Last 4 starts in the minors..(regular season & playoffs)

(W-L) 2-0 25IP 18H 4R 4ER 9BB 38K …..WOW

Kevin

Barring a failure to get those nine hits or a 1,240-hit performance by Jose Molina over the homestand, it’s a record Jeter will hold forever.

Either Pete’s rubbing off on him or Jake came with the requisite bit of humor/snark.

Next year, he’ll be a younger younger 35 than Matsui or Damon or perhaps, even Jeter.

thanks for that. If you don’t mind, I am going to quote you in the thread above.

MIND BOGGLING is no abuse of hyperbole; that’s exactly what it is. The people you’re asking to “give a chance” to younger players are, finally, not worth talking to. They have never planted a garden, it seems, they want their vegetables and fruit from the A&P, because they don’t have to take a risk that the seeds they plant may not develope.

Well, so much for imagination, vision, and as you so eloquently state, the “true pleasure” of watching those players grow.

Hughes was filthy last night. He’s 21 years old. If I could go back in time, and was offered Santana for Hughes STRAIGHT UP, my answer was then and is now an unequivocal NO. The people here groaning about how we “blew it” will fall into the ranks of “I never wanted Hughes dealt” when he’s dealing for us five years from now and Santana in decline.

People who wanted this and want Cano traded, IMO, have no vision, no patience, and are only interested in short-term gain, which you don’t get, any way, by making stupid moves. They don’t know what “true pleasure” is, and are not interested in how winning is accomplished, they are too terrified of being viewed a loser to give any creative thought to what stupid moves will do to this team over the next half decade and beyond.

We have excellent young pitching in our ranks. We can add a free agent like Sabathia w/out having to give up a potentially great young position player (Cano), which would be utterly dumb. People here who say Orlando Hudson can replace him – I am sorry, I am laughing at you; your view isn’t even worthy of me bothering to engage you any more in discussion.

Wang is returning as well, so we’re getting a proven starter for 2009 without doing something detrimental to our future.

Aceves is another plum who could fill a 4-5 spot efficiently. The bullpen is really looking like it will be one of the best in the majors for years to come, with Melancon, Dunn, Sanchez, etc. on the rise, and the kids who have had success this season at the Major League level.

Throw in your lot with the likes of us, Tidrow, who want the plants watered, not pulled out at the roots. The rest is just noise.

The fact that we let Rasner make 20 starts and Ponson make 15 starts in a “rebuilding year” while Ian was lighting up AAA tells us all we need to know about what they thought of Kennedy.

He is Igawa from the right side. With all the arms coming through the system, there is no place for Kennedy. He is trade bait. Hughes has a future with us, Ian does not.

Macademia, because I don’t spend 24-7 on these forums playing armchair manager doesn’t mean that I don’t observe or cannot make an informed judgment. In fact I think it’s a strength that I am not so emotionally bound up in every move ever made by the Yankees because it might give me just a smidgeon more of objectivity. In any event, I, known for never giving up on any Yankee project by and large, have watched enough of Kennedy, both in the Bronx and then in person when he pitched in the finals for Scranton a short while ago, that I feel that he should not be allowed anywhere near the Bronx if it is in a Yankee uniform. I did not say that Kennedy will have no worth whatsoever, I’m saying that I don’t believe he has what it takes to pitch for the New York Yankees. Those are two very different statements.

Anyway, I ended it all by saying it was “just my opinion” which in the end here is all any of us has – our opinions. The real experts are the ones who are paid to make the decisions. They are not the ones posting on the lohud blog.