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The Yankees and the Rays just played baseball yesterday. Shelley Duncan, who will appeal his suspension, was glad.
Welcome to the Yankees, Billy Traber. This notebook also has updates on Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlain, Kei Igawa, Jason Giambi and Mariano Rivera.
Indians-Yanks this afternoon. CMW vs. C.C. Sabathia.
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Peter Abraham
I like Billy traber, loooks better than Sean henn has in the past, but i must say the job Sean has been doing this spring has been pretty nice too… and Kei Igawa is still in the picture
Im gonna keep telling you guys…
Igawa with shades on
4.0 IP 6H 7ER 4BB 1HBP 4K 2HR
Igawa without shades
4.0 IP 3H 0ER 3BB 3K
ENOUGH ALREADY!!! Stop lettin this kid rock ray-bans on the hill!
Im tellin you guys… you can see difference. SOMEbody has to notice a correlation here.
“I like Billy traber, loooks better than Sean henn has in the past, but i must say the job Sean has been doing this spring has been pretty nice too…”
Traber has 3 hits in 4 innings, no walks and five strikeouts. Henn has 6 K’s in 3 innings…but also 6 hits, and 2 runs (1ER).
Also, Traber has held lefties to a 167 avg in his career.
LOL Derek – RETIRE 21!!!(please?):
Interesting what you can read out of stats if you want to. I don’t believe the sun glasses are at fault, but anyway – maybe Pete can give these stats to Cash, Eiland or Girardi and they can see what’s up with that
Derek, you may be on to something.
I’m here at legends. Very gray out. Hoping it passes. Saw minor league camp workouts as I drove in
Just heard on radio that Reggie was fined $250 and ordered to stay out of uniform for the rest of spring training. This stemming from last weeks incident.
In his view, no one associated with the Yankees does anything
halfway. He flew the Astros team charter a few years ago and noticed that one player stood out because he was so neatly groomed and dressed. It was Andy Pettitte. “That’s Yankees class,” he told his partner in the cockpit.
Bob Sheppard’s son making voice heard for Yankees
Mark Herrmann
March 15, 2008
just watched phil take a bullpen. Everything popped off the mit.
Derek, if there is something to it, there’s still the old causation/correlation question. Maybe sunshine bothers him (whether he wears shades or not).
Also, 4 IP is a pretty small sample. Did you see the the trend last year too (or in Japan)?
Rematch of Game 1 in the ALDS last year
Selig has the Yankees in his crosshairs. The batboys are next!
I was pleased to read this link today about the prospects of Brett Gardner earning a spot on the roster: http://www.northjersey.com/sports/yankees/16721421.html
Since Soriano left, the Yankees have missed a guy who can wreak havoc on the bases and who can pinch-run in a late-inning game, steal second to move into scoring position circa Dave Roberts in 2004.
Gardner has an 84%– yes, EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT– stolen base percentage in the minors. They might not translate into as high a percentage in the majors of course. But still, I’m awed.
I have a question.
If one of the suspensed plaers start the season in the minors, will they serve their supension at the start of the minor season or when they are are recalled to majors?
What Yanks will do will really depend on that. In the case of first scenario, I can see Suncan starting in the minors (assuming Ensberg makes it) and an outfielder added to the roster for the first few days. They may still do the same in the second scenario, just carrying six pitchers in the bullpen for the first three games.
“If one of the suspensed plaers start the season in the minors, will they serve their supension at the start of the minor season or when they are are recalled to majors?”
I asked about this the other day. If the player goes to the minors, he’d serve his suspension upon his return to MLB.
Also, the minor league season starts later, I’m pretty sure…so they couldn’t really send melky/shelley down there to get three days of playing time before the suspension. I guess they could leave a guy in tampa at minor league camp and then call him up after the first guy’s suspension is done…but they don’t seem to be talking about that.
As for Gardner, I think it’d REALLY be a disservice to him to stick him on the bench in the majors. He’s not going to see much playing time up here. Pinch running late in games just really doesn’t happen that often in AL games. Brett needs to play every day to continue developing. I mean, he could be an MLB regular if he proves he can keep his OBP up against more mature pitching. He’d lose the opportunity to show that if he’s in the majors sitting on the bench waiting until Giambi needs a pinch runner in the 7th.
A MESSAGE TO PETE
Pete even if you present it as a joke (so you don’t look like an idiot, if that is how you’d feel), PLEASE bring Derek’s message about the ray-bans. Look, I say any port in a storm. Imagine if the ray-bans ARE the difference maker??? When you see a guy pitch the way he did against the Sox and then pitch the way he did when they combined for that no hitter, and then you see him fall apart another time, you owe it to Yankee life in general to do everything possible to figure it out and get him right, if at all possible. Why? Because the guy has shown he has FILTHY stuff and CAN pitch his brains out. Obviously it’s much better for us if someone can get him straightened out. Anyway, interesting catch Derek.
Catch you all later.
NYY
I am truely amazed that no one in the building was killed. i read it was the construction workers who died.
Thanks Whozat, it clarifies my quesiton.
For the first three (or two if suspension is reduced after appeal hearing), Yanks can not take chance of not having a serviceable OF backup. They will not play with 23 players, whatever Girardi says now.
So, I think, they will leave Duncan behind for the first three games and take either Gardner of Lane to North. After Melky completes his suspension, they will bring Duncan to majors by sending Gardner to minors.
I’m not a Gardner expert, but it looks like he needs at least a half year in SWB. His 1st 1/2 year in Trenton was mediocre (.670 OPS), and his 2nd 1/2 year was great (.811 OPS). His first 1/2 year in SWB was mediocre (.674 OPS).
Looks like another 50-100 games in AAA could help.
Interesting, of the players with regular SP ABs, the Yanks’ OPS leaders are:
Rodriguez 1.608
Abreu 1.117
Cano 1.080
Gardner 1.071
Batting 9/22 plus 6 SBs in 6 attempts — not a bad SP for the kid!