Burnett falls apart again
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 26, 2011 
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A.J. Burnett did it again. Against a weak-hitting Orioles lineup, the Yankees theoretical No. 2 starter gave up nine runs through five innings and left the Yankees with a 12-5 loss that will have to linger. The Yankees won’t attempt to play again until Sunday now that Saturday’s doubleheader has been postponed because of Hurricane Irene. The Yankees, of course, are still trying to weather the storm of Burnett, who has a higher ERA than he had last season. In the second inning, he gave up six consecutive extra-base hits. The Yankees never came close to getting back in the game, despite home runs by Nick Swisher, Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada.
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Too bad for AJ – he had a chance, with even just a decent outing, to cement his place in the rotation, but he failed miserably.
I can’t wait to hear Girardi’s post game. One bad inning, a couple of bad pitches. We have to get this guy going. Sooner or later Cash and Girardi have to run out of excuses. Everyone knows the only reason they cover for AJ is because they know he isn’t mentally tough to handle the criticism. But enough is enough already and they can’t keep giving up games every 5th day because of his joke of a contract.
this was an easy after game post, Chad, you probably had this one written by the 3rd inning
# JM August 26th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
So when Sunday’s doubleheader is postponed, when will they make up those games. Really stupid scheduling by the O’s.
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They will find a way to have ML baseball schedule a triple header with the Yankees only being able to use 13 players for each game.
This has to be it for AJ in the rotation…right? I mean, you can’t possibly excuse this outing twice in arrow when the whole world knows we have one too many in the rotation right now.
I’d be really surprised if Girardi doesn’t at least acknowledge that Burnett’s performance is both a cause for concern and something they have to address in the post game press conference.
It’s sort of like the old joke with the punchline, ‘mom is on the roof’
It’s time to pull the plug on this guy.
No more china dolls.
# Purenyyankee August 26th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
If George was alive, this GUTLESS PU$$Y, Tin Man Burnett, would have been in tears the last three starts. This piece of garbage HAS NOT WON A GAME IN AUGUST IN HIS YANKEE CAREER!
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Actually he got a win in KC. The rest is all true though.
Tampa quietly hanging on the fringes of the playoff race….
I’m thinking the Yankees are going to have a lot of thinking to do because it doesn’t appear that AJ is going to conquer his difficulties. I would think it isn’t going to be easy for them to jettison him for a lot of reasons but I would also think that they realize that it may be a necessity. Not fun,
The team is demoralized behind him and has stopped hitting for him.
When they do hit, he gives it right back.
Time to cut your losses.
Giradi has to be tired for sounding like a broken record.
“We need him to pitch”
” I believe he’s gonna pitch well again”
now your talking sense trish.
TheStraw August 26th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Tampa quietly hanging on the fringes of the playoff race….
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not in the local press or media, they’ve already given up and are talking more about whether Andrew Friedman, the GM, is going to leave for Chicago than anything else.
Dream on………………………(Aerosmith)
Remember, we can fix him, this is just a temporary set back for AJ, a hiccup, a bump in the road. He is part of the rotation. He will turn it around soon…………………………….LMAO !
I’m thinking the Yankees are going to have a lot of thinking to do because it doesn’t appear that AJ is going to conquer his difficulties. I would think it isn’t going to be easy for them to jettison him for a lot of reasons but I would also think that they realize that it may be a necessity. Not fun,
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Especially when Cashman says a few guys in AAA are legit starters. Come on already.
It takes a long time before I give up on someone. With AJ I do so reluctantly because he’s still a Yankee, but it seems reasonable to call it a day, especially this late in the season.
I can’t believe that some so called fans will give up on a Yankee starter???? Sounds like a Red Sux fan to me!
The Yanks have to put AJ in the bullpen and try again next year, it’s not fair to the rest of the team. Even if Colon needs some time off Warren would be a better option than AJ. AJ’s delivery is awful and has no idea where the ball is going and his fastball is getting absolutely hammered in every start. They can’t continue to ignore the fact that he can’t get major leaguers out.
Noesi is on the ML Club. He could easily surpass what Burnett brings to this team both on and off the field.
The Yankees need AJ to come up with some mysterious injury that puts him on the DL. Tired shoulder anyone???
BryanHoch
Girardi says Yankees have not agreed to play Sept. 8. “We’re going to fight it,” he said.
I can’t believe that Bob Lorenz didn’t use AJ’s performance as the pitching performance of the night.
We can rebuild him, he will pitch like he is capable, he is a solid ML pitcher………OK.
Burnett can’t stay in the rotation, it’s beyond ridiculous already.
