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Why not Hughes, Melancon, Berroa?
ugh.
And the hits just keep on coming.
It seems like the game that just happened happens every year and Yankee fans from sea to shining sea lose their collective heads.
The only concerning things about today’s events is Bruney’s health. Everything else? Goes away, largely, if NY wins tomorrow.
Worried the most about Bruney right now
“Why not Hughes, Melancon, Berroa?”
Hughes isn’t need til Tuesday. I’d guess they bring him up then.
Robertson to get through the weekend, Hughes called up Tuesday?
Bad night overall, just got to try and forget about it and come out swinging tomorrow against Beckett. I think they’ll put up some runs up Saturday.
Tough night personnel wise.
This was the one I thought they had the worst chance of winning but how they lost does hurt cause mentally I already put it in the “w” column.
Yanks are more then likely getting swept, not a huge deal in the long run but sweep is looking very possible
I hope the media rips Girardi…Against Boston Mo he is lucky if he gets 3 outs against them asking for more is stupid. No matter how good he is, he is nothing special against them. He is like any other reliever. Just speaking the truth.
Ransom should just be put on the 60 day DL to clear a 40 man roster spot.
Quads are very difficult to predict how long they need. Often it takes 4 weeks.
They’ll need to clear a 40 man spot to get Berroa up here.
Bruney made 9 appearances in the first 15 games. Just absolutely, positively absurd usage, especially in April when it’s cold.
Now he’s got a bum elbow. Nicely done there by Girardi. I can only imagine the howling screams if it had been Torre who did this.
If Bruney’s hurt they’re going to have to bring up Melancon and that will require another 40 man roster spot.
Remarkable how so much of their depth has been absorbed already.
Wonderful.
Between the Rangers disaster and this debacle it’s been a rough sports night
The Yankees NEED to get a better bench, this is just ridiculous. I understand the need to DL Wang but having 13 pitchers on the staff (9 relievers) is extreme overkill. I’m fine with Robertson, they should send Jackson down though.
Too bad about Ransom, he’s not a good player but he was looking better at the plate.
Will they call up Miranda to be a bench bat and have Pena start at third or call up Eric Duncan? My guess is Miranda because he’s on the 40.
I really really hope Bruney is okay. He has been fantastic this year.
Thomas Anderson: “It seems like the game that just happened happens every year and Yankee fans from sea to shining sea lose their collective heads.”
You, sir, have hit it on the nose.
I am starting to see the same very disturbing pattern as last year:
- injuries that send players to the DL across the roster very early in the season, which then leaves management wondering how the hell to manage. Also leaves a very thin bench.
- serious lack of offensive production that costs games. And a loss is as bad in April as it is in September.
- unreliable starting pitching which then makes for an overworked bullpen which is already wobbly to begin with.
I just don’t like it. Maybe we have new faces in the team, but the patterns are repeating themselves
I’m as optimistic as the next guy, but damn I’m so sick and tired of Mo blowing games in this ballpark.
Somebody please defend him here over his career – do it.
Our team will flirt with goodness this year, but greatness rises to the top. We’re NOT great, nor do we have the pieces to be great.
We could plate 3 runs against Beckett tomorrow and Veras could give up 4 to lose it.
I’m embarrassed.
Could this night get any worse?
Big loss tonight as the Yanks didn’t step on their throats when they had them on the ropes. This game was in the bag and now the Sox have all the momentum going into the next two games at home.
Hopefully Bruney is not horribly injured and can be back in a month or so.
How much more to Yankees hate YOUK?????
I’ll deal with the loss but the Yanks can’t afford these injuries.
They need Bruney to be ok.
Like Pena, Melky and Gardner are going to hit Beckett. They really need Tex to start hitting. He has done nothing. At best they still have another 2 weeks without Arod. If Bruney is hurt they have no set up man now. That is really going to hurt them.
“My guess is Miranda because he’s on the 40.”
Miranda really doesn’t help them that much. They need someone who could in theory play up the middle and third base.
Berroa has to be called up. It’s unfortunate but there’s not a lot that can be done.
