Postgame notes: ‘I find a way to make it work’
Posted by: Sam Borden - Posted in Misc on Apr 16, 2011 
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Not surprisingly, there was plenty of praise for Freddy Garcia in the postgame clubhouse. A quick sampling:
Joe Girardi: “He did a great job of keeping them off-balance. … Freddy is a competitor. He knows how to pitch.”
Larry Rothschild: “He didn’t buckle a bit.”
Nick Swisher: “Nobody up in here is surprised or anything. This guy is a professional.”
Mark Teixeira: “Freddy was great – that’s a good-hitting team and he shut them down.”
The common theme from everyone was about how Garcia got through his six shutout innings. In a season where velocity has been the buzzword around the Yankees pitchers, Garcia was all about precision and location. His fastball is in the mid-to-high 80s most of the time and he struck out just one hitter. His success doesn’t hinge on avoiding contact; it hinges on avoiding solid contact.
“I’ve got five pitches,” Garcia said. “Sometimes I don’t pitch much to the scouting report. I don’t throw hard anymore. … (so) I learn to pitch. Good pitchers when they don’t have good stuff, they go out and compete.”
Alex Rodriguez – see the previous post for more on him – likened Garcia to David Cone, and not just because Garcia is wearing No. 36, too. Cone, A-Rod said, had a knack for getting weak contact from hitters and that’s exactly how Garcia got through the Rangers today. “He knows how to run away from the barrel (of the bat),” A-Rod said.
• Phil Hughes took yesterday and today off and will throw long-toss tomorrow and Monday, according to pitching coach Larry Rothschild. The idea, Rothschild said, is to “tire (the arm) out and build it back up.” Hughes will then do long-toss again on Thursday’s off-day.
• Rafael Soriano nearly gave the game away in the eighth inning, allowing two runs, three hits and a walk. He also watched closely as Adrian Beltre’s would-be three-run homer drifted just foul beyond the right-field foul pole. It’s the second poor outing Soriano has had at Yankee Stadium this season and both have come when the weather was brutal. “He hasn’t pitched the best on the colder days,” Girardi said. “Is there something to that? Maybe.”
• Mark Teixeira hit a two-run homer and drove in another run with a sac fly. All five of his home runs have come in the first three innings of the game, so Teixeira was asked if he has a theory on why that might be. His thought? He’s warmer then. “By the middle innings, you can’t feel your hands or feet,” he said.
• Mariano Rivera saved his sixth game, the earliest in a season he’s reached that mark. In typical Mariano fashion, he couldn’t care less. “I don’t think about those things,” he said. “The most important thing is that we win.”
• Congratulations to Gustavo “Gus” Molina (Girardi actually called him that in postgame, by the way). By starting today, he became the last player in the majors who has been active since Opening Day to get into a game. Can’t imagine there’s a trophy for that, but good for him anyway. He went 0-for-3 but got kudos from Girardi and Garcia for calling a strong game.
• Think it’s been cold at Yankee Stadium this year? You’re not wrong. The average gametime temp at home games this year is 49.9 degrees. Today it was 46 but I can vouch that it felt at least 10 degrees colder than that. “I’m not going to lie – that’s cold,” Freddy Garcia said. Darn right. It was so cold, in fact, that the Yankees are offering fans with tickets to today’s game the opportunity to exchange them for a future game. Exchanges must be made at ticket windows at the Stadium and don’t include premium games (meaning ones against the Mets or Red Sox, plus Old-Timers’ Day).
Garcia was great – he’s a real pitcher and will be a very valuable asset for us this year.
Soriano better learn to deal with bad weather as October baseball isn’t necessarily played in good weather.
I don’t think we’re going to see Phil back up here for awhile, but hey – however long it takes
“Garcia was great – he’s a real pitcher and will be a very valuable asset for us this year.”
Can’t agree more, Betsy. Like Jack Curry said-the best starting pitcher performance by a Yankee this year.
