Pitching matchups vs. Seattle
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 20, 2010 
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Tonight
RHP A.J. Burnett (9-10, 4.66)
vs.
RHP Felix Hernandez (8-10, 2.62)
7:05 p.m., YES Network
Saturday
RHP Javier Vazquez (9-9, 4.89)
vs.
LHP Jason Vargas (9-5, 3.15)
1:05 p.m., YES Network
Sunday
LHP CC Sabathia (16-5, 3.12)
vs.
LHP Luke French (2-3, 4.02)
1:05 p.m., YES Network
Felix Hernandez is very good. This is hardly new information, but the guy has faced the Yankees twice this season, and he’s pitched a complete game each time. The last time he pitched at Yankee Stadium, he allowed two hits, one of them by Colin Curtis who’s no longer with the Yankees. Point being, tonight might not be an easy one… Better matchup on Saturday and Sunday. The way Marcus Thames and Austin Kearns are hitting, the Yankees suddenly matchup well against left-handed starters. And frankly, almost anything is better than King Felix.
Associated Press photo of Burnett during yesterday’s HOPE Week event
Good stuff on the Yanks minor league arms. I think there’s a kid – Jose (?) that people were raving about. How’s he doing? He’s supposedly got as good an arm as Vizcaino and is very young as well.
That is such a cute picture………
Ramirez, that’s it………..I haven’t heard much on him lately
King Felix is capable of a bad game also. Burnett will need run support tonight, something he had absolutely none of in his last start.
Wow, Just read the story on the Arias’ sisters………how uplifting and depressing at the same time. Those kids who do the bullying are going to grow up and have their heads handed to them in the real world……….It’s wonderful to see the Yankees partcipate with such enthusiasm; after all this, it’s hard to get upset with them when they struggle…….
Re: King Felix
Repeat after me folks-
I believe in baseball miracles
LF Brett Gardner
SS Derek Jeter
1B Mark Teixeira
2B Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
DH Austin Kearns
CF Curtis Granderson
C Francisco Cervelli
3B Eduardo Nunez
He’s throwing very well Bets actually…..He’s in Charleston and he’s having a very good season and getting his development in.
It’s going to be interesting come this offseason to watch the national scouting services attempt to talk down the yanks farm system.
Guys like Montero, Romine, Bettances, Brackman, Banuelos, Sanchez, Laird,Nunez, Noesi Stoneburner and Phelps coming off of the years they’ve had this season make them an easy top 10 system not to mention the high ceiling guys in the lower levels in Heathcott,Murphy,Marshall,Mitchell,Cotham and this past draft class…..
I hope we get good AJ tonight. I am glad the bullpen for the most part got yesterday off. I wish we could see Nova start a game in the big leagues.
Hi, Doreen – here’s my try at GTLU:
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[Mess Up The Lineup
[1] SS Our Captain
[2] RF Swishalicious
[3] 1B Tex of the Thundering Hoof
[4] 3B Alejandro Rodriguez
[5] 2B Robbie, donchaknow?
[6] DH Jorgie
[7] CF Curtis “Spec” Granderson
[8] C Cisco
[9] LF Brett the Jet
I know this is pretty far out of left field, but I feel Joey G will want to go with experienced bats [for the most part] against Felix el Gato. Exception = Cervelli, as ‘Sado has worn the Tools of Ignorance for a few games in a row already.
Sorry, Erin – I know we are trying to align lineups; just didn’t work out today
Champ, good to hear – thanks!
Romine has really cooled off, though………..big deal?
The actual road scouts and advanced scouts are really and have been for the last 2yrs very high on the talent that we have in the system.
BTW
The Scranton(74-51), Trenton(74-50) and Tampa(69-50) teams are all in 1st place and sport records almost identical to the big league club’s record 75-46…..How fitting that the organization is carrying the vision of the late Boss (r.i.p.) in this fashion.
The way people are going to demolish the yankees system with back talk in the offseason is that ‘its just a bunch of players with low ceilings performing admirably.’
‘Betances and Brackman did well? Oh well lets see them do it next season…’
‘Phelps pitching to a 2 era? Ok but he hasn’t done anything in the majors yet.’
etc.
Michael Bowden has a 4 ERA in AA and everyone is all over him 3 years ago, now he just gets spot appearances in the bullpen and is trade poison.
# SJ44 August 20th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Its hard to say if they have turned the corner.
I know the ream job Girardi gave them got people’s attention. Guys were talking about it for two days.
I also think they had the benefit of facing a struggling team and pitching staff in the Tigers.
That’s ok though. They took advantage of that. Something they didn’t do in KC.
Hopefully, its the beginning of more consistent offensive play.
