Comments on: Caution for Kennedy

By: LDK Solar

LDK Solar — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:19:29 +0000

>>>>I think we also have to look at trading a young arm or two. You canâ€™t just sit on your farm system and assume everyone will win a Cy Young award.

Apparently Cashman, the baseball genius of the century, thinks he knows everything there is to know about baseball and believes Kennedy and Hughes are the Cy Young types. Under Cashman, whoever he hyped automatically becomes the next Roger Clemens.

By: Luv 2 Lurk

Luv 2 Lurk — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:54:58 +0000

Excellent baseball conversation on this thread. Love to see the different povs intelligently and forcefully articulated, without flames and insults. Good stuff.

By: Michael T

Michael T — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:11:14 +0000

G’s slugging % is 50 points higher than David Ortiz and his OBP is nearly 30 pojints higher. Even when he was batting below .200 Jason wasn’t really that awful because with the walks and HRS he was racking up a decent number of total bases against not all that many outs.

By: yanksince57 - i remember elvio jimenez

yanksince57 - i remember elvio jimenez — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:37:15 +0000

britton’s back

By: kylelitke

kylelitke — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:15:36 +0000

I don’t know if they will but Sabathia is different, because a) he only costs money and a draft pick instead of multiple players AND money, and b) some big contracts are coming off the books this year, like Giambi’s.

By: Pablo Zevallos

Pablo Zevallos — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:56:14 +0000

I think Phil and Ian need to go to the AFL to fill up innings

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:39:55 +0000

I would have done the Hughes/Melky deal for Santana but I don’t fault Cashman at all for not going after a 4-5 innings eater starter. The Yankees entered the season with 6 starters (counting Joba) for 5 slots and some potential fill-ins in Rasner and Karstens. There was no real need for more veteran depth.

When you compared the Yankees probable rotation in the off-season, it looked a lot more solid than what they used to make the playoffs with last year. Quite frankly, it still does. Moose is pitching better than expected. Joba and Rasner at the back of the rotation should be fine. And Hughes still may contribute in the 2nd half.

No one was expecting Hughes and Kennedy to pitch as poorly as they both did and get hurt. If nothing else, you would have expected that we’d win more of those games just on the basis of our offensive talent. But the offense hasn’t been there on any consistent basis. That’s really been the biggest problem and hopefully things have turned a corner on that front.

By: james

james — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:33:37 +0000

“joba said somewhere that kennedy was his best friend. think that will create a rift?”

No. Joba & Ian have been playing a long time together, in fact they came up together in the minor leagues. When they’ve been friends that long baseball shouldn’t come between them.

By: MoBoy

MoBoy — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:11:00 +0000

I think that Kennedy,Joba,Hughes won’t be in the rotation next year.They need 200 innings again next year from somebody and three kids can’t even go 160 innings next year.

CC might have to cost a money and picks but the Yankees real power is not getting first round picks but high risk players who fall in the draft.

By: Bronxbyte

Bronxbyte — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:09:57 +0000

The days of wild spending are over. The likes of George, Ted Turner, Gene Autry and others are long gone. Fiscal sanity is now the name of the game and thankfully Hank & Hal Steinbrenner have come on board. They were never on board with their father’s love of marquee names like Giambi and stayed way for that very reason.
The money coming off the books will not cause them to go after Sabathia and Teixeira at any cost. One or the other but not both. Possibly not either one. In the grand scheme of things, ludicrous spending is not a fit.