jacksonianmarch

Now you are just taunting the mods

show me where I am wrong Dutchy. I said, Gardner and his slap ability. It was good enough to crack the bigs and got better this season, enough for him to be a solid contributor. Aceves and his control and poise. I said before that his stuff isnt anything special, but the control is and he has gotten the corners. Seriously, you are arguing semantics as usual. I give you another week until they get rid of you. Maybe you should call yourself the Dutch Oven the next time around, cause you smell like s*** and force your way upon us when you arent wanted

Shocked he hasnt been banned yet. 4 screen names has to be some sort of a record

they got him with the hopes that DHing would keep him away from the injury bug. The wrist hadnt been his problem for about 5 yrs or so. The prior stuff had been lower body/ fluke injuries (femur fractures dont happen every day). Now that this wrist injury has crept back into his life, I have to assume he's done. Until Montero starts getting hot, we might need another bat, or hope that Miranda can find it

Johnson is out too.

Jeter is still in the lineup. No worries. Seriously, though, how many injuries can a team take? Also, giving Swisher a day off against Verlander even though he is sore sounds like a poor choice. Winn and Golson in the 8-9 hole is worse than most NL teams 8-9 hitters

3-0 spud. CC gives up a check swing RBI single then gets taken deep twice

Finished with a hell of a line. 6IP 2H 2ER 1BB 7K. I doubt that he'll be in the FSL for long. His stuff is just too good. I didnt know a ton about him when he was drafted. Checked a few sources, liked what I heard. Then, when he got to instructs and then spring training, he was the most impressive pitcher in camp. 95mph sinkers with 88mph sliders. Massive movement, solid location. He will blow away most minor leaguers.

Listening to Sterling talk about how the sox are gonna drop David Ortiz soon is just painful as well. Yeah John, might want to research a bit before looking dumb. As a platoon DH, he's got an OPS near 1. Yep, Theo is prepping the release papers. Can the Tigers lock the doors and flood the Yankee broadcast booth? Please? It's like listening to a couple of third graders debate the tastiness of twinkies and ho-hos.

Well, back to the notes. Juan Miranda came up to the bigs today. He's a big, lefty power hitter who strikes out a bunch. He has a good eye, is a complete butcher in the field and has been hitting lefties much better than prior to 2009.

And, there were a few guys I touted pretty hard who turned out to be pretty good. Joba, oh Joba. I remember when Gom was fawning over dealing him for Gagne. Remember when Francessa said the same thing? Then the sox got Gagne, he flamed out and Joba came up guns blazing. Hughes, well Hughes is proving me right for the second yr in a row. I said that I did not want to deal Hughes for Santana. Well, Santana was great in 2008 when Hughes was hurt. In 2009, Hughes was irreplaceable as a setup man while Santana went down late. And in 2010, thus far, Hughes is one of the best pitchers in the AL. And David Robertson pitched really well last yr, although he has started off pretty poorly this season. There are plenty others, like Pena and his glove (I always said his bat was bad), Cervelli and his defense and his offensive approach, Gardner and his slap ability plus speed and D. Aceves and his poise and control. I have given reports on all of the guys who have come up. But, I must be holding them up on a pedestal. Right, the team with the most home grown players in the AL in 2009 and how did they do with all those home grown guys? Right, WS champs.

How often am I wrong on them? Really? How many have I completely struck out on? I give you SR's, projection, ceiling, etc. That's about it. I love the Yankee farm, I think this farm has a lot of high ceiling players in it. How they do in the bigs is anyone's guess, but I can give you their stuff, their power, this contact, etc a lot more than their stats will say.

Mediocre pitching? Bonderman, yeah I'll give you that one. We scored 2 runs in 3IP on the scrub that started Monday, but we got shut down by a very strong bullpen after that. Porcello is far from mediocre even though he had a rough start and I would venture to guess that Lester isnt mediocre, right?

Stoneburner was one of the guys I highlighted in my eval of the 2009 draft. Great thing is, another draft will be upon us soon, although I will be pretty jet lagged during it. He's big, he throws a very hard sinker-slider combo and he is accurate. They tried to teach him a change in instructs and the results were good per the SR's, but I'd hold judgement on that for now. Regardless, I think he could relieve in the majors right now and be useful. The Yankees hope he can start, which is why he took this path. If he was drafted as a reliever, he would have started in A+ ball and would probably be in AA by now. Other notes.... Andrew Brackman started again in Tampa to mixed results as usual. He is walking far less than he was previously, with a new found emphasis on control. The problem is that he is sacrificing power to throw the ball over the plate, something which is getting him hit hard and will delay his ETA again. Why they havent converted him to the pen is beyond me. A 6'11" pitcher throwing 95-96 with a filthy curve for one inning is much better than the same tall guy throwing 88-90mph sinkers that catch too much of the plate for 5IP. He has never shown that he can stay healthy at any level, college included, and he hasnt shown the ability to start at any level past high school. He's been a project from the start, and it might be time to pull the plug on him as a starter to recoup some of the massive investment from his draft bonus.

