Kennedy to DL; Joba to fill in?
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Ian Kennedy was sent back to New York for an MRI and will be placed on the disabled list tomorrow.
It’s a strained lat, the same injury he had last September. It the muscle behind your shoulder. Given how conservative the Yankees are with young pitchers, I suspect we won’t be seeing him for at least three weeks.
Joba Chamberlain is scheduled to throw 50-55 pitches in Wednesday’s game. If he doesn’t get to that many in the game, he’ll finish his work in the bullpen.
His next appearance would be for 65-70 pitches. The Yankees could simply plug him into Kennedy’s spot in the rotation and pitch him against Minnesota on Monday. Or use Andy Pettitte on Monday and pitch Joba against Toronto on Tuesday. Or just call somebody up.
Joe Girardi said after the game that he needed to talk it over with Brian Cashman.
It’s amazing that Kennedy and Phil Hughes are both on the DL 52 games into the season. They are a combined 0-7 with a 7.99 ERA. The Yankees are 3-12 in the games they have pitched this season, 22-15 in their other games.
As somebody who was (and still is) behind the idea of developing young pitchers, I can’t fault Brian Cashman now. But this is pretty much the worst-case scenario.
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Joba might be able to take a bite out of some of the innings that Kennedy was supposed to bring in, but the Yankees still need to call up someone who can also help out since he’s still not up to speed to be a starter.
wouldn’t it make sense if the official scorer made the final decision on disputed homers?
“Joba called Kennedy in some article his best friend. Think that will create a rift?
Put Kennedy in relief. start him off with 1 inning and let him work his way back to a starter. Why send him to Scranton if he has already proved he can pitch there. let him learn in th big leagues even that means putting him in the bullpen.I still believe in this kid.”
That could work. There are times when the kennedy can go for 1-2 innings pretty well. Its worth a shot. He has pitched in relief before and didnt do a bad job at it. start him off with one inning…that could work. He has paid his dues to the farm.
I don’t think there will be any rift between joba & IPK. If joba says IPK is his bestfriend then I dont see why they would let baseball come between them.
Put Hawkins in the rotation and watch him only get shelled once a week.
/sarcasm
/or is it…
I hope that our young pitchers’ struggles will lead to rash moves by the Front Office. We don’t Hank going to Giardi and saying something along the lines of “I just won you the pennant. I got you Steve Trout.” Now is not the time to give up on Ian and Phil Hughes. We have basically asked these kids to get our team a title. That was too much to ask for from Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson, and even, Mike Mussina. So I believe that we should give these kids a chance with the Big Club. We’ve already put pressure on them so give them a chance. No more Scranton or Trenton (except for a rehab start for Hughes). They should show us what they got here.
So the danger of bringing in Joba early is that there’s no long man if he needs to use 80 pitches in early innings. (and this is also true for Moose, Andy, or Wang if they have a bad outing)
Ross OhsoDuff is NOT, in no way, that guy.
Please no-one bring Igawa back—ever.
And what’s the deal with Chris Britton? Did he steal Cashman’s parking space, does he smell or something? Would he not have been a good choice last night—um, were he on the roster… again?
It is not even close to the worst case scenario. See Prior, Wood – Cubs, for worst case scenario.
What we have instead is exactly what many MANY of us predicted would happen when you rely on young, unproven arms to hold a season together.
This was obvious from about 6 months out, and it sits squarely on the shoulders of Brian Cashman.
Sorry Pete but it was very predictable. Both pitchers had extended injuries last year and have had in their careers. Kennedy has the same injury as he had last year, but he was totally ineffective before the injury this year. Hughes doesn’t play for 3-6 months of the last two seasons. It is totally Brian’s fault and it will cost him his job.
Amazing I agree the youth movement is in total shambles. Santana I think won again.
Art, I’m for giving them a chance as they are the best we have. The trouble is that we are giving them a chance and their injury history is showing that they don’t have the stamina, All this with them on closely monitored fitness programs, pitch counts and all the rest of that stuff.
Santana would have given us starts and innings, now he’s doing that for the Mets. The yanks pitching has been a mess for the last few years, Cashman has done nothing to improve it and it continues on it’s downward sprial.
65-70 pitches from Joba hopefully will translate to at least 5 innings, that’s more than how many IPK has been giving us each game. So plugging Joba into Ian’s spot now really isn’t too early especially when Ian is out on the DL anyway.
“Joba called Kennedy in some article his best friend. Think that will create a rift?”
Nah, not if Ian is a professional. What are the Yanks supposed to do, leave that 5th spot open while he’s out? He knows Cashman’s most realistic options are either Joba or Igawa, he can fault Job or Cashman for going with the obvious choice. Cox and McCutcheon et al are promising down the road but they are not ready in the next 5 days.
“Amazing I agree the youth movement is in total shambles. Santana I think won again…Santana would have given us starts and innings, now he’s doing that for the Mets.”
Pov, I have to respectfully but strongly disagree with you. How did Santana win again? He’s with a team in total disarray both on and off the field. And if we were to have to pay him $200 million and to trade away the farm, I would hope that he could give us more than “starts and innings” as you said. At that price we’d better get WINS from him, and lots of them. That’s not what the Mets are getting from Santana right now.
IPK and Hughes are struggling so far, but Santana is not looking that rosy either. We need to focus on our own team’s problem right now and stop wasting time on what could have been.
are there any available pitchers out there that could help through this rough patch?
Good luck to Ian. I suspect his days as a Yank are about over. He just doesn’t have the stuff needed. Makes you wonder what Yanks scouts and front office are smoking.
I think Ian is a good pitcher (along with Phil), but he needs more pitching experience. He was taken out of the minors too quickly. You can’t be a major league pitcher with only 2 pitches. He’s still very young and has much more to learn.
Kennedy should stay in the minors for the rest of the year and be a trade chip.I like young pitchers but we need a free agent starter for next year.Maybe even two since Musina and Pettitte won’t be here.
Kennedy=bust
Dee, Santana is 6-3 with a ERA of 3.41, he is well over the league average with 65K’s. Better yet he averages 7 innings per start. I think pretty much every team would be very happy with those stats including the Yanks.
The problem is that Santana is a proven known pitcher with the Stats to back him up, also at 28 he has many years left. I’d rather pay the money for someone I know is going to perform as opposed to what we have gotten which is really not much of anything.
Pete is right 2009 is going to be ugly for Yankee Pitching unless they find some real talent.