Starters now ready for their turn
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Mar 04, 2009 
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Nice quick game here at Disney. Meanwhile, the Disney Garbage Army completely cleaned the entire stadium in 15 minutes. It was frightening to watch.
Not much to report from this one as the Yankees lost 3-2. Ian Kennedy allowed two runs and Dan Giese one, going three innings each. Andrew Brackman and Mark Melancon each went an inning.
Melancon allowed a leadoff double then retired three batters in order in the eighth. He has thrown three scoreless innings this spring, allowing two hits.
The five starters will get into the rotation starting tomorrow when Joba faces Team Canada. CC, Wang, Burnett and Pettitte will follow him. Sabathia starts Friday, Wang on Saturday and so on.
Joe Girardi said the long-reliever candidates (Tomko, Giese and Aceves) will continue to get innings. Kennedy and Hughes could be relegated to minor-league games once the starters get stretched out. Girardi called Phil Coke “half a long man” and said he would still get work.
They envision him going anywhere from one batter to two innings. Girardi they could keep Coke and a long man in the bullpen. With Edwar Ramirez on the shelf, that could be what they end up doing.
“Meanwhile, the Disney Garbage Army completely cleaned the entire stadium in 15 minutes. It was frightening to watch.”
For some reason I thought this was very funny.
Is anyone watching mlb channel…Their showing Gaylord Perry’s 300 win vs the 82 Yanks…This was the team George assembled after they lost to the Dodgers in the 81 Series….Gone were Reggie, Nettles, Chamblis, Rivers etc…Bad team..Mattingly would be called up later in the season to play of and then ib….
I would like to win a game, but it’s hard to do that with the lineups the Yankees are putting out. That said, the pitching was ok today….
I guess CC and AJ will only pitch an inning tomorrow as they are set to start on Saturday/Sunday respectively…..
It’s very disappointing, but I guess not unexpected, that Phil will be relegated to the minor league games – we won’t be able to gauge his progress at all that way. Oh well – I guess the Yankees can and that’s all that counts.
Betsy – CC and AJ are not pitching tomorrow, haha, Pete was saying they will follow in the rotation.
The best game we played was yesterday against the USA All-stars.
The Young pitching looked good and poised against the all-star hitters and we mashed out 13 hits against their hard-throwing pitching staff– Gardner, Jorge, Tex, Swish etc. all looked good.
They had great ABs, especially in the 9th, fouling off pitch after pitch at 98 MPH from Lindstrom and we almost won that game.
These other games have been really lackluster, yesterday was fun to watch.
Pete :
I agree with your take and Girardi’s thoughts on how the bullpen could shape up. All pending health of course between now and the end of the month.
There is no way to squeeze Hughes and Kennedy in games because they have to keep the relievers on schedule too and get the long-man candidates some innings. Guess thats it for Phil and Ian.
“It’s very disappointing, but I guess not unexpected, that Phil will be relegated to the minor league games – we won’t be able to gauge his progress at all that way. Oh well – I guess the Yankees can and that’s all that counts.”
Betsy- Trust me their will be many eyes on Phil. Nardi Contreras will likely have a report for Eiland after every one of Phil’s starts. They want this kid to succeed but its obvious he needs some more time, hes 22 not 30 he has room to grow.
Best blog eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!!
Hey Pete, I use to be a Disney Costodian (Garbage Army man)back in 2003!!
And yes, we (they) do an amazing job!
Damon’s full response to “the quote” including:
“I don’t take offense to it,” Damon said. “I know how great of a player Jose Reyes is. We have different playing types. I’ve been around and done some pretty good things in this game. I feel like I still can. Hopefully, I have five more [years] in me, but barring injuries, he probably has another 10-15.”
Damon chalked up the media controversy that followed Rodriguez’s latest comments as a perfect storm of what is quickly becoming par for the course.
“Everything that comes out of Alex’s mouth nowadays, it’s going to be scrutinized to the fullest,” Damon said.
“I’ve just got to go out there and prove to Alex what I can do,” Damon said, grinning. “Alex and I are very good friends, and I think over his whole ordeal, we’ve gotten closer. We’ll talk when he gets back.”
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Damon’s full response to “the quote” including:
“I don’t take offense to it,” Damon said. “I know how great of a player Jose Reyes is. We have different playing types. I’ve been around and done some pretty good things in this game. I feel like I still can. Hopefully, I have five more [years] in me, but barring injuries, he probably has another 10-15.”
Damon chalked up the media controversy that followed Rodriguez’s latest comments as a perfect storm of what is quickly becoming par for the course.
“Everything that comes out of Alex’s mouth nowadays, it’s going to be scrutinized to the fullest,” Damon said.
“I’ve just got to go out there and prove to Alex what I can do,” Damon said, grinning. “Alex and I are very good friends, and I think over his whole ordeal, we’ve gotten closer. We’ll talk when he gets back.”
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http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....8;c_id=nyy
isn’t it wang saturday, burnett sunday? not burnett saturday?
I promise, I only click “submit” once
“2-6 so far in spring?
OK when does it start to actually mean something?”
The minute the Sox have a better record.
is there any update on arod im anxious to noe i hope is notin bad or notin no injuries i want him playin for my country im so anxious to noe if hes ok to play
Betsy, you do know that these games don’t matter, at all, other than players staying healthy….right?
OMG..
So they “envision” Phil Coke as Scott Proctor. Poor Phil Coke.