Familiar lineup for Kansas City finale
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 17, 2011 
Print This Post
| 
Email This Post
Just a quick reading recommendation: Check out the story of Jack Hannahan getting home to see the birth of his baby boy, thanks to an assist from his teammates in the Indians clubhouse.
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Andruw Jones DH
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez 3B
Brett Gardner LF
Looks like Lackey wasn’t lucky and the Price was right! Rays over Sox 4-1!!
You know I’ve always liked Bruce Chen. I’ve always thought that he pitched much better than his stats showed. I liked him enough that I almost picked him up for my fantasy team once he came back off the DL, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it the week he was facing the Yanks.
Still, I wouldn’t write him off. Not just yet.
**************
Great being here with most of you. The day crew is particularly nice!
Have a good night all.
4-0, please do not give the red sox undeserved runs
YT,
the sox didnt score…dont give them a run they dont deserve
Bruce Chen is a leftballer, which is to say he is left handed and throws an assortment of balls almost all around the same speed/break into the zone. Sometimes its effective. Yankees ought to torchhim but some teams can be bedazzled by the leftballer
He definitely has bedazzled some teams!
Oops sorry 4-0 Rays.
Trisha-
Good night already??
Chen led the Royals with 12 wins last year. I do believe he’s in for a shellacking tonight, much like he received at the hands of the RS the end of July.
I think we forgot that Cano is typically a second half player.
The Yankees destroy Chen.
trisha – true pinstriped blue August 17th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Great being here with most of you. The day crew is particularly nice!
——————————-
We’re in a good mood because this is a diversion from work and we aren’t suffering through the stress of an actual game.
The Yankees SHOULD torch Chen…..kinda a trap game though as they’ve already won the series and the Royals will be trying to avoid the sweep at home. Sorta like that 4th AB when you’re 3-3…..gotta be careful to not take an AB off.
What a GREAT story about Hannahan, Chad! All the best to the family.
One thing I dont understand?
Are we back to a 6 man rotation?
Freddy going Sunday would indicate so.
Would not look good if it effects CC negatively as he was due to go tonight.
Versus Chen:
Teixeira – .563
Swisher – .333
Jeter – .400
Granderson – .444
If you stress over baseball you need to get your head examined.
Yankees hitting .331 against Chen with a .967 OPS.
RadioKev August 17th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
I think we forgot that Cano is typically a second half player.
————————————-
I looked up his split stats pre and post all-star games since 2007, and every year except his silver slugger year last year his stats are better the 2nd half.
Attached:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/pl.....pe=Batting
Hopefully Bruce Chen won’t do a Doug Davis imitation tonight against the Bombers.
Chen against the Yankees:
1 – 5 with a 6.71 ERA including 19 home runs in 16 games.
Logic dictates the yankees should crush Chen, but then logic also said they should have crushed Kenny Rogers. Sometimes leftball does what leftball does.
The 6 man thru August is one thing.
Extending it thru Sept. is another.
You want your playoff starters on rotation by the end of the month.
I looked up his split stats pre and post all-star games since 2007, and every year except his silver slugger year last year his stats are better the 2nd half.
—————
I think last year’s consistent greatness may have made us all forget those splits. It’s definitely true that he always comes on after the all star break. I wouldn’t mind more years like 2010, but I’ll still take it.
“Logic dictates the yankees should crush Chen, but then logic also said they should have crushed Kenny Rogers. Sometimes leftball does what leftball does.”
You got it.
Are we back to a 6 man rotation?
—————————–
Mick-
Twins series has:
Sabathia vs Duensing
Hughes vs. Slowey
TBD vs Liriano
Sunday it”s TBD vs TBD
CC and Hughes then are pitching with 5 days rest
logic also said they should have crushed Kenny Rogers. Sometimes leftball does what leftball does.”
=========================
unless juiceball has something to say about it…
They might only put up 3-4 runs in 5 innings. That would seem like a failure, but its really not by the numbers.
Trader, well I am taking a break for a while and the game thread is the bain of humanity’s existence more often than not. That’s why I said good night!
Maybe it’s see you later.
TBD vs Liriano
Sunday it”s TBD vs TBD
================
Sat should be AJ and Sunday wasnt Freddy mentioned?
===================================
CC and Hughes then are pitching with 5 days rest
=======================
out of rotation, my point.
They also should have crushed Doug Davis
Hope you come back Trisha…I always enjoy your comments.
Getting thru Minny takes us to the 8 game stretch with Oak and Balt where we need a 6th starter for the doubleheader.
I guess they’ll have to wait for someone to cut themself again in Sept.
Kansas City vs Boston July 27th
IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Chen(L, 5-4) 4.0 10 10 10 3 3 3 4.29
Hoping, no expecting much of the same against the Yankees tonight!!
“They also should have crushed Doug Davis”
Another intelligent poster! As we all know, and as you have so aptly indicated, any team can win on any given day. Only a total idiot is so anal as to get wrapped up in sterile stats and continue to spout them as if they make the outcome a fait accompli!
Nova wasnt sharp last night on 5 days rest.
Trader – my post at 5:19 was NOT for you!
********
munson – thank you! What a sweet thing to say.
I will definitely be back. I just have to get a few things accomplished here. See you in a while!
Let’s see how Colon is tonight on 5 days.
Trisha-
I knew that.
Still laughing!!
Regular rest=4 days?
So, the extra rest is from pushing everyone back because of the rain delay?
