Hello, I must be going (back to Scranton)
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Aug 02, 2008 
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Here’s how the season has gone for Chris Britton …
March 23: Optioned to Scranton
April 25: Recalled from Scranton
April 28: Optioned to Scranton
April 30: Recalled from Scranton
May 9: Optioned to Scranton
May 10: Recalled from Scranton
May 20: Optioned to Scranton
May 27: Recalled from Scranton
June 5: Placed on disabled list
July 4: Activated from disabled list, optioned to Scranton
July 31: Recalled from Scranton
Aug. 1: Optioned to Scranton
I’d like to send Cano to Scranton.
Only the Yankees can get a useful AL East reliever and two years later make him into a AAAA pitcher.
The Yankees are so quick to send Britton down.People forget Edwar Ramirez still hasn’t pitched a full good year as a reliever.And was worse before finally playing good.
Some of the people in the other thread who were saying this game wasn’t Mo’s fault are crazy.
I wonder if those same people watched Sidney Ponson battle and put up 7 zeros on 2 hits. And you’re going to seriously try to tell me that Rivera should get a pass when he couldn’t do that for one inning? Come on, that’s pathetic. And stop with the offense stuff. You can’t always get big hits, or knock around a pitcher, especially one who has been exceptional this season.
The bottom line is Ponson gave the Yankees a chance to win the game, and you would have liked to see Rivera give them a chance to win the game, but he didn’t. There’s no way around it. Eventually tonight the offense would have scored, they just needed to hold the Angels for a little while.
It was a team effort to lose. The offense had a lot of chances to put up numbers on the scoreboard. MO had a chance to put up a zero on the board and let the game go on into extra innings.
What was the point of Mo putting up a zero? So the offense could flail away without clue? The ABs in this game were awful. At least Mo saved the bullpen by giving up the run because the Yankees weren’t going to score if the game went 20 innings. Too bad the Yankees can’t demote the entire lineup so they can learn how to actually have a productive AB.
Tomorrow I better see fire in the clubhouse and ambition to win. I want us to score first and put pressure on the Angels.
Recalled 5 times, which will soon be 6 b/c in sept he will get called up again…
How many options does he have left?
The bottom line is Ponson gave the Yankees a chance to win the game, and you would have liked to see Rivera give them a chance to win the game, but he didn’t. There’s no way around it. Eventually tonight the offense would have scored, they just needed to hold the Angels for a little while.
When the offense doesn’t score any runs in 9 innings – how on Earth can you blame anyone besides the offense for losing this game?
If Mo gets out of that inning unscathed and David Robertson gives up a single run in the 11th or 12th inning – would you have blamed Robertson for the loss instead of directing your ire towards that group of nine hitters that couldn’t manage to scratch a run across home plate?
I don’t get how this is even a debate. If the offense had scored a single run, perhaps it changes the outcome of this game with Mo in the 9th.
It’s really a simple argument. The team can’t win if they don’ score. How that’s any pitcher’s fault is beyond me.
Guiseppe Franco, I know it’s difficult to grasp, but let me try to make it as simple as possible. Sidney Ponson, a padestrian pitcher at most, held down the Angels for 7 innings. Then Marte had no trouble holding them down for another. You play 9 inning games in baseball. You would have liked to see your closer, the best closer of all time, hold down the Angels for 1 more inning, again, like Ponson did for 7 before that, to at least give the Yankees a shot in the 9th.
In case you didn’t already know, when the home team comes up in the bottom of the 9th inning in a tie game, if they score a run, they win the game. It means squat what the offense did before that moment, the bottom line is they COULD have scored a run in the bottom of the 9th. Instead, they didn’t get a chance and had to try to do it off K-Rod.
It’s baseball. They weren’t able to score runs earlier in the game. EITHER WERE THE ANGELS. Bottom, the Angels closer got it done, the Yankees closer didn’t. It’s nothing against Rivera, but his performance sucked the energy out of that place so fast it was quite amazing. You went from thinking this is a VERY winnable game to so much for that.
