A quick list of Yankees injuries
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on May 04, 2010 
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• Jorge Posada is day-to-day with a mild calf strain.
• Mariano Rivera was out today with some tightness in his left side.
• Alex Rodriguez is healthy enough to play after a bit of concern about his right leg.
• Chan Ho Park is stuck in Tampa with a strained hamstring.
• Curtis Granderson is on the disabled list with a strained groin.
• Javier Vazquez is healthy but skipping his next start because he’s been ineffective.
Chad-
Thanks for the casualty report.
It’s clear that the battle continues, and the replacements have made it to the front, and are ready willing, and able to fight.
Victory is at hand.
Even with the injuries the team is still strong. We will continue to conquer!
That’s crazy! Let’s hope the team gets better quick
Where’s Golson?
Brandon-
Next week.
It doesn’t seem like there’s much to worry about regarding Alex, Mo and Jorge.
Lots of teams have injuries, especially the day-to-day sort.
The Yankees just have so much talent that they can overcome them.
Let’s just hope there are no serious or season ending injuries and the Yanks will be in great shape.
Wow, what are the chances this year replicates last year with guys taking turns on the DL every month?
There is a difference that is being lost in these constant discussions about Vazquez between the Yankees having a problem and them being doomed or even in trouble.
They are not equivalent and every discussion on here does not need to take a battleground stance where you on one extreme or the other. Especially when I bet if you get down to it the people having the discussion true feelings most likely meet in the middle.
Losing Vazquez or having him pitch terrible is a problem. Putting Mitre in the rotation is a problem. But that does not mean the Yankees are doomed and they could still very well have the best team in baseball.
However, baseball is unpredictable and when your a team constructed to win the WS every year it is all about eliminating the unpredictability and securing as many advantages relative to the competition as you can. With a healthy and right Vazquez, the Yankees have an incredible plus relative to pretty much every other team in baseball outside of the Rays right now.
Without Vazquez the rotation is still very strong, but it is vulnerable. He was supposed to be a predictable piece of the rotation who was going to give us 200 quality innings. Very, very few teams get through the season with 5 or 6 starters, so pitching depth on this team becomes a bit of a concern. Hughes could tire as he gets up there in innings. This division could come down to as little as 1 game and that could be the difference between HFA. The Yankees are an incredibly strong team at home, so that is definitely something that eliminates unpredictability to a degree and absolutely secures them the best chance to win the WS.
This Yankee team is making the playoffs unless disaster strikes. But that does not mean losing Vazquez (which even most on here think will not continue) is not something that is a concern with this team. There is a ton of baseball left to play and a lot can happen. Comprising your depth in the most important place to have it is a problem.
Gimp Nation!
Didn’t see the new post from Chad –
Re: SJ44?s comment on Swish?s postgame interview last night ?
Agreed, he really seemed excited for Winn, as did the bench after he hit the dinger.
Cash and Joe deserve credit for fostering that atmosphere. Especially Joe ? he does not seem to play favorites, or ignore the reserves. From the bit I?ve read, he goes out of his way to make all the players feel integral to the team. Not easy when you have 25+ guys, many with egos. It?s that part of managing that goes beyond in-game or tactical decisions.
Curtic Granderson on Martha Stewart right now…
No, I’m not kidding.
The bench has done a fabulous job so far.
Cervelli especially has been an overachiever.
There is so much hype on Montero & Romine and hopefully they pan out, but Cervelli has fit like a glove on this team so far.
Yanks don’t need someone like Golson right now. They need a backup catcher for a few days.
I am not sure all these things really qualify as injuries. Aren’t most of us stiff and sore if we work/play/exercise hard? I know I am.
MTU
sorry, I don’t know how to do western breakfast…an eastern internet breakfast on the way to you, complete w/ real maple syrup
Stuckey-
You mean he can cook too ?
I bet they are making Pulled pork.
comet May 4th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Erin, Doreen and Betsy do you provide breakfast as well? Somehow I don?t see Erica and Trisha making breakfast for those of us helpless males out here, but ladies you could prove me wrong.
