I guess it is a matter of opinion which was Joba’s best game. To me his best game was beating Beckett in Boston 1-0 last year. Molina caught that game. Joba prefers pitching to Molina. Yes, he did compliment Jorge for that one game, but I feel any enthusiastic, young pitcher would compliment the bat boy just because the game was won.

In the last game Joba pitched he said he didn’t get into his rhythm and he thought too much. Of course, he couldn’t get into rhythm – Posada was jittery and rush rush. Cervelli is cool and confident. Molina exhudes confidence when Joba is pitching. Most baseball people acknowledge that Joba is special and has a great future ahead of him. If he becomes either 1 or 2 in the rotation – he deserves the catcher he wants. Joba and Posada have history and both have egos and are hard-headed DESPITE the ages.

Yes, Posada is a decorated catcher and has 12 + years behind him. That is just it, it is history. Almost always that is an argument used – it is the past.

I may not be a baseball expert but I recognize sports egos. Jorge was on the DL last year and part of this year. When he came back here was Cervilli handling the pitchers very well. Excellent, even. Now you old catchers on this post, tell me truthfully what you would do if you were in Posada’s position. What exactly would you do. Establish yourself as the #1 team catcher. Did I call it??

But times change, dudes. It is almost like snooze, you lose. Jorge still has good skills at 37 but not as before. You say that a catcher never loses his pitch calling skills. How about if that tool was not his special skill?
How do you evaluate that skill. If most don’t believe in ERA or CERA as credible measurements then what do you suggest.

I guess you could go by just plain win or loss then. Nothing fancy just W or L. The team won more games while he was on DL and have lost more since his return. Is that coincedence, scheduling, rain, whatever.

There are two sides to every story and that is true with this one. Hopefully this will be resolved immediately for the best of the Yankee team because it is a very talented team.

1. About Twitter- I understand your comments about the system. My suggestion is just use it as teaser and marketing to lead people to your blog- “Teixeira scores from first on dropped popup to second baseman. Details at yankees.lhblogs.com .”

2. Re Teixeira scoring from first– He has received some kudos for that, but that was totally “the play of the game!” and he deserves more kudos for it.. doncha think so? Also, I’m a bit of a Geek, and am curious to analyze Tex’s progress around the bases VS where the ball was at each moment. I watched the replay on MLB.com a few times, and see that he was way past half-way between 2nd & 3rd when the ball was actually dropped, but how far exactly (Tex is out of the picture by then)? And where was he when the ball was thrown to the SS, and where was he when the SS caught the ball.. etc etc. What you realize is that he was not only “running out the play”, but he was running hard. I also want to know at what point he knew the ball had been dropped, or was he just “heads down, full speed” all the way? Did he get any signal from Rob Thomson? Oh- and I agree with Thomson’s idea of creating a DVD of the entire play- show all the angles, plus some of my geeky analysis.

Maybe you could help with this?? Thanks.

That’s like me saying, maybe if I was white trash from Jersey, drinking Natty Light I would appreciate Bruce more.

Wow, well said kingshaffy