Pregame: Tigers vs. Yankees
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Mar 05, 2007 
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Here is the lineup:
YANKEES
Johnny Damon CF
Derek Jeter SS
Jason Giambi DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui LF
Jorge Posada C
Miguel Cairo 2B
Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
Bronson Sardinha RF
Kei Igawa LHP
Pregame chatter: Justin Verlander is starting for the Tigers and top prospect Andrew Miller is expected to pitch a few innings. … Mariano Rivera will pitch an inning today. Steven Jackson, Tyler Clippard, Scott Proctor and Chris Britton are also on the list. … The Yankees are 4-0 in the spring for the first time since 1993 when they started 8-0.
The Tigers look like they found another good arm in Miller. Well, not exactly found as he was the best prospect in last yrs draft.
I still cant believe 5 teams passed on him. They are going to regret being so cheap. Especially a team like the Pirates whose first round pick (Brad Lincoln) has already been plauged by injuries
Sounds like it’s going to be a good game. I’m looking forward to seeing Igawa, even if it’s just on TV. My parents will be there though…lucky!
Sheff will be a good test for Igawa. Right-handed hitters don’t come much tougher.
I’m looking forward to seeing Clippard pitch.
Won’t be able to see the game but I’ll get to hear it on the radio.
I’d just like to tell the Yankees to save some for the regular season — always nervous when the team does well in ST.
BTW, Peter, how’s Carl feeling today?
I think that they will have a re-run of the game on YES tonight (probably 7:00) They did for the March 1st game vs the Twins. Sure hope they do this on all the day games!
alert the nyyfans board CLippard will pitch today
I’m looking forward to seeing Kei pitch and seeing Clippard handle some big-league hitters (if any are still in the game by that point).
I wouldn’t be shocked if Sheffield blasted a home run to the moon off of Igawa. He eats up left-handed pitching and Igawa does give up the long ball. Hopefully Sheffield will try so hard to hit a home run he’ll corkscrew himself right into the ground, which he did many times as a Yankee.
Pete -
You think you’ll get a chance to interview Sheffield before or after the game? As always, it would make for interesting reading
Sardinha has really been solid at the plate this spring. The guy was a #1 pick a few years back. Any comments from Long or Mattingly on the guy?
Is there a schedule when teams have to send a certain number of players down to the minors (like the NFL who requires cuts during the preseason every several weeks going down to the start of the regular season), or is it just that the team has seen enough and have established that they need more minor league time?
Scooter,
I’m glad there’s someone else watching Sardinha. He’s from Hawaii and is actually 1 of 3 Sardinha boys in the minors. Shane Victorino of the Phillies is also from Hawaii and it’s nice to see him find a place on that team.
We don’t have pro sports in Hawaii so we follow our kids pretty seriously. Hope Sardinha is part of the Yankee future.
Mel, I thought one of the NL teams, maybe Milwaukee, had an AAA team that played at Aloha Stadium on Oahu. Did they relocate?
What’s up with Cano? He hasn’t played in a couple of days.
Actually Phil, Cano played in yesterday’s game against Philly. He was off Saturday. Each one of the starters rested one game this weekend.
Phil he played yesterday
Paul,
Not sure. The last baseball team we had was the Islanders in the minor leaques and that was a long time ago.
They did revive the Hawaii Winter Baseball season and it was good. Colby Clemens was here. Japan had teams. The Yankees had Chamberlain, Garcia, and Kennedy and their pitching coach and trainer were on one of the teams which was managed by a Red Sox coach. Next year Korea wants to send a team. Ichiro, Giambi all came through here so we’re kind of excited to see the future stars play here.
Mel -
I don’t know if you caught the Phillies/Yankees game yesterday – Victorino talked about hanging out and working out with Sardinha in Hawaii. Longtime Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas even showed off a little Hawaiian.
Sardinha seemed like a bust until last year – something clicked, and he hit well at AA and AAA. There’s some solid outfielders coming up (Gardner, Tabata, and Curtis), so Sardinha needs to have a solid year this year.
The HBL really did a solid job promoting itself – there were even free radio broadcasts on the website. Sounded like Chamberlain really established himself as a major prospect in the offseason. With Kennedy and Marquez, it seemed like they were victims of poor defense
RJPinstripes — the games is definitely being re-run at 7 pm on YES.
Thanks guys!
Scooter,
No, I didn’t catch yesterday’s game. Thanks for the updates. Hawaii kids tend to be smaller, so they have to work a little harder to get noticed. We’re really proud of the local kids that make it big in sports. Oh, yeah. Obama Barak’s from here, too. lol.
Cano is playing. YES announced him.
Igawa is definately not being his advertised self today, nothing to be alarmed about though, as wild as he is, hes def getting squeezed on a couple of those pitches
The ump is an idiot.
does anyone know which radio station is broadcasting the game if they are. thanks
wcbs i believe, yanks just extended their contract.
Bronson Sardinha – wonder if he will turn into this years’ Melky Cabrera? That walk off home run will be a great memory for him with the Big Team. And, the smile…………