Joe Girardi audio from today
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Podcast on Feb 14, 2009 
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Here’s the audio of Joe Girardi’s press conference today. I stopped my voice recorder when a question about Joba going into the bullpen was asked as I needed to find a rusty butter knife to cut my throat.
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If you’re a Yankees fan remotely interested in the prospects, you need to be reading Chad Jennings of the Times-Tribune in Scranton. The man is dialed in. He wrote a good story on Mark Melancon and his chances of making the team.
Melancon is one guy I’m hoping to see a lot of this spring now that he is healthy. He, Mike Dunn, Andrew Brackman and Wilkin De La Rosa are high on the list.
pete, lovin’ the iphone photos.
did you know you can turn that thing and take some landscape style?
This about CC’s comments in the last post:
If you think about it, CC has been on some VERY impressive rotations many of which had two aces for entire seasons.
In 2007, CC and Carmona both pitched to a 3 era and were followed by westbrook, byrd and Lee. Somehow, lee was terrible that year and the best pitcher in the game the following season but two aces and two starters who would probably be 2 or 3 on most teams. They were good enough to shut us down in the playoffs in 2007.
In 2008, CC went to milwaukee with a rotation that already had a health sheets. Gallardo was also part of that rotation initially who could be an ace.
Neither one of these is as good on paper as the yanks 2009 rotation but when people ask CC about rotations he has been on in the past, they stack up as some of the better rotations around.
from previuos post:
“Charlie Lau had his detractors and supporters.”
maine yankee fan:
i personally liked it a lot .
one of the best hitting coach hardly anyone has heard of gave me some great advice about lau’s teaching of letting go with the top hand.
gene clines simply said that the danger is getting in the habit of letting go a split second too soon. it creates the “helicoptering” you see when a hitter has the bat twirl over his head. in the old days this was what you saw with rich gedman. you see it now on some of arod’s bad swings. when you see that often from arod , it’s a tell he’s letting go with his top hand a split second too soon.
gene clines was griffey’s hitting coach for years in seattle and then bonds hitting coach in san francisco. and then with sosa in chicago where he probably had less influence because sosa had already done his thing by then.
he was last summer one of the 4 dodger hitting coaches hired to implement torre’s hitting approach throughout the dodger system.
as an aside clines was the starting center fielder for the “we are family pirates” that won it all in 1971.
also-”In 1971, the Pirates also became the first Major League Baseball team to field an all-black starting lineup.[7] That lineup, on September 1, was Rennie Stennett, Gene Clines, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillen, Dave Cash, Al Oliver, Jackie Hernandez, and Dock Ellis.[”
clines was also a very good center fielder and all around good guy.
Pete,
Make sure that knife is dull. Otherwise, it’s not the same.
There’s lots of Yankee talk on espn. Mo hasn’t hit the mound, but sounds confident that he’ll be ready for opening day.
I’m not as worried about Mo as I am Posada. Although it’s not ideal, I know we have a backup plan for Mo. Yes, it’s Joba. The club won’t acknowledge it, but he’s a great temporary solution (not long-term at all).
pete, there is no other blog that even come close to yours. keep up the good work
My response to the prior thread:
Man, it feels good to read about baseball again – lol at the “juiced up ” question.
I guess every team has similar stories to tell at the beginning of ST – everyone looks great, lost weight, etc….- but I can’t help feeling very positive about this team.
The best news is that Jorge believes his swing is back; I hope he’s right about catching Opening Day, but if he’s not, it’s not a big deal. It’s a long season and the Yankees can not afford to rush Jorge back just for one game. If he needs more time, so be it.
Phil gaining 10 lbs of muscle should make him stronger – I hope he has a good camp, even though he’s not going to make the team. It’s nice that Alba is looking good- again, I think he’s an underrated piece to the pen (not flashy, but gives quality innings).
And hide the butter knife from randy l.