Granderson is out for another month at least with a severe strain of his groin. Randy Winn is proving to be a great glove but a weak bat in the OF at this time. Marcus Thames is proving to be a destroyer of all things lefty and a misser of all things righty. That is the spawn of our LF conundrum. Now, things get worse. Nick Swisher was yanked today due to a bicep injury. He's said to be day to day, likely to miss a few games, but this should probably be a bit of a wake up call. If Gardner breaks a hand stealing or Swisher's injury is more serious, the OF depth behind him is ridiculously thin. Trading away Jackson may have landed us a franchise CFer, but it also dealt away any major depth we had at the AAA level. Golson is a 5th OFer at best. The only OF stick in AAA worth mentioning is David Winfree, a 24 yr old OFer with moderate pop, but no patience and is already on his second organization. Sounds like a 4th OF type to me. So, with about 30 games to go before we get Curtis back, we need someone capable of playing full time in the OF or maybe part time DH when the occasion rises. And that man should be Jermaine Dye. Yes, he might cost you $2-3 million, but if he could OPS .800 or even .750, he'd be worth his weight in gold. Cause watching Ramiro Pena in this lineup due to the lack of a true DH should be appalling, this shot should be fired. Why the hell not? His defense is horrible, yes. Put him in RF at the stadium or DH him on the road. A drunken midget can play RF defense in Yankee stadium, why not Dye? All I am saying is that the rash of injuries has led to a significant weakness in what looked like a pretty ironclad plan. Well, time to shore up the hole with a veteran bat capable of adding some thunder at the bottom of the order. Do it Cash.

It looks completely silly and I will admit that I was completely wrong. Joba looks like the Joba of 2007 again and Hughes looks like the guy we thought he could be. The crazy thing is that Hughes' stuff is getting better start to start. His FB velocity is rising and his control is improving. He surpassed 6IP once in his first 3 starts, while walking 11 and striking out 18 in 18IP. In his last 3 starts, he's passed 6IP each time, while walking only 3 and striking out 22 in 21.2IP. He's now faced two solid, patient offenses in a row, and allowed only 1 walk each time out. He's learning folks.

I think so too. As good as Lars is, he is not what the sox need right now, and that is a middle of the order bat. Lars has the potential to be a middle of the order bat, but in the pros right now, he'd probably be a little shellshocked (as would most big name prospects first time through). I dont think the sox have time to offer an offense first position to a kid during a pennant run that they are currently losing. And while Theo has his value arguments, the sox time to do something is within the next 2-3 yrs while the core of their pitching is still in their prime and still under contract. Lars may be All-Star worthy by the end of that, but they need to make the lineup more dangerous quickly. And they do that by getting AdGon. I think the package goes a bit bigger than Kelly and Anderson. Then again, if Buch continues to put baserunners on in droves, the sox might try to move him before his stock drops and re-insert Wake into the rotation, grooming Kelly for a 2011 launch date

I dont think you needed to hand him a bigger deal, IMO. I bet a deal similar to Pujol's last deal would have appeased Boras. 7yrs 100mil or so. Regardless, he would have been the middle of the order bat that the sox could have used. As much as the sox may be beating up on a team ill equipped to tango with them, I highly doubt that any team with any sort of pitching would be battered as soundly as the Jays were in this series. The Jays are proving to be an almost exclusively offensive club with Hill, Wells, Lind, Snider and many others coming around (hell, Hill sucks thus far). Good pitching shuts down good hitters. And bad pitching loses you games. Morrow tanked game 1. Eveland ditto in game 2. And the only pitcher worth his salt in Marcum shut the sox down. You get a reprieve in the Tiger series, missing Verlander but you then run into Hughes and CC again in NY.

You want me to look in the mirror? How bout we shine that mirror on you. Why dont you, for the record, accept or deny this statement. You are Dutchy.

He wont have a 1.5ERA forever. But his location and his stuff make him a good bet every time out to win some games

The worst is when he goes into the homer calls late in the game on foul balls. Then, you get home, watch the replay and can see that it was foul by a good 20 feet. He's a douche. And Waldman, jesus christ, Waldman is a shitstorm of epic proportions. She only got the job because she whined, now we cannot get rid of her. The two of them think that they are baseball royalty, but in reality, they are the laughingstock of the media world. I will certainly celebrate the day the two of them leave, so long as Buck doesnt take the esteemed job. He might be the one guy I would want to listen to least. I'd rather have slingblade announce the games

The Yankees have called up two of Scranton's starters within one week in Sanchez and Nova. Granted, Sanchez is back with SWB, but the idea remains. We needed AAA fodder and now we have it.

6 consecutive outings allowing 2 runs or less. 5-0. Yeah, sorry, dont see the downside here. But continue to be bitter, I love it

It isnt April anymore. Hughes throws 7 more stellar innings. The offense comes to life late in the game to salvage the split. And Javy was downright awesome today too in a losing effort. Good news, even in the loss. CC vs Verlander tomorrow should be good. And Joba continues to show his old form.