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It'll surely come down some but ultimately (hopefully, for Yanks fans) it could just end up being one of those weird years where 162 games isn't a large enough sampling for things to correct completely. Not unheard of for guys with very hard contact rates to finish entire seasons with BABIPs close to .400. Longterm, I'm hoping he can settle into the .350 range.

Glad to see you're still keeping the Yankees section of this message board alive and well, Jacko.

This is a bit misleading. He threw some sinkers, which is different than what he did with the Yanks. But he was still mostly going with the four seamer that day, as he has all season.

Seriously. Usually when you hit a batter and allow four rockets in the span of two innings you end up allowing at least one run. In this case, nope. On a different note, as happy as I am that they won this game (and won some other games recently), it seems that any time they do win it takes a heroic effort from the key members of the bullpen. Robertson missed 2 weeks and has only been used to get 3 or 4 outs in each appearance, so I'm not really worried about him yet. But they're going to ruin Betances and Warren by the ASB at this rate. They need Kelley back and they need to find a way to start getting more length from their starters.

So how exactly did they win that game lol?

Jeez lol, how bad did you expect them to be before the season started? Because they're about to drop to .500, and they're currently the proud owners of a -16 run differential.

I think the biggest issue is that Joe continues to put Thornton in situations where he has to face righties.

Yeah, no Betances or Warren definitely hurt them. I question Joe's decision to use Betances for two innings yesterday, in a three run game, against the non-middle of the order, with a double header looming. Also a bit curious to use Warren to start the 8th in a four run game. Without Kelley being that aggressive with your other trustworthy relievers can really come back to bite you. And in this case, it definitely did.

Well I was hoping for a split today, but I also didn't expect the second game to be winnable -- so that makes this a little bit more frustrating than I anticipated. But the good news is that Nuno had a nice bounce back outing.

Well maybe Andrews will advise him to have the surgery and we can begin the process toward recovery sooner than expected.

Probably true. And it's not the worst thing for them, either. It'll give them more flexibility for Tex and Jeter with the DH spot, and Zoilo is a pretty good option against right handed pitchers.

No GT tonight? Y'all are slacking.

Dellin.

What do you expect? Going into the year we knew some injuries were inevitable, given the age of the team. We also knew that the offense would be somewhere around the middle of the pack. We also knew that the defense, particularly in the infield, was going to atrocious. All of that has proven true, to date. Going into the year the pitching looked like it was going to be really good. I thought they might have a top five rotation in all of baseball. But Nova got hurt. Then Pineda got hurt. CC doesn't seem to be able to succeed with diminished stuff, and now he's hurt. And Kuroda, I'm starting to think, may finally be declining. A team that needed to be carried by it's starting pitching is not going to be able to withstand all of the above. They are mediocre, at best. It is what it is.

Nuno didn't get a single swing and miss today. This is a guy who will be in the rotation for at least another month. Lovely.