Today’s lineup: A-Rod in (maybe)
Posted by: Josh Thomson - Posted in Misc on Aug 25, 2011 
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Alex Rodriguez is penciled in the line to bat fourth and play third base, although Joe Girardi said Rodriguez can still be scratched depending on how he feels in a pregame workout.
Also, Eduardo Nunez is at short today. Derek Jeter will DH.
Derek Jeter DH
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixiera 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Russell Martin C
Eduardo Nunez SS
Brett Gardner LF
Phil Hughes SP
Pregame notes to follow…
YankeesWeather Today’s game will not start on time due to weather conditions. Updates will be posted when available.
Go Huuughes! Go Yanks!
Hopefully we get the game in. Of course phil will go out pitch a no- hitter into the 7th and it will
Start to pour and the game will be called.
It’s quite hysterical to see LoHud’s number one Jeter hater squirm and scramble in the “face” of his being so wrong.
Benny,
That’s acceptable to me!
BryanHoch Globetrotters hoop it up with the Yanks http://wp.me/p1rXvG-8Ww9
I hope Coco Crisp gets hit softly in his Frankenstein bolt
“Of course phil will go out pitch a no-hitter into the 7th and it will Start to pour and the game will be called.”
Hey as long as its an official game and the Yanks are ahead that’s fine
Benny-hey, that works!
As long as Phil doesn’t get up and down. Let’s hope they make a wise decision as to when to start this game.
sportsJC16 1 hour @JackCurryYES is stunning because he was an above avg C when it came to running a staff. It’s hurt the Yankees several times this yr.
sportsJC16 1 hour @JackCurryYES 2 things that surprise me with Joe. His love of the bunt and his lack of feel for when to take out starters. The latter (cont)
sportsJC16 1 1 hour @JackCurryYES Sadly, Joe will spin AJ’s start in a positive way, regardless of results. He had “one bad inning” is his mantra re: AJ.
So you do care, because you want the best hitters getting the most PAs. vs RHP that wasn’t Jeter since 2010. Thankfully he has really turned it around *right now*, but you have to admit he was quite dicey there?
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“Best” hitters, meaning naturally talented hitters, who eventually will work things out. If the Yankees had said to Jeter, you’re batting ninth until you figure things out, then that’s what they would have done. Interestingly, that was never really considered, because they had actually seen the rest of his career, & figured he’d eventually come around, as some of us in here assumed… You were single-minded about Jeter batting ninth, showing that you did not even consider for a minute that a player of his caliber could possibly turn his season around…you were gleefully reading last rites over him, day & night, in here…can’t complain about being identified with a stance you took like a True Believer, now that the world has run contrary to your wishes…
YES is talking about a potential double-header friday still, but didn’t the O’s nix that possibility? Or can mlb overrule?
JackCurryYES 1 hour If Yanks play DH 2moro, Nova and Burnett would start. Girardi called Burnett’s next start a “big” start. Indeed
It’s quite hysterical to see LoHud’s number one Jeter hater squirm and scramble in the “face” of his being so wrong
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He’s not incorrect about Jeter sucking against RHP’s this year. Even factoring in his current hot streak, he possesses a very poor .659 OPS against RHP’s in 2011.
Sorry, that post about Jeter was a response to Jerkface…
Hard to believe Jack Curry is saying some of this stuff out loud about Girardi
DH seems like a great scenario to bring up Montero….
What did Curry say about Girardi?
Of course Jeter has a poor OPS b/c the total includes the injury-based and pre-adjustment stats, which are irrelevant to Jeter’s current ability to hit RHP.
No Pena in Yankee land according to YES. Predictable.
Naturally talented hitters? Then why is Tex batting third? Burnett has natural pitching talents. Its about production. Jeter was getting beat by RHP since 2010, its literally undebatable. He was still poor against them up until about 2 weeks ago. They let him OPS under .700 vs them for about the longest time hoping he’d turn it around? It wasn’t about that, of course they wanted him to turn it around, but they weren’t moving him out of the top of the order because he is Derek Jeter.
Hassey, what did he say? I missed it.
That’s not Curry saying that
He’s not incorrect about Jeter sucking against RHP’s this year. Even factoring in his current hot streak, he possesses a very poor .659 OPS against RHP’s in 2011.
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If you want to give a damn about Jeter’s OPS. I don’t
Thats not Jack Curry saying anything, its SJ44 ranting in Jack Curry’s face.
blake August 25th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
sportsJC16 1 hour @JackCurryYES is stunning because he was an above avg C when it came to running a staff. It’s hurt the Yankees several times this yr.
sportsJC16 1 hour @JackCurryYES 2 things that surprise me with Joe. His love of the bunt and his lack of feel for when to take out starters. The latter (cont)
sportsJC16 1 1 hour @JackCurryYES Sadly, Joe will spin AJ’s start in a positive way, regardless of results. He had “one bad inning” is his mantra re: AJ.
All fair comment but I’m surprised Curry is positing so many anti-Girardi tweets when he is employed by the YES Network. Does he not fear the wrath of Hank and the unemployment line next year? Have to say, for some reason or other, Girardi has become very defensive with the media this year and, on occasions, has actually been known to tell a barefaced lie.
Oh, sorry guys…misunderstood the Twitter stuff about Curry and Girardi
Posting.
You can blame Joe for a lot of things – AJ is not one of them. He is merely towing the company line. If you listened to Cashman’s interviews this week on WFAN/1050, you can see why Joe gets it from.
SJ44 apparently blocked me from twitter
I don’t know why, since Twitter isn’t a 2 way street. I just wanted to read your rantings SJ44!!