This is an awful loss for the Yankees….a sweep seems likely, meaning the Sox will be rolling with a 10-game winning streak. It’s early, but this could be a loss that haunts the team all season.
There so much blame to assign in this game that it’s not worth the effort. How they play the next two days will tell us a lot about whether they are a champiosnhip team.
This is an awful loss for the Yankees….a sweep seems likely, meaning the Sox will be rolling with a 10-game winning streak. It’s early, but this could be a loss that haunts the team all season.
There so much blame to assign in this game that it’s not worth the effort. How they play the next two days will tell us a lot about whether they are a champiosnhip team.
“Hopefully Bruney is not horribly injured and can be back in a month or so.”
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hopefully a month? I hope it’s more like day to day.
Ugggg. So close to being a Yankee classic. so many runners left on base. Sheesh, just like last year. Bases loaded and no outs and no runs killed us!
“This is an awful loss for the Yankees….a sweep seems likely, meaning the Sox will be rolling with a 10-game winning streak. It’s early, but this could be a loss that haunts the team all season.”
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and the idiot of the day award goes to….
This is the norm. Every year the Yankees struggle in the first Sox series and Mariano has a rough one. This is nothing new. Tonight they had ample opportunities to push across at least one more run at the end of the game and simply didn’t get the job done. It is what it is, a loss, go out and win tomorrow.
Banner day for the Yankees
CB, if Bruney is hurt badly, do the Yankees put him on the 60 day dl to get Melancon here?
Is it worth calling Melancon up now or trying to wait til after 5/15?
“They need Bruney to be ok.”
They do. The game itself isn’t any big deal. But losing Bruney will be very painful, especially with the starters still not giving them enough innings.
Chances are they’ll have both Joba and Hughes in the rotation now.
The bull pen is going to get used.
CC now must, must get over this spat of lacking fastball command and start giving them more quality innings in games.
I still can’t believe Girardi used Bruney 9 times in the first 15 games of the season. Remarkably short sighted.
The injuries are more concerning than the loss.
Mo gave up 4 hits in the 2 innings. Talk about being owned by the Sox.
We will have Melancon.
I’m stil not worried, guys.
“CB, if Bruney is hurt badly, do the Yankees put him on the 60 day dl to get Melancon here?”
I really hope not. I’m hoping that Bruney’s injury isn’t something that is going to put him out 60 days. That would be very unfortunate.
But yes, if it’s serious then that’s what they’ll do.
I’m hopeful that it’s not that bad – Bruney was at the ball park today so that is a relatively good sign.
Why do I care about this game when Bruney is very likely hurt? In the grand scheme of things, the game is meaningless……I honestly have no idea how they are going to get through this season. AJ and Andy have held together the SP by themselves and the pen is ripped to shreds before May. AJ is out there by himself tomorrow no matter how many pitches he throws because there is no one to back him up. The team can’t score -I’ve said many times that the lack of hitting with RISP will kill them. It’s a fine team, but I think obviously overrated……and now they are absorbing more injuries than maybe they can handle.
Great, now Bruney will be done for the year for something stupid.
Who needs a drink?
http://www.ehrlichwines.com/im.....shot_1.jpg
Not the best night.
“Hopefully Bruney is not horribly injured and can be back in a month or so.”
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hopefully a month? I hope it’s more like day to day.
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Preparing myself for the worst. You know how it is with the Yankees…the worst case scenario is usually the one that occurs, unfortunately.
Luckily we have some arms in the minors that can help us out in the meantime.
Bruney’s elbow felt “cranky” on Wednesday. Still felt “cranky” today when he threw before the game so they sent him to NY to check it out.
link
durability. this is what we need.
but i guess we dont… haha
the yankees lost 5-4 to the red sox at fenway.
burnett starts tomorrow at 4:00.
new game.
win it and all’s well.
Well I have to say I am glad tonight I am not a Rangers fan. I’m not sure I could handle a hockey loss and a baseball loss with everything else going on in my life right now, but that’s neither here nor there.
