Pregame notes: Posada maybe a week away from catching drills
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Notes on Jun 05, 2010 
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UPDATE, 12:33 p.m.: The Yankees have decided to switch the batting order. The top six stay the same. Cervelli batting seventh, Gardner eighth, Russo ninth.
Joe Girardi said yesterday that he plans to keep Jorge Posada in the lineup more or less every day, and those starts are going to remain at designated hitter for the time being.
“We’re hoping that some time in the next week he might start to do some catching stuff,” Girardi said. “He’s probably going to have to catch in the bullpen. He’s going to have to throw to the bases. We’re going to have to do some blocking. It’s not like starting over, but it’s getting back to it.”
If Posada were still on the disabled list, this is the kind of thing that would be helped by a rehab assignment, but the Yankees didn’t want to keep Posada on the DL any longer than they had to. His bat was ready to go, and they wanted him in the lineup.
“You’d see how the foot would really react in certain situations (in a rehab),” Girardi said. “We wanted to get the bat back, and he was able to come back sooner than we thought so it’s worked out well for us, but we want to work him back to being a catcher.”
• The roof is open today, and it’s amazing what a difference it makes. Curtis Granderson said yesterday that he only remembers playing one game here with the roof open. “I think there are bad shadows,” Girardi said. “But it is nice to have fresh air.”
• Andy Pettitte has started six day games this season. He’s 6-0 with a 1.12 ERA. At night he’s 1-1 with a 4.68. “He’s always been that way so I can’t say, as you age you get up earlier,” Girardi said. “Some guys just like to get up and pitch.”
• Teams often rest players when they’re playing on this turf in Toronto, but Girardi said Monday’s offday might keep him from having to give anyone else a day off up here. There’s a chance he could stick with his regulars tomorrow.
• Not much of an update on Alfredo Aceves. “He’s still doing stabilization exercises,” Girardi said. “He’s not throwing yet.” There is still no timetable for his return, or even for him to resume throwing.
• Last night the Yankees were beaten by a young lefty with a good changeup. Today they face Ricky Romero, who’s a young lefty with a good changeup. “We’ve seen him a couple of times so our guys should know what to expect,” Girardi said.
• If you’re interested, here’s the game story and here’s the notebook from today’s newspaper.
• Blue Jays lineup
Fred Lewis LF
Aaron Hill 2B
Adam Lind DH
Vernon Wells CF
Jose Bautista RF
Alex Gonzalez SS
Lyle Overbay 1B
John Buck C
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
See, Girardi isn’t the only manager willing to start a catcher in a day game after a night game.
That’s an Associated Press photo of Posada and that’s my camera phone picture of the roof.
Is this a 1 pm game, 2 pm game, 3 pm game, 4 pm game, 7 pm game, or 8 pm game?
Forgot to mention Russo is batting seventh. It’s a straight swap of him taking Thames spot.
1 p.m.
AM PM FM CM TM XM GM June 5th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Is this a 1 pm game, 2 pm game, 3 pm game, 4 pm game, 7 pm game, or 8 pm game?
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Yes.
“Andy Pettitte has started six day games this season. He’s 6-0 with a 1.12 ERA.”
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This is just as meaningful as “The current Yankees are hitting .519 in 27 career at-bats against Cecil.”
Hopefully, some of those bullets that NYYs hit last night find some holes and Pettitte keeps the ball in the park. What out for Well, Buck and Bautista.
Andy innerview on YES right now!
***Watch out for Wells, Buck and Bautista***
Yankees designed hats as well as the shirts.
http://bizofbaseball.com/index.....;Itemid=42
Has Kim stopped her Phil innerviews? Those were great, lol. Darn – I missed Andy’s – will have to catch it on YES.com
Thanks for the info, Chad. I’m really looking forward to seeing Po behind the plate, but in the meantime, I’m thrilled to have him back in the lineup.
Ha ha ha ha ha…..
SI_JonHeyman ollie perez is going on the d.l. knee issue
Nevermind. The Yankees have now decided to change the batting order. Top six stay the same.
7 Cervelli
8 Gardner
9 Russo
Chad
Thanks for the updates.
Girardi has taken my one and only guess the lineup win away from me….
pat June 5th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Yankees designed hats as well as the shirts.
http://bizofbaseball.com/index…..;Itemid=42
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I like Tex and Grandy’s hats the best. Swisher’s is kind of cool too.
Girardi wreaking havoc with GTLU today.
Oh boy…count the Netherlands out of the favorites for the World Cup.Robben just got injured and will probably not be able to play in the WC…
Bautista will hit 2 or 3 homeruns again today?
Aw, poor Dutch! Poor Rio! No poor Didier!
So who’s playing LF, Russo or Thames?
Ummm, Thames has been scratched. No play for Mr Thay.
What about Drogba huh.That Japense defender…pfff
Oops, check that, missed the miniupdate. My bad.
Erin 12:23
Agree on the Tex and Grandy hats. Not a big fan of Nascar but Tex hat has that feel. I wish Grandys hat had the tex back part. Deff cool hats though.
YankeesWFAN Pitchers BP was fine display. Hughes and Mitre belted 3 HR each. Burnett hit a laser out to left, just like ones he gave up last night.
RiverAveBlues Marcus Thames out of lineup today with stiff neck. He strained it watching all of those HRs to left field go past him last night.
Erin June 5th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
pat June 5th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Yankees designed hats as well as the shirts.
http://bizofbaseball.com/index…..;Itemid=42
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I like Tex and Grandy’s hats the best. Swisher’s is kind of cool too.
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Andy’s is the worst. YUCK! lol.
Agreed on the hats. Grandy/Swishy/Texy all look great. Andy’s YUCKY!
CC’s hat pretty good too!
I think if Jesus starts to pick it up in AAA and show he’s ready for next year call up, your currently looking at the 3 catcher playbook. Cervelli, Posada, Jesus, with Posada and Jesus also DH’ing.
NYY626 June 5th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Andy’s is the worst. YUCK! lol.
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I know! I do love his shirt though, so it evens out.
“Aw, poor Dutch! Poor Rio! No poor Didier!”
Poor Nike. Their World Cup add now has two players not even playing in WC.
Tom in N.J. -
No, he didn’t!
It is in the GTLU Rules that if there are last minute adjustments to the lineup, the people who guessed the original lineup AND the people who guessed the lineup as revised are credited with a win.
The St. Louis Cardinals are about to sign Randy Winn. Good for him.
Just saw that Winn news too. Glad to hear he landed in a good spot.
GreenBeret7 June 5th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
The St. Louis Cardinals are about to sign Randy Winn. Good for him.
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Good for Winn!! He seemed like a really good guy.
Good stuff for Winn! I guess another ML team was in the cards for him!
Bob Lorenz is doing the play by play from the studio. How can that work right?
I’m glad for Winn that he has another team to play for. He seem like ‘good people’.