Maybe Alex doesn’t like playing on ESPN
Availables out of the bullpen on Sunday would be Noesi, Logan, and Robertson. Mariano threw just 12 pitches and Joba 18. With Monday off, both could be used if needed. Girardi might save Lance Pendleton for use in Toronto after his 3 innings of work yesterday.
Betsy April 16th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Garcia was great – he’s a real pitcher and will be a very valuable asset for us this year.
Soriano better learn to deal with bad weather as October baseball isn’t necessarily played in good weather.
I don’t think we’re going to see Phil back up here for awhile, but hey – however long it takes
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Are you talking months? I thought it would be maybe 3 weeks
Just finished watching the game on DVR. Great game by Garcia. Must be the Molina effect
No one knows what Hughes timetable is. He doesn’t, Rothschild doesn’t, Girardi doesn’t. He will do his side work and bullpens, try to figure this out and they’ll evaluate him. I expect when they think he’s ready, he’ll go down for a start or two.
Maybe Alex doesn’t like playing on ESPN
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Or Sunday night games. Just hope Alex is ok. With an off day Monday, no need to push him.
Betsy, too many posts to read but I did see that jackass comment and then later your comment. I would assume he wasn’t the only kneejerker but to see something that asinine when two innings weren’t even played was pretty pathetic.
I taped the game and am watching it now. Garcia looks great so far (bottom of the 4th).
I was in the Garcia bandwagon from before the Yanks finally got him and so am very excited about today’s start.
I always find it interesting when posters warn not to get too excited about “one start.” The difference is that we’ve watched Garcia pitch for many years now. I’m excited about the body of work. The one start to me is just an extension of what he’s done in the past and apparently is still able to do.
Fran, I’m in the 4th inning.
Darn right it was brutal. Mrs. Joe and I just got home, and the saving grace is that the real rain held off until the game ended. Well, that and seeing Mariano save another game. He really is T he Greatest.
Excuse me while I try to restore feeling in my fingers and toes……
Joe, at least the Yankees won! Would have been awful to sit through that for a loss.
Trisha, I cheated and fast forwarded a little bit to the end.
Garcia was great today….moving the ball all over the strike zone with different speeds and eye levels. Very impressive against a good lineup…..especially when he hasn’t pitched in so long.
Also agree with what Betsy said about Soriano…..he better get used to colder weather as its cold in October as well…..I think until he gets straightened out you put Joba or Robertson in the higher leverage situations…..doesn’t matter how much he’s making, its about who is pitching better.
It’s a small thing, Sam, but Garcia’s number (and Cone’s) is 36.
Fran, you didn’t miss a thing by skipping through the previous posts. Everything from “Hughes will be gone for a while” to “Soriano had better”, then, not counting the usual trolls and the stupid remarks from the normal ones. You were the wise one.
“Trisha, I cheated and fast forwarded a little bit to the end.”
Fran, I wanted to look and see how Freddy looked. I am waiting out 6:45 anyway (going to play tonight) so I figured I would watch as much as I could.’
You know how Freddy looked today? Like a professional major league pitcher who doesn’t scare and knows how to work his way out of trouble. He also has a really nice free and easy delivery.
Good for us.
I wish I was more mathematically adept because I would come up with a formula about how many games per 5 the Sux would need to win to go 90 games. If it’s easy to do, that tells you just how mathematically challened I am!
I was going to say, “Wasn’t Coney’s # 36?” But I was beaten to the punch.
Right handed pitcher for Texas, assuming the weather isn’t as nasty as today and last night, Chavez would be fine, but, don’t forget, he has a long history of back trouble.
Blake, I don’t agree – Soriano has a role and he hasn’t lost it yet – it’s way too early for that. I should say – it’s too early for that kind of move. He was signed to be the set up man; until he completely fails, he should stick in the role. That doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t get pulled if he’s struggling in a game, but just in general.
the yankees giving free tickets to everyone who bought a ticket for todays game again.
that’s bs, imo. they should give 10 free tix to the people who actually showed up. reward the real fans, not the fair weather fans!
