jacksonianmarch

Sox really pushing their prospects. Duran and Downs at AAA and Casas at AA

It is sad to see Cabrera reduced to this. They are clearly hoping he can get 130 hits and 11 bombs to reach 3,000 and 500.

You have no idea how good it feels to post this after a 600 day layoff. f*** Covid. Great to see the games back on. The Yanks changed their affiliations. AAA- SWB AA- Somerset A+ Hudson Valley A- Tampa For AAA today, Luke Voit got two hits. Pitching was mostly big league talent in Montgomery, Nelson and Goody. They lost 5-2. Other than Voit, Gittens had 2 hits and no other real prospect was involved at all. For AA, Florial went deep, but K'd twice. A career minor leaguer hit a double and a bomb to pace the team. Luis Gil threw 3.2 shutout innings with 6K's. He will likely not be in AA for long For A+, Luis Medina was great. 4 shutout innings, 1 hit, 8K, 2BB's. If he can prove he can reign it in and keep the ball near the zone, he will move fast. His stuff is stupid good. The offense sucked For A, big game for the last 2 drafts. Volpe with a double and a triple, 3 walks, 2SB and 3 runs. Wells 2 for 4 with 2 walks and a homer. Trevor Hauver went 3 for 4 with 2HR, 2 walks and 3 driven in. Matt Sauer came back from TJS and threw 3.1 shutout innings with 1 hit allowed and 6K. Downside was 3 walks in that time.

Not sure how I feel about Peralta. Stuff is insane, but he starts from a moving base and pulls the ball far too often into the RH batters box. He gave up 3 liners in his 4 batters and thankfully, two were hit right at the batters

Ah I see, you brought in the human white flag in Brice. You thought you could avoid your bridge

How have you given up 7 runs to this scrub team? They just scored 4 runs in 3 games in the Bronx

My early takeaway from tonight was that German managed to have a great peripherals line while looking bad. His stuff was all over the place, but 5 baserunners in 5 innings with 6K's is pretty good, but the 2HR isnt. Yanks put runners on and it was an infield hit that broke it all open. 4 more outs and we can put this one in the books. No way I thought we win this one with Greinke facing German, but Greinke was really off.

Odor looks like he blew out his knee

Lol, I was doing a lot of NFL draft texts and it autocorrected.

Kluber was named pitcher of the week to nobody’s surprise. Last 2 starts, only 3BB in 14.2IP. First 4 games, 11BB in 15IP. Needless to say, he’s found his location which is bad news for AFC foes

It is rather funny that the Yanks and Sox came into 2021 with pitching issues and to this point, the rotations have been fine. The Yanks and Sox both need outfielders who can hit at this point. If their guys don't get off their skids, then it will be an interesting battle to see who adds premium OF talent

I am an enigma wrapped in a puzzle, lol. Reason why I say that is the Yanks are playing almost at half offensive capability against a team fully capable of dropping a 10 spot at any moment. When they play again later in the season, I will agree as I'd assume the Yanks bats will no longer be made of foam

There are no must watch series in early May outside of Yankees Sox.

Yanks are 8th in the AL in OPS, 12th in runs, 5th in OBP and 10th in SLG but lead the league in HRs. Talk about strange Yanks with the lowest ERA in the AL by a lot (3.01 vs 3.42 second), K's by a lot (301 to 277) and WHIP by a lot (1.05 to 1.15). Very, very weird year for sure. The Yankee pen has been entirely lights out. They're second in ERA by 0.09 to Seattle, first in K's, 3rd lowest in walks, lowest in WHIP (0.95) and BAA (.180). And they are doing all this with arguably our best reliever on the mend in Britton. For the rotation, the much maligned Yankee rotation is 2nd in the AL in ERA at 3.50, 1st in K's, 4th in WHIP. Kluber has been unhittable two games running. Taillon finally found his stuff and dominated, albeit against the worst hitting team in the AL. German has gone 12 innings in a row without allowing a run. Montgomery has been steady Eddy with a 4.39ERA through his first 5 starts as well. Then there's Cole who is the clear favorite right now for AL CY The offense has been the issue. Stanton and Judge have roared back from slow starts. Higashioka is the team's best hitter and now the starting catcher. Urshela has been solid if not unspectacular. Beyond that, everyone else has sucked. Lemahieu and Torres have seen a startling drop in power. Frazier finally started hitting the ball with authority the last few games, so naturally he sat yesterday. Hicks, Gardner and Sanchez have been utterly invisible. The Yanks gets a big jolt back in their lineup in 8 days with the return of Voit, the defending AL HR champion. But the Yanks need to be looking at the OF market as the season starts to heat up. If Hicks continues to be a hole in the lineup, Gardner continues to lose his fight vs Father Time and Frazier returns to looking lost, we might be in the market for not one, but two OFers at the deadline.

6 year commit to the reserve is problematic for sure. That means a weekend a month plus the chance to get deployed for a conflict. It is almost better to have him serve his term and come out unhindered

Not really a700. Depends on who the players are. My bet is Bloom and the teams already agreed on the players but they cannot be traded until draft time, ie all 3 players were taken in the 2020 draft Trea Turner of the Nats was a PTNBL in a trade with SD in the same fashion.

Beni is looking like the 2019 version thus far. He needed a change of scenery. While Franchy has been an utter disaster, he was almost an add in to the deal. The deal will hinge on the 3 PTNBL’s and Winckowski.

Whitlock is being used as if he will have a bigger role in future seasons. They’re sacrificing his roster spot for the future development of the player. That’s what Rule V is. Just so happens the guy has performed incredibly well. Long term, I think Whitlock ends up in your rotation but I think the Sox are terrified that they’ll f*** up a good thing. Whitlock has good stuff in the minors, but it’s ticked up tremendously out of the pen and post TJs

You wonder why we gave him away and even sweetened the deal with a pretty solid prospect. Ottavino is a liability. He comes up small when you need him the most

Big issue this time around was the pen. First loss, Sawamura came into a tied game and gave up a two run bomb. Second loss, Andriese sucked and blew a lead and lost. Tonight, Ottavino and Barnes blew it. The pen is showing the wear we expected it to

We shall see where the standings are in a couple weeks.

Pen has no location today after DHern

Kluber is dominating right now. I know the Tigers suck, but his command of the zone today is epic

Chapman getting a splitter is almost unfair. And it’s not just an okay splitter, it’s a devastating pitch

I really like Taillon’s stuff. I know he’s scuffled a bit and his velo hasn’t come back to what it was, but he’s 94 on the black with a nasty slider. He fades which has hurt him at this point, but he should build as the season goes along.