A-Rod back soon, but what kind of start will he have???
Lot of pressure on that man!!!

If Cabrera doesn’t hit, ( I’m afraid Brett isn’t ) Jackson will be up by mid-season!!!

Good thing we signed Pettitte!!!

Hughes has a chance!!! Good make-up, stuff!!! Head on straight!!! Can’t say the same for Kennedy. If he can’t come back up and get it together, he looks like trade bait after going back down and being successful.

Once we get the results on Bruney, we can take it from there. Still no reason to panic and ask for trades. We get Arod Back Early May, Nady in late May, and Wang could be fixed by June 1… Its a Long Season Peeps…. Chillax….

Judicious points as always.

A further example illustrating the foresight and innovative thinking of the Red Sox Front-Office. If you read The Yankee Years, Verducci devotes a whole chapter to the Red Sox and Indians use of ASMI’s biomechanics (Dr. James Andrews’ Institute) imaging to identify weaknesses and liabilities in pitchers’ deliveries and mechanics.

Evidently, the Yankees, along with the rest of baseball, were invited to utilize the same technology (for a fee, of course). The Yankees declined the opportunity. Why? Well, I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

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That being said, I don’t know if I agree with you about Joba’s velocity indicating a latent injury. The YES gun readings clocked a number of his fastballs last night at 95+ (probably inflated). However, the MLB Game Day radar gun lists his fastball consistently ranging between 92-94.

You may or may not recall but last year, early in the season, when Joba was pitching in the pen and even in his first few abbreviated starts, he wasn’t reaching 95-98 either. He seems to take longer to build his arm strength. Given his age, this wouldn’t surprise me. Moreover, Burnett, evidently, has advised him about the virtues of pitching in the lower 90s and saving high 90s gas for when it’s necessary.

I wouldn’t draw any definitive conclusions about Joba’s velocity, potential injuries it may signify, for another month.

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As for Girardi, I didn’t love his bullpen management last night. But without Bruney or Veras, I can’t really fault him. Last night was a brutal loss, one of those rare April losses I lose sleep over. But blaming Girardi is too facile an explanation.

The Yankees had bases loaded twice in the game with no outs (7th and the 9th) They scored a total of one run. ONE!! You can’t win games playing like that. When bases are loaded with no one out, a team can score two runs on outs. Anything less is a failure.

Last night he knows Burney is hurt and won’t likely be available for the Boston Series. So they’re up by 2 late with a chance to win Game 1. AJ’s going tomorrow (Saturday), but it’s against Beckett so that’s a tough game to be optimistic about winning. So, use Mo tonight (Friday) for a four out save and give him Saturday off. Win Game One, probably lose Game Two and come back to try to take Game Three with Pettitte against Masterson and Mo available.

Okay Tex, I’m with ya! One reason I’m never hot on reading postmortems is that everyone has the answer yet hardly anyone agrees!

I do best when I process what I have seen in a manner that makes sense to me, and then just move on. I don’t think anyone needs to hear my take on anything last night because I believe my take is as “right” as anyone else’s – but the only important thing about it is that it works for me.

I will continually defer to the experts, and for me, they are not posting on this board, present company included!