He had good stuff tonight and still couldn’t get anyone out.
He doesn’t move guys off the plate, for a guy without good control there is absolutely no fear or intimidation and everyone has comfortable ABs up there.
Girardi runs the risk of losing the clubhouse over this because if anyone thinks the rest of the team is happy watching him get bombed in every start you just don’t know anything about baseball, these guys are competitors and hate seeing games go the way the last two starts by Burnett have gone.
Vineyard Yankee August 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
We can rebuild him, he will pitch like he is capable, he is a solid ML pitcher………OK.
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How dare you bet the over and profit on the misfortune of a Yankee pitcher! Are you a Red Sux fan? Do you live in RI?
I hope Girardi and the Yankees fight that make up date all the way. Make the O’s play that game at YS. Would teach the O’s a lesson.
I’ve never cared for Stephen A. Smith, but he’s right. If George were still alive, AJ would have been down in the minors by now.
WCYF:
Hope he takes the ball in 5 days at Fenway……………..Regular implosion = $CASH$
Wow, 5.31 ERA. That’s sky high, even for the AL.
Girardi: AJ’s ERA speaks for itself.
The decision rests with Cash now.
Anthony Rieber
Angry girardi sez yanks did not agree to play orioles in makeup game on 9/8. Sez they will fight it. Not kidding.
‘Are you a Red Sux fan? Do you live in RI?’
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Nope, just a sock puppet in the middle right drawer. That’s where the alternate IP address is kept.
Sounds like AJ stays in the rotation.
AJ is very consistent. He either get hammered early in the game or in the 5th or 6th inning. Girardi with the famous line “This game is hard”. Give me a break he has been awful for 2 years now.
The best thing for AJ and the Yankees, will be to part ways. Since that’s not likely to happen till the offseason, the Yankees should just tell him to go home to his family tonight at his home in Maryland and don’t plan on coming back until at least rosters expand, if at all. They can just say Burnett has left the team for personal reasons.
Girdadi looks like a manager that’s mentally tired for having to deal with answering questions about AJ.
Great news – Idiot Joe says AJ is staying in the rotation.
Girardi sounds like a broken record. “He made some mistakes and they hit them”.
Can we let him make those mistakes in the minors?
“We gotta try and fix him”. How long is that going to take? The season is ending soon, dude!
“I can’t believe that some so called fans will give up on a Yankee starter???? Sounds like a Red Sux fan to me!”
A dimwit at work doing what he does best, cause trouble.
Girardi is completely different tonight than he was after the Twins game.
He’s not angry and defensive with the press, he is admitting that Burnett sucks and is doing everything short of throwing him under a bus.
Suzyn just said that AJ’s Aug ERA is 12.
Joe calling out the Orioles and MLB now….
AJ is lucky if he lasts 2 innings in Fenway
I think Joe would take AJ out of the rotation now if he could, but the DH coming up make it almost impossible
I have a ton of respect for Girardi because he truly cares about the feelings of his players. He is a real humanist, and there aren’t enough of them walking this earth for my money. Good for you, Joe.
“AJ’s ERA speaks for itself.
The decision rests with Cash now.”
Easy decision. You have 6 pitchers for 5 spots all of whom are pitching better than Burnett.
You want to maximize the chance your team wins.
I hope they can trade Burnett in the OS.
Eat most of his contract and make him disappear.
Niblick August 26th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Great news – Idiot Joe says AJ is staying in the rotation.
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Thank goodness. His start at Fenway next week should be a money making bonanza for me.
Joe is rightfully complaining about the scheduling of the game on September 8. He says it makes zero sense. Girardi, it makes perfect sense. The Orioles want to stick it to the Yankees because they despise the Yankees because they are greatly inferior to the Yankees.
F the orioles.
If they interview AJ on the postgame show, I’m putting my TV on mute. If I don’t, I might throw a shoe at the TV and I don’t want to damage it.
Plus he has a GM to answer to………….
I hope the Yankees fight the 9/8 thing. The O’s handled this Hurricane scheduling in the most classless way possible
“A dimwit at work doing what he does best, cause trouble.”
Yes, I hope Jacob Ruppert is still around because he was convinced that the only time that twisted fruitcake showed his feline claws was when somebody had thrown the first punch. Perhaps he can now see firsthand that WCSF is a nutcake who walks around looking for a fight.
“I think Joe would take AJ out of the rotation now if he could, but the DH coming up make it almost impossible”
I agree that with the DH coming up, they can’t remove him. However, I don’t think that they would anyway. They are paying this guy $16M. Cash has already proven that they refuse to admit that he stinks and that maybe they didn’t get the pitcher they signed up for. They are going to keep running him out there until we fans poke our eyes out with pens.