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comet, I would be happy to provide you with a donut/bagel and a latte from Starbucks. That’s my idea of “cooking” breakfast.
Where’s Golson?
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In Scranton playing like ass
Golson may have to wait. They might bring up Moeller while Jorge is unavailabe to catch. And with Mo being day to day I think they’ll probably keep the extra pen arm that they have right now.
“This Yankee team is making the playoffs unless disaster strikes. But that does not mean losing Vazquez (which even most on here think will not continue) is not something that is a concern with this team. ”
Actually, if you ask me, that’s EXACTLY what it means.
If YOU’RE convinced the Yankees will make the post-season with our without 200 innings from Javier Vazquez, what exactly are the stakes then?
Specify them…
Stuckey
are you a secret Martha Stewart fan? and what did he say?
upstate kate May 4th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I am not sure all these things really qualify as injuries. Aren?t most of us stiff and sore if we work/play/exercise hard? I know I am.
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exactly. Most of them aren’t that big of a deal, IMO.
stuckey May 4th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Curtic Granderson on Martha Stewart right now?
No, I?m not kidding.
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really? That’s awesome-I wish I had known. I would have set my DVR. What are they making?
Kate-
The western edition is as follows:
Denver Omelet smothered in cheese w. hot sauce on top.
Cup of chile on the side.
Coffee black. Thick and strong w. grinds in it. (usually you can stand the spoon up).
thought you might want to add it to your menu.
Thanks for the eastern version though. I need my strength.
Just a quick update:
Montero has struggled a bit to start the yr. But he had a big night last night and he struggled when he first went to AA too. The hits will come.
Romine has been killing the ball for a few weeks now. He’s bet collecting doubles and he’s hit hr’s in back to back nights.
The Yanks have a couple of second baseman that have started to really hit the ball too. David Adams and Corban Joseph. One is in high A and the other in AA. And Russo has started to get hot in Scranton.
MTU, didn’t hear it (wife has TV on, I’m working on my laptop), but from what I can gather he was supposed to be an in-studio guest, but couldn’t make it because of his injury (they showed stills of the injury) so they talked on the phone for a few moments.
From the last thread: Thanks Doreen and Erin.
quick, without looking it up.
who’s the famous cutting edge performance and conditioning coach who oversees all yankee conditioning in the whole system, is paid a million a year, and makes sure the 200 million dollar +MLB salary investment gets on the field ?
In response to various posts from the previous thread:
Stuckey, history is history. What worked last year won’t necessarily work again. It might work, that’s true, but it might not. You want to try going through a year with an “eh” 5th starter in a brutal division? Didn’t we talk last year (not us, the board) about not giving away games when the race is expected to be very tight?
SJ, ok – I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Mitre looked good last time out, but that’s a very SSS. He has a lot to prove IMO.
Patrick, IMO Phil has to be the #5 starter because of his innings limits (and yes, I know they are not as severe as Joba’s). I have never lost faith that Phil will be a stud and a true #1, but just because you expect him to pitch that way this year doesn’t mean that someone who doesn’t think that way is being pessimistic.
Dana Cavalea?
Randy-
I think his name is “Murphy”.
And he is working for all clubs at least some of the time.
Very strict disciplinarian. Lot’s of rules and Laws laid down.
Actually based on what we’ve seen of Mitre this year he could be our fifth starter. He might well be a better alternative than Javy, although I really do think Javy will come around. The only injury that concerns me is Granderson’s. He may be able to play in a month but groin injuries can take much longer to heal than expected and can nag at a player impacting his performance all year.
C
I keep checking the stats to see what Romine is doing; he really is killing the ball and, presumably, playing good .
Comet…
I offered sausage a while back.
If I am not mistaken a Western Breakfast would include biscuits and gravy, also home fries. Lots of eggs, sausage. etc.
We don’t go out to breakfast unless we are on the road. You should see what those truckers eat. They are those all you can eat things, and they eat it all.
reposting this:
Here is a chart I pulled from Lookout Landing using tRA
#1 STARTERS: 130 tRA+
#2 STARTERS: 112 tRA+
#3 STARTERS: 100 tRA+
#4 STARTERS: 91 tRA+
#5 STARTERS: 76 tRA+
so #1 starter is 30% better than average, then 12%, then average, then 9% worse, then really bad.
