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Sheff with 2 bombs tonight, 15 on the year. I can't wait until he plays you guys. He'll have a chip on his shoulder, and he's one of the few that seems to step up when that is the case.

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Not the Yankee game, but Wright just got mega-dusted (the ball caught the bill of his batting helmet) in Shea by Eaton after Beltran went yard and Delgado hit a GR2B. Be interesting to see if we get some fireworks between these two teams tonight.

I think Dixon should at least get one chance to pitch before we dump him.

Horne is the same age as Gabbard was last year in AA......and he's getting similar results. The only people talking about this guy think Derek Jeter has good range. In other words, just Yankee fans.

6IP 9H 6ER 6K 1BB --- solid indeed And the pitching cupboard isn't barren. The full season debuts of Johnson, Bard, and Masterson haven't been good, but that's why it's the minors. Those are quality arms, and they have time to develop. Then there's Clay, a 1s from last year who hasn't debuted yet. The best of the rest are guys like Gabbard and Pauley, but I won't blow the smoke you do and try and call those guys legit prospects like you do with Horne and Wright.

I'll take the 3 26 and under with the big club - from the sound of things Lester will be up right around the break - and the two B's over what you've got.

Kennedy.T20 is getting a warm welcome to AA.

Kennedy as a top-20 is pure comedy. He's pitched well, but he just doesn't have the tools to get rated that high. His scouting report is remarkably similar to Clippard. Not overpowering, good offspeed stuff, good control. He's even having similar rate results, of course he's two years older than Clippard was down there. Hell, he's only 2 months older than Clippard now. Imagine Clippard against the kids in the FSL. Only thing is, Clippard didn't even make BA's top-100 this year. Good luck with that one. Tabata came in at 27 on the BA list, but that was before the first hint of some tarnish on the resume. I've read reports that he has to report to the park early to ride the bike in order to maintain his weight. One of the funnier things you hear like dogma from Yankee fans is the quote from a scout that said he reminded him of a young Manny Ramirez. Who, by the way, was putting up an 1100+ OPS as a 19 year old. Great scouting report. He's going to have to do something with that .064 IsoD in order to move up. My guess is he slips, and without power, he doesn't come close to Ellsbury in speed and fielding. Chamberlin is only one there I see with some realistic ceiling. Of course, he's the same age Buchholz was last year in A-/A+, and Buchholz dominated but only came in at 51. To top it all off, what's with all this below AA talk? Oh, that's right, the Yankees no longer have anyone at AA or higher worth paying attention to, so that caveat no longer matters.

Quite the resurgence from Lowrie. Season line: .294/.433/.469 (May .333/.484/.515) He's proned to streakiness, so let's see what the next month holds.

You know, I was just thinking of something. The consensus, aside from Yankee apologists, seems to be that the shout in Toronto was pretty bush league. It wouldn't surprise me if Arod thought it was bush. I say this because think about the headline of the NY Post from earlier that day. Nobody in the media is talking about him and the bimbo. It's all about the "unwritten rules". He may have done that on purpose to deflect attention from the more eggregious action.

Thome....stretch.....stretch.....YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD.....YES!!

2 ABs, 4 outs for Phelps. That's phantastic.

Think about it, they just played a game that ended at midnight EST. Plane leaves at 2:00 am, lands at 4:00 am local in the Bay Area. I've got no problem giving the toughest position, catcher, a dinged player, Lowell, and the can't get on base SS (in favor of Cora who has hit him better) the night off.

DeSalvo, 1.1 IP, out of the game 3-1, discuss.

I think Alvarez is from the Bronx. Me thinks who drafted him may have played a role in his decision to go to school.

Sure, in the bizarro world where there is no Jake Peavy. MOJO TIME JT's bringing sexy back. [youtube=Oh yeah]GCex8dMbhCk

Well, technically, Jacko is right, he hasn't changed the swing much. He is, like RS said, just going with the pitch. His biggest problem early on was turning over and weakly grounding outer half pitches. Now he's just going the other way with the ball, but it's still with the same big cut.

I get up at least two hours before the ass-crack of dawn, so I'll be asleep well before this game starts. Hold the fort down, kids. Oh, and win.

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