Yankees draw Gerry Davis as crew chief
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Sep 29, 2011 
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Two standard announcements that have come in today…
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Major League Baseball has assigned the four umpiring crews that will work the American League and National League Division Series. The four crew chiefs will be veterans Gerry Davis, Jerry Layne, Dale Scott and Joe West.
Davis, a 28-year Major League Umpire, will work the American League Division Series between the Tigers and Yankees. The crew led by Davis will include Tony Randazzo, Eric Cooper, Dan Iassogna, Ted Barrett and Bill Welke.
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The Yankees were, of course, given the late game for each of the first three games of this division series. They will be scheduled for an 8:37 p.m. ET first pitch on Friday, Saturday and Monday.
The crew announcing the Yankees games will be Brian Anderson (play-by-play), Ron Darling (analyst), John Smoltz (analyst) and Tom Verducci (reporter).
The Yankees were, of course, given the late game for each of the first three games of this division series. They will be scheduled for an 8:37 p.m. ET first pitch on Friday, Saturday and Monday.
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Chad, what channel will be the game on Saturday since the game before this starts at 7P?
TNT?
- “We will be careful with Miguel Cabrera,” Girardi said.
BA against Verlander at night is .207 vs .158 during the day. That’s some slightly positive news.
Gerry Davis as crew chief
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Chad, same as 2006 ?
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The Yankees always have skewed odds, because there is always a lot of casual — or ‘square’ — money on them. So betting the Yankees is more expensive than it should be. It’s typical to see a ridiculous line like -270 or worse when you get CC pitching vs. the Royals or some such team.
So it’s not so much that Vegas ‘likes’ the Yankees, it’s just that there will be a lot of money on the Yankees and that’s the line that Vegas thinks will attract even money on both sides, which is what the Sportsbooks always want. When you get an even matchup, with no favorite, then both sides of the wager would be -110, and that 10 is the profit that the book makes on the wager whichever way the game goes.
We will be careful with Miguel Cabrera,” Girardi said.
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Based on career OPS of of 1.591 against CC I would think that would be wise.
Career Tiger numbers vs. CC
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/.....c-sabathia
Nick in SF September 29th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
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So it’s not so much that Vegas ‘likes’ the Yankees, it’s just that there will be a lot of money on the Yankees and that’s the line that Vegas thinks will attract even money on both sides, which is what the Sportsbooks always want.
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This is starting to feel like an emotional hedge bet situation.
jimromeJim Rome
These dude’s are overmatched against Papelbon. This freak is DEALING.
To put it another way, if you factor in typical pro-Yankee bias in wagering, -150 for the Yanks to win the series doesn’t make them very heavy favorites at all. I’m sure we were at -200 or worse vs. the Twins in the ALDS last year.
Casual or square?
The smart ones ride the yankees
till the cows come home
Hope Joe West is nowhere near the Yankees. He is one of the worst umpires and should not be involved in the post season.
RMS
He’s the crew chief for the DBacks-Brewers series.
Bronx, I have never tracked it for a full season, but I think that if one were to bet against the Yankees on the money line everysingle game, it would be a profitable strategy over the course of the season, even with the Yanks winning 90+ games.
Trader……Miguel has killed the Yanks dating back to the famous Clemens knockdown pitch in Game 4 in 2003……….Hardwire, I understand now where you where coming from………Nick in SF….I just checked my Derek Jeter overs on .270 ba, I didn’t realize that I hooked 7 chumps on that wager……A cool $ 567.00….Tough line on the Bombers for Game 1 tomorrow….
LGY
I know, I meant down the road in the postseason.
Oh yeah, me too. He has no business umpiring in the postseason. At least, to my knowledge, Tim McClleland didn’t get an assignment.
“Some suggest that starting pitchers Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and John Lackey have formed a clique that may sometimes include catcher Jason Varitek but few others. There is also some upset over Beckett declining to pitch to anyone but Varitek.”
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....z1ZNoR4LIg
I just checked my Derek Jeter overs on .270 ba, I didn’t realize that I hooked 7 chumps on that wager…
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I hope those chumps aren’t from in here because collection appears to be something of a challenge. I think both you guys might benefit from some East coast muscle to speed up that process.
Red Neck Clique runs the Red Sox clubhouse? Why am I not surprised?
Very interesting.
m – I agree; I am not surprised at all.
Isn’t it amazing what losing will expose?
I have an idea on how to change the ALDS so that the team with HOME FIELD actually does get an advantage-
With the current 5 game series, why not offer the team with HOME FIELD advantage 4 of those 5 games at home.
But the opponent can choose if they want game 1 to be played at their own park or game 5.