The Yankees with the exception of Vazquez all have tRA?s in th 2?s and 3?s. Its like ERA, so thats really good.
SAS-
see my western breakfast above.
Try that.
I don’t know Randy. Seems to me the Yankees, despite being an older team, have had less injuries the last two years than just about anybody.
They only have 2 guys on the DL.
Hard to get worked up and blame the S&C coach for minor bumps and bruises.
Betsy,
No response on your contradicting Vazquez statements? K..
And the definition of pessimistic is, “A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view”
Expecting Phil Hughes to pitch worse than he is now and pitch like a 5th starter is definitely a negative view.
jerkface, you really ought to be comparing the Yankee rotation to the rotation of other playoff-caliber teams, not to the major league average. The Yanks aren’t really competing with Kansas City and Baltimore and Oakland, they are competing with Tampa and Detroit and Minnesota and Boston.
I started to do it but I lost patience. I think I’m beginning to lose a step in my old age.
Jerkface
Thanks for the explanation, but I would have thought 4 pitchers were better than average, but that may be by results rather than ERA. I know CC had a bad game, but who else did?
Aw, randy l. Injuries happen. To every team. Even the Red Sox.
This isn’t like the rash of hammies that occurred several cold, wet Aprils ago.
WYH,
yea its just the point being that most teams don’t have solid #4′s and #5′s, even some playoff teams don’t end up with a solid back end. I’d probably also wait till the ASB to compare playoff teams.
Doreen-
“This isn’t like the rash of hammies that occurred several cold, wet Aprils ago.”
it’s even colder where he is now.
Heard he was banished to the Siberian Gulag.
I have a pretty solid back end
“Stuckey, history is history. What worked last year won’t necessarily work again. It might work, that’s true, but it might not.”
You can say that about anything Betsy, but it IS working again this year, and they just don’t award “Get into the postseason free” cards in ML.
You don’t like ANY “uncertainty” Betsy. This is the recurring theme of the majority of your posts. You desire to be able to ‘reply’ upon predictable, productive performance from 25 guys, and that betrays an acceptance of the reality of a game played everyday for 6 months.
And you seem to choose to ignore that has happened over the last month (17-8) in favor of the unpredictability of what will happen tomorrow and next week and next month.
“You want to try going through a year with an “eh” 5th starter in a brutal division?”
I don’t “want” to. I want Vazquez (or Mitre) to pitch as well as possible. But I KNOW if they don’t, it won’t prevent the Yankees from winning over 100 games, unless (as LGY put it), disaster occurs, and I’m not going to worry about that for even a second.
This team is very likely a 100 win team even if the Yankees call Ed Whitson out of retirement and install him as the 5th starter.
You have to CHOOSE to ignore history, and the current make-up of this team to conclude otherwise.
Didn’t we talk last year (not us, the board) about not giving away games when the race is expected to be very tight?
MTU..
Never been to Denver or seen Denver omelet on a menu. We drive from Arizona to New York. The coffee is usually awful but not that thick stuff you are talking about.
I insist we go to Starbucks if there is one around….lol…I am a spoiled brat
Patrick-
That is really more information than we need to know.
As Tex said this morning, it takes a long time to count to 162 so over the course of playing 162 games, bumbs and bruises are going to happen. The goal is to prevent longer DL stints.
SAS-
You haven’t lived if you haven’t had a Denver omelet.
Mile high. If you get my drift.
You’re right, SBucks is more for the Jet set.
Patrick, you’re just not reading my posts, lol. I never said Phil was going to pitch like a #5 (whatever the average ERA for that is – close to 5?). I said for me he was as #5 because of the innings limits.
Here’s the definition of optimistic:
**disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome. **
Here’s the definition of realistic:
.interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical
Expecting Phil to pitch like an ace this year is optimistic; expecting Phil to have a good, but not necessarily great year, is realistic.