The injury to Bruney really stinks, but I have to say, I absolutley love the way Albaladejo’s been pitching and Coke looks like he’s beginning to straighten things out. If this is not serious-and I hope to g-d it’s not-we should be able to weather the storm.
The nonsense about getting swept by Boston is just that: utter nonsense.
The direct cause of our loss tonight was one bad pitch from Mariano Rivera.
That does not a sweep make.
And so what if we get swept?
We swept the Sox in September 2007…and then they won the World Series.
What matters isn’t that we lost tonight; it’s how we come out and play tomorrow. if they keep winning two out of every three games, which they seem to have been doing, minus Baltimore, we’re in excellent shape.
Joe Girardi postgame on YES
Sorry this doesn’t sound too nice, but losing Wang (in his present state) & Ransom are addition by subtraction moves. We will surely miss Bruney tho.
This stinks. The bullpen is very bad now. They no one to pitch at the back end. All of there relievers are early inning relievers no one that should be in the 7th and 8th innings.
Well if Bruney’s elbow is cranky, and its just from being used so often, and not a random injury. That might be a small blessing in disguise. In that they have no choice but to be more careful with him and how he’s used from now on.
I find it hard to blame anything like overuse this year. Bruney’s thrown 113 pitches and only pitching on back to back games 2 times.
Nicely said, Rebecca.
If Bruney doesn’t go on the DL, Jackson goes down when Hughes is ready to start, right? Hoping for the best but with the Yankees you never know.
Hopefully the Bruney injury isn’t serious…
Forget the loss–it’s just one game…
It hurts till AJ beats Beckett tomorrow!
Let’s Go Yanks!
Rough loss, but it’s April 24th people. Relax.
A-Rod will be back soon and the bottom of the lineup won’t look nearly as bad.
Bruney being hurt is the story tonight, but there are arms in the minors, who could be even better.
I’m praying we get good news on Bruney. It is possible that it’s something simple.
Girardi said yes the Yankees had their chances, as did the Red Sox, and especially in the 9th. But one thing he said several times, and he said it like he meant it – “It’s just one loss.”
And even though if wasn’t fun to lose, a one-run game doesn’t sting for me as much as say a 20-run loss.
Get ‘em tomorrow.
THE SKY IS FALLING!
Angel- Agreed, while the loss bothers me, the Yankees injuries are of more concern.
That’s it game over man…. game over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need a Tylenol.
9 appearances in 15 games is over usage for sure. However, if you look at the games he appeared in, it isn’t that terrible. He pitched back-to-back days only twice – april 9th-10th (11 and 12 pitches) and 14th-15th (10 and 8 pitches). So really he hasn’t thrown a ton of pitches on consecutive days.
Like GB7 said, he’s only thrown 113 pitches. He’s thrown a good amount but you have to trust your 8th inning guy to pitch a decent work load. I don’t think what he’s done is excessive.
I have no problem criticizing Girardi (he’s done a piss poor job managing the bullpen this year) but I don’t think he’s overused Bruney.
I’d like to look at the glass as half full here, but this team just cannot put other teams away, and that might be its biggest flaw.
“Bruney’s thrown 113 pitches and only pitching on back to back games 2 times.”
GB7,
Come on. You know simply looking at how many pitches/ innings a relief pitcher throws doesn’t tell the story.
First off those 113 relief pitches came in only 8 innings. And they’ve only played 15 games so going back to back twice isn’t inconsequential.
And It’s not just the pitches thrown. It’s the warming up as well and the condensed usage.
He’s been completely overused so far this season. You can argue that girardi didn’t trust anyone else but that doesn’t change the fact that he was completely over used.
People have praised Girardi’s use of the pen ad infinitum. But his handling of Bruney his year has been abysmal.
And it’s implausible to believe that that usage isn’t a major cause of his elbow issues.
Pete on YES whispering to Zillo.
Yankees haven’t had many blow out wins. Most of their wins have been in close games so therefore you had Bruney being used so much.
Pitching 9 times out of 15 games in April is a lot and the month isn’t even over.
