A few updates from Brian Cashman
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 25, 2007 
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Here are a few news items from Brian Cashman:
* Miguel Cairo was officially signed today and added to the roster. No word on who is being bumped off the 40-man yet.
* Humberto Sanchez, contrary to popular belief, is being groomed as a starter and is targeted for the Scranton rotation.
* J.B. Cox fractured a bone in his throwing hand five weeks ago and won’t start a throwing program until the first week of February. Cashman refused to say how he broke his hand.
* Cashman talked in general terms about Bernie Williams. It seems like they’re waiting for Bernie to make some kind of decision. “His situation is that he’s a free agent,” Cashman said.
* Cashman expects Roger Clemens to pitch this season. But he doesn’t know where the Yankees stand with the Rocket. “He’s in a great position, he’s a free agent. They know where we sit and how we feel. … If he wants to do a second tour with us, we’d be happy to discuss it,” Cashman said. “Do I feel we have the inside track on the man? No.”
* Carl Pavano is not going into spring training as a rehab case. He has been fully cleared to be on the same schedule as everybody else.
Hey Pete, great stuff as always. Fishy about J.B…do you know when he would be able to return to the mound (and to a game) if he doesn’t start throwing until Feb?
I hope by “everyone else” you don’t mean Pavano is going to be on the same schedule as Clemens or Bernie, for instance.
Jeff: What schedule is Bernie on? I mean, it’s totally up to him to retire at this point. The Yanks aren’t waiting around for him to decide if he wants to play.
And Clemens isn’t on the same schedule as anyone else. So your question is a little odd. Pavano’s on the same schedule as Mussina, Wang, Pettitte, Igawa. The other starters. Makes perfect sense.
Cox will report to minor league camp in March.
If Cairo needs to be added then Colter Bean should be the man to DFA, he’s made it through waivers before. Too bad about Cox.
hey ben: it was a joke. Obviously neither will be starting the season with the yanks…
“Carl Pavano is not going into spring training as a rehab case. He has been fully cleared to be on the same schedule as everybody else”
I just looked outside my window and did not see any airborne farm animals….Weird. Shouldn’t the walls start bleeding? Wait, I know. Hell is freezing over.
Melissa: I resisted the joke, had as it was. I think I have to give the Rajah of Rehab a clean slate for now.
Pavano has been gone so long it’s going to be plain weird to see him in pinstripes and pitching again.
For what it’s worth, I hope the work he did in Arizona helped and he has a good year. Him earning his money goes a long wait to helping this team (makes the Yanks less desperate for Clemens, makes the team less reliant on Igawa, and means no one from the minors has to be unnecessarily rushed).
Thanks for getting us the news, Peter. People in this neighborhood are very excited about Humberto Sanchez. If he comes up and does well, there will be a real buzz in the South Bronx.
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Wow. I posted this ^ on a completely different website. i dont know how it got here. weird…
Hey, Melissa, the temperature did drop a few degrees today, didn’t it????
Let’s hope Pavano is a sleeper for the Yanks and all the good things mentioned above occur, Stormy.
A few?! It’s going be like 10 degrees in NY tonight. And it’s all Carl Pavano’s fault.
Not that he deserves it, but everyone really should give Pavano a chance to start the season. Regardless of his lack of (any) performance, we should want him to be good and be a help to the Yankees, not for him to continue to disappoint. Is there anyone who would be angry if he won 15 games this season?
Everything is pavanos fault – everything that goes wrong. Does anyone realize Pavano is 31 already (his b day was two weeks ago) and he has had one good season and one ok season of pitching 200 innings each. Remember even a healthy Pavano doesnt necessarily mean a good pitcher. I know anyone that posted a 3 era and finishes sixth in the cy young has to have something special about their arm. The question still remains will it come out in NY? Pavano might be better on the dl than on the mound or maybe he is our 2007 season savior. I’ll try to remain optimistic despite all of my instincts telling me Pavano will be a bust and be off the team by mid season.
I will be ecstatic if he wins 15 games as long as he pitches over 150 innings. Its not really about how many games he wins as much as it is how many innings he pitches for us while keeping the team in the game.
I dunno – if they DFA Bean to make a spot for Cairo, then a entire segment of the Yankee blogosphere might spontaneously combust.
Pete – thanks for hunting down the info on Cox.
The odd thing about Pavano is that though he’s known for his extensive injury history, he also has the rep of someone who can be a workhorse. So when he’s healthy, he stays healthy. But when he’s hurt, he stays hurt. It’s an either-or situation, I guess.
Even in Pavano’s one half-year with the team, I think he was on pace to pitch more than 200 innings. And he was supposed to have been injured the entire year (right out of spring training).
I think a 13/15-win, 200-IP, 4/4.5-ERA season by Pavano would be acceptable to everyone.