Igotid, this doesn’t seem like a short term thing to me………..of course we don’t know, but I can’t imagine it would only be a 3 week thing.
I’m not surprised that writers who weren’t here don’t remember what Cone’s number was. I’m more surprised that Alex Rodriguez would know that, considering that he wasn’t with NYYs either.
look out for my boy Jah-BUDDHA!!! i predicted at the start of ST that he would become the EIG around midseason and regain his ‘heir apparent’ status by season’s end! (while everyone else wanted him drawn & quartered for showing up ‘overweight’)
You were the wise one.
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GB,
Thanks. What about complaints for the BUC. Must have been some of those
really i was just overreacting to everyone overreacting, but now i’ve kinda adopted the guy…
Sox need to win 58.4% of the rest of their games to win 90.
or 2.919 out of 5
The bullpen is the least of the Yankees concerns. Logan and Soriano will be just fine.
I would say that 2 more starts from Nova will tell the tale. Give the starts to Noesi after that. He certainly can’t be worse.
BD,
It’s that .9 that might do them in
Saw that Beckett had another good start for them. He has 2 of their 3 wins.
mediots still praying for the Sox to open their wallets:
“Morosi also says “it’s possible” Boston could still be in the market for Pujols or Prince Fielder as a DH, as the Sox would part ways with David Ortiz. Pujols and Fielder have both said they want to continue playing first base, but Morosi notes that Victor Martinez and Adam Dunn said the same thing last winter before becoming the primary DH option for the Tigers and White Sox, respectively.”
I think that was a typo re: freddy Garcia and Cone’s number 36. Someone said it on Twitter before this post was published.
Bryan Hoch: A-Rod said it is funny Freddy Garcia wears David Cone’s old No. 36. “He finds a way to win and he’s very smart.”
I don’t think Soriano is in any danger of losing his role.
It’s his track record, not the numbers on his paycheck, that’s going to keep him there unless he completely explodes.
“The bullpen is the least of the Yankees concerns.”
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exactly – it’ll be an embarrassment of riches once Soriano gets straightened out.
bernie was ‘my guy’ then he left and godzilla was ‘my guy’, (plus damon), then they left and i didnt really have ‘a guy’ last year. but this year, joba is definitly ‘my guy’
Fran, Molina caught a pass today. I think most were keeping an eye on when garcia would crumble.
After so few ST at bats, I was surprised that Molina even made contact. As long as he has made connections with garcia, that’s the main thing. Randy could have caught him in a rocking chair. Or in Randy’s case, a wheel chair.
soriano will get straight and joba will falter, then when he’s right, mo will have his back to back bad games he has every year. its like the hitters, its rare that everyone is hitting on all cylendars at the same time, but they dont need to all be on top of their game every time for it to work.
Everything from “Hughes will be gone for a while” to “Soriano had better”,
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Soriano better learn to deal with bad weather
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Agrees. How do you “learn” to pitch in bad weather?
Go out on a rainy day and practice?
Jeez.
GB,
LOL about Randy.
Actually I thought I heard on the pre-game that Molina caught Garcia in Chicago.
I don’t think Girardi or Cashman are going to be reactionary. Soriano had a couple of cold weather bumps in the road, they are not going to move him out of his setup role unless some long term pattern emerges. He’s a stud when on. The conditions were brutal today and some deal with that better than others.
It’s advisable IMO to let things play out and see what happens. Today Garcia pitched great but no one knows if that will continue. A pitcher with his repertoire has to be totally tuned in command wise to be effective. Hopefully there will be more good games than bad ones and the dreaded injury bug will stay away.
The way the schedule lays out next week, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Colon getting a start in place of Nova after Sabathia and AJ Burnett and then Garcia again. We’ll see
Betsy,
I actually think he should pitch when it makes the most sense……no.matter what inning it is.
lets try cylinders… spell check likes…
The other bullpenner everyone wanted gone during last winter and ST is Chamberlain, and he has been, for the most part, just short of dazzling. Rivera is RIVERA. He could pitch on Christman Eve and get 3 fast outs.