Good job by Girardi calling out the loser O’s. I don’t know why Selig gets paid so much money if the home team makes the decision not to play a DHer today and he does nothing. The O’s are a pathetic and jealous organization and the Yanks shouldn’t give into their bs of them trying to screw the Yanks.
Cashman: So Girardi why do you want to manage the Yankees?
Girardi: I truly care about feelings and humanity and I love Enya.
MTU, my father is beyond annoyed at AJ – and he never gets upset about anything in sports. He thinks, as you said, that the Yankees need to deal him and eat the contract……..
so the latest bullsh-t is they have to many double headers so the yneed to keep him in the rotation.
HERE IS A SOLUTION. ADAM WARREN, PHELPS, ETC.
THESE GUYS ARE FRIGGIN MORONS..
GIRADI GET A BRAIN……….
Laura, I think Joe would take him out, but I think Cashman has dug in his heels. I’d rather forfeit a game than give the O’s the satisfaction of giving in to their demands
Jacob, you wanted examples of how the asswipe WCSuxFan went looking for trouble? Well you just saw it firsthand. Notice how purile posts the whack job tossed in my direction since I came onto the forum a short while ago.
Ha Darnell McDonald pitching for the SUX
aj burnett is the worst starter the yankees have had since minimum 1960………….
listen russel martin said he has great stuff. let’s give AJ a contract extension, he has grea tstuff.
how about 3 more years at $15 mill per……………
It’s a little hard to concretely take him out when you have six games in five days in two different cities. Still, maybe they could give one of the AAA kids one of those starts in the DH and save Freddy for the Sox…Noesi will have to be sent down when Freddy returns anyhow, why not just do it early and bring up Warren or someone else on turn to pitch one of Sunday games and then send them back down afterwards?
MTU August 26th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
“AJ’s ERA speaks for itself.
The decision rests with Cash now.”
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Is he putting Cash on the spot?
this is a 2 season blip not 2 bad augusts.
the augusts have been historically bad the other months just bad…
this cannot be spun.. doubleheaders, great stuff, etc it is all BULLSH-T..
trisha – true pinstriped blue August 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
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WC didn’t say a word to you, troublemaker. No surprise there.
I agree Trisha about Joe. He is a really good guy. But there comes a time when workplace productivity overtakes the need to pander to everyone’s feelings.
MTU-
Just make up some excuse and tell everyone that Burnett has left the team for personal reasons to his home in Maryland.
That picture of AJ above. Is he crying into his shirt or muttering a few obscenities.
Tom Hanks video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t48brs4QRjY
I get not trashing AJ to the media, but can’t they speak a little bit of truth in these postgame pressers. I mean everyone tip toes around this AJ thing way too much. Makes everyone look really pathetic.
Everyone keeps saying that AJ has good stuff. I’m really starting to doubt that. If you have good stuff, you should be able to produce it at some point. This supposed “good stuff” has been missing for weeks. Where did it go? Is this like a Where’s Waldo issue?
Any of the AAA starters could pitch better than AJ even Igawa. They should DL him until Sept. with nut jobness. Cashman and Girardi are giving him chance after chance to prove that he can pitch decent and it’s obvious that he can’t. There is no way that he is staying in the startiing rotation for 2 more years. It’s time to move on and give someone else a chance.
I see trisha. WCYF, I will not admonish you, but is stuff like that necessary? At least trisha maintains the same viewpoint throughout the course of time. Whereas Betsy flip flops one hour to the next. I love Phil Hughes, I hate Phil Hughes, I wanna marry Phi Hughes, I wanna murder Phil Hughes LOL
Chad, it is obvious that “West Coast Yankee Fan” has making trouble as his main purpose. I would ask that you ban him the next time he disrupts the forum with his juvenile nastiness. He was obviously thrown off the NY Daily News forum for the same reasons.
Thank you.
DL him and give Montero his roster spot
Big supporter of AJ but he is shot for this year there’s no way they can rely on him …Downfall of this 2011 team will be the SP in the playoffs….Can’t fix wall cracks with paint ( hows that )
Hey WCYF why don’t you go back to the Daily News Blog.
Oh wait… You were banned there for doing the same thing you are “trying” to do here.
I wonder if Feinsand would put in a good word to Chad, for you.
Oops, Maybe we shouldn’t go there huh.