I just read that Mets & Livan Hernandez agreed to a miL deal.
What does that say about Pedro? Ouch.
Good article about Melancon – I’m looking forward to seeing him pitch in ST.
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February 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
And hide the butter knife from randy l.
I just read that Mets & Livan Hernandez agreed to a miL deal.
What does that say about Pedro? Ouch.
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I’ll personally track Randy down every time that Hernandez gives up 6 earned runs in 7 innings and Randy reminds all that, “Yeah, but did you see the number of innings Livan ate?”.
“And hide the butter knife from randy l.
I just read that Mets & Livan Hernandez agreed to a miL deal.”
m-
now who was that who bet me he wouldn’t be pitching this year?
if you think it’s funny now that he he’ll be pitching in the majors this year, think how funny when it’s five years from now and he’s still pitching in the majors.
he can’t get any slower. how’s he going to regress?
I would not be at all worried about Mo but I think having concerns about posada is legit. Who knows if posada will even start opening day? Mo is not a concern- he is still on the same pace he is every season. All he needs is 8 innings in all of spring training – essentially, that could be done in less than the last two weeks if need be but I dont think that will be the case. If Mo actually thought he wouldnt be ready in time, he wouldnt be constantly telling us that he will IMO. Posada seems a lot more iffy and even if he can catch a little during the spring, how good will he actually be at throwing runners out with his shoulder coming off surgery and at his age.
Riverave had a very interesting idea in that in order to keep posada healthy, the yanks should make molina the personal catcher for Burnett and Joba. At first, I cringed when i read that but as usual, the logical over at riverave is flawless. First, they think it would be easier for Posada to only have to learn one new pitcher during the spring – true. Also, Joba already has better numbers pitching to molina – true. This will help posada stay fresh by giving him a few days off per week – true. Both CC and Pettitte are lefties and would likely control the running game off first better than the others so posada wouldnt have to be as good with the throw – true.
Finally, catching the three of the top four would be posada right about 100 games which is what the yanks are expecting out of him – it keeps him healthy during the years and more importantly, keeps him fresh for the playoffs – true. The idea of posada only catching three of five starters does sound like a strange one as afterall that is only 3/5th of the rotation for our starting catcher but we cannot reasonably expect posada to catch almost every day, remain healthy and continue to prevent base running. This is essentially a decent way of addressing a few problems posada may have next season. I dont love the idea but I do like it.
Thanks for the Joe G. audio…
I’m amazed that reporters can think up hypothetical questions in Feb. regarding the season. We haven’t even started ST yet!
ps: you should gave splurged for the new Swiss Army Iphone.
It comes with a camera and fold out butter knife.
Pete, sometimes I really don’t get you. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of yours, but I don’t understand how anyone can consistently refer to Mariano Rivera as the most important member of the last Yankee dynasty, yet when anyone suggests putting Joba (the only pitcher in the bigs who has demonstrated the potential of POSSIBLY being an adequate replacement) in the pen you act like they’re taking crazy pills. Could Joba potentially be an stud starter? Sure, no one’s debating that. And obviously, great starting pitching is hard to find, but at the same time, is finding a 4th or 5th starter more difficult than finding a relief pitcher of Mo’s caliber?
Joba’s going to start, that much is settled. I just hope you wanted to take a butter knife to your throat because you’re tired of hearing the starter/reliever debate and not because you think the idea of putting Joba in the pen is a ludicrous idea.
Alex’s swing was developed under the Lau Method.
By the way…Pete has found his reporting sweet spot!
Abraham is at his absolute best describing the sights, sounds and doings at spring training!
His natural instinct to identify and promote other gifted up and coming baseball writers is very much appreciated.
I have a better understanding for the respect he has for colleagues in his industry.
Wilkin De La Rosa is one of the most intriguing arms in the Yankees system. He has a ton of potentially, having converted so late to pitcher.
he said bullpen by commitee, hopefully not when the season starts
we need mo