Scranton and Trenton playoff rotations set
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The SWB Yankees start the International League playoffs tonight against Pawtucket. Here is how they have their starters lined up for the best-of-five series.
Tonight at Pawtucket: Chase Wright
Thursday at Pawtucket: Ian Kennedy
Friday at Scranton: Kei Igawa
Saturday at Scranton (if needed): Phil Hughes
Sunday at Scranton (if needed): Victor Zambrano
Chad Jennings has a complete breakdown on his terrific blog. If you aren’t reading Chad’s stuff on the AAA team, you really should be. So get on it.
Trenton starts the Eastern League playoffs tonight as well. Here is how they line up:
Tonight at Trenton: Eric Hacker
Thursday at Trenton: Jeff Marquez
Friday at Portland: Jason Jones
Saturday at Portland (if needed): George Kontos
Sunday at Trenton (if needed): Christian Garcia
Follow Trenton in the postseason on Mike Ashmore’s blog. He does a great job as well.
Yankee fans are lucky to have Chad and Mike covering the AAA and AA teams. We’ve learned a lot more about the prospects than we ever have before thanks to them.
Interesting that the Yankees and Red Sox are facing each other in the AAA and AA playoffs.
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Peter Abraham
Talking about the redsox, how come gameday shows matsukaka pitching the 7th inning but lopes is pitching ?
Man Pedroia with another homer. This O’s lead better hold up.
Pedroia is the front runner for AL MVP, thats amazing.
Thats cool at least the boys down on the farm can beat the Sux.
“Pedroia is the front runner for AL MVP, thats amazing.”
According to who, Peter Gammons.
Pedroia has become what we all thought Cano would be.
A guy with half Cano’s talent has surpassed him as a player in less than two years.
If that doesn’t motivate Cano, nothing will.
If Cano had Pedroia’s work ethic and intensity, he’s one of the 10 best players in the game.
But, as the old saying goes, not all players are created equal. Some guys get it and some don’t.
wow the yanks have a 40 million dollar minor leager wow! what a bust!
When the Sox were playing the White Sox a week ago, Ozzie Guillen intentionally walked Pedroia rather than face him.
Ozzie joked that it was the first time he walked someone that looked like he just got off Big Brown……but he certainly respected him.
Wow… Chase Wright, Ian Kennedy and Kei Igawa. Now there’s 3 top prospects for you….
The kid is hot as a pistol right now. Before we enshrine Pedroia in the Hall of Fame let’s see how that long swing holds up, ok?
Its held up so far. He also seems to be getting better as a player.
Nobody is putting him in the Hall of Fame. However, he’s a Top 5 MVP candidate this year, is in the process of negotiating a multi-year deal with the Sox, and is a big reason why they are going to make the playoffs this year despite their injuries, Manny wigging out, etc.
He’s the Anti-Cano this year. Good for the Red Sox and bad for the Yankees.
Good God…another day of “who gets it” and “who doesn’t”? Everyone’s aware of the fact that you don’t like Cano and “those inside the organization feel the same and are tired of him”.
I’m not the only guy who doesn’t like him as a player.
Simply pointing out how one second baseman is helping his team to the playoffs and the other is not.
Its not a cheerleader blog. If you don’t like the fact some of us aren’t Cano fans, skip the posts.
I believe Pedroia is having a much-better-than expected year, while Cano is having a much-worse-than expected year. I’ll wait to annoint Pedroia the 2nd coming until after next season. I’ll also wait to say Cano is a washed-up has-been.
GreenBeret7,
Your’re right. The criticism of Cano is over the top. The same folks that preach patience and development want to crucify a 25 year old kid after his first bad year.
Why compare him to the currently hottest hitter in baseball? Pedroia is a terrific player having a fine season. How that translates into Cano being a career disappointment is unfair.
Robby Cano has been as great a disappointment for me as Joe Pepitone was ……At least Cano is still young & should learn from this lesson…..Good contracts are the result of good play…Good play is not the result of a good contract…So many young players get this mixed up…
Pat M,
Joe Pepitone? Joe Pepitone was one of my favorite players in ’60’s. He was “Robbie Alomar” smooth at first base lol. But you’re right, the night life took it’s toll on Joe.
Why are Yankees fans so quick to jump to conclusions. So many of us have already given up on hughes and kennedy. And now more than 50% of us have decided that Cano is a lazy bum. I guess the past 2 1/2 seasons dont count for anything? So this bad season totally erases the good of the past 3? I’ll never understand that. I’m not saying that Cano will reach the potential that many of us thought/think he had. But i also dont see how someone could come to that conclusion, after one bad season, that he stinks. He wouldnt be the first player to rebound the next year.
SJ, did Cano get it in 2005-2007 and then decide that he didn’t want to get it, this year? Does Jeter and Pettitte not get it this year? They’re all having decidedly worse years than the year before? Perhaps the spike in Pedroia’s seaso has to do with the players around him having career years or much better years than last? Could it be that hitting before or Ortiz and after Ellsbury be the reason, while Cano has spent the better part of the year being “protected” by Cabrera, Molina and Betemit?
Plate disipline is the root to his off-eason
Cano’s never going to walk a lot, but, then, neither did Mattingly, Steve Garvey, Tony Gwynn, Tony Oliva and a ton of other big time hitters. He’s going to hit…period.
He needs to work the count in his favor more often….He hits in too many pitcher counts….Not a smart hitter, especially when compared to the great hitters just mentioned…..
wow San has better pitching than the ny Yankees LOL
that’s swb
both Chad and Mike’s blogs are great – - i try to visit them both everyday
“Perhaps the spike in Pedroia’s seaso has to do with the players around him having career years or much better years than last? Could it be that hitting before or Ortiz and after Ellsbury be the reason”
Ellsbury, career year? Do you even watch baseball? If he was having even a decent year pedroia would have 20 more rbi.
Please, if you’re ignorant don’t open your mouth and prove it.