From Baseball Musings:
With Boston losing, New York ends July seven games back in the division, picking up 3 1/2 games in the month. Two more months like that and the division is tied.
Yanks reveal ’08 All Star logo to fans
A few hours after the press caught a glimpse the 2008 All Star logo, the Yankees held another unveiling ceremony for the 53,958 fans in attendance at last night’s game. While the fireworks would come later in the form of a whopping eight home runs by the Yanks, the logo unveiling was pretty cool.
As I had a great view of the unveiling sitting in Tier Reserve Section 1, I snapped a whole bunch of photos of the event. The slideshow below shows the pomp and circumstance or you can just check out this album on Picasa.
Edwar earns his call-up…again
Triple-A Scranton (3-1 loss to Richmond)
Kevin Thompson: 1 for 4, 1 2B
Justin Christian: 1 for 4
Erubiel Durazo: 0 for 2 — the clock is ticking…
Alberto Gonzalez: 0 for 4
Eric Duncan: 1 for 3, 1 2B, 1 K
Mighty Matt; 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 5 K — there he goes with those walks again (not that he ever stopped)
Colter Bean: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 K — with all the guys returning from the DL, you’d have to think he’s a goner…
Edwar: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K — still sporting a 0.57 AAA ERA
Allow me to speculate for a moment
Okay, we all know the Yanks aren’t going to follow my advice. But seriously, there are some moves that you just have to make. And to me, the moves that the Yanks have to make from here on our are pretty clear: Get rid of Farnsworth.
To be clear, here’s how I would construct the 25-man.
C: Jorge
1B: Phillips
2B: Cano
3B: Alex
SS: Jeter
LF: Matsui
CF: Melky/Damon
RF: Abreu
DH: Giambi/Damon
BEN: Betemit
BEN: Duncan
BEN: Molina
BEN: Cairo (because we know he’s not going anywhere)
SP: Wang
SP: Pettitte
SP: Clemens
SP: Mussina
SP: Hughes
RP: Rivera
RP: Vizcaino
RP: Bruney
RP: Chamberlain
RP: Karstens
RP: One of Villone/Myers/Henn
You can add another reliever to that list if you subtract Cairo. But you get the gist.
The best deadline pickup in baseball
Yanks unveil 2008 All Star Game logo
In the middle of the trade deadline countdown, the Yanks held a press conference today to unveil the 2008 All Star Game logo. The team also announced that they will try to seat fans in the black bleachers section for the home run derby. That might mess around with the batter’s eye, but those would be awesome seats for the derby.
Here’s the logo as it now appears above the façade in center field at the Stadium. It’s a classy one. I’ll try to get a better picture at the game tonight.
Here’s the logo as it appears on the Yanks’ website.
And because it’s never too early, you can now start buying All Star Game 2008 merchandise.
Braves looking to deal Wickman?
Tim Brown of Yahoo wrote it, and Jayson Stark of ESPN just said it on the teevee. If Octavio does end up in Atlanta — and it’s official at this point — the Braves will look for a quick swing on Wickman.
Farnsworth and $5 mil for Wickman. Former Yankee Bob may not be Gagne, but he’s also not Farnsworth.