They are going to need it over the next six weeks.
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Agree 100%
Romine has really cooled off, though???..big deal?
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Nahhh, first time as the primary catcher on a team. He is reaching and exceeding his own physical limits. He’ll be stronger next year. As long as his foundation isn’t crumbling he will be fine.
He has cooled off for the better part of 2 months now but again this is his first full season of catching mostly everyday. he is only 21 yrs old as well so there’s that as well.
This offseason he should immerse himself in an offseason program that focuses on increasing stamina and endurance obviously in preparation for next season.
Jerkface, Champ – thanks! I still like him a lot, so I’ll choose to see the positives in his season.
Nahhh, first time as the primary catcher on a team. He is reaching and exceeding his own physical limits. He’ll be stronger next year. As long as his foundation isn’t crumbling he will be fine.
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Correct. This will only be a concern if it happens again next yr. I’m actually surprised they’re sending him to the AFL.
not sure if anyone saw it but there was a nice video tribute to damon late in yesterday’s game on the video screen which showed his steal of 2B and 3B in the World Series. Classy move by the team
I was really hoping they’d give Javy a rest. But I guess pitching against the Mariners isn’t the worst thing to try and build back up someone’s mental health.
I now wish this had been posted before today, lol:
http://ablogforarod.blogspot.c.....ughes.html
Hughes’ WHIP of 1.21 is 18th in the AL and lower than the WHIPs of other pitchers like Justin Verlander, Francisco Liriano, Ricky Romero, AL Cy Young favorite David Price, and teammate CC Sabathia.
- After giving up 11 walks in his first 3 starts, Hughes has allowed just 27 walks over his last 20 starts, comprising 122.2 innings and coming out to just 1.98 BB/9. Combine that total with his 116 strikeouts and his K/BB ratio for the season is 3.05/1, better than that of guys like Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, Trevor Cahill, and Matt Garza.
- According to Baseball-Reference.com, Hughes has a positive WAR of 1.9, a positive WPA of 1.8, and has OPS against and BABIP numbers below league average (.694 to .749 league average for OPS, .283 to .300 for BABIP).
Let’s not forget that this is coming from a guy who is still one of the youngest players in the AL at 24 and came into Spring Training in an open competition to become the 5th starter. After winning the competition, I would bet the Yankees would have been ecstatic to get league average production from Hughes. Instead he has stepped up in the face of the Yankees’ rotation problems, his innings limit, his own injury history, and his lack of experience as a full-time Major League-level starter to basically be the Yankees’ #3 and now #2 starter.
So let’s all take a minute to stop worrying about Hughes’ inning limit and how it could affect the team down the stretch, stop worrying about his high home run total allowed this year, stop worrying about what he still has to work on to improve his approach the 2nd and 3rd time through a lineup, and just tip our caps to Phil and appreciate what he has done for this team this year.
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20 walks in 27 starts is ridiculously good – wow.
LOL I have no idea what WAR and WPA are, but it sounds like Phil is ok there as well.
Baseball America’s hot list for this week is interesting.
Number one on the list is Adam Warren.
Number two on the list is Ivan Nova.
Not bad for the system particularly given that Montero was number 1 last week.
Chuck58 August 20th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Sorry, Erin ? I know we are trying to align lineups; just didn?t work out today
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Sigh. Maybe Monday.
I think we’re going to see Nova up in the not too distant future……….
WAR is wins above replacement, generally if you add up all the WARS on a team it comes out to X number of wins above what a completely replacement level team would win. Obviously, you want higher WARS (but I think pitcher WAR is stupid and Hughes is probably better than 2 wins above a replacement pitcher). WPA is how much percentage Hughes has added to the yankees chances to win all the games he participated in. Positive means he moved the winning percentage up, negative down.
So if Cano hits a grandslam he gets like +.3 WPA points, 30% shift in winning
If he strikes out with the bases loaded he might get dinged -.15 , a 15% shift in the other direction.
Odd situation regarding Barret Loux. I wonder if he’s worth taking a flyer on…
Monday it is, then, amiga
Jerkface, thanks. It seems kind of crazy to evaluate ballplayers like this……..
Rumors are that Romine is going to AFL this year.
Betsy August 20th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Jerkface, thanks. It seems kind of crazy to evaluate ballplayers like this……..
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yes and no. It’s a real useful tool because it takes all of the other stats and wraps them up into one.
Felix has 10 losses this season….so he may be darn good, but he can certainly be defeated…
So who do you all think is the CY Young leader this year? Wfan is arguing CC or Felix Hernandez.
Felix has 10 losses this season?.so he may be darn good, but he can certainly be defeated?
