2013 Yankees in-game thread

[VA Sox Fan]

Let's go ORIOLES!!

[jacksonianmarch]

Well, we lost.

[Thunder]

As Gary Thorne would say, "and... Goodbye home run!!!"

[VA Sox Fan]

Well, we lost.

 

How'd that s*** talking help ya?

 

THE YANIKEEEEES LOOOOOOOOSSSSSSE!!!!!!!!

 

GOOD!

[Thunder]

How'd that s*** talking help ya?

 

THE YANIKEEEEES LOOOOOOOOSSSSSSE!!!!!!!!

 

GOOD!

 

You misspelled the 2nd shittiest team in baseball.

[jacksonianmarch]

How'd that s*** talking help ya?

 

THE YANIKEEEEES LOOOOOOOOSSSSSSE!!!!!!!!

 

GOOD!

 

It's still alive and good. The sox are still losing

[Youk Of The Nation]

...boo-yah! I believe that's how you put it last night.

[Standing Room]

Kuroda still has a ways to fall. His ERA wasn't going to be 2.00 runs lower than his xFIP forever.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Lmao, suck a fat one you turd. Go ahead, jump in the game thread and taunt us about losing, oh wait...

[italstallianion]

Jacko, u mad bro?

 

http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt38/italstallianion/5v9gT_zps62101be4.png

 

I wish I could add a Ralphie May laugh side effect.

[Standing Room]

We threatened to rally like this late in the other two games but had some terrible luck on balls in play.

[jacksonianmarch]

Still in first my friends. We get tonight off then get 3 against the Rays, which will be tough. But we get 4 vs the lowly Mets before we take your asses to task in the Bronx. Tex might be back for the Red Sox series.

[User Name]

Should we be in awe of Tex' declining offensive capabilities?

[jacksonianmarch]

He can work a walk! He's an upgrade on all fronts over Overbay. Don't even pretend like that isn't the case

[User Name]

Over the long term, yes, but Overbay is hitting waaaaay above his head right now.

[Palodios]

Even if Tex is a better than Overbay, he's not an upgrade over the production that Overbay is actually giving.

[User Name]

Even if Tex is a better than Overbay, he's not an upgrade over the production that Overbay is actually giving.

 

That's actually exactly what i meant.

[Standing Room]

Unless the Yankees have a time machine for Mark Teixeira too, I don't see how it will significantly improve them. A perennial slow-starter, coming off a wrist injury, who's good for an .800 OPS when healthy?

[User Name]

[table]Topic|Team|Content

Prospect|Yankees|The player in question is made of 150% pure awesomeness. Fear us.

Prospect|Sox|He could be good, but this is why he won't be.

Signing|Yankees|This is the missing piece. We'll win 160 games, and the umps will screw us out of 2.

Signing|Sox|Risky move, overpaid here, they'll regret this.

Injury|Yankees|They don't get hurt. Hypothetically, if they did, the recovery will be speedy with no impact to ability.

Injury|Sox|Everyone is a ticking time bomb. Once hurt, they'll never heal right.

Website/Forum|Yankees|Suspension within 48 hours, banned within the week. Metaphorically speaking, he is shot by his own troops. Realistically, it's because bandwidth cannot carry live ammo yet.

Website/Forum|Sox|Tolerance is overextended, faulty defense mechanisms are enabled. Issues are dealt with on a daily basis much like a Bizarro World Twelve-Step program. [/table]

[SoxFanForsyth]

Lyle Overbay vs RHP: .296/.339/.546

Mark Teixiera vs RHP (2012): .239/.331/.438

 

The biggest upgrade that Tex will provide will be vs LHP. But even that only represents ~30% of the total at bats. Mind you, it's an enormous upgrade (Tex .865 OPS vs LHP in 2012, Overbay .416 OPS vs LHP in 2013) but again, you face a large majority of RHP rather than LHP.

 

Sidenote: Can we please stop pretending that, just because Tex missed the actual month of April, he won't have a slow start?

 

He's a historically slow starter (career .238/.342/.423 line in March/April). Not only does he start slow when healthy, but he's now had an injury, and not just any injury, a wrist injury.

 

Ask David Ortiz how it feels to hit after a wrist injury. Or Will Middlebrooks.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Lmao, Jacko just getting rocked by multiple posters. Hey Jacko, you told us once Granderson gets back, we'd be in trouble and the Yankees would take off. You're only up half a game, and that's with us not performing well(except the 5 game win streak)

[jacksonianmarch]

Lmao, Jacko just getting rocked by multiple posters. Hey Jacko, you told us once Granderson gets back, we'd be in trouble and the Yankees would take off. You're only up half a game, and that's with us not performing well(except the 5 game win streak)

 

We're up 2 in the L column, which is really all that matters. And how am I getting rocked? Dude, we're still ahead of you guys with half our payroll on the DL.

 

Regardless, Granderson left the game after being hit on the hand and Phelps just took a liner off his arm and went down.

[Standing Room]

Granderson just broke his hand.

 

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[jacksonianmarch]

Vidal Nuno matches Moore through 6. This kid has been phenomenal for us. He mixes in 4 pitches that he can locate to all 4 quadrants. And for a soft tosser, he isn't afraid to crowd a hitter and pitch inside. He pitches like a 10 year vet, which is good since he has the fastball of a 40 yr old

[Standing Room]

Nice of the Yankees to allow the go-ahead run during the Bruins intermission so I could see it.

[Thunder]

Vidal Nuno matches Moore through 6. This kid has been phenomenal for us. He mixes in 4 pitches that he can locate to all 4 quadrants. And for a soft tosser, he isn't afraid to crowd a hitter and pitch inside. He pitches like a 10 year vet, which is good since he has the fastball of a 40 yr old

 

So, his performance compares to Buchholz in April? Yeah, basically. Buchholz just isn't a rookie.

[Standing Room]

Nice tag! Rays up two runs now, still no one out.

[yankees228]

Even if Tex is a better than Overbay, he's not an upgrade over the production that Overbay is actually giving.

 

Overbay's 2013 numbers are worse than Tex's numbers in any season. If Tex gives them what he did last year, which is not a guarantee but hardly unrealistic, he'll be a significant upgrade over Overbay.

[italstallianion]

The Yankees are lucky to be only down 3-1 because that would have been worse.

[yankees228]

Also, it's important to realize how much of Nuno's success is predicated on luck. The answer is most of it.