I don’t feel like going back to the previous thread to review what you claimed I said about Javy… If you care to rehash, great – I will respond. If not, let’s just agree to disagree.
bumbs= bumps
Betsy-
“Expecting Phil to pitch like an ace this year is optimistic; expecting Phil to have a good, but not necessarily great year, is realistic.”
Spot on !
stuckey,
Like I said yesterday, I am not interested in arguing with you personally about this point any further.
You are too often more concerned with drawing battle lines for days on this board than having discussions. It is boring and tiresome. And quite frankly your attempt to get Betsy to stop posting certain things or criticize everything she posts is getting annoying.
I was part of this problem before, but this type of discourse suffocates the board just as much as other posters concern with the media and Boston you hate so much.
MTU, that is what I have been saying all along, but Patrick thinks he’s going to be an ace THIS year and that anyone (ME) who doesn’t think so is being negative.
Patrick said, ?I think he will pitch as well as he has pitched thus far for the rest of the season.
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There is little chance Hughes pitches this way the rest of the year?is that really what you meant?
“Expecting Phil to pitch like an ace this year is optimistic; expecting Phil to have a good, but not necessarily great year, is realistic.”
Spot on !
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I’ve been a Hughes fan for a while (prospect hugger that I am) & I completely agree.
The kid is doing great, but let’s not get carried away.
woah. too much bad info for the first post of the morning! how about a “today in the journal news”?
Since we were on internet breakfasts this morning and because I have been made hungry I post the alternate Western menu below:
Heuvos rancheros smothered in cheedar cheese with fresh Hatch chile sauce poured over the top ( I prefer red Chile sauce).
A side of home fries.
And a glass of “horchata” to wash it down.
Man is that good.
Expecting Phil to pitch like an ace this year is optimistic; expecting Phil to have a good, but not necessarily great year, is realistic.
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You have said that he must remain a 5th starter! That means you think he’s going to pitch like a 5th starter (5+ era).
And right now, considering he’s pitching like an ace I think my “optimism” is more realistic.
And I didn’t claim you said anything. I copied and pasted two completely contradictory statements that you posted about Javy Vazquez. It’s getting very apparent that you aren’t being honest with me, or yourself.
MTU (aka GBURL) May 4th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Since we were on internet breakfasts this morning and because I have been made hungry I post the alternate Western menu below:
Heuvos rancheros smothered in cheedar cheese with fresh Hatch chile sauce poured over the top ( I prefer red Chile sauce).
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MTU, you’re making me hungry! LOL
Betsy, you forgot one:
pessimistic
pes·si·mism
n.
1. A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view
Betsy-
I believed that Phil’s year would closely mirror a normal distribution of statring results.
But CB may have added an X factor which will “skew” Phil’s results.
Because of the “X” factor I have had to revise my predictions upward.
The “X” factor is Phil’s increasing velocity, command, and use of 3 types of FB’s.
As CB has pointed out Phil is slicing and dicing with his best pitch.
The secondary stuff keeps the hitter’s off balance, and he is missing a lot bats, and K’ing the heck out of batter’s.
He’s scary good right now.
Arguing with Betsy about her attitude is quite tedious, why don’t you guys move on? This is on par with arguing with Trisha about whatever.
just finished my egg with homemade habanero sauce.
By the way folks, this computer “idiot” does not know how to copy and paste. Could one of you tell me how. I thought you were supposed to hit right button, but that is in a light color and doesn’t seem to be available to me. Thanks in advance.
“Like I said yesterday, I am not interested in arguing with you personally about this point any further.”
That is your right.
“And quite frankly your attempt to get Betsy to stop posting certain things or criticize everything she posts is getting annoying.”
I’d suggest not replying to what you don’t understand LGY. Whether I post anything or not, the dynamic that exists between Betsy and this forum will continue apace. What occurred this morning is essentially a daily occurrence, with no help from me.
I understand the “live and let live” sentiment, but in a forum that exists for personal interaction, I personally don’t see the value in watching a valued member of this forum get frustrated by the reaction they get on a regular basis. I don’t consider that being a “friend” to this person.
You may choose to believe this or not, but my intention is to perhaps draw some attention to why this occurs, in order to perhaps move beyond the frustration of its frequency.