Joelsherman1 17 Aug Column nyp.st/n461mF Kept hearing the 600 HRs makes Thome an automatic Hall member. I am not so sure #Twins
Really? I don’t see this one as particularly close.
Thome: 600 homers, career. 403 OBP and . 961 OPS
Nice story Chad!
Joel Sherman is an idiot if he’s not so sure on Thome
Blake,
Agreed. Sherman rubs me the wrong way on most things, especially this. I’m sorry that Thome played in the “steroid” era, but you’re innocent until proven guilty in this country. There’s no way others actions should be held over Thome’s head.
So, the extra rest is from pushing everyone back because of the rain delay?
==========================
yes and the 6 man too.
they are used to going on 4 days rest and are creatures of habit.
Sherman comes off differently when he’s on the radio and you can hear him talk but his written stuff either on twitter or in the Post is sometimes abrasive.
Unless you’re just being contrarian or have decided to unfairly lump in Thome with steroid users then there really is no reasonable stance to keep Thome out IMO. You don’t fake your way to 600 homers
Even if Thome used steroids, he was better than almost all the other steroid users so put his ass in the hall.
JF,
True but that’s a different debate. The writers have decided to play moral police on the issue……so that’s just the way it is. I think its dumb but that’s the current situation.
Thome only made 5 all-star teams in 21 years, never had a top 3 MVP finish
JF – I feel like that side of the steroid argument never gets any traction. If you won’t release the list and the players union won’t sign on for blood testing, you can easily just assume everyone is dirty. If everyone is dirty, they were still the best of this dirty era. Let them all in.
I do think Thome will get in and probably on the first ballot because he’s got the numbers and because people like him…..which shouldn’t but does matter.
12 consecutive years over 30 HR’s ‘cept for 05 where he was hurt.
The other 5 he avgd 24 per, all over 20.
What’s not to like for the most likable guy in baseball?
1st ballot.
All star awards are a farce. Thome was always on teams where his star didn’t shine as bright as some of his teammates. From 01-03 he averaged 50 HR’s and made not one All Star team.
Underestimated, overshadowed, call it what you wish…
Those Indian, Philly and White Sox teams had many stars who shone brighter.
Is there not a team that would take Thome as a DH?
I wanted the Yankees to take him.
Is there not a team that would take Thome as a DH?
===============
The Yanks didn’t bite. Always thought he would feast on the short porch.
“Thome only made 5 all-star teams in 21 years, never had a top 3 MVP finish”
Those are subjective things…..his.numbers aren’t.
Thome to the Yankees would have been full of bonuses: LHB to take advantage of park, true DH, comfortable as a role player incase guys need to use DH to rest, and would have been a big winner in HOPE week.
Oh well.
Sox fall a game back and the Yankees are once again the top rated offense in MLB.
Damn, the
SoxYankees really are that good.If not for Jorge and more importantly the resting spot for superstars the DH could have been his in ’10 and ’11.
I thought Jorge would be the backup catcher, concussion miscalculation
Good evening –
1. Hi, Trish. Hope you’re well. Please keep in touch.
2. Why wouldn’t Jim Thome make the HOF? He hit 600 HRs and has not been linked to PEDs. Throw in that he seems to be a good guy and was a credit to the game, and what’s to keep him out? He wasn’t flashy? Let’s get real, he made the cut. Same criteria that worked for Harmon Killebrew, and that’s not bad.
I once shook hands with Thome and he nearly broke it.
The original Paul Bunyon.
He was hitting balls off a tee with one hand, on his knees, out of the park in Winter Haven.
When was Thome ever linked to steroids?
“I thought Jorge would be the backup catcher, concussion miscalculation”
I wish someone would clear this up with facts…..because Jorge’s recent statements suggest that he coukd have caught healthwise…..if that’s the case then he should have backed up Martin.
mick – that must have been some show.
@GordonEdes Try that again: Of AGon’s 41 hits since All-Star break, only 8 for extra bases: 7 doubles and a HR
LGY – wow. Doesn’t say much for is MVP candidacy. Not to diminish his play – I fully acknowledge that these guys work hard, and they play a hard game – but, a power outage in a pennant race does not equal an Most Valuable Player.
Thomes arms were 4x larger than my legs, at least.
What we need is to beat the sox out by 10 games, even with them winning the season series.
That might knock Agon and Ellsbury out of the MVP race.
That and RS loving reporters having to split their vote between the two.
I can see Cano sneaking up on Grandy as our MVP.
Sox highlights showed pedroia striking out looking and he turns around faces the ump and argues it. Can’t remember the last time a yankees hitter did that. Maybe walk away muttering but not what pedroia did. Bunch of babies always jawing at the home plate ump. Youk and ortiz mostly do that for them.
I would vote Gonzalez 3rd in the MVP voting right now
Cano is already having a better season than Pedroia and that gap will only widen over the rest of the year.
But Pedroia’s WAR!
Pedroia’s WAR is heavily influenced by made up defensive metrics
LA has a relatively easy sked the rest of the way while Boston plays the AL East all September.
We could get LA in the wild card and their hex over us is over.
m did you ever stop that wheel from turning?
Surprised Martin isn’t getting a day off today.
But Pedroia’s WAR!
–
yeah, it’s inflated by how flashy he looks doing everything. cano looks like he’s putting out the garbage or something. doesn’t get due credit for that ;p
mick,
What are you talking about?