The offense needs to get it together with RISP and from the standpoint of helping out the late inning relievers so they aren’t used as much.
Mo postgame
It’s hard. It’s my fault. I’ll be in tomorrow and be ready. They told me I was coming in so I was ready. It wasn’t about getting 4 outs, I made a bad pitch. I think Bruney will be fine but we have to all just do our jobs.
just got back from going out to watch the game, crushing loss, just feel angry and frustrated…once Mo walked a runner in the 9th, I knew he was going to blow the save, I love Mo, he’s my favorite Yankee but it seems that Fenway has had his number since 2004, it’s going to be tough to sleep tonight…I hope AJ can answer the call once again tommorow but it seems the rest of the team is not helping AJ out, he always has to pitch w/ a burnt bullpen so not sure how confident I feel about the tommorow
With the event’s of April 24th put to rest we now focus on Apr 25th.
Coming soon:
Robertson, Berroa (by default) and Hughes.
Note to Kevin Long:
Shake it up just a little.
Also, Joe’s pushing it with Mo – asking him to get outs in the 8th and 9th. So much for being careful with their prized closer coming off of surgery……..and can Joe STOP taking Swisher out for pinch runners?
Tough loss and with injuries… when it rains it pours. Only silver lining is that we should likely see young guys like Hughes, Robertson and Melancon in pinstripes. The front office has focused on drafting pitching the last couple of years. It’s time for it to pay off.
Toughest decision will be on who to call up for Ransom. Miranda and Cervelli are the only position players on the 40 man roster who are available. Neither can play 3B. I’m guessing it will be Berroa.
Wang DL
Robertson recalled
Ransom DL
Berroa recalled and added to 40
Nady to 60 Day DL (or DFA Sanchez)
Trisha,
I go the other way.
I’d rather lose 22-4 than the way we lost tonight. In a blow-out, at least you know the team stunk and had no chance to win. A game like today has missed opportunities and a 2 run lead in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, where the Yanks played hard and came so close to victory…for me, that stings way more.
Trisha,
I go the other way.
I’d rather lose 22-4 than the way we lost tonight. In a blow-out, at least you know the team stunk and had no chance to win. A game like today has missed opportunities and a 2 run lead in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, where the Yanks played hard and came so close to victory…for me, that stings way more.
Tampa — Mo didn’t walk anyone in the 9th.
Cashman on YES
Sweet. Coulda used that win.
Wow, lots of moves, unfortunately.
Let’s see. We need another reliever. Robertson-check.
We need another infielder. Thoughts?
When they call up a starter, who goes down? Jackson? (he’s still with the team, right?)
How many guys are on the 25 right now? 24?
Then, when Alex comes back the position player goes down?
And if Bruney goes down, we need to replace his spot?
So confused.
Hopefully they have a bounceback win tomorrow.
And I agree with whomever said it earlier, I feel bad that we keep asking AJ to rescue the team.
I guess this is a world series game since we need to hear Francona’s post game. Like anyone cares what he has to say. I have seen enough of the Sox’s after 1 game for the year.
Nice post Rebecca.
Onward and upward.
Michele,
I agree. I am not hurting about Ransom’s loss (although I feel badly for him, personally). As for Wang, he needs to work things out, and that was the right move, and I expected it. Bruney makes things a little more dicey. I am hoping Veras found himself after his last outing and he can share the 8th inning duties with someone…who? I don’t know. But, we are all waiting on Melancon, but there’s a reason he hasn’t been called up yet.
Guys, this is an April game, get over it.
The real problem is Bruney.
Pete in the background
oh look, Peter next to Cash.
Cash said Wang has a hip problem…Where did this come from….
Maybe Bruney has been trying to impress the naysayers and has been throwing too hard trying to light up the radar gun.
Pete with plenty of face time right now. lol.
Could Pete look any more BORED???
And I agree with whomever said it earlier, I feel bad that we keep asking AJ to rescue the team.
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You wouldn’t feel so bad if you saw his paycheck every week. lol
And seriously, using the term, “rescue” on April 24th is asinine.
Do you guys ever learn?