I’d suggest you consider what’s truly productive about arguing that members of the community should just stand by, say nothing and let it happen everyday like clockwork.
addition to the menu:
Freshly baked sopapillas with Honey.
Sorry for the oversight.
Get your “Box o’ Joe” at Dunkin Donuts, featuring NYY Mgr Joe Girardi; DD will donate $5K to Girardi’s Catch 25 Fo http://twitpic.com/1kye0n
SAS, highlight the area you want to copy, but pressing the left button and going over the selection. Then right click and click on copy…then right click and hit paste
SAS May 4th, 2010 at 11:39 am
By the way folks, this computer ?idiot? does not know how to copy and paste. Could one of you tell me how. I thought you were supposed to hit right button, but that is in a light color and doesn?t seem to be available to me. Thanks in advance.
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Highlight the text you want and hit Control C to copy and Control V to paste
Time to walk the Perrito’s
Enjoy your breakfasts.
back in a while.
Patrick, you said you expect Hughes to continue doing what he is doing and because of that you are being realistic, not optimistic. Do you really believe Hughes will finish the season 19-0 with an ERA of 1.44 in 162 innings allowing only 64 hits while striking out 156?
I would say you are far more optimistic than Betsy is pessimistic
pat May 4th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Get your ?Box o? Joe? at Dunkin Donuts, featuring NYY Mgr Joe Girardi; DD will donate $5K to Girardi?s Catch 25 Fo http://twitpic.com/1kye0n
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I bought an iced coffee from them last night that had the Yankee emblem on the cup
Guru Man May 4th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Patrick, you said you expect Hughes to continue doing what he is doing and because of that you are being realistic, not optimistic. Do you really believe Hughes will finish the season 19-0 with an ERA of 1.44 in 162 innings allowing only 64 hits while striking out 156?
I would say you are far more optimistic than Betsy is pessimistic
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This is impossible. Only because Hughes will have more than 19 starts.
I re read your post SAS, you can also hit control and the C button for copy and control and teh V button for paste
Did you guys see this-
A fan at a Phillies game ran on the field and got tasered. On the field. Ouch
http://wcbstv.com/local/philad.....73702.html
Patrick – I already explained more than once that Phil should stay as the #5 because of innings limits. If you want to take it to it’s unnatural conclusion that I think he’ll pitch to a 5 ERA, be my guest. Since you think that your optimisim that Phil will pitch like an ace this year is realistic based on 4 starts, I can assume that you think Austin Jackson will be a contender for the batting title this year?
Tom, I know the difference between being pessimistic and being realistic. Expecting Phil to pitch like a 23 year old and having a good (how many times do you want me to say that I think he’ll pitch well this year), but not great, year is realistic. How that’s pessimistic is beyond me.
Erica,
Thanks so much. I am practicing. Do you start highlight from where you want to end or from where you want to start.
SAS May 4th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Erica,
Thanks so much. I am practicing. Do you start highlight from where you want to end or from where you want to start.
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Either one works. I usually do it from the end, but you can certainly highlight in the opposite direction
“Where’s Golson?”
Exactly where he should be. Getting on base 29% of the time in AAA.
Patrick you just can’t waste your time with you-know-who.
Its a fruitless exercise and you’ll just end up more frustrated than when you began.
Let the hand-wringing begin.
Break out the Paxil.
What possible indications do you have that would lead you to believe that Phil Hughes will have a 5 ERA in 2010?
Do you even watch the games?
Get a clue. Please.
John P (Chengdu China)
How are all the small injuries going to effect the Yankees? Seems all the old Yankees are getting small injuries.
Joe Morgan (11:08 AM)
Well old and injuries go together. Obviously the Yankees aren’t old, but older. You’ll see that happen throughout the season. The problem with being older is that it takes longer to recover from those injuries. But if I’m a Yankee fan, I’m not worried about anything right now. Cano has stepped up to join the elite players on that team and the starting pitching has been great, other than Vazquez. The Yankees, unlike Boston, don’t have a lot to worry about right now.