Betsy-
You know me by now. I am loyal to the point of a fault. I am usually the one pulling players out from under the bus
I don’t take this POV on AJ easily.
I just see very little realistic hope that Burnett can help the Yankees this season, or possibly even going forward.
We have a lot of talent and to my mind AJ is just breathing oxygen and taking up valuable space.
I’m sure AJ wants to be better but that is not the point. He is hurting the team. It not a matter of his effort it’s his ability which now has come into question IMO.
I agree with your Dad. Eat most of his contract and be done with him.
He should not be a part of this year’s rotation any longer IMO. Period.
“WC didn’t say a word to you, troublemaker. No surprise there.”
He said many words ABOUT me. Even more busch league. Troublemaker. No surprise there either.
# Captain Clutch August 26th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
DL him and give Montero his roster spot
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he’ll be up Thursday…maybe
UnKnown August 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Ha Darnell McDonald pitching for the SUX
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It would be funny. Except he is probably better than AJ at this point.
aj figured it out. he needs to pitch inside. all is good. he will trun it around. let’s give him a contract extension after all he has great stuff.
the guy throws 2 pitches and cannot figure it out…………
he has cement between the ears…….
Time to give AJ a 2 week vacation, or send him to the bullpen.
No, “the decision rests with Cash” were my words not girardi’s. I agree with MG though, he did everything but throw AJ under the bus. It’s almost like he is pleading with Cashman to change things.
AJ spewing the same crap about getting on track…deeds not words, please.
“I agree Trisha about Joe. He is a really good guy. But there comes a time when workplace productivity overtakes the need to pander to everyone’s feelings.”
I was really just speaking to the personality characteristic where he has true compassion. I think that’s a beautiful quality in a human being. He has shown, though, that he doesn’t always pander to feelings when it comes to making the tough decisions. He had to leave Jorge behind at one point, and he did it.
The media post game were not shy about asking repeated tough questions of Girardi and Burnett. It’s no secret how badly he is pitching, he knows it, everyone knows it. The question is what are Cashman and Girardi going to do about it and when?
this is a joke. this is a sick joke. watching this hillbilly talk and management do absolutely nothing.
adam warren is he going to have an 8 era? maybe not.
same with phelps manbam and others………
keeping him in the rotation is laughable. the whole front office and management should be fired.. if burnett was on the bosox he would be working the manual scoreboard 3 monthds ago………..
I think it’s safe to say that Oakland is going to win its game.
MTU, yep…… I was not for taking AJ out of the rotation either, but whereas before he was just mediocre, now he’s just bad.
MTU-
With some good timing and the expansion of rosters soon, AJ might just be a bench rooter until he is traded in the offseason.
I left a Tom Hanks you tube video for you since it appeared in the picture above that Burnett might be crying into his shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t48brs4QRjY
Burnett is actually saying the right thing, that he doesn’t pitch inside nearly enough and needs to do that more.
I have no clue why a guy his size doesn’t intimidate right handed batters by knocking some of them down like his buddy Beckett does all the time, it would get them waving a lot more at the curve ball and not sitting on the fastballs over the plate.
At the same time, it’s time for him to not be in the rotation, the only reason left is the number of doubleheaders coming up in the next two weeks if they don’t want to bring up a guy from the minors.
This isn’t on Joe anymore, if it ever was – it’s on Cashman. They need a 6 man for now, so I’m sure no decision will be made right away, but I’m not going to hold my breath for Cashman to make the obvious decision.
It’s funny how whenever AJ gets hammered he always mentions that he didn’t give up in the game. For him to even mention that tells you he knows that he mentally checks out during the game when things go bad. Otherwise why would he even mention that? He is a weird, weird character.
The thing is, while I would probably bring someone up from the minors, that next turn would be in Fenway, so that’s not a place I’d want a rookie to pitch
Noesi for AJ or bring up one of a group of Warren, Mitchell and Phelps. AJ cannot see a pitchers mound for awhile. This isn’t turning around in 5 days. No more chances Girardi. Enough is enough with this guy.
Are you kidding me that they are really going to march this Tin Man out on the Fenway mound next week.Let’s just give the AL East away.
“Burnett is actually saying the right thing, that he doesn’t pitch inside nearly enough and needs to do that more.”
I was thinking the same thing. That’s what you want a pitcher to be saying. You don’t want him to be saying that he believes he stinks and his career is over!
I also agree that it’s time for him to not be in the rotation. Now if something dramatic happens where he turns into a class A pitcher all of a sudden, well that’s different (not saying it’s going to.) Short of that, he needs to be utilized in other ways.
I think I really crossed the Rubicon with Burnett tonight.
