Next step still uncertain for Pettitte
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Mar 26, 2012 
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Andy Pettitte will face hitters in another batting practice session tomorrow. It will be Pettitte’s second BP of the spring, and starters seem to do that two or three times before pitching in games. That’s under normal circumstances, though. What Pettitte’s going through is not exactly normal.
“The work days, the batting practice, the side days — we’re taking it day-by-day with that,” Larry Rothschild siad. “Seeing how he feels the next day, and then deciding where we want to go with things with something at the end of the day in mind as far as five or six days down the road, what the possibilities are. Really, I’d like to see how he reacts to things. This is a very different situation. Maybe having a year off everything gets healed up and refreshed, but you don’t know that until you get down the road.”
Rothschild admitted that he doesn’t want to create any sort of expectation for Pettitte. Rothschild is vague about when he expects Pettitte to be ready for the regular season, won’t commit to whether Pettitte will pitch in a game this spring, and won’t even say what the Yankees hope to have Pettitte do after tomorrow’s BP. Rothschild knows that Pettitte might need a little extra rest at some point, and he doesn’t want that to seem like a setback. It’s all part of the process.
So far, though, Pettitte’s looked good.
“Very impressive,” Rothschild said. “Very professional. His sides, the stuff is there. You can see it clearly, and he’s commanded everything really well. I don’t think I need to tell you, but he knows what he’s doing. He knows how to do it and hasn’t lost that — a really good feel for his delivery and the arm speed’s been good. There are a lot of things that are really good to see with him.
“You can tell he’s been throwing for quite a while. It’s everything he said he’s been doing, he’s doing it. He also put a lot of work in. Taking a year off is a little misleading because he worked during that year and kept himself in good shape, and then he got back after it pretty quickly, even before the new year. A year off, I think people think he sat around and watched TV or watched football or watched his son play baseball, but he did a whole lot more than that.”
Stay healthy Andy.
Take your time.
Good night all.
Yeah, make sure you take some Vitamin C Andy.
Night, MTU.
Good night, MTU. Thanks for the kind words amigo.
Pettitte is a force of nature.
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yankeefeminista March 26th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Nick, in addition to vitamin C, eat/drink miso soup, homemade; don’t boil it with lots of ginger (and if you like it, garlic). That, echinacea and vitamin C can cure anything.
Norris has videos up of the kids taking BP, including Ravel and Sanchez, as well as some other stuff: http://twitter.com/#!/jnorris427
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luis March 26th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Yankeefem,
Thanks for the link!….I watched Austin, Sanchez and Bichette. Austin’s is a money swing. Sanchez swing looks more compact and he has a very short leg kick, lokks like his time with Long helped him a lot. Bichette has a very nice swing but he has a big and long leg kick that i think he has to work on.
luis March 26th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Hi Trish,
It’s definitely great to have you back in high spirits!. I take Vitamin C, 1 gram a day. I very seldom get a cold.
Frankie Piliere ? @FrankiePiliere
A nearly unknown Yankee prospect touched 98 mph today, find out who – Scouting Notes: Talent Galore In Yankee Camp http://bit.ly/H9V8yc
anybody know who it is?
Chad,
Very good posts today, you are on fire!. Kudos…Did you see the bombs from Austin and Sanchez?
Andury Acevedo–he just recently started pitching. Out of Pitt org.
Steady as she goes, Andrew Eugene. We can wait as long as we need to. Very happy to have you back!
Luis, they actually have been quieting him down according to Piliere, so that is the quiet version of Bichette.
“Andury Acevedo–he just recently started pitching. Out of Pitt org.”
how’d they get him? how old?
blake March 26th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Frankie Piliere ? @FrankiePiliere
A nearly unknown Yankee prospect touched 98 mph today, find out who – Scouting Notes: Talent Galore In Yankee Camp http://bit.ly/H9V8yc
anybody know who it is?
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Kid named Acevedo – used to with Pirates as a SS – recently converted – seems raw.
Ravel Santana ran a 4.22 today btw -
“Andury Acevedo–he just recently started pitching. Out of Pitt org.”