#1 starter, #2 starter…..#5 starter really only have meaning at the beginning of the season and when the playoffs start. Other than that, it’s about merit. Right now, Vazquez is this team’s #5 starter.
Wanted to share something cool on the blog. I played Divison III baseball for two years at Elizabethtown College in PA. A 2006 graduate of Messiah College (D-III), Chris Heisey, was just recalled to the Cincinnati Reds today. I CAN PROUDLY SAY THAT I SERVED UP A HOME RUN TO A FUTURE BIG LEAGUER!
Mike (Ohio)
Mr Morgan: On the ARod-Dallas Braden spat a few weeks ago, do you think ARod does or says what he did if it’d been say Bob Gibson or Roger Clemens on the mound?
Joe Morgan (11:12 AM)
Well, he couldn’t have said that because those guys had more than a handful of wins. As I said at the time, I had to be schooled on that in a way, because I had never thought about that. I definitely know you don’t run across the mound if the guy is standing on the mound. I’m sure that when running out to my position, I ran across the mound. I never thought about it. But A-Rod is an easy target. There was one report that he stomped on the rubber and another report said that wasn’t true. It’s because he’s A-Rod.
Thank you Guru Man
What else is new? Lol I’m pretty sure johnson is somehow hurt.
Golson doesn’t appear to be in today’s AAA lineup, very telling if you ask me.
“What possible indications do you have that would lead you to believe that Phil Hughes will have a 5 ERA in 2010?
Do you even watch the games?”
I watch the games and know almost certainly Andy Pettitte is going to have an ERA around 4.00 when all is said and done. Can’t put too much stock in small samples. Over 162, everyone reverts to the mean. Thing with Hughes is that we don’t have enough evidence to know what his mean is. It ain’t going to be 5.00 though.
All fans that run on the field should be tasered (it was done by a cop and not stadium security). The threat of jail doesnt stop them from doing it. Maybe intense pain will.
miggs- GTLU Reigning Champion May 4th, 2010 at 11:56 am
What possible indications do you have that would lead you to believe that Phil Hughes will have a 5 ERA in 2010?
Do you even watch the games?
Get a clue. Please.
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“Expecting Phil to pitch like an ace this year is optimistic; expecting Phil to have a good, but not necessarily great year, is realistic.”
Unless 5 ERA is “good” does not sound at all like Betsy is saying he will pitch to a 5 ERA.
Pretty ironic basic reading comprehension slipped past someone telling another poster to “get a clue”
I think Javy may well deserve a place on the injury list. In 2004 he played, was injured and did not tell anyone. Could this be the same thing again?
Rishi
Thanks for that post. As much as Joe Morgan can get on people’s nerves as a broadcaster, his answer is the best I’ve heard so far. Intresting on his take that Arod is an easy target.
Ode to a Tasered Fan
Fans on the field are a pain in the grass,
But chubby cops should show some more class.
Either chase ‘em down or let the players have some fun –
Wouldn’t you love to see Arod or Tex or Swish deck one?
Tasers can be fun, just ask Minka!
If the Sox hit Papi once or twice, he won’t raise a stink-a –
Might boost his BA, certainly couldn’t hurt
(Minka, tough girl, thinks it’s a fine way to flirt.)
Smiling every night,
Derek
Are the Yankees injuries the only team EVERY sports writer is concerned with now? These are athletes it happens, get over it. (nytimes, nesn, et al) Enough !
How about this, with all the injuries they remain in contention,.and are only 1 game back,. opened the season playing mostly road games, on the road, and still find ways to win.
Other teams have major players out with injuries, and have losing records. Yankees are keeping keeping it real!! Chomp on that for a change.
Phil Columbus -
I agree – spent too much time discussing the “incident” with my Met-fan cousins after it happened. If I agree with Joe Morgan, you know there has to be some truth to it
Hey LGY
Here’s your basic reading comprehension lesson for the day….
“Patrick – I already explained more than once that Phil should stay as the #5 because of innings limits. If you want to take it to it’s unnatural conclusion that I think he’ll pitch to a 5 ERA, be my guest.”
Don’t challenge anything I post if you can’t even follow along with the comments.
