Comments on: Perez, not Steinbrenner, owns the Yankees

By: Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:03:09 +0000

JMO – I couldn’t agree more.

By: Barry - acigarsmoker.com

Barry - acigarsmoker.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:58:54 +0000

All Theo has to do is take Perez and a Non Hispanic, and trade 2 hispanics back. Omar will take that trade as he continues his quest for an all-hispanic team..

By: Yardley

Yardley — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:13 +0000

It is getting painfully obvious that Cashman needs to improve this team in a few key areas. A starter, a lefty, and a right handed hitter on the bench.

By: DFox

DFox — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:36:14 +0000

steve, if that happens then the Yankees have more problems than we realize. The Rangers can hit, but they sure as hell can’t pitch. When all the pitchers have 5 eras that means weaker teams have no problem scoring runs off them. The Yankee offense should beat up on their pitching, lefties, righties, switch pitchers, I don’t care. If they don’t, then it’s going to be hard for this team to be any good because they should be able to hit bad pitchers that everyone else destroys. I’ll give them a pass on Perez, but enough is enough.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:13:42 +0000

Ranger series is not a walk in the park. We have Moose, Joba and Ponson going in this series against two lefties and Millwood. We struggle against lefties and lets face it the Rangers can hit. Unless our pitchers dominate I am not comfortable with us taking all 3 games and would not be surprised if we dropped 2-3 in this series. We are a very inconsistent and vastly over rated team

By: steve

steve — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:09:01 +0000

I understand the reasons why Girardi sat Abreu, Giambi and Cano. All 3 have played a lot of games and need some off days so they stay fresh. I also understand the reasoning to go with a righty dominated lineup but when you have the likes of Christian, Melky, Molina and of course the pitchers slot in your line up you are really giving up a lot of hits at the bottom of your line up.

We need to find some righty hitting to balance out this lineup and now also offset the loss of Matsui who can be out more than another 10 days if he needs to have surgery on his left knee. Cashman needs to bring Gardner up to give the line up another look. Gardner is a lefty, which does not solve the inbalance in our line up but he does give us a different look and may be a better option than Melky is right now.

we do need to find a righty bat, preferably for a corner spot in the outfield. Why not put Melky in package with prospects for a hitter and reliever. Lets look at Holliday, Guillen, Bay, Nady, Wigginton, or even Durham (who can play in outfield and be the spare infielder for 2b if Cano needs time off (Gonzo would go back to minors. Betemit would remain primary back up for 3b and ss when not playing first or DH. We need a professional hitter in on this team who can hit with men on base. We just seem to struggle when we have runners on. Our offense is no where near as potent as it has been in the past. While it is a priority to improve our rotation and pen, we need another solid bat that can help us win close games. This team shows very little ability to come from behind and stronger hitting will help us on the back end of our rotation where guys like Rasner and Ponson are going to have to win more 6-5 or 7-6 games.

Cashman has done a poor a poor job building this squad and there are way too many holes in our offense.

By: Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:03:23 +0000

Oliver Perez is an Ace. No doubt about that.

By: Blargh

Blargh — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:59:53 +0000

Perez has a 5.58 era/1.651 WHIP against teams not named Yankees this year

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So why is it that Perez pitches better against us than Santana?

By: DFox

DFox — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:57:29 +0000

The Yankees have been handed a gift in the next series. While they are playing the Rangers, the Red Sox and Rays will slug it out. All the Yankees have to do is WIN and they gain ground on one of the teams. Doesn’t sound that difficult. With every single game in the Texas series the Yankees have the pitching advantage and it’s not even CLOSE. The Rangers are over-matched in every game. This is a no excuse series coming up. The Yankees need to sweep. I think the series could be a turning point, at least it could put them in very close striking distance to the Red Sox or Rays, depending on who wins that series.

By: raymagnetic

raymagnetic — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:50:21 +0000

“Since our back end never does it why is it fools gold?”

Have you seen Perez’ numbers this year?