Jerkface August 25th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Thats not Jack Curry saying anything, its SJ44 ranting in Jack Curry?s face.
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I don’t know why this made me crack up, but it did.
Good for Jack Curry.
You can still read them without being signed in to twitter can’t you?
Is this the same SJ who swore up and down that in no way shape or form will they bench Posada in the world series in Philly and play Molina? Or the same one who said that Cliff Lee would def sign with the Yankees?
yankeefeminista says:
August 25, 2011 at 12:33 pm
YES is talking about a potential double-header friday still, but didn’t the O’s nix that possibility? Or can mlb overrule?
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I don’t see why the Os would nix it. I think they run the risk of losing that gate altogether if it doesn’t get played this weekend.
SJ was never a Girardi fan. He always said they’ll have to win in spite of him.
AndrewMarchand AJ ‘birdie’ photo not from Saturday – Yankees Blog – ESPN New York http://es.pn/oNE78S
Jerkface August 25th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Naturally talented hitters? Then why is Tex batting third?
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Well, if Tex were to be moved down, I surely wouldn’t protest. Tex has a problem LH….
I answered you in the other thread…I’m not interested in giving your Jeter angst more play here. Like I said in there, I haven’t even addressed you since Jeter started hitting again…I didn’t see what his predictable success had to do with you, actually.
If you want to give a damn about Jeter’s OPS. I don’t
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As a singles hitter why would Jete’s OPS matter?
You were single-minded about Jeter batting ninth, showing that you did not even consider for a minute that a player of his caliber could possibly turn his season around.
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In all fairness, Jeter ended July with an OPS of under .690 over 1030 plate appearances dating back to May 1 of last year. He stunk offensively for a year and a half. He’s followed that 1000+ PA’s with a 95 PA sample in which he’s been very good. Doesn’t make that 10 times larger sample any less real. Fact is that depsite the great month of August, the 1000+ PA sample is much closer to what he really is now.
You are all astute and thoughtful baseball people
Are you all confident that the Yanks will score enough runs in key playoff situations to win the whole thing against some pretty good teams?
Winning the WS is effing hard. I mean, look at some of the sustained rallies, comebacks and late inning heroics we needed to win in ’09. Do you all think that the ’11 team has that stuff in them? Could this year’s team pull off the top of the 9th in WS game 5? Or pull out ALCS game 2?
I am not confident they’re made of the same stuff as the ’09 vintage. I think for us to win it all, we’ll need to get ridiculously hot for 3 weeks, a la the 2002 Angels.
Jeter hadn’t hit rhp well for a year and a half, so anyone “predicting” his renewed success vs rhp was relying on pure hope and is not right about anything.
Even if he was fired, Jack Curry would not be unemployed for long (see Sam Borden).
I am not going to discuss this, because there was a vendetta in here perpetrated by three posters who were like Born Again in their complaints, including stuff like he doesn’t help younger players, etc. It became boring then & it’s of no interest to me, now…
Jack Curry didnt say anything! He isn’t going to be fired.
I am not confident they’re made of the same stuff as the ’09 vintage. I think for us to win it all, we’ll need to get ridiculously hot for 3 weeks, a la the 2002 Angels.
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That was a team of destiny and they played hungry.
For some reason this team doesn’t have the urgency.
They were determined to win it all in the new YS that year.
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Someone suggested I’m drinking coolade for worrying about the Tigers more than the Red Sox. The Tigers undoubtedly have the best pitcher in the AL, and probably baseball. They would lock down one game off of us right off of the bat.
Miguel Cabrera also destroys us.
The Red Sox, meanwhile, are a better team, but the Yankees have seen a lot of them this season. There’s no reason to believe the Yankees just can’t beat the Red Sox. They should have won the series last time around. Their pitching is also far less intimidating.
As a singles hitter why would Jete’s OPS matter?
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Not enough singles. OBP is a factor in OPS and his OBP as recently as two weeks ago was below the AL average. Not the AL average for leadoff hitters, but the league average for all hitters.
Mell,
I actually think somewhere closer to the middle is where the truth actually lies. Jeter has probably made some adjustments and is no longer as bad as he was…..nor is his current production for August sustainable for anybody.
He’s a HOFer and sometimes great players adjust and find a way to be good again…..knowing him, that’s what many of us who supported him.were counting on.
No, jacksquat, they were making an educated assumption based on the player’s abilities and of course, they hoped that they would be right.
The counter here was an irrevocable decline that was going at breakneck speed in one direction…down, and sadly, they hoped that they would be right.
Production can increase based on many things including being injury-free and making necessary adjustments; it isn’t etched in stone. Jeter’s improvement going forward this season is what matters to this team. And his OBP has risen to .356, and in the 2nd half Jeter has a very solid .845 OPS.
Mick – Personally, I don’t believe in urgency or hunger as a factor. I think that’s romantic stuff created by the media. I’d imagine all playoff teams are almost equal when it comes to the emotional intangibles. I tell you what I do believe though – weak minded players who don’t care enough about their teammates or legacy can give up on at-bats that turn the course of a playoff game when every pitch counts. Does that translate into a lack of urgency or hunger…if so, OK.
Mell, if you are looking at Jeter’s OBP and OPS you shouldn’t be comparing them to all hitters but SS’s. Jeter’s OBP is 7th in spite of an abysmal start.
Hassey- sounds like a contradiction.
some players tighten up under the pressure of a do or die situation.
Look at Swisher. Both of his HR’s came when 3 down. Game on the line, when a HR was not neccesary he flies out, deep but no cigar.