LGY, it’s pathetic. He’s completely obsessed and you know he is based on his ridiculous response to my Cano post. If anyone thinks I said Phil will pitch to a 5 ERA this year, then excuse me, but they need an eye or a brain transplant.
LOL Based on one post? I’m actually being kind – but he’s not worth spending any time on, so I won’t.
I just guaranteed Posada will be fine by picking up Montero for my fantasy team. lol
Cameron
I read that NY Times article, and yes they are bias, just waiting for the Yankees to fail.
This title in the NY Times says a lot, ” For one night at least, Yankees depth meets test.”
Just waiting for failure to pounce!
In his Daily Futures piece at ESPN (Insider req’d), Kevin Goldstein mentions that Romine is probably the Yanks’ catcher of the future, because “his overall tools are well above-average for a backstop and scouts project him as an above-average defender down the line.”
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....aft-27784/
Country Club, thanks! I’m not an Insider so I can’t read the piece, but it’s nice that Romine is getting some love.
Erik K
congrats to you, can you also proudly say you struck him out?
The Yankees Win
enjoyed your “Ode”
Since today’s subject of the day seems to be optimism/realism/pessimism, let me add my two cents.
I think the conclusion that as presently constituted, and barring a 2009 Mets-like disaster, the 2010 NY Yankees are almost certainly a postseason team, is a REALISTIC one.
And given that it’s May 4th, concerning ourselves are homefield and a potential postseason rotation is entirely unnecessary.
Heretofore, concerning ourselves over whether Javy Vazquez should or should not start in Boston, what Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Austin Jackson or doing, what Nick Johnson, Curtis Granderson and Javy Vazquez are not, Joba Chamberlain’s velocity, Randy Winn’s batspeed, Derek Jeter’s groundball ratio, various nicks and bruises, Joe Girardi’s relationship with the media, and other such matter while not inappropriate, should be kept in perspective.
Again, all of these things are in-bounds, but if you agree with the premise the Yankees ARE a postseason team, it does seem that some of the angst and at times anger is lacking in appropriateness.
I don’t think there is any real reason why Phil Hughes could not pitch all year the way he has pitched so far. But, it is realistic to think that at some point he will have a bad game or two or three. As will CC, AJ, Andy, etc.
Do you think Posada will play tonight?
SAS May 4th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Do you think Posada will play tonight?
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No. Girardi said probably not ’til Friday.
Hey Kate,
Can’t say I struck him out. There’s a reason I’m at a cubicle, and he’s in Cincinnati playing for Dusty Baker!
Eric
I’m not an insider either Betsy, but looks like RAB told us the important part.
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“I don’t think there is any real reason why Phil Hughes could not pitch all year the way he has pitched so far.”
Doreen, Sandy Koufax in his prime would have a tough time pitching as well all year as Phil Hughes has done so far.
CC, yep – of course, keeping on the train of thought, who’s to say Romine will keep this up, lol? Just kidding!
It’s very encouraging – if he keeps this up, as CB said, then he will be considered a blue-chipper.
my lord, people. i don’t think betsy said phil was going to pitch to a 5 ERA.
we’re giddy, but tempering our expectations for the season.
no one has yet to explain why a turn can’t be skipped for the #4 pitcher. why does it have to be the #5 pitcher. if the pitching day does not fall on the pitcher being skipped’s day, then pitchers have to be pushed up or back anyway.
i can understand why they might not want to put javy in the 5th slot because it really doesn’t matter and can be ego-bruising inducing.
but was just curious about the whole gotta be the 5th slot that gets juggled if anyone does.
Doreen
Phil is on a mission to do great. He’s flirted with a perfect game, a no no, pitches into the 8th, and doesn’t consider the #5 spot as something that will define his abilities. He has the best “starting rotation era” on the team. Phil will prove Joe’s choice (of him vs Joba) to be the best for the Yankees.
What I like about Phil is he throws strikes, instead of a lot of balls. H e doesn’t nibble. I only wished he was a lefty, a HOMEGROWN lefty , to replace Andy.
If you’re a regular in here you really don’t need injury reports like this one.
Actually even if you’re not a regular you should probably know this stuff.