New York Yankees Gameday Thread

[redsoxrules]

Just so everyone knows' date=' Javy Vazquez will pitch poorly tonight because he gave up a grand slam to Johnny Damon in 2004. He just can't handle the pressure![/quote']

 

Good call

 

 

LOL

[yankees228]

Haha causation failure.

 

Anyway, tough night for him. He did some things well, but even when he wasn't giving up runs, he was scraping by without much of a fastball. That's not typically going to last.

[Keeper]

And Price has been unusually efficient. 66 pitches through 6. I'd say this game is over.

[yankees228]

And Price has been unusually efficient. 66 pitches through 6. I'd say this gave is over.

 

He came out throwing strikes early, and the Yankees' hitters seemed pretty quick to abandon any game plan of making him work.

[yankees228]

Wow, Joe Maddon just refuses to take Price out.

[a700hitter]

Vasquez got banged around big time

[yankees228]

Yup, just didn't have it tonight. I've always rooted for the guy, since he left, so I was really looking forward to his first game back here. Pretty disappointing. Hopefully he rebounds against the Angels.

[Dipre]

Yup' date=' just didn't have it tonight. I've always rooted for the guy, since he left, so I was really looking forward to his first game back here. Pretty disappointing. Hopefully he rebounds against the Angels.[/quote']

 

That's a team he's much more likely to succeed against. Much less power, and some K prone hitters.

[yankees228]

That's a team he's much more likely to succeed against. Much less power' date=' and some K prone hitters.[/quote']

 

Agreed. The Rays aren't a great match-up for him. I've got tickets to a few games next week, one of them being his start.

[Dipre]

Agreed. The Rays aren't a great match-up for him. I've got tickets to a few games next week' date=' one of them being his start.[/quote']

 

I hope he fares better while you're there, then. But he better stay away from Matsui.

[yankees228]

I hope he fares better while you're there' date=' then. But he better stay away from Matsui. [/quote']

 

Haha, Javy will certainly be cursing that short porch a few times this year.

[Dipre]

Haha' date=' Javy will certainly be cursing that short porch a few times this year.[/quote']

 

You don't wanna see him battle the Rangers @ Arlington either.

[yankees228]

You don't wanna see him battle the Rangers @ Arlington either.

 

Haha, I certainly don't. He's got his next start against the Angels, and then he pitches out in Oakland, which should go well.

[Dipre]

Haha' date=' I certainly don't. He's got his next start against the Angels, and then he pitches out in Oakland, which should go well.[/quote']

 

Lol Oakland. Lol McAfee stadium. That's quite possibly the perfect Javier Vasquez recipe for success.

[BoSox21]

Just so everyone knows' date=' Javy Vazquez will pitch poorly tonight because he gave up a grand slam to Johnny Damon in 2004. He just can't handle the pressure![/quote']

 

lol yea, he was SO good to that point they just HAD to have him out of the bullpen

[Teleporting Mike Cameron]

Vasquez sucks LOL. Have fun with him NYY.

[Lester82]

He doesn't suck.

 

But I do enjoy any night in which he invites the holy ghost of Johnny Damon to visit him

 

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040510/040510_damon_vmed_5p.widec.jpg

[Lester82]

http://riveraveblues.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/AP00080402257.jpg

 

wow, blast from his early career past via Google images

[jacksonianmarch]

Held his own thru 3. 2 seamer flattened out after that and he was meat. His slider was off all game as well. Sometimes you have those days

[Divinity]

Vasquez sucks LOL. Have fun with him NYY.

 

I know right? This guy sucks soooo bad he posted a 2.87 ERA and had 238 strikeouts in 2009, What were the Yankees thinking? They should just send him down to the minors

[Dipre]

I know right? This guy sucks soooo bad he posted a 2.87 ERA and had 238 strikeouts in 2009' date=' What were the Yankees thinking? They should just send him down to the minors[/quote']

 

Do you expect him to replicate those numbers in NY? Because if you do, i have some real estate here in Santo Domingo i have for sale.

 

He's not as bad as he showed last night, but those numbers he put up in the NL and Atlanta are irrelevant to what is going to be his production in the AL East.

[yankees228]

It's not just that Teixeira is 0-17, but it's a completely deserved 0-17. He has maybe hit two balls hard all year, and that is with getting ahead in the count from time to time.

[Divinity]

Do you expect him to replicate those numbers in NY? Because if you do, i have some real estate here in Santo Domingo i have for sale.

 

He's not as bad as he showed last night, but those numbers he put up in the NL and Atlanta are irrelevant to what is going to be his production in the AL East.

 

Yeah some drop off is to be expected, I see his ERA going from 2.87 to around 3.87, and his strikeouts will certainly go down, since about 30 of those are freebie's from other pitchers in the NL, and a lot of NL teams have 7, 8, 9 guys who are pretty terrible, along with AL East being the toughest division. Ether way he should be alright as a No. 4 guy

[yankees228]

The stupidity of that is truly unreal.

[Dipre]

Yeah some drop off is to be expected' date=' I see his ERA going from 2.87 to around 3.87, and his strikeouts will certainly go down, since about 30 of those are freebie's from other pitchers in the NL, and a lot of NL teams have 7, 8, 9 guys who are pretty terrible, along with AL East being the toughest division. Ether way he should be alright as a No. 4 guy[/quote']

 

3.87 is very very generous. Try low 4's, close to 200 innings, close or a bit more than 200 strikeouts, I.E, his career norms, which is why you can't use his NL numbers to defend your "stance" when you got a whole body of work that indicates what should be a benchmark for his performance levels.

 

In short:

 

People who think he's going to keep getting hammered like last night are incorrect.

 

People who think he'll have a year resembling his 2009 are incorrect.

 

The answer lies in the middle.

[yankees228]

Should have been interference.

[Dipre]

Gotta admit, Cervelli has a very nice approach at the plate.

[italstallianion]

Should have been interference.

 

 

 

I agree. I doubt that Gardner would have been thrown out, but Cervelli should have been out for getting in the way. Damn near injured Shoppach in the process. You'd expect a catcher (Cervelli) to know better.

[yankees228]

I agree. I doubt that Gardner would have been thrown out' date=' but Cervelli should have been out for getting in the way. Damn near injured Shoppach in the process. You'd expect a catcher (Cervelli) to know better.[/quote']

 

All of Cervelli's actions are very exaggerated at the plate, especially on an inside fastball.

 

CC looks really sharp, and he finally had a fairly quick inning.

[msubulldogs21]

The stupidity of that is truly unreal.

 

What happened?

 

Sadly I'm getting a AAAA game on FOX and can't watch the Rays and Yankees.