Meaning, the team with the better record will get a maximum of 4 games, but the other team can choose when they get to host their sole home game in the series.
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WTP – Unless teams split the postseason gate, owners will never agree to that. The inevitable second wild card with a play-in game will introduce a more significant advantage for the division winners anyway.
Clemens, Laptops, Lackey. What’s with them and douchey pitchers from Texas?
Irreverent Discourse September 29th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
WTP – Unless teams split the postseason gate, owners will never agree to that. The inevitable second wild card with a play-in game will introduce a more significant advantage for the division winners anyway.
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IMO-The ALDS should be a 7 game series. Just like the ALCS and World Series.
Having a 5 game series in round 1 is just a joke.
Therefore, if MLB wants to keep that at 5 games, then give the team with the better record a real advantage.
Warning Track –
I LOVE it.
But what do you propose for the next round?
As it stands, if the visiting team wins one game on the road, they get home field advantage for 3 consecutive games. I don’t think that’s fair.
What’s with them and douchey pitchers from Texas?
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The Red Sox scout the douchebag tool hard.
Not sure how the extra WC will affect the playoffs, but I’m pretty sure that we will never see another last day of regular season baseball like we saw last night.
The more you think about it, the more epic and improbable it all is. And I’m not entirely convinced that the Yankees didn’t gift that game to the Rays. So it might not be all that improbable. But after Tex, Price, and Simon failed to follow script, something had to be done.
Beckett and Lackey, of course, rate out at a cool 80/80.
They let Lackey in their “clique”?
Yes it would be very wise to pitch carefully to Cabrera….especially at the stadium.
lol, they all scored 80 on the 6th Tool.
I also think that the 5 game series is ridiculous because the best team doesn’t always win. Not sure I like the extra WC, though admittedly I don’t know enough about it.
If you want the gate, you win the division.
Villa Nova-Ya September 29th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Warning Track –
I LOVE it.
But what do you propose for the next round?
As it stands, if the visiting team wins one game on the road, they get home field advantage for 3 consecutive games. I don’t think that’s fair.
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As far as my idea, the ALCS will remain the same. No changes because that series is 7 games maximum.
The ALDS/NLDS is 5 games, so based on 2 fewer games, I was proposing really giving the team with HOME FIELD advantage, an actual advantage.
You beat me to it. Good one!
Something about not always having each other’s backs on the field?
That’s Lackey in a nutshell.
Soriano had a bit of sourpuss/uncooperative thing himself.
I think Mariano had a talk with him because he sure humbled up fast.
m September 29th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Hi everyone,
You might be on to something….if you watch the way Golson was picked at third and the way Dickerson swung to stirke out, you might think they weren’t playing at level. Having said that….I love that the sux are out of it!!!
Brendan Prunty
My story on Mark Teixeira blasting idea of more Wild Cards: http://bit.ly/neQ8rL. He is dead-on with every point.
Leyland bats three really poor hitters in front of Miggy.
Take care of business and keep those guys off base is the key to limiting any serious damage Cabrera can do.
By the way, every single sux fan i know thinks we screw them!!, another reason to hate us !!! hahaha!
I want to say the last series against Detroit or the one before that, we were so careful with Miggy. Kept putting him on, then the one time we didn’t he hurt us. The trick is to get the guys out like LGY so you can work around him.
Same strategy that we used against Toronto, don’t let cabrera beat you
luis September 29th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
By the way, every single sux fan i know thinks we screw them!!, another reason to hate us !!! hahaha!
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Tell them the game was over when Tito wrote the line-up.
No protection for their best hitter, A. Gonzalez. What was that all about?
Tito took the bat out of his hands because there was no protection behind him- LOL!!
WTP,
The thing is that they are such sore losers, they were the ones that got themselves in to that predicament, but they choose to blame us for their poor play. incredible
a pass by to congrat fellow NYY fans, on this game 1 match-up.
also, to acknowledge Trisha’s ‘adopted’ B-team. Respect. After the past few days, i will forever like the Orioles. Ditto for Buck Shoalwalter
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If you haven’t seen Theo talking last night on NESN, you should check it out. He kept shaking his head as he talked with the media. He was in shock.
Obviously, he’s had some time to rally the front office together, he sounds a bit more in control than he did last night.
I’m linking the post from EB, but here’s one question that I found hilarious:
On John Lackey’s on-field antics:
“I don’t think you can put it in a guy’s contract that if he’s going to make a certain amount of money he can’t roll his eyes. I don’t think the guys in the clubhouse have a problem with Lack, nor do I. I think we certainly wished it would have gone better on the mound. But I haven’t had a problem with Lack at all.”
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....tra_bases/
That Tex is a smart fella.