Understand it now? Or should we blame the offense for Rivera allowing the Angels to score first on a night where no one was able to score runs?
There is no need to blame anyone.
It’s what happens nearly every single night; one team scores more than the other, the team with the most runs wins. A very good team will be outscored nearly 60 times in each season, with scores ranging from 1-0 to 20-0. It happens, you go to sleep…wake up…and you do it all over again.
Mariano is very good, but there are people on the other teams being paid lots of money to score of him, and sometimes they do.
Retire his luggage!
DFox— That’s amazing logic. By your “thinking” the offense is never accountable until the last out is made. Are you serious? Sure, Mo gave up a run and gets the loss and he deserved it, but when you lose 1-0 the OFFENSE is far more to blame than the pitcher who gave up one run.
It’s the offenses fault hands down. We’ve seen this pathetic act too many times this year by these underachieving so called all stars for it to be an aberration. The pitching has been solid this year; not great but solid. The offense has been a major disappointment and the major cause of this teams funk. For anyone to turn a blind eye to this and blame Rivera for the loss is a case of not paying attention.
Britton should get a nice Christmas bonus for the way they’re bouncing him up and down this year. I’m thinkin’ half a mil.
While blaming, Jeter is not the player the Yankees need in the #2 spot.jeter is getting a free ride.As many plate appearances he gets,and he hits more double plays,forceouts and strike outs, is not productive.He’s popular and gets a free pass.When is the last time we called him captain clutch,with a straight face?
Arod is distracted with home life.You can never count on him in a clutch play.
Mo gave up this game.If any reliever(i.e. Kyle) had come in besides Mo and gave up the winning run,we’d all call it for waht it was,BAD.
Who thought Ponson would pitch better than Andy against the Angeles, and still lose,go figure.
BECAUSE HE SUCKS!
All you people think he’s the next coming of Mariano or K-Rod.
Calm down, the guy blow’s. He’ll be cut in the offseason.
WE better get over giving Mariano a free pass too.Because of him Beantown got to the World Series in 2004. So when he stinks he really stinks.
Last night I kept saying, How could he step in to the All Star game, with the homefield advantage on the line ,and not allow a run,but last night with the game on the line,gives up the game winning run,!Sheesh
This is my theory on Britton. I think the knock on him is that he was out of shape when he came over. He was a good reliever in Baltimore, a decent 7th inning guy. But the Yankees seem to be prejudiced against heavyset players. Look at their teams over the past ten to twelve years, and even before then. The only really fat guy on the team was Wells. Irabu was known as the “Fat Toad”, but he was a couple of pounds overweight, not obese by any means, but to the Yankee “Braintrust” he was gigantic. Remember when they got on Bruney’s case last year, because he was a little pudgy. They told him to slim down and he did. For some reason fat guys can’t be Yankees, and Britton is the latest victim. Not saying that he’s all that good, but I don’t think he’s that bad. I just believe that they asked him to lose weight in no uncertain terms, and he told them to piss off, so now he’s stuck on the Scranton shuttle. Just release the guy already.
The way I see it the blame belongs to the offense, plain and simple. I don’t believe there is an easy solution for this inconsistency at the plate but I do believe games like these will cost us in the end. If we keep this up there will be no October.
That’s what happens when you’re not that good (the options I mean).
Let him stay in Scranton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvz8y_DUSY
Pete-
Whats with your Chris Britton fascination?
What I can´t understand is: What was Girardi´s hurry in ejecting a solid long reliever like Marte, who can sustain his effectivity for 2, 3 innings and call Rivera, with nothing to save in a 0-0 game?
Rivera is a pitcher to save a lead.
The new Joe looks like the old Joe in managing pitchers.
Wow, how many options does this Britton have on his contract? lol
Why don’t they give Britton a chance. He pitched rather well for Baltimore. Everybody was excited to get him in a trade. What happened?
Rubin: You only use one option a year no matter how many times you are shipped out. Send him up and down three more times this month. What the heck.