Cash postgame:
10 days to 2 weeks physical therapy on Wang’s hips. Bruney was not overly concerned but he felt something barking lightly. Bruney didn’t want to go to NY to check it out but they are so close to NY they wanted to check it out. They’ll talk to Dave Miley and have an infielder here tomorrow.
Humberto Sanchez is taking up a spot the 40 man and he has done nothing.
Used to be a big prospect certainly not anymore. Maybe they should try to trade him or release him.
Here are the moves I think make sense.
Wang is down, Robertson is up. That leaves us with 9 relievers, 4 starters.
I think Jackson will go down on Tuesday and Hughes called up.
Ransom down, Pena starts at third, Miranda/Berroa/Duncan up.
If Bruney needs DL time I think they should call up another bench player, 12 pitchers is plenty.
Maybe the Yankees are finally being proactively cautious this year. The injuries last year that weren’t dealt with earlier haunted the team. Hope for the best
Yankeejosh, let me say this. It could very well be that it’s the opponent for me. I would much rather lose to them by one run, if we must lose the game, than 22 runs. Maybe with other teams I would feel the opposite.
I wish I could get YES from where I am. Maybe Pete is tired.
how many painful Fenway losses can Mo pin on us?
2004 the Roberts game
2006, Coco Crisp’s 8th inning triple
2009 ugh
I know there are more.
Cashman on the YES postgame: Wang needs physical therapy on his hips … ten days to two weeks
Cashman is saying this is often an issue with people who have had a Lisfranc injury.
Wang’s hips?
Angel Berroa needs to be here. He’s not on the 40-man, but it doesn’t matter. Get him to Boston tomorrow. Hell, I’d even DFA Ransom to do it. Good thing they can get D-Rob up for tomorrow, they might need that extra arm in the pen with tonight’s game going extras, and obviously the loss of Bruney.
Bob — good point. Burnett is not some 12-year-old kid who’s carrying a Little League team on his shoulders. I think his paycheck cushions things just a wee bit.
is this a repeat? I coulda swore I saw this season, last year.
“Guys, this is an April game, get over it.”
Oh… I forgot the Algebra involved in baseball.
April games= .5678 of those games in August and September
Bruney was not overly concerned but he felt something barking lightly.
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Hopefully it’s nothing big, but I hear elbow pain and that’s never good news.
“People have praised Girardi’s use of the pen ad infinitum. But his handling of Bruney his year has been abysmal.”
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I’m willing to cut Girardi some slack here because of the three dud starts by Wang. It’s tough to manage a bullpen when every 5 days they have to go 8 innings.
my fault zman
I think maybe Berroa is up, and Sanchez finally gets kicked off the 40-man. He is in eternal rehab.
Otherwise Jackson stays until Hughes comes up Tuesday.
Bob,
How about asking AJ to “pick up the team”?
Jeez.
I want to see A.J. go up and in on Papi tomorrow. He opens his mouth and not one pitch inside all night. And who hits the game winner, You-kill-us. How ironic. Not.
often an issue with people with Lisfranc? If that’s the case wouldn’t you have addressed the physical therapy early on?
they need to put Ransom on the 60day to free up Berroa IMO
Scranton didn’t play Pawtuckett by any chance did they?
relax everyone it is only the (insert game number here) game…
i keep seeing, it’s normal, we struggle every year in the beginning. Yep and exactly what have we won in this decade with the same routine?
Now personally i hope this is an opportunity to see some of the young guns, and please please please (to joe g) have the yankees practice hitting when someone is on second or third.
An infielder from Scranton would be either Berroa or Eric Duncan. They already know that Berroa can hit ML pitching to a .260 average. They don’t know what Duncan can do. Defense is a push….neither one is great. Berroa will come up.
This one was tough!
No problem, Tampa. Hard to really blame Giradi that much. He’s not the one who surrendered Bay’s HR or turned into jello at the plate with RISP.