His nickname is Lack? How unfortunate
Christmas in September!
“Rip the Red Sox” is your chance (if you’re a closet Sox fan) to rip the team. But “keep it clean if you want to get it approved”:
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....tem-118544
Girardi would call him “Lacky” if he pitched for the Yankees.
Miggy Cabrera is CC’s nemisis he destroy’s him. He has a > .500 BA against him. You really can’t pitch to him. Forget ego’s we want to win
This is payback for the Mr. K. Brown on steroids series loss, that knocked us out.
ANyone know the status of Arod ? I’m sure he’ll be in the lineup but is he okay ?
Sure wish The Showalters showed up during the regular season. Buck’s team should be call September Songbirds.
Sure, it’s great they played full out. But let’s not ignore the rhetoric that Showalter has been putting out there all season against the Red Sox AND the Yankees. Don’t think for a minute that they wouldn’t have played just as hard to eliminate NY. And, if you recall, they did beat the Yankees in two tough games in September.
I’ll reiterate, it’s good they showed up to play. But they should worry about their own team and play as hard for it as they played against the Yankees and Boston. Maybe then the celebration on the field on the last day of September could have been because they themselves got into the playoffs.
So tired of the Showalters love.
I am not going to rip Lackey because of his personal situation, but he should be called “lack of”you can add whatever you want after that
“Lawnmowers don’t have a rivalry with grass”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
I effing hate listening to Brian Anderson and Ron Darling. Where do they find these yardbirds? All they do is mush the f out of us.
A single game playoff is about the dumbest idea I have ever heard. Every company tries to milk every single last penny from everybody.. I am only 15 and know the difference between capitalism and greed… and if MLB does this, it’s for greed and greed alone. I say we all join together and boycott any of these 1 game playoffs. don’t watch them on TV or internet, don’t stream the audio, and don’t buy tickets..
Tex is right, that is a 95W team gets beat by an 85W team from a different division in one game, and that knocks the team with 95 W’s out.. it just is not fair.
JUST SAY NO, TO THE EXTRA PLAYOFF SHOW !
Bronx Jeers September 29th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
LMAO!!!! dance all you want in April….we will do ours in October!!
They are terrible.. why not add Jim Kaat back so he can call Swisher “Steve” a dozen more times and Granderson “Dickerson” ..
Ughhh.. broadcasters really do “color” the game and when you have monotone script readers with no enthusiasm, I don’t care how mellifluous they are — it makes the game watching less exciting and more boring!
WTP -
One of my peccadillos is HFA in baseball. It’s fleeting. And it changes. And a starting pitcher can negate it. In other words, except for the convenience of knowing where game 1 is every series, and the knowledge that you’ll get last licks IF if goes to the limit, HFA isn’t all that.
But I’d rather have it than not have it.
I just think there’s another kind of advantage to playing 3 consecutive games in one’s home field, because that’s the same as a regular series during the season. Not many two-game series. And even number series seem more likely to be split than swept.
So I’d like to see the 3, 3 and 1. Not perfect but better in my mind anyway.
***I’d really prefer 3-2-2, but I don’t think baseball goes for 5 games to 2 HFA.
Much like K-Rod’s departure from Anaheim, they never offered a contract to Lackey…A serious one that is…..Both guys were clubhouse headaches….Napoli was a pain in the behind for Mike Scoscia but he’s come back to haunt the Halos as he didn’t stay in Toronto very long……..Jerkface was never more right about something than he was about Napoli……Face, you can talk smack all offseason…..Well till a point that is…..
There was all kinds of talk today about Francona talking about the lack of cohesiveness in the clubhouse.
When the Sox signed Lackey and then Crawford for pretty large contract, even J.D. Drew with his contract, while they seemed to go a bit cheap on Youkilis, Pedroia, to a smaller degree Beckett, and so on, I wondered if it would create some discord in the clubhouse. I think that is one of the areas where the RS hurt themselves. Of course there was also the trades they made that emptied out a good farm system, taking away a lot of depth.
The Yankees have disparity in the pay, but it is mostly because those making a lot less are those coming up and have yet to prove their worth.
Its hard to say if Francona will still be with them next season. He did get them two rings, but unlike the situation with Torre, he has a club that has missed some post seasons all together. If the clubhouse is in disarray, that falls on the guy in charge. Theo has also made a number of poor moves, and from the talk today, he sounds like he regrets signing Crawford and Lackey. The owners will need to think things over very carefully. The fans will be looking for changes after a collapse like they had. It can affect the club for a long time, as the Mets have seen.
It will be interesting to see how things play out for them.
Imag
Villa,
Very good post, i really like your idea, it would give the home team a little advantage, not great but big enough.