I was hoping it was Pineda wearing a different number.
blake March 26th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
“Andury Acevedo–he just recently started pitching. Out of Pitt org.”
how’d they get him? how old?
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22 years old – he is 6’4″
Blake, he’s 21.
Blake,
He is 21 years old, they signed him back in February
did the Pirates release him or something?
well that’s cool….I’m assuming he’s a reliever?
Released by Pirates.
We don’t know what he is yet.
Yankeefem,
He looks good, if that’s the quieter version i wouldn’t mess much with his swing right now.
looks like this is the first time he’s pitched in pro ball…
Luis, we absolutely won’t mess with Bichette.
blake March 26th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
well that’s cool….I’m assuming he’s a reliever?
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Who knows? To early to tell. Santana was a shortstop before they transform him in to a pitcher. I would say it depends on how his secondary stuff develops, apparently he is a bit raw.
Blake, yep. Could be quite a story… Piliere had him sitting 95-97.
I’d say he probably is raw….the only info I can find on him says he was .129 OPS SS in A ball in 2010
hopefully Depaula gets to throw soon so Jon Heyman can find out how hard he throws.
Rich, lol.
Yeah, good news all around about Ravel.
luis, thanks. It’s great to be back, that’s for sure!
Vitamin C is so important. I think I need to be a “do as I do”er and not a “do as I say”er on that one. I was really good about taking it for the longest time and I don’t know why I stopped. Probably ran out and was too lazy to order more!
Trish,
We all do that at some point, so don’t be so hard on yourself
Well since I don’t have any Vitamin C, I think I will go with the next best thing that I have readily available – rest.
Night all!
Good night Trish!
Night, all.
I’ll call SJ tomorrow to see if he has any info on this guy…..Poor SJ, he’s laboring in Key Biscayne covering the Women’s Tennis Tournament…..Tricia, I just looked at my Multi-Vitamins and I guess I take 2,000 iu’s a day before I drink my fresh OJ and afternoon V8……
Good night Yankeefem!
I have been taking a daily [and outrageously expensive] immunosuppressant drug for the last two years in order to keep my condition in check so I’m supposed to be a bit vulnerable to viruses and fighting infections.
But much to my surprise, as well as my doctor’s, I haven’t had so much as a sniffle during that span.
My lifestyle is very active and I’m subjected to bacteria breeding grounds almost daily (the gym and my 5 yr old triplet nieces bringing home lots of microscopic critters from school).
But the reason why I believe I’ve been able to avoid all colds and other viruses is because I eat protein, fiber, and vitamin C by the truckload.
BD is on the right track with the green smoothie suggestion for weight loss. My daily morning smoothies aren’t entirely “green” but it’s undoubtedly one of the healthiest concoctions a man can ingest.
Pat M,
Lots of protein, fiber, and water will most definitely aid weight loss. Oh yeah, and lay off the booze.
Oh yeah, and lay off the booze.
Not a good day at all for Phil Wetherell or Nik Turley. Both were unexpectantly wild
or unexpectably wild.
It’s late
Lose weight. Eat lots of pizza for the nutrition and flush your system with a 12 pack of coca cola daily. works every time.
Pat M – check my math, as always, but if I calculated it correctly, the amount of C you are getting is woefully insufficient.
1 iu = 50 micrograms of L-ascorbic acid
2000 iu = 100,000 micrograms
100,000 micrograms = 100 milligrams
Because C is water soluble and we have no reservoir of C, I remember reading that men in good health should intake 2000 mg. of C a day, women in good health should intake 1000 mg.
I probably got that from Prevention Magazine, something that used to be my bible.
I don’t get sick, but I try desperately to avoid colds because I get terrible colds…..plus, I have a sort of whooping cough, so when I cough it shakes my whole body. I avoid anyone at work who has the hint of a cold; the flu shot I get every fall has helped enormously.
I think all of my healthy habits probably went out the window when I went to law school, and they somehow never returned to the level they were at.
Maybe someday…
You need to lose 20 lbs? Burn 70,000 more calories than you consume.
You should eat a lot less but more often.
And do alot of exercises where you have to down on the ground.