Fran, without looking it up, I don’t know whether Molina caught Garcia in chicago or not….maybe in ST, but, sounds like he and Garcia went over how Garcia likes to pitch, and not necessarily the scouting reports. I imagine there was a few refresher chats in the dugout between innings.
I don’t think any reliever should lose their “job”…..Soriano will be fine but his stuff isn’t there yet and may not be until it warms up……until then I think you be more cautious with him…..that’s all Im saying.
Kenny Singleton made a good point about Joba. Everybody was so focused on his weight in ST, that nobody realized how well he pitched.
Soriano will be fine. Just fine.
Still need to warm up a bit. Think I’ll try a little cognac….
GreenBeret7 April 16th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I’m not surprised that writers who weren’t here don’t remember what Cone’s number was. I’m more surprised that Alex Rodriguez would know that, considering that he wasn’t with NYYs either.
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GB, that was my thought too, about Alex knowing Coney’s #.
All players like the warmer weather, especially pitchers to keep arms loose. The air is better and the ball travels in a truer sense. Injuries happen in any weather but less in warm weather.
.Soriano will be fine but his stuff isn’t there yet
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Other than nasty weather days, which he has rarely pitched in, coming from a dome, Soriano’s stuff has been filthy and he has been effective, must be watching a different pitcher.
There may be others, but, Bob Feller, Ted Williams and Alex Rodriguez seem to have total recall when it comes to baseball….good and bad times.
Mick,
His velocity has been down which is normal for him this time of year…..he looked like he was afraid of his fastball today….again I think he will be fine when it warms up but he hasn’t been great thus far…..he just hasn’t.
Joe from Long Island April 16th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Soriano will be fine. Just fine.
Still need to warm up a bit. Think I’ll try a little cognac….
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Don’t count on that cognac being there. “Killer” was visiting you today. He really gets around.
i pay no attention to player’s #’s. just scanning google images i see cone wearing 36 with the yankees, 17 and 44 with the mets, 22 and 17 with the royals., looks like 36 as a red sock and cant make out the toronto # also a shot of him in a royals uni wearing a # that ends in 3.
GB7,
Alex remembers everything …..I really hope it’s just stiffness with his back. He’s seeing the balk so well rift now aid hate for him to miss time.
Soriano needs time to adjust to NY and the cold weather. I expect he’ll be fine.
Here’s a surprise. The Mets loose again.
And since they have to play another game today, they can extend the loosing streak even more.
mick April 16th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
How do you “learn” to pitch in bad weather?
Go out on a rainy day and practice?
Jeez.
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Pitch in a cold shower. Jeez!
Blake. it could also be the lingering affects of the flu from last week. No such thing as a “24 hour virus” afteraffects.
Fran, the shocking thing is that they still have a better record than the Red Sox
uni #’s aside, if i saw cone throw one pitch wearing street clothes and a mask, i’d know that delivery and the slouchy posture anywhere!
GB,
That is pretty amazing, isn’t it. But then again, everybody has a better record than the Red Sox
that doubleheader they played the other day was disgusting. they really didnt play like a major league team, the fans should have been refunded double the ticket price for enduring 2 games of dropped fly balls, bad baserunning, bad managing, etc.
every nasty bit of the mets was exposed that day. they really should have been embarrased.
http://www.baseball-reference......da01.shtml
Here are all of Cone’s uniform numbers. To figure out the teams, just place the cursor over the number.
Joe Nathan just gave up another lead for the Twins.
Alright, fran. It’s not nice to have warm and fuzzies over the misfortunes of our poor cousins from the north. Just remember….God doesn’t like ugly.
I love what I am seeing from Joba and think this is the role he belongs in, he finally looks settled in and comfortable. I don’t think it was wrong though to have wanted to move him in the winter as part of a package. I think we could have, but his value wasn’t that high and maybe the other components of a deal couldn’t be worked out. And maybe they decided he wasn’t going to be traded. I don’t know.