If Home field isn’t all that why do teams always have much better home records then away?
Yogi,
The one responsible for their lack of depth is Epstein, he is the one who should be fired, Tito played with the cards dealt to him….But at the end there were signs that he was losing the control of the dogout, so he might get the axe for that.
What? No game tonight?
In the playoffs, Triple. Not over the course of a season.
You’re talking short series. I’m saying there isn’t enough of a HFA in the short series playoffs.
And I’m saying that three consecutive games at home can be more of an advantage, if the visiting team wins one of the first two games.
Can be.
The system will never be perfect.
Triple,
Very seldom a team sweeps a two game series, but it’s far easier to win 2 out of three, if the home team splits the first two, he has to go as a visitor to play three, that’s why i think it makes sense to make it 3-3-1, still not perfect but better than the current set up.
When t hey play with 2 wildcards a scenario like last night wont happen.
Has GB been around ????
mick,
To top what happened last night it’s going to take quite a while.
Luis, I agree that the lack of depth was Theo’s fault, and he spent on big contracts without really considering the whole picture. Francona lost the club though. If the clubhouse is in disarray, that is the manager. It is the biggest part of the job a manager has, to get his team playing and working together.
If they were with the Yankees under George, they both would be gone. This type of collapse, even with all the excuses that are given, would have heads rolling in most clubs. The RS might not because of the rings. The Mets were slow to react to the collapse they had, and they are still paying for it.
I sportsJC16 4 hours I am hoping Girardi is more flexible in his thinking as the ALDS evolves. They are going to need Montero in this series. #Yankees
sportsJC16 4 hours As we sit today, I could make an argument that Jesus Montero is the 2nd best hitter on #Yankees right now. His bat speed is elite.
sportsJC16 4 hours Troubled by Girardi’s insistence Posada is his DH for the entire ALDS. I think that’s a little shortsighted. #Yankees
Pat M,
haven’t checked today’s threads, but he was around the day of the first game against the Rays, haven’t seen him since, at least not while i have been around.
Pat M. I’ve been asking the same thing. I haven’t seen any posts from him, though I don’t read all of them. In scanning through yesterday and today I haven’t seen any.
Blake,
Are you kidding?, is Girardi going to sit Montero in ALDS??, if that’s the case i must say it’s a very dumb decision.
I haven’t seen GB in a few days…..
Luis,
That’s what Girardi said…..
Yogi, very good points, i hope they make all the wrong choices, so we can keep on crushing them!
SI_JonHeyman 3 hours theo suggests the “clubhouse culture” and the conditioning of some are issues. refreshingly honest assessment. #redsox
SI_JonHeyman 3 hours people who know theo suggest theyd be surprised if he abandons ship now. #redsox, #collapse, #cubs.
SI_JonHeyman 4 hours seems to be a lot of smoke about possible francona departure in boston. 8 yrs managing boston is indeed a very long time
Blake,
Then it’s very dumb, Montero is probably one of your top 4 bats right now
My preferred HFA advantage format keeping the same # of games is 2-2-2-1 with the away team getting game 7. Having game 7 at home is not an advantage as most series dont go that far and in any 7 game series the away team can win while technically having played more home games than the HFA team! I think that is bogus.
Posada does have decent numbers against Verlander, however making him the DH against all right handed pitchers no sense.
http://www.baseball-reference......ubmitter=1
My ranking odf the bats would be as follows:
1 Cano
2 Granderson
3 Montero
4 Arod ( he would be 2 or 3 if he had recover his timing, he will, but as of now i think he is number 4 )
5/6 Swish texeira
7Jeter
8Gardner
9Martin
Of course i am not evaluating them against RHP or LHP, those rankings might change because of that.
m September 29th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Girardi would call him “Lacky” if he pitched for the Yankees.
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Or perhaps “Lacking” — which seems more appropriate.
Bojo,
Hi, Lack of…..is better in my view because you have more flexibility to add different epitets
At least it’s not McClelland… if it were, I’d have to ship a pair of glasses to Yankee Stadium so he won’t blow any more calls.
VS LHP
1. Montero
2. Jeter
3. Swisher
4. Cano
5. Tex
6. Granderson
For example:
Lack of……class
Lack of……guts
Lack of…….teammanship
and so on
luis September 29th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Bojo,
Hi, Lack of…..is better in my view because you have more flexibility to add different epitets
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Hi Luis–
Like “Lack-luster?”
BoJo September 29th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
luis September 29th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Bojo,
Hi, Lack of…..is better in my view because you have more flexibility to add different epitets
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Hi Luis–
Like “Lack-luster?”
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Hard to top that one