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Sure if our pitcher throws a shut out. The mariners offense is atrocious. he has 5 losses a 1 ERA in his last 6 games
The advanced statistical numbers just back what the eyeballs will tell you about Hughes.
He’s had a very good season to date.
Its why any angst about him is unfounded.
GTLU
LF Gardner
SS Jeter
1B Teixeira
2B Cano
RF Swisher
DH Kearns
CF Granderson
3B Pena
C Cervelli
(1) Beginning with Jeter, the line-up becomess R-R-L
(2) A-Rod still on the bench, as Kearns heats up and could be x-factor against Felix
(3) Granderson may have to setp up his improvements, since he has no protetion behind him
(4) M’s can’t hit, so this may be a 4-3 Yanks victory
Predictions:
LF Gardner 4-1-2-0
SS Jeter 4-1-1-1
1B Teixeira 4-0-2-1
2B Cano 4-2-2-2
RF Swisher 4-0-1-0
DH Kearns 4-0-1-0
CF Granderson 4-0-2-0
3B Pena 4-0-0-0
C Cervelli 4-0-0-0
AJ won’t be able to hold a 4-0 lead.
But will AJ get the W to even out his record and pitch like the back of his baseball card?
I feel bad for King Felix. His pitching talent is being wasted by the Mariners offense. He’d look so much better in pinstripes.
Looking at Felix’s record is exactly the reason why people say wins and losses aren’t important when judging a pitchers worth/effectiveness.
No reason to “feel bad” for Hernandez. He’s getting well paid and it was his decision to sign with the Mariners to be with his boyhood idol, Freddy Garcia, even though it was a shakey organization to begin with.
Felix signed with the Mariners for numerous stupid reasons. I really wonder if he and Ichiro are regretting it.
Poor Ronny Paulino
Betsy
As far as the positive side of Romine…his home/road splits are stark and bode well for him.
He’s terrible in Trenton’s homepark- .212avg/.280obp/.313slg/.593obps and a .319/ .378/ .463/ .841 hitter on the road.
Players have been complaing for 3 to 4 yrs about not seeing the ball well in the Trenton park due to the batters eye so his road #’s indicate he’s capable of much better offensively were it not for his home ballpark.
I read an interview a few weeks ago and Romine was talking about how much he hates hitting in Trenton.
Wins are not remotely the best way to gauge individual performance. It’s a team stat.
Hernandez has been one of the two best pitchers in the AL this season.
All stats are “team stats”. They’re also individual stats.
A positive side note on WAR for Yankee fans…
Cano leads all of baseball in that category with a 6.2, ahead of Wainwright’s 6.1
Jerkface – that’s a good question. I think it’s hard to say, looking in from the outside.
These guys are professional athletes. As long as they get their money, I don’t know how much the rest matters, outside of their own comfort zones.
Look at Johan Santana. His last year with Minnesota, he complained that the Twins were not interested in winning, and how unhappy he was. If they weren’t interested in winning, well then, they could trade him away also.
Well, they did trade him. And with his no-trade clause, he was in control of where he went. He agreed to go to the Mets; that is, once his contract got extended for a sum to his liking.
And now? Only a fool would say the Mets have a real committment to winning. The Mets only committment right now, as I can see, is to cut payroll. Beyond that, I have a hard time telling what their plan is. But, that is another issue.
And yet, not one peep out of Santana about not being on a team in contention. About being on a team with absolutely no shot of winning anything. Ironically, his old team, the Twins, are still perenially in the hunt in the AL Central.
I guess Santana, as a professional athlete, got what he wanted, which is ok. We can only guess about other athletes, like King Felix and Ichiro, and what their feelings are once their own financial status’ is taken care of.
Looks like Damon picked the wrong week to criticize the Yankees and call them dirty.
Now that he’s sitting on waivers I doubt those quotes endeared him to the front office.
Sure if our pitcher throws a shut out. The mariners offense is atrocious. he has 5 losses a 1 ERA in his last 6 games
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That stat about Felix is why my fantasy team is getting murdered. He dominates (for the most part) but gets zero wins.
Hope the mariners offense stays anemic.
I just cannot imagine Ichiro is happy, but might feel obligation to his wife and the japanese owners of the Mariners. He had a chance to jump ship to the Yankees but the Mariners convinced him to stay and said they were committed to winning.
He has been a winner everywhere he has gone, and his time is running out for a world series.
Phil’s composure is off the charts, too (is there a stat for that?
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I still haven’t watched the archive, but from the little I watched there were at least 2 pitches he threw and I thought out loud, “Where was that?”. I wonder if I went to the game thread would there be similar comments?
Phil didn’t look to happy. Stared in for a while before he went about his business.
