but isn’t at all reasonable.
The Yankees should trade Teixiera in the offseason and market him as a mini-Pujols:
A 33-year old essentially since he turns 33 on 4/11/13 who is under contract for only four years not ten.
They should offer to pay $5.625M of his salary a year 2013-16 so he costs only $67.5M for four years ($16.875M a year) and his taker is paying only three years worth of salary for four years of contract since a year’s worth of salary is being paid across four years ($5.625M a year x 4 years = $22.5M.)
This deal would basically be saying to Teixiera’s taker “Here’s Teixiera with a year on us.”
Spare me the “he has a full no-trade clause in his contract” cr ap because he would waive it if he knew he wasn’t wanted anymore because no one wants to play where they’re not wanted. At some point it would leak that the team doesn’t want you anymore and you have to play with that hanging on your head, and no player would be adversarial and say “I’m staying.”
” and no player would be adversarial and say “I’m staying.””
AJ just did that this offseason, declining a trade to the Angels.
You’d likely have to include quite a bit more money to get another team to take Tex.
What if the Yanks traded Martin midseason and made Stewart the everyday catcher August on? They could re-sign Stewart for a year and $500K (slight raise from the $482,500 he’s making this year.) Cervelli or Romine could battle each other for the backup catcher job in spring training.
I’d rather the Yanks go with Stewart for a year and half a mil than overpay Martin in years and money then possibly be stuck with Martin for those years and money.
Tagging from 2nd on Francouer with one out, down 3-0 and Cano on deck. What were you thinking Curtis?
Sorry-no outs.
I saw the next thread, “A loss at every level” and I thought it was the recap.