200 Innings? Do you jest? Kei Igawa is a better bet for 200 innings than Glass Carl.
The Yankees have a plethora of righthanded relievers (Proctor, Farns, Britton, and Bruney plus a bunch of minor leaguers), so it makes sense to see if Sanchez is durable enough to remain a starter. Joba Chamberlain is another injury prone, hard-throwing righty with weight issues, and he dominated in Hawaii. Be interesting to see how those guys turn out.
I’m guessing that JB Cox pulled a Brien Taylor, and got into a fight. Hand tops arm, of course.
i agree stormy more than acceptable. If he pitches 200 innings, his era could be above 4.5 and everyone will still think he was contributing enough. Randy had a 5 era and pitched over 200 innings- most people thought he did a decent job not because he was pitching very effectively but merely because he pitched 200 innings and saved a bullpen collapse.
Thanks for clearing up the Sanchez issue, Peter. I know they are your colleagues, but too many people in the media have fatuously reported that he would be a reliever without having a factual basis for saying so. That’s how some of them earn the “mediot” appellation.
Sorry, Jeff. Didn’t realize it. Some folks around here would say that not in jest.
Greg: They already did it last year so they should have combusted then. Heck, http://www.freecolterbean.com still lives…
Who wants to bet that Clemens pitches more innings than Pavano?
Best Starting Rotation In the AL
http://www.rotoauthority.com/2.....g_r_1.html
Sam I posted that in the last comment section like five hrs ago. And said how their is no way to predict the era for either the yankee or the redsox – there are just waaay too many variables. Not even just Igawa and Daisuke but almost every single pitcher on both rotations are question marks. Not to mention, the whole clemens sweepstakes and whether or not Hughes and others come up to contribute.
All the pressure is on the Sox, Sam. The Yankees are the underdogs this year.
I wouldnt go that far rich as of now the sox have the worst bullpen in the AL. Those projections have the redsox so high because it was based on starters ERA. I wonder where the sox would show up if they included relief pitching. They would probably go down a bunch of spots. Im not saying the sox bullpen will suck this yr but if I had to make a projection right now, I would say it looks pretty bad. Plus, the yankees have the offensive edge in every position but DH, first base and leftfield. Rightfield may be a toss up if the sox sign drew and he stays healthy all yr but with JDs injury history, I would def take Bobby over him. I would take Posada over Varitek without hesitation.
Dave,
You need to reboot your sarcasm detector.
Stormy,
You are absolutely right. No one expects a great season from Pavano, so most fans will be pleased if he turns in a league-average season. Plus, in light of the silly contracts given to Meche and Lilly, Pavano would practically be a bargain if he turned in the numbers you gave.
My hope for Carl is 175 innings, 4.50 ERA.
But the Red Sox’s starters’ ERAs were terrible:
Schilling: 3.97.
Beckett: 5.01.
Wakefield: 4.63.
Lester: 4.76.
Clement: 6.61.
Synder: 6.02.
(Matsuzaka had a great ERA, but in Japan.)
yea i suck at recognizing sarcasm online – its not that easy. And some people might actually think in terms of starting pitching that the yanks are the underdogs – its not a stretch to say the redsox staff looks slightly better this yr. Who cares what the sox have? When we are relying on pavano and a guy who our own GM said may be a back of the rotation guy as number four and five for the first couple of months of the season, alot of 4 and 5 guys on other rotations look better than ours.
Stormy – your right their rotation was bad last yr. But the two major guys who change that (if it is changed next season) are probably going to be Daisuke and Papelbon who were not starters for them last yr. Those are the two that have the potential to be aces. Whether they do that or not is a completely different question.
Sarcasm goes right over Daves head. At all times.
[...] Reportedly, he’s been rehabbing in Arizona in order to hit Spring Training in playing condition. Brian Cashman says that Pavano will go like everyone else, not as a rehab case. [...]
I have made the bold prediction in my office that Carl Pavano will win 14 games for the NY Yankees in 2007.
[...] I’d link to the George King article, but I think this one does a better job of summing it up: Carl Pavano may actually pitch today. And he’s he’s heading to Spring Training as an active player, not a rehab case. [...]
I agree with Donnie. I think Pavano comes back with a vengence.
not sure about 14 games… that may be a stretch.
but I think he will come back and pitch well.
he HAS to. And not for the Yankees’ sake, but for his own.
he’s looked at the market this year.
he KNOWS that he’s in the last two years of his own contract. And he’s playing FOR the team that, if he succeeds, will give him the potential for MORE.
I say he comes back, and plays sharp. He’ll work his way up to the upper half of the rotation by next year, I say. (Moose or Andy will come down to #3 or lower.)
my prediction.
J B was in a fight in our Hometown of Bay City. A former classmate approached him and words were exchanged and cox broke his hand in the altercation. The guy he hit was really being a punk that night.