“Oh yeah, and lay off the booze.
That’s one thing that’s easy for me. I don’t like the taste of booze. And I don’t smoke. So I have two things on my side.
Worse thing I could have ever done was quit smoking.
Exercise is overrated. I have been been doing various forms for years, and not only am I addicted, it has messed up back and my neck.
Oh yeah. Want to lose weight? Smoke!
I actually know someone who quit smoking but started again because she was gaining weight. Geeze louise.
A real classic example of how depressed immunity can lead to disease. Remember that when your body is under stress, the first thing it loses is the B and C vitamins. Think about what GF said about never getting sick despite being on immunosupression meds. He overloaded on Vitamin C (among other things).
When my brother died last year, it was really stressful and I got pretty run down. I ended up with 3 bouts of bronchitis in 3 months. I never had bronchitis in my life before that. But since I was so run down to begin with, it was easy for me to relapse. If I had been taking some good vitamin supplements, or if I even thought to start to load up then, I probably could have staved it off or at least not relapsed. But it didn’t occur to me at the time.
The idea is to keep your immunity up on a continual basis so that if life does throw you a curveball, you can hit it out of the park rather than have it knock you down.
We have a saying down here that it goes along this lines: Have breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince and have dinner like a beggar. Meaning eat a hearty breakfast, have a good lunch but dine very little.
If you want to lose wait, just avoid carbohydrates, especially at night. I have had the same weight for the past 20 years. In fact i still manage to squeeze in a 32 waist.
Okay, I think I’ll sleep now for real and not continue to surf the internet and return to read the forum “for the last time” because it’s usually never the last time when I do that!
Night all for real.
Where do you live, luis?
I just stumbled upon some good news:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....gests.html
Eating Chocolate Regularly May Make You Leaner, Survey Suggests
Rich in NJ March 26th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Where do you live, luis?
In Venezuela, South America
They eat like that in Ecuador. Actually lunch is the big meal.
My first time down there I was like ” what’s going on with dinner?”
Except on New Years when dinner is served promptly at 1:00 am.
Oh, cool, luis. That’s a very European sounding eating schedule, and it beats the-eat more as the day wears on-thing that too many in this country seem to follow.
Bronx Jeers March 26th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
They eat like that in Ecuador. Actually lunch is the big meal.
My first time down there I was like ” what’s going on with dinner?”
Except on New Years when dinner is served promptly at 1:00 am.
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Here in Venezuela we have dinner after midnight both on Dec 24th and on New Years. Usually we dine after 8, generally at 8:30 or 9:00 pm. But our main meal is at lunch as well.
Rich in NJ March 26th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Oh, cool, luis. That’s a very European sounding eating schedule, and it beats the-eat more as the day wears on-thing that too many in this country seem to follow.
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Most of the calories that you ingest after 5 pm are converted in to reserves by the body, hence the lob handles
luis
That’s why I jump rope and do ab crunches every night.
here are some basic supplements i take
Krill Oil
Ubiquinol
Probiotics
Purple Defense(Resveratrol)
Multivitamin +Plus Vital Minerals
http://products.mercola.com/es.....pplements/
i basically stay away from processed foods as much as possible and eat whole foods whenever possible with lots of fresh vegetables and salads with olive oil ( cook with coconut oil)
being healthy is way more than any one thing you do.
there is no magic pill or one thing that is the answer.
it’s everything.
and everyone has to figure out what works best for them.
Yeah I kind of like it. Lunch is served later than here maybe 3-4:00, but that’s the big family meal.
It seems healthier.
Rich,
Careful with the rope, not very good for the knees.
Randy I,
I read somewhere that depending on your blood type, you should have a different diet. In my case i am O RH negative. That’s the oldest type of blood (universal donor), according to the article i should avoid breads and desserts. It said that should concentrate my diet on protein based diet.
Mike Mussina, Mike Mussina, Mike Mussina.
Had you just taken off 2009 then came back with whoever in 2010 and had just two ok seasons, you could’ve been in position to go for win #300. He has 270 wins. Just ten wins in 2010 and another ten in 2011 and he’d have been ten away from 300 going into this season.