He has pitched very well this year but I wouldn’t get that excited yet. He’s got a 3.24 ERA which is very good and has only allowed 6 hits and 4 runs in 8.1 innings pitched. Again, very good IMO. He did have that bad game where he gave up two walks, two hits and two runs — and got lucky the other night when he uncorked a wild pitch with a runner on third but got the bounce off the wall. Aside from that — he’s been stellar.
I do give great credit to Cashman and the other Yankee staff that are involved in these decisions for sticking to their guns and keeping Joba in the pen when we had serious rotation issues. They understand that for whatever reason he is best suited to going all out for shorter periods of time. His velocity is much better as a relief pitcher and he compete with intensity. He wasn’t suited to going multiple innings as a starter — at least that was the determination and one I agree with.
If he continues at this level, he might very well be an option down the road as a setup man if Soriano opts out and or as a closer when Mariano leaves (sniff!) or is hurt. That would be great if it happens internally and we don’t have to go out and pay a high price for a closer.
YsGuy,
The way the Mets played the other day was reminiscent of when they were an expansion team. At least then they had an excuse.
Maybe it Randolph and Manuel weren’t to blame.
Fran, not Randolph, but, Manuel seemed to be more interested in being a buddy and class clown.
wcyf, i swear to you i saw joba’s pic that day he arrived ‘overweight’ and he looked more relaxed and confident than i had seen him ever, thats why i was so high on him in camp.
and for arod, it was the day i saw the team photos. alex actually looked goofy, like he finally didnt care what anybody thought of him, like he was comfortable being himself. that was the first time i really saw that in him.
i knew they were both going to have great years.
Not very often do you see Nathan get pulled in the middle of a 9th inning tie after 16 pitches.
i think willie tried to bring professionalism and accountability to the mets and the mets laughed at him behind his back. then, when it got back to management (omar) he didnt back his manager or move out any of the malcontents.
to me that was when the franchise turned.
nathan missed an entire year for surgery then got plopped back into the closer’s role. too soon im sure. i think he’ll be fine but it will take a while.
GB,
True about Manuel. But Collins is supposed to be a disciplinarian and vowed that the Mets would play the game the right way and that hasn’t happened.
I honestly believe that all of the Madoff stuff is playing a part in this. The media here keeps talking about a fire sale of players and I would think it has to affect them.
Ys Guy,
Yeah, good point about Randolph. They thought he was trying to bring “the Yankee way” to the Mets.
YsGuy. Maybe that’s due in part to Joba finally knowing what his role is and being able to relax and focus on that. And he did say his bulk was due to working out – benefit of the doubt, there are pitchers who range from a little heavy to a lot heavy.
I heard McCarron refer to Alex this year as “springy” which I think is a good way to put it. Loose, flexible, etc. There was no way he could have made that stop going to his glove side that he made today last year. I hope he’s ok.
Part of Rothschild’s plans on working out Hughes’ issues.
http://bombersbeat.mlblogs.com.....ns-sunday/
The best thing you could root for as a Met fan is Reyes to have a great half season and trade him at the break and for them to finish with a top 5 draft pick.
As many will agree, Gustavo Molina caught a nice game today. He positioned himself well and framed for a variety of pitchers very well also – from Freddy’s change of speed stuff to Joba’s hard stuff, to Soriano’s inconsistent stuff and to Mariano’s always around the plate stuff.
It might have convinced Girardi that his bat is of lesser nature as long as he handles the staff well when used again to give Russell Martin a breather.
Fran, the front office/ownership is a mess and could affect players, but, Collins still has the same players that were part of the issues of the last couple of years. Purging some of those may be the only way to get the thing straight. get rid of the problems.
GB7
Kyle Higashioka just hit a 3 run homerun to give the TY the lead, its still an early game, Heredia only lasted 1 inning. Don’t know why though.
Damon again with a walkoff hit for a win. It keeps the distance between 4th and 5th place intact.
Twins lose it late again. Right now, they’re as bad as the mets….for different reasons. The Mets are mental….the Twins are physical. Nobody is healthy.