For me there is no turning back.
It’s nothing personal. I’d love to drink a beer with the guy.
I don’t think it’s a lack of effort on his part. I wanted him to succeed. I’m sure we all did.
It’s a lack of ability. He needs to change the way he pitches and I do not believe he can accomplish that in season.
It might be better if everyone concerned just found a way to move on.
For now. he needs to be marginalized so as to cause the least amount of damage going forward.
15-5 Oakland over Sux!
Burnett stunk in 2010; this is no surprise to anyone. Cashman knew in December that Lee stiffed him and Pettitte was retiring. The dependence on Burnett and the state of the rotation is on him.
if I’m the Yankees (and I’ve said this before) I eat $20M on his contract and trade him as far away as possible to a National League team in the offseason.
The Marlins are opening a new stadium next year and are very cheap, that would seem like a good place to send him as a replacement for Vazquez.
“I think I really crossed the Rubicon with Burnett tonight.
For me there is no turning back.
It’s nothing personal. I’d love to drink a beer with the guy.
I don’t think it’s a lack of effort on his part. I wanted him to succeed. I’m sure we all did.
It’s a lack of ability. He needs to change the way he pitches and I do not believe he can accomplish that in season.
It might be better if everyone concerned just found a way to move on.
For now. he needs to be marginalized so as to cause the least amount of damage going forward.”
MTU – you’ve said it all. You’ve spoken everything I am thinking and feeling about the situation.
AJ “I have great stuff.”
Joe “It’s hard.”
Where is this Busch league ?
I like twisted fruitcake.
Does everyone remember how this happened in Baltimore once before? We got jobbed two games because of some decision to let the Yankees play in a monsoon and the game had to be called, I believe Moose was on the mound. And then when the game was picked up it forced Andy to have to pitch on extra rest and the results were disastrous.
Something like that.
Trisha-
Believe me when I say I say it with a heavy heart.
I want all of our guys to thrive. If they succeed we succeed. The team becomes better because of it.
I feel bad for the guy. i know he’s trying his best. I just feel even worse for his team mates who are counting on him to keep them in games.
I’m going to bed soon, and I normally have good dreams but tonight who knows ?
By the way, It’s good to see you around. stay safe.
Stuart is right. This situation with AJ is making Joe and Cash look very bad – no b@lls.
Players need to be held accountable or management just looks weak.
I was not a big Steinbrenner fan, but he would NEVER have let this go on -
AJ would be long gone
“Cashman knew in December that Lee stiffed him and Pettitte was retiring. The dependence on Burnett and the state of the rotation is on him.”
“Dependence on Burnett” In case you forgot AJ is signed through 2013.
After Lee who exactly was he supposed to sign? Maybe somebody like Colon or Garcia. Oh yeah, how has that worked out.
What a joke you are. And how has Hughes pitched this year? I guess that’s Cashman’s fault as well.
Actually Betsy schooled you this year when it came to Hughes. maybe you should stick to causing trouble, at least you can say you are good at it.
play nice tar
MTU – thanks.
It’s nice to be around my friends again and sharing the Yankee experience.
I’ve battened down the hatches and am just waiting for the fun to begin. Definitely eerily the calm before the storm here. For most of the day, it was quite warm but dry. Suddenly the dew point is up to 74 degrees. So you know something ‘s on its way.
I don’t think so Mick. Fire with fire it’s the new me.
Looks like Tar the hypocrite is not practicing what he preaches and is out to disrupt the blog given that the conversation is about baseball. He obviously has a serious problem.
I was a hundred percent right about Hughes, he is not pitching meaningless innings in the pen is he? And he is an important part of the future Yankees rotation isn’t he. Ooops well, he missed that one.
Tar the new you is impotent and oh so lame.
aj burnett is becoming a major joke.if steinbrenner were still alive burnett would be long gone.the yankees have eaten bag contracts before.they have to release burnett now before he costs them a playoff or world series game or series.he was laughing on the mould last night. what a f—— joke he is.eat the remaining 32m they have enough money coming off the books to offset his contract.really all they have to do is raise tickets 25cents and they can make up the difference.money is not the problem for the yankees.cashman is the problem.he will not admit he made a mistake with burnett.he had all year to fix the yankees bench problem and did nothing.does aj have some pictures of cashman or something.why is this man putting up with this laughing stock of baseball.let him be someone else problem.enough is enough.they had a great stat on aj on the internet. everytime he pitches at home the attendence is down some 3000 people.you mulitply that by his 15 starts at home and that becomes a lot of people and MONEY.