It seems like Wang is going to be down for awhile. 2 weeks of just therapy, then you would figure they need to get his arm in shape. So maybe 3 or 4 starts in the minors. You are probably looking at 6 weeks until he is back. I really hope that Hughes is ready when they bring him up. They will have to bring up Tomko. With Joba and Hughes going to average 5 or 6 innings in there starts you will need a long reliever.
Htman213
April 25th, 2009 at 12:17 am
“Guys, this is an April game, get over it.”
Oh… I forgot the Algebra involved in baseball.
April games= .5678 of those games in August and September
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No Einstein. It means there are 146 games left. Over reacting to a loss in April is stupid.
>It’s tough to manage a bullpen when every 5 days they have to go 8 innings.
Good point.
“Cashman is saying this is often an issue with people who have had a Lisfranc injury.”
From what I understand it is fairly common for people to have problems with their knees and even hips from serious foot injuries.
Without even realizing it people can change the way they walk after a serious injury like a lisfranc.
This could be just them making it up, but it’s not implausible that his hip could be acting up.
Htman213
April 25th, 2009 at 12:17 am
“Guys, this is an April game, get over it.”
Oh… I forgot the Algebra involved in baseball.
April games= .5678 of those games in August and September
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I don’t care what the math says, September games are more important. Anyone who knows baseball is smart enough to realize you have 146 games left. There is only 1 whole game separating us from the Sox right now.
So get over it.
CB, Do you really think Bruney was overused ?? I didn’t see anything overly taxing when he was called upon….If he traved with the club, I have to think maybe a little inflamation or early season stiffness…..Berroa provides an upgrade stick and with Alex due back in a few weeks it’s more than survivable……Melky’s clueless approach to plate disipline is not going to work…He’s a liability in the long run….Two srikes and he expands the zone by a factor of two….Game had 7 dp’s, 18 lob’s and was just another chapter in the Yankee / Red Sox saga…Rivera just grooved that pitch to Bay, just a flat 92 mph fastball….Marte can be effective for just so long, 1 inning max….Tough loss, AJ / Beckett both will need to go deep tomorrow, as both pens were dinged tonight….Great game though…
Jumping to the next thread. Feel free to leave your snark behind.
Aceves eventually needs to come up and take the long relief role. I am sorry but even tonight was another game where they were running into trouble. He pitched well for Scranton tonight.
AJ will come through 2morrow. Still wondering why Joe Torre is not here?!?!?!
tampayank
April 25th, 2009 at 12:11 am
just got back from going out to watch the game, crushing loss, just feel angry and frustrated…once Mo walked a runner in the 9th, I knew he was going to blow the save, I love Mo, he’s my favorite Yankee but it seems that Fenway has had his number since 2004, it’s going to be tough to sleep tonight…I hope AJ can answer the call once again tommorow but it seems the rest of the team is not helping AJ out, he always has to pitch w/ a burnt bullpen so not sure how confident I feel about the tommorow
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Rivera does not pitch his best in April. He just needs more time to get going. It has nothing to do with anything else. The 2004 thing is nonsense.
Joltin’ Joe
April 25th, 2009 at 12:19 am
“I want to see A.J. go up and in on Papi tomorrow.”
Joe, it is one thing to pitch inside to keep a batter from crowding the plate. It is another thing to throw at a batter.
If Burnett throws at Ortiz or Youkilis it will get messy because you know full well that Beckett will go head hunting and someone like Tex would pay the price.
“CB, Do you really think Bruney was overused ??”
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almost the entire bullpen has been overused because they’ve had to finish 8 innings of Wang’s horrible starts.
Can you imagine if the Yankees didn’t have the depth they have in the pen?
still wondering why tex swung at that pitch over his head?!?
“I want to see A.J. go up and in on Papi tomorrow”
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I like Joba’s strategy better anyway. Throw strikes and watch him strike out 4 times.
ZMANN – don’t get me started! I could come up with about a dozen things Giradi did wrong!
Interesting that what the Yankees tried to avoid or didn’t want: two kids with innings limit in the rotation will happen once again.
It does appear that Wang will be gone for awhile. So we will see Hughes for awhile maybe even Kennedy.