Damon with another walk off hit to beat the Twins. He’s going to be a fan favorite in Tampa. Sure would look better in LF for the Yanks than Gardner…
GB,
Sure that Reyes will be gone by the ASB. If the Mets don’t trade him, he’ll leave as a FA. Might be a good idea for them to blow it all up and start over.
“There may be others, but, Bob Feller, Ted Williams and Alex Rodriguez seem to have total recall when it comes to baseball…”
gb7-
don’t sell yourself short.
none of those guys can remember when abner doubleday invented the game the way you can.
“It might have convinced Girardi that his bat is of lesser nature as long as he handles the staff well when used again to give Russell Martin a breather.”
Yanks offense isn’t good enough to withstand another anemic bat with Molina. Do you want 3 automatic outs in the lineup (Gardner, Jeter, Molina)?
believe me, beltran, reyes, bay, loco paco and santana( if he comes back healthy) are all very very available. i think they’ll keep wright as thier cornerpiece, although he is so unclutch i’d let him go too.
It was reported in the pregame that Molina caught Garcia in Chicago and in spring training and they’ve been talking alot since thei start got cancelled last week..
I always pulled for Willie as Mets manager, and I do think he tried to bring a professional attitude to the franchise. What I didn’t like was in 2007(?) in September when they were collapsing, he seemed to be wearing blinders. I still remember the quote “we’ll still be sipping champagne” at the end of the season-even though they kept losing and the Phillies kept winning. Like it was a given they’d make the playoffs. That really bothered me.
Pat,
Thanks. I thought I heard that about Garcia and Molina.
I think we are going to see more of Jones in the lineup.
How many guys in the Yankee lineup would you rather have up in a key spot instead of Damon?
Arod, Tex, Cano…
BOSTON — The Red Sox lineup was posted Saturday and one prominent player was missing at the top. Carl Crawford. The left fielder, who signed a seven-year, $142 million contract with the Red Sox as a free agent last fall, has been struggling so badly that manager Terry Francona decided to sit Crawford for Saturday’s game at Fenway Park against the Toronto Blue Jays.
OOOPS! : )
Damon has his faults, but he is a gamer, the type of player you like on your team.
YsGuy,
I would trade Wright as well but it has nothing to do with him being “unclutch”. Clutchness is a myth anyway. I would deal him because by the time they are competitive he will be past his prime.
Rays are on fire. 6-1 after their 0-7 start.
gumbyandpokey,
I would rather have Damon up then Tex. Have you seen him the last 2 playoffs?
i agree about willie during the collapse. but i think there was already a split between him and the team. omar and bernazard were already activly backstabbing him by that point and since he never had thier backing, he never really had the attention of that team.
still i dont think he was ever going to be buck showalter, but if you are trying to instill professionalism to a team that has none, and your gm doesnt have your back from day 1, you are doomed.
“Arod, Tex, Cano”
What has Tex done in the postseason to warrant being in the conversation?
A-Rod and Cano only from this current team. Damon is right up there with them. So is Matsui.
randy l. April 16th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
“There may be others, but, Bob Feller, Ted Williams and Alex Rodriguez seem to have total recall when it comes to baseball…”
gb7-
don’t sell yourself short.
none of those guys can remember when abner doubleday invented the game the way you can.
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Randy, that may be true, but, my claim to fame isn’t being the catcher for the Bedrock Boulders.
ok theres no such thing as clutch, but wright never comes through when they need him too. ask any mets fan.
A video session with hitting coach Kevin Long yesterday unearthed a major flaw in Brett Gardner’s mechanics that resulted in the left-handed hitting outfielder coming up too much.
“He is not trying to lift the ball at all, it has more to do with what he is not doing with the lower half,” Long said of the ice-cold Gardner, who wasn’t in the lineup against lefty Matt Harrison in last night’s 5-3 loss to the Rangers at the Stadium. “He isn’t using the lower half. And he is looking at pitches and expanding the zone more than usual. He has been feeling for his swing.”
