643 days later, here we are
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Mar 30, 2007 
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Check out this blog post from WFAN’s Sweeny Murti as he details what has happened since Carl Pavano last pitched in a game.
Good stuff from Sweeny, who as everybody knows is on top of the news for WFAN.
Yanks Miss Playoffs
ok i was right once in my life that the Yankees would lose- had the Tigers in 4 last year; the basis for my opinion is 1 fact and 1 fact alone- I luv Dicek and Beckett (IMO i think they both finish top 5 in cy young); I believe Beckett will rebound from last year disaster I am turned off by Pettite (post roids) & Moose (no longer playing for a contract); 87-75;; Girardi gets job next year, they sign Zambrano, Phil Hughes is the real thing and some other 100 million pitcher and u win the series 2 out of the next 5 years starting in 08. cubbies with arod win it in 09′
ESPN baseball experts say…
Boston wins the AL East and we miss the playoffs. These experts are Gammons, Onley and Jason Stark. They point to our very shakey pitching. I don’t understand, because when we signed Pettite, those guys all said or pitching was vastly improved and had depth. Nothing has changed, but now somehow that same pitching is “shakey” I just love how they paint gloom and doom for us, yet a rosey picture for Boston. Somehow Schilling isn’t old and morbidly obese, Beckett never had a 5ERA year last year, Wakefield isn’t mediocre at best, Tavarez??LOL! Plus their bullpen is absolutely awful except for Paps. Their lineup has plenty of holes with their crappy hitting 2b, crisp, Tek is off the juice hitting low 200s…etc.
Tim Kurjisn said this yesterday. Yankees top 3 can match up with anyone. I suppose they are missing a traditional “ace” but those top 3 are just as good if not better than most’s top 3.
Pavano and Igawa although riddled with questionmarks, you would have to figure will be better than Jared Wright and the revolving 5th spot of last year. Pavano certainly could be a pretty good 4th starter if he can keep his sorry self on the field.
Throw in the arms waiting in the farm and to me, the rotation is in much better shape than it has been in years.
The bullpen is easily upgraded over last year.
I think people are just in love with boston’s pitcher’s “stuff”. Beckett, Dice -K Schilling all have ace “potential” but Schilling has become much more hittable, beckett has yet to live up to his stuff and dice-k, who i think will be dominant, still has to prove it.
Boston;s line up has more holes and question marks than the yankees, and even with paplebon, theior bullpen just isnt very good.
Loved Sweeny’s take on Carl Pavano’s “rest between starts.”
The term ‘ESPN baseball experts’ is a misleading term. It actually doesn’t exist.
That was great! Thanks for sharing it. I especially agree with the last part. Let’s give him a chance. We really do need him now. Hopefully all the “stuff” is behind him now and he can be what we thought we were getting more than 643 days ago!
“I luv Dicek and Beckett (IMO i think they both finish top 5 in cy young); I believe Beckett will rebound from last year disaster I am turned off by Pettite (post roids) & Moose (no longer playing for a contract)”
i can’t wait to see your post-roids catcher hit .275/.325/.375 this year.
i guarantee Josh Beckett doesn’t finish in the top 5 in the CY. he’s never once pitched 200 innings with an ERA under 5 in the same season.
pettitte? roids? really?
Wasn’t it Jason “my middle name is honesty” Grimsley that pointed the ‘roids finger at Pettitte? Who would take Grimsley seriously?
And Beckett in the top 5 for the Cy Young? That has got to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in a week. Call me when he pitches more than 200 innings with a sub-5.00 ERA. My prediction is that pigs will fly first…
A plea from the Bronx to my fellow Yankee posters: Do not respond to the Boston fans. They will eventually slink away. Thank you.
Entertaining piece by Sweeny.
If you think Moose has nothing to play for just because he’s not in a walk year, you’re out of your mind, dallasclark 1888. He’s 38 years old. He’s got 239 wins. He needs 61 wins for the Hall of Fame. Or he needs to win it all and play a big part in that to make the Hall. He wants both very dearly, I’m sure, and he’s running out of time.
Love the Sweeny piece, but it’s really not fair to compare Pavano to Brittney Spears in-and-out of rehab. That could have happened between most pitchers starts . . .
I’m just keeping my fingers and toes crossed that nothing falls on Pavano’s head (or any other body part) over the next three days.
Once Wang returns, we have our ace.
Breaking News: Pavano chips nail opening soda can in celebration for Opening Day start. To be placed on the 60 day DL. Film at 8.
rbj,
We have three aces: Wang, Mussina and Pettitte. As well as an ace in waiting: Hughes.
“Breaking News: Pavano chips nail opening soda can in celebration for Opening Day start. To be placed on the 60 day DL. Film at 8.”
let it go.
the guy is going to pitch.
it’d be one thing if the jokes were still funny, but they are old and played out.
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