I firmly believe Pettitte wants to go for 300 wins and followed Jamie Moyer’s lead: take a year off to recharge the batteries then come back. Pettitte’s only 39 and what is Moyer, 45/46/47? LOL (not mocking Moyer, he’s incredible especially when I’ve read that he’s been good in spring training or as a good as a guy closer to 50 than 40 can be.)
Everything in life is a trade-off, luis.
I don’t really like to jog. The gf has been pushing me to get an elliptical, so maybe I’ll get one, but jumping rope has kept at pretty much the same weight for years.
Bronx Jeers March 26th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Yeah I kind of like it. Lunch is served later than here maybe 3-4:00, but that’s the big family meal.
It seems healthier.
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I have one of those every Sunday. We are a big family, there are usually 30 to 40 people.
Rich,
Tell me about it!
I love skiing, so i keep my knees in good shape. The elliptical is a good choice. I did a lot of stuff in my life that took a toll on my knees.
Vizquel is going to be decorated by Congress, for his contributions to the US. I played with him when we were in HS. Good for him.
2012 Yankees DH Of The Month Club
April – Ibanez
May – Abreu assuming he’s released on or before 4/30
June – Jones (call up Dickerson)
July – Swisher (Jones RF)
August – Released player signed or trade acquisition (ideally the former who pans out)
September – August DH & DH starts to the regulars (Who cares who it is when the Yanks will use the DH to give A-Rod, Teixiera etc. DH starts and clinch a postseason berth 9/X / sooner than previous years with the extra wildcard?)
It’s too bad Preston Mattingly didn’t make it. A tough business.
For some above talking about diet, here is the solution for weight loss:
1. Figure out your basal metabolic rate on myfitnesspal dot com.and make sure to add the calories that were burned during exercise to derive your daily total number of calories to consume .
2. Eat 30-35% protein 20%-25% fats (healthy fats) 45-50% complex carbs
3. Exercise 5-6 days per week doing aerobics, yoga, calistenics, weights
4. Add your calories that were burned by exercise to your basal metabolic rate to give you your daily calories.
5. Eat whole foods if possible, very little processed, healthy fats, vitamins, and whey protein.
This will work guaranteed for a lifetime. Once you reach your goal weight, eat clean 90% of the time and have a cheat meal/day once a week.
I really hate Curt Schilling, but his constant ripping of Valentine is really awesome.
The circus that is going to go on in Beantown this year is going to be the best trainwreck to follow in all of the baseball. Can’t Wait!
Make your own decision on one of the rotation starters. King has made his.
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports.....um=twitter
How close is Pettitte?
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports.....um=twitter
Here’s an opportunity two make millions of dollars is just a few sort weeks. Invest just a few dollars and harvest the rewards in the fast growing diet food field.
http://www.hlifestyles.com/
Ok, Ok!! so, you’re not going to make millions for about 5,000 years, but, here’s a decent article on African mangos and it’s affects on losing fat.
GB-
Thanks for the articles.
Looks like King finally got one right.
Interesting that King would suggest that Hughes could actually slot in the 3rd spot in the rotation…..not that it matters how they are lined up….but it seems most of the writers have the sense that he will be in the rotation unless something crazy happens…..which is good and the correct move.
I think they are going to put Garcia in the pen…….and then shop him from there.
blake-
As much as I like and respect Garcia I think that’s a good way to go.
Too much upside on all the others to ignore them.
It will be interesting to see how they handle it.
I love spring training….but I mostly like it because we get a chance to see young players that we normally don’t get a chance to see much…..and we are pretty much past that now so Im ready for the season to start…..these last couple or tuneups are boring ….let’s play some real games.
Blake-
right on.
play ball !
Blake, that makes the most sense. Freddy will help some team, there’s no doubt about it.
hopefully that warm weather comes back for the season opener
i hate cold weather baseball.
it makes things too random
Good God almighty it is 28 degrees right now, with the wind feeling like 17! Last week at this time we were in the 70s!
Good ole New England weather.
The weather in NY has been fabulous and it’s going to continue into the upper 50′s this week, but I’m guessing that the moment the Yankees hit NY, the weather will turn agan.