“Beckett will go head hunting and someone like Tex would pay the price”
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Beckett would never do that because he’d get suspended for 5 games and wouldn’t miss any starts. Love how that works
CB
April 25th, 2009 at 12:09 am
“Bruney’s thrown 113 pitches and only pitching on back to back games 2 times.”
GB7,
Come on. You know simply looking at how many pitches/ innings a relief pitcher throws doesn’t tell the story.
First off those 113 relief pitches came in only 8 innings. And they’ve only played 15 games so going back to back twice isn’t inconsequential.
And It’s not just the pitches thrown. It’s the warming up as well and the condensed usage.
He’s been completely overused so far this season. You can argue that girardi didn’t trust anyone else but that doesn’t change the fact that he was completely over used.
People have praised Girardi’s use of the pen ad infinitum. But his handling of Bruney his year has been abysmal.
And it’s implausible to believe that that usage isn’t a major cause of his elbow issues.
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Yeah, but, you know as well as I do that every pitcher has a couple of times that an elbow or shoulder will be cranky every year. I still don’t see an overwork. I’m not saying he should be working 81-90 games a year, but, I also don’t think it would get that far.
as far as warmups, they throw 20-25 before coming in? about 10-13 at full effort?
Bad luck team, bad bad bad
Mad angry fans, mad mad mad
Had scoring opportunities, had had had
Joe Girardi will be fired soon, sad sad, sad
Boston Dave – go back to the WEEI site!
“It does appear that Wang will be gone for awhile.”
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2-3 weeks?
up and in doesn’t mean beaning someone. it means pitching inside, which they did not do tonight. credit papi for intimidating. and joba no less. don’t think that will happen tomorrow with AJ. you saw the up and in he threw the other day.
“Boston Dave – go back to the WEEI site!”
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I haven’t been there since I worked in Boston and wanted to listen to the Yanks @ Sox games while at work.
I’d never go there for any other reason…
“Do you really think Bruney was overused ??”
I do. Bruney has made more appearances than any other pitcher in the AL. The 2 other pitchers who have made 9 appearances are Cody Carlson and Scott Downs. Neither throws as hard as Bruney.
9 games in 15 games would project to 97 appearances in a season.
No one would say that 97 appearances in a season for an 8th inning guy who is a power pitcher is not gross over usage.
That’s the rate of appearances he’s made.
It’s April. It’s cold. He throws very hard. And he’s often thrown with poor mechanics in the past.
I think he was over used. Not as bad as Ohlendorf was overused at this time last year. But yes, IMO he was over used.
Jolton Joe,
They need to throw inside to Youkilis not Ortiz.
Youk is becoming the new Manny in that lineup. He is hitting as well as anybody in baseball right now.
They need to rattle him a bit.
True. Boston Dave. Very true.
You-kill-us is the hottest hitter in the game right now. why even pitch to him in that spot?
I guess none of the fearless reporters could ask that question.
Bruney’s overusage IMO has to do with no one else being reliable in the pen. Another reason why both Robertson and Melancon should be up here.
And maybe it’s a product of lack of blow out games from the offense. When your up big late in games you don’t need to use your important relievers.
“Youk is becoming the new Manny in that lineup. He is hitting as well as anybody in baseball right now.
They need to rattle him a bit.”
if you want to rattle Youk I would suggest an impromptu steroid test.
What’s really sickening is the bases loaded nobody out scenario against a garbage tosser like Lopez. Freaking inexcusable.
bill mueller 2004
kevin millar
After tonight`s game it looks like the Yankees are in trouble. If Tampa Bay wasn`t such a threat we could couynt on the wildcard. As it looks I hope we do better against the Rays. We always have the injury excuse.
Girardi can burn through a pitching staff like no one in baseball, no one with a job anyway. He made a mess out of Florida & the Yankees last season, here we go again. What awful management & Cashman is in there too. Mike Lowell is back after the same surgery as A-Rod, why didn’t he get it done after last season & be back & healthy already? Whomever is in charge of conditioning for this team needs to be fired, injuries that could have been avoided.