Anyone into Sabremetrics? I am not sure where, but he makes the point that it is far more beneficial to bring your closer in late in the game even with a tie. I will try to reference this as the statistical argument was quite compelling.

At least now Myers, Henn and Mo can go today. In your scenario only the first 2 remain, same game result.

On Rasner, I’d have stuck with him a little more as well. Pete made the point that it was only his 2nd start, but he actually threw a couple more pitches in the first one. To be a little fair, though, the pen is gassed predominantly because of 2 extras games. 6 extra innings in 2 days would blow out anybody’s pen. But they should consider sending Rasner down if Moose and Pavano look okay today, bringing Britton or somebody up.

If you want to be so demanding on A-Rod, that is fine. Then be fair to yourself and expect the same from Jeter or any other player for that matter including Abreau.

Both guys have to do a better job of managing arms. Its comical at times to see how they overwork some guys and put severe restrictions on others.

I, too agree that the priority last night should have been bullpen preservation, prior to the start of the game. If Rasner needed 120 pitches to throw 7 innings last night, so what? If he can’t go in his next start, just call someone up from AAA to make the start. They have Wang, Karstans and Mussina on the horizon for their comebacks. They don’t need to baby Rasner.

Is it really worth saving Darrell Rasner over the entire bullpen?

I know its a point that can be debated but, sometimes, one guy has to “take one for the team” instead of an entire bullpen being on fumes 10 days into the season.

The pitching mismanagement is a real issue with the Yankees, IMO. If 40 year old Curt Schilling can pitch 7-8 innings a start, Darrell Rasner can be stretched out for one start.

3 pitches.

someone in the organization REALLY needs to sit Torre down and explain to him that it is OK to use Rivera in a tie game on the road. if Farnsworth lost that game last night, and the yankees lost TWO extra inning games in a row with the greatest reliever of all time never removing his jacket, that would have been completely inexcusable.

this slavery to the “save” statistic already cost the Yankees a World Series (Jeff Weaver anyone?) and he still hasn’t learned from it. It’s really not that hard: on the road in extra innings, IF YOU GIVE UP A RUN, YOU LOSE. that’s it. you can’t keep saving your best reliever until you score. you might not get that chance. you use your best reliever for as long as you can and you give your offense as many chances as possible. if mariano is done before you score, you deal with who will save the game later. you can’t let an inferior pitcher lose the game for you before you’ve gone to your best.

also, travis buck may have picked the wrong dude to irritate.

Thirteenth, we watched Giambi homer, followed by Bruney pulling himself together and closing out the game. We basked in the satisfaction of having made the right decision and fell asleep.