Girardi on the rotation and roster
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 14, 2010 
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Decision to flip Phil Hughes and Andy Pettitte in the rotation
Girardi: “There’s a lot of things that go into determining what your rotation is going to be during the course of the post-season, and does it change from series to series. Some of the things we looked at was the success (Hughes) has had here. He’s pitched very well here. He’s pitched very well on the road this year. If you look at his starts, both of them were going to be on the road this year. You look at our ballpark, sometimes it’s a little bit more favorable to a left-handed pitcher than right-handed pitchers, and those are some of the things that we looked at.”
Consideration toward starting Sabathia three times on short rest
Girardi: “We just think it’s too difficult. This is a guy that we have, for a long time, and I’m not so sure that if we did that, we would be able to do it with the other guy. And I think asking him to do that, you may not get the distance out of him that you would get in the two games, and you don’t know if he’ll be as sharp.”
Better off having Pettitte pitch in a potential Game 7
Girardi: “You look at Andy, he’s got, what, 40 post-season starts? A lot of people talk about Game 3 being a pivotal game, as well, and we just felt that this was the way to go with the rotation. There were a lot of factors that went into this, and now you’re going left, right, left, right and they have some positions that they possibly platoon at and we just looked at all of those things and felt that this was the best way to do it.”
Keeping the roster the same after the division series
Girardi: “We had some discussions. That’s the first thing that we talked about when we had our scouting meeting yesterday and we just decided that we were going to stand pat. We like the way that we have put the roster together. There was discussions about, do you want an extra pitcher and we felt we didn’t need to. We tried to cover our bases with all things involved and we just decided to stand pat.”
I dislike having this much time between series. It’s all been said, and then some, it’s time to play ball. This should be a great series, there is no question IMO that the two best teams this year are playing for the AL pennant. Let’s get it on!
All OK except what role Kearns will play. Hopefully he doesn’t replace Gardner in LF regardless of what the scouting reports say. A pinch hit situation …………………. maybe.
I’m glad they have decided to keep the same roster.
That bit of scouting on the rotations that Betsy posted was flat out awful.
If you polled the 30 MLB general managers and asked them who they’d prefer to start in a game two of a playoff series between Phil Hughes and Colby Lewis, I’m pretty darned sure that all 30 would choose Phil Hughes.
Joe Posnanski’s list of the 32 greatest calls in the history of televised sports (added bonus: full start-to-finish video of Secretariat’s awe-inspiring ’73 Belmont run):
http://joeposnanski.si.com/201.....-2/?hpt=T2
Waiting for game 1, is like waiting for XMAS.
Can’t wait for it all to begin, the time between series is too long.
MLB wants to see the WS played in snow one year before they get things in proper order.
Shorten the season, add more games to the PS. All series should be 7 games, with one day off between series starts.
I like Phil pitching game 2, but I honestly have absolutely NO issue with him pitching at home. I don’t understand “If you look at his starts, both of them were going to be on the road this year”. What does that mean? If Phil makes his pitches, he can pitch at home against anyone. I happen to think this was the right move because it lines Andy up to pitch game 7, but game 3 of the ALDS was just last week – and that was at home. I would not necessarily go out of my way to avoid pitching Phil at home.
Everything else? I completely agree. I was always against pitching CC 2x on short rest in this series. If the Yankees trust Phil, there is no reason he can’t go twice…………..and you want your best pitcher at as close to full strength as possible should we get to the WS. We have no idea how this workload will effect CC down the line, but we have him for a long time and we can’t keep working him like he’s a machine. Just last year, although he was good in the WS, he wasn’t as sharp as he’d been in the ALDS and ALCS – undoubtedly because he was on short rest a lot.
Later folks, dinner calls.
Trisha,
I think anybody that eats a “soft cheese” on the day AJ starts is subconsciously projecting their lack of confidence in AJ into their menu.
Shame on you!
Real fans eat hard cheese! And if it stinks? We eat more!
G-C, that’s why I posted it, lol.
I think regardless of whether he strikes out at every at bat, Gardner definitely should start in the game against Lee and stay in because that is a game where one possible defensive miscue could cost us the game and I think Gardner, with his speed, should be the guy out there.
Kearns can pinch hit.
tyanksfan36 October 14th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Agreed.
Head cheese!?
“The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.”
– Bob Dylan, “Tombstone Blues”
1 Day, 0 Hours, and 18 Minutes until Game 1 of the ALCS
How do you rank Halladay, Lee, Lincecum and Sabathia? Anyone objective out there?
Listened to a little baseball talk on espn radio.
They had Ricciardi on. I know I’ve said terrible things about him in the past, but he’s a good listen. Polite and to the point. He gave the phillies the edge over the giants and the Yankees a slight edge over the Rangers. He likes how out bullpen matches up with the Ranger. IMO part of that is having 3 legit RH set-up men.
Keith Law was also on, talked mostly about Heyward’s struggles and Posey’s success. He’s at the AFL right now. Hope the Yankee prospects give a good first impression haha.
Lee, Halladay, Lincecum and Sabathia in terms of must win situation..
Halladay, CC, Lee and Lincecum if starting in 3 days rest…
BryanHoch Nolan Ryan throwing first pitch in Game 1, Fergie Jenkins in Game 2. Jim Sundberg will catch both.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. – Wendy Wasserstein
AJ! AJ! AJ! AJ AJ AJ!!
In terms of best pitcher?
Halladay, tie with CC & Lee with age & pitchsbility on 3 days rest being the tiebreaker, and Lincecum last.
Leave it to Selig to have such down time between the end of one series and the start of the next.
The Yankees could have traveled to the left coast and have jet lag well out of their systems by now.
No sports of real significance on TV the last 2 nights. Meantime the ALCS has to wait and twiddle their thumbs.
Even the ‘Frisco Giants traveling to Philly could have been done sooner.
Just another example of how TV rules Selig.
In terms of age, LHP or RHP, injury history, statistics, leadership, world series rings:
Sabathia, Lincecum, Lee, Halladay!
Really? Lincecum with all of 1 post-season game under his belt ahead of CC? CC is SO underappreciated.
Heard a fantastic stat, too. Forgot the context, maybe we can make it a trivia question.
2010 postseason stats. 10-1, ERA around 1.35, K to walk ratio around 6.
CC, Lee, halladay, Lincecum. I’d put money on Lee but I put CC first because he can pitch on 3 days rest and is a beast.
Who rated Lincecum over CC? I’m not seeing the post.
How do you rank Halladay, Lee, Lincecum and Sabathia? Anyone objective out there?
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Right now, today if I had my choice:
1. Lee: Without a doubt in a big game.
2. Halladay: Tough, steady. Very tough.
3. Lincecum: Still up and coming, can be off or lights out on any given day.
4. CC: Solid but imo not lights out consistently.
All are ‘ACES’ and very close to one another.
Right now, how they are pitching today, I would have to go Halladay, Lee, Sabathia and Lincecum.
It’s really impressive how objective most Yankee fans here are.
westcoatyankeefan, its a tough choice between halladay and lee… Just because Lee has been there and done it quite a few times in the postseason and halladay has had only one post season start my choice goes to Lee.. Also, lincecum has been stellar since the beginning of september whereas CC has struggled off late.. Taking away last year, CC Postseason stats are pretty ordinary..