Teixeira in the lineup
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 29, 2010 
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Of course, I was wrong. Sigh. LOL
Nick Cafardo’s column today had a seemingly random but very interesting note in it.
Cafardo rarely discusses the minor leagues. And when he does it’s usually about the Red Sox.
But today in his sunday baseball notes column had a note about Dellin Betances.
8. Dellin Betances, RHP, Yankees — Scouts are ga-ga over Betances, a 6-foot-8-inch, 245-pound righthanded starter whom the Yankees have moved up to Double A Trenton. Betances is 16 months removed from Tommy John surgery, but you wouldn’t know it. “He could move fast now that he’s healthy,’’ said one NL scout of the hard thrower. “The Yankees have some good young arms coming. With Hector Noesi, D.J. Mitchell, and Ivan Nova between Double A and Triple A, they’ve got some reinforcements on the way.’’
Just a guess, but Cafardo may have been speaking to some scouts and the scouts must have brought up Betances’ name and raved about him. Cafardo is unlikely to even know who Betances is. Recently Jim Callis said that the Yankees farm system is better than the Sox and Keith Law sort of said something similar (or at least a major change from how he viewed the organizations at the start of the season.
I wonder if Cafardo may have been following up on those evaluations and asked about Yankee pitching and Betances’ name came up. The notion of the yankees having a better farm system than the Sox has created significant cognitive dissonance amongst some Sox fans. Or perhaps Cafardo was asking about the Yankee’s system in follow up to Nova’s last start.
It’s just odd that in a column section with 9 notes about players in baseball Cafardo would talk about a Yankees prospect who wasn’t even a top 100 prospect going into the season.
The best part of it is that the scout brings up Noesi, Nova and DJ Mitchell as guys on the way to “help” and while those are three guys in triple A and the closest now to the majors they aren’t close to the most talented guys the yankees have in the system.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....me/?page=4
Hi Erin,
I missed GTLU, but I too would have sat Tex. Did you have fun last night? You certainly brought the Yankees good luck
I wouldn’t have played him – would have given him an extra day – but ok.
Fran the original August 29th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Hi Erin,
I missed GTLU, but I too would have sat Tex. Did you have fun last night? You certainly brought the Yankees good luck
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Hi Fran-I had a great time. I don’t have much of a voice today I was screaming so much last night. LOL And Robbie’s 3 for 5 night was because he sensed my presence in the crowd.
Good to see that Texeria is in the lineup…….
Don’t worry Chad, my gut lies to me too sometimes….
Hi Fran-I had a great time. I don’t have much of a voice today I was screaming so much last night. LOL And Robbie’s 3 for 5 night was because he sensed my presence in the crowd.
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Erin, you’re his good luck charm. Maybe you should go to the game again today
If it becomes widely reported that the Yankees have a better farm system than Boston then the real discord with the Sox fanbase may begin….that was always what they pointed to…how they outsmarted the big bad evil empire through player development.
Cervelli. Ugh. .OPS of.471 for the months of June, July and August.
Good stuff from Long:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports.....sZrff0hVFP
Geno might be able to add a little pad to his batting glove but fingers crossed he doesn’t have to brace himself at 1st diving for anything.
Fran the original August 29th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Erin, you’re his good luck charm. Maybe you should go to the game again today
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Fran, I would love to go back today but my friend is making me go to her pool party. She’s not impressed that the Yankees are in town.
Erin -
I’m glad you had a good time last night and I’m glad Robi got 3 hits for you!!
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CB -
That’s pretty telling. And very exciting.
pcaldera Pettitte throwing pen now. Tex in lineup, says he’ll test thumb in BP to confirm.
Doreen August 29th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Erin -
I’m glad you had a good time last night and I’m glad Robi got 3 hits for you!!
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Thanks Doreen! I knew Robbie would come through.
It was so cool to see Nunez’s first home run. There were a lot of Yankee fans in my section and none of us could believe it!
Oh, there were no matching lineups in today’s GTLU
Sigh.
Erin,
Thanks for bringing home the win last night. Robbie did good things for you. So glad.
Cervelli is still on the roster?
Thanks Jeers,
Now the “nickname” makes sense.
Jeers,
Thanks. Now it makes sense
SAS,
Hi. Don’t know if this was answered for you yet but I believe Bucholz is called laptop because he stole some laptop computers when he was in high school.
Erin,
Have fun at the pool party.
Today’s player of the game….Curtis Granderson…….He read Tin Cup’s comments….He doesn’t want to undressed by the Skipper
Since Callis acknowledged that the Yankees have a better farm system, maybe the idea that BA has an anti-Yankee bias is wrong.
Thanks SAS.
Buchholz is a criminal. He deserves to be in Federal FMITA Prison, as he is a criminal of the worst kind.
/CR9′ed
Thanks Fran
Rich in NJ
I dont think that disproves it. What it really shows is that the Yankees system is so good, that even an anti-Yankee like him was forced to acknowledge it – so as to maintain the slightest level of professionalism.
Ledger_Yankees Pettitte threw 35 pitches in pen, felt good, upped the intensity a bit, another good sign.
Well he won’t have to steal the Cy Young award……….he’s the front runner at this point.
Good news about Andy…………
New Post- Pettitte: “My arm bounced back big time”
CR9
There is a reason that the farm system is highly rated. A lot of question marks were answered in a positive way because a lot of guys coming off of injuries have really developed.
The converse is that prior to the season, because there were so many question marks, and because big prospects like AJack and Vizcaino were traded, it was reasonable to rate the system as being below the RS.
That’s what BA did at the time, yet a number of Yankee fans thought BA was being unfair.
More importantly, I want to see the Yankees hold on to most of these guys.