Felix Hernandez had pitched better than C.C. Sabathia. That’s not a slap at Sabathia, who has been one of the top 6 or 7 pitchers in the league.
Hernandez has an historically bad offense backing him up, while Sabathia has one of the league’s best.
GLove,
I was thinking the same thing.
Sometimes, Johnny needs to say “no” when he sees a microphone.
It may have cost him another shot in NY.
Strikeouts and walks and K/BB per nine innings are not team stats.
“Felix signed with the Mariners for numerous stupid reasons.”
The trend of young players signing away their final arb years and some free agent years in team-friendly contracts is somewhat puzzling to me. Obviously long-term financial security is highly valued, but the trade-off usually seems pretty steep. Maybe that’s just my Yankee bias talking…
Hernandez also pitches more than half of his games in airports against some of the weakest offenses in the league. I have no tears for him.
If I may take a page out of CR9′s book regarding Feliz Hernandez…
The criminal lowlife filth of humanity also known as the Seattle Mariners show once again why they don’t deserve to be alive let alone in the major leagues. King Felix will have faced the yankees for the third time this year in the 3 series they have played each other. The king has yet to face the Redsox this year – showing once again how the dirty pigs aka seattle are favoring the RedSox. Add to this the fact that the Mariners will be playing in Fenway after this series and all it will take is one rain out for Felix to yet again miss facing the redsox. And weather reports show that it will rain in Boston from Monday to Wednesday in record amounts that would rival only the great flood of 764 BC. But wait, not to be undone, if all goes as planned with the pitching schedule – the Redsox will yet again miss facing Felix Hernandez in their September 13 – 15 series in Seattle showing for the last time that the entire city of Seattle isn’t worthy of licking the poo off of the boots of criminals, serial killers and terrorists and that entire city should fall into the pacific ocean and meet boston at the bottom of an endless pit of fish bones and turtle excrement!!!
Hows that for filling in while CR9 is away….(its a joke people in case you didn’t pick up on it)
Santana’s comment was probably out of frustration from being lowballed.
If AJ pitches like he did last game, the Yankees will score enough to get him a win tonight.
Everybody is different.
Felix took an 80 million dollar extension to stay in Seattle.
He could have played it out and tested the waters in free agency.
Some guys like that early security and don’t want to take the risk of getting hurt and impacting their future.
Look at Evan Longoria. He cost him himself a TON of money by signing his long term deal so early in his career.
Imagine if Cano didn’t sign his deal and he was having this kind of year in a walk year?
He would be looking at a 100+ million dollar contract.
Longoria’s contract is one of the stupidest in history but the player couldn’t pass it up. He’d have to be supremely confident he would became a major league regular.
If Longoria didn’t pan out the rays would be looking real dumb, but I guess they did their homework. As the yankees did for Cano as well.
Yeah it’s hard to pass up that money when you’ve been in the Majors for 6 days.
Felix is the King of a pretty much empty island.
The Yanks need to wake up those sleeping bats. If A Rod doesn’t play this weekend I would say the team is either being overly cautious or we don’t have all the info.
As I said before I am ready for Nova and look forward to seeing Albo getting time to show his maturity.
Guys, it would take an awful lot of guts to pass on that sort of guaranteed money, in your early to mid 20s. With the key word being “guaranteed”.
I have the following people submitting lineups for today’s GTLU. If I missed your lineup, let me know.
Erin
Erica
Comet
champ809
Unknown
RayVT
Chuck58
Philippe in Alexandria
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The HOPE Week story of the day really got to me. I hope they’re having a marvelous day; and I especially hope that there is a trip to college lurking for the older sister, as well.
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My husband has held my handbag as well as my daughters. I think he’s just an incredibly kind person.
** as well as my daughter’s handbag, that is.
Cashman needs to go August 20th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
If I may take a page out of CR9’s book regarding Feliz Hernandez…
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lmao
Modern day players can’t win with the general public and media.
Leave for a big contract, you’re a mercenary who’s taking the big payout. Take an early long-term deal for less bucks, and you’re dumb.
Can’t help but think that CC would have even better numbers pitching out west. Bigger parks and weaker teams. He’s not necessarily prone to the long ball, but the extra square footage helps. And pitching a good number of games in the Colliseum. Whew. Pitcher’s dream.
I read Cano lives with his mom.
In NJ.
That’s a long way from Mickey at the St. Regis.
Times have changed.
New Post w/lineup
art_stapleton Pettitte won’t comment on Clemens situation #Yankees
GTLU
LF Gardner
SS Jeter
1B Tex
DH Arod
2B Cano
RF Swisher
CF Grandy
C. Cervelli
3B Nunez
Nice looking bench with this lineup.