Gossip Break: http://tiny.cc/w7wtbw
While it makes sense to try and trade Garcia, which team will be willing to take on a pitcher potentially who could make 5+M?
1 year/$4M (2012)
re-signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 12/9/11
performance bonuses: $0.25M each for 25, 27, 29, 30 starts. $0.275M for 31st start. $0.3M for 32nd start
A new left handed slugging DH just hit the market. Jack Cust was just cut loose by the Astros. No thanks.
YT-
I think lot’s of teams would still do it.
I think the return is the problem.
Might be hard to get fair value.
Trader,
Are the peformance bonuses transferred with the contract?
MTU-
If the Yankees get another team to take on Garcia’s contract and free the Yankees from his obligation plus the extra 40% premium they have to pay at the end of this season, I don’t expect them to get anything back, unless the deal was expanded.
GB-
I would think the performance bonuses would be transferred if he was traded, but honestly I don’t know. Perhaps Garcia, seeing the writing on the wall, being placed in the bullpen, has quietly asked the Yankees to trade him, so that he can reach some of those bonuses, that are obtainable only if he starts.
YT-
I’d like to see the Yankees get more than just salary relief for Garcia.
MTU-
The Angels have been linked to adding another starter-Oswalt. They have a disgruntled Abreu who has no place to play. They also have wanted another closer and they have Mark Trumbo, trying to learn 3B.
Can you put together a scenario where both the Yankees and Angels get a trade done?
Yankee Trader March 27th, 2012 at 8:48 am
GB-
I would think the performance bonuses would be transferred if he was traded, but honestly I don’t know. Perhaps Garcia, seeing the writing on the wall, being placed in the bullpen, has quietly asked the Yankees to trade him, so that he can reach some of those bonuses, that are obtainable only if he starts.
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I thought that I remember seeing a trade last week that had performance clauses in it and they didn’t transfer over. No sure who it was or the teams involved. I might be wrong, though.
Erin
People in India care what Alex eats? Geez.
A trip more important than any baseball game…
http://tinyurl.com/cbv7bgz
Cust batted .200 against righties last year,and hit 3 hr in 196 plate appearances.
Also his k % in 2011 was 32.2 %.
Very shortly,a year or two,we will have a new 3b,while arod dh’s.
New Post—————>
GB-
I’ll see if I can find a link about performance bonuses.
New Post: Yankees individual game tickets available to the general public today
Interesting discussion I missed last night on foods, vitamins, exercise and whatnot.
Frankly, my personal, completely uneducated belief, is that good health is largely dictated by genetics (so long as you’re not abusing alcohol, drugs, smoking etc.)
I’m 67 and, at 6 foot, weigh 160 lbs – 5lbs more than I did in college.
Thank goodness, I’ve never had any serious illnesses, get very few colds and have no problems with my weight. I do have back and knee problems due, I think, to running. But I gave that up a few years after I quit playing semi-pro ball at 35 and, since then, basically just cycle and walk. I’ve never taken vitamins and, apart from eating a lot fruit and having given up all but chicken, turkey and fish, I don’t pay much attention to a “balanced diet.” I don’t smoke and have only couple of glasses of wine with dinner.
On the other hand, my wife, who is about the same age as me, has had to fight like crazy to keep from gaining too much weight. She has always paid strict attention to the foods she eats, takes vitamin supplements and reads volumes in heath books and magazines. Yet she is the one who has had several serious illnesses and has far more colds than I’ve had.
Then there is a friend of ours who has just lost her parents in the last few years; her dad at 90 and her mom at 95! Both were immigrants to the U.S. – Italy and The Netherlands – and neither had the first idea about any kind of special diets, never took any vitamins and didn’t have any kind of organized exercise activities.
Yes, I guess you could say that they might have lived even longer and better had they done some of the things that people were speaking about. But, at the end of the day, I still think it’s genetic hand that you’ve been dealt that determines how long you live and how healthy you are.
trader, I thought about a Abreu/garcia deal, but, Abreu may not get any more playing time with NY. There’s also a difference of $4-$5 mil in salary.