Long is a big believer in hitters using the lower half of their bodies to drive through pitches.
Looking at tape yesterday with Gardner he discovered Gardner could be doing more with his legs. “He has been swinging with his upper body,” Long said. “He isn’t using the lower half. And he is looking at pitches and expanding the zone more than usual. He has been feeling for his swing.”
People laughed at Francesa when he suggested breaking up the Mets core a the end of 07 after that collapse. He was right.
What do they have in the 4 years since then? Another collapse in 08, 2 sub .500 seasons, and on their way to a third one this year. 3 different managers. Same problems. They went from collapsing late in seasons to not even being in position to collapse because they were so bad.
All the scapegoats – Glavine, Castillo, Delgado, Chuch, Lo Duca, Wagner, Perez, Maine, Rick Peterson, Howard Johnson, Aaron Heilman, etc. are all gone. The core 3 (Wright, Reyes, Beltran) still remain and are as bad as ever.
Fran, unload Reyes for pitching and infield help, pay Seattle to help take Bay off of their hands and send Wright to the Angels and tap into their farm system. They need to keep Davis and build on him. Everyone else needs to go. Minaya wrecked that team.
BX33,
There problems went way deeper then just trading Wright and or Reyes. Francessa was also the one who was screaming for the Yanks to get Nate Mclouth
Wright for Trout
i disagree about beltran. he’s good. 2008 (last year he was healthy) his ops was .879
he’s got a PS ops of 1.302.
good players sometimes sign with bad teams.
YsGuy, Willie might have been doomed, but you don’t look good in the eyes of future employers if you act as if nothing is wrong in your world. Not that he should have been screaming the sky is falling, but to he should at least have acknowledged better performance was needed to get where they needed to go. I actually think he was trying to convince the team as well as putting on a front for the media. But he said that sort of thing repeatedly over the last weeks of the season. I don’t think he did himself any favors.
YsGuy,
he had 2 really good years with them
“Wright for Trout”
Wonder if either team would do that……
beltrans 06, 07, 08 and the first half of 09 were very good. then he got injured.
GB, Davis definitely needs to be there.
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RB, I think you hit it when you said Randolph was trying to convince the team they would be ok and not to make it seem as he was panicking.
JR Murphy stays red hot with a 2-2 day so far and 12 RBI and hitting about .360. Heathcott is 0-1 but hitting .385.
Scranton and Trenton were both rained out
Didn’t Beltran want to sign with the Yankees? Didn’t Boras offer the Yankees a “discount’? Or was that a ploy to get Minaya to up his offer?
And I think Bay regrets signing with the Mets.
It’s difficult to blame the manager when the GM undercuts your authority.
Those out there with kids help me out, what is the lowest temp that you would consider a high temp? Would you say 100.4 is warm for a 2 year old?
beltran was going at a 120 rbi clip for the first 3 1/2 years as a met.
101 to 102 degrees. anything over that, it’s doc time
my understanding was that it was the last minute and they had already agreed in principle with the mets when boras came to the yankees with a offer to take less to sign with them.
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Fran, I just didn’t care for how he went about it. It came across as smug.
GB, there’s no way to know what went on in the clubhouse between Willie and the team. And, of course, he was being undercut by upper management. My problem is with how he was dealing with it publicly.
100.4 is real warm that’s nearly 3 degrees over normal.
Randolph wasn’t getting it from just Minaya, he was getting crap from Bernazard, who had no business getting incolved with team personnel in the first place. He wanted the managing job that bad.
Do you think Willie gets another managing job?
RB,
I am surprised that Randolph is not managing again. I am also surprised that Mazzilli never got another managing job after the O’s.
GB7
Thanks, at work we call the parents at 101 but I’m babysitting. Don’t want the parents to come home to a feverish baby without me telling them.
tyanks,
Good idea to call. The parents would probably want to know.
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I agree it is best to call. They can decide what they want to do, but give them the info. They might hold it against you for deciding for them.