jacksonianmarch

this shows how out of touch with reality you are. Cashman and Michael are working along the same exact lines. Build the farm, built for a decade long run rather than the short term. Do you even know what you want anymore?

Hughes might be called up in his stead for an 85 pitch rehab start.

until Lugo gets back, the sox are stuck with him. Once Lugo returns, Lowell might need to just get it fixed and end the yr for him

Mike Lowell is hurt and it is pretty obvious. He has at least a hip pointer, and EEI was reporting that he has a bone spur that may need to be shaved down in the off season. Right now Lowell and Papi are dinged up.

btw, francona said what every manager says. "The hope is that he will only miss 2 starts". Nobody really knows.

Your 2006 is looking eerily similar to our 2008

So someone here thinks this is the Sox way of putting a spring in Timmay's step come the end of the season? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Right now, the sox are 1 game up in the L column in the wild card race. They are actively trying to give the empire some hope as well. They already have one kid in the rotation who is clearly lost and needs some MiLB time. They also have another guy who puts up good ERA and win totals, but is a massive drain on the pen. So they picked now, of all times to put their third most consistent starter on the DL? Yeah right. This one hurts, but you still havent reached our level of pain yet. Need another guy you have counted on this yr to take a dive. But with Colon not being close to ready and Buchholz being god awful, the sox are 3 deep in the rotation with 6 weeks to play. Meanwhile, the yankees are 2 deep and the twins seem to have caught fire at the wrong time. To be honest with you, this season may end up not having a NY or Boston team in the post season for the first time since 1993. Pitching wins championships and right now, both our teams are giving games away every turn in our rotation.

So you want to take a kid from starting to relieving, back to starting and then finish the yr relieving?

did not see the other thread. Kill this please.

The pen is starting to get tired unfortunately. Hell, marte seems to be in every game as it is. As with any good pen, you can only push them so far.

Rotoworld is reporting that Tim Wakefield is heading to the DL with shoulder stiffness

Hey inkman, um, Johnny Damon is hitting the s*** out of the ball this yr. Just thought I'd let you know.

Papi looks awful. He doesnt seem to have the bat speed to catch up to a good fastball and anything off speed is buckling his knee. Also, DMats has to be the luckiest pitcher in all of baseball.

Like I said before, Joe was a totally different manager towards the end of his tenure. But his MO was to ride the hot hand, and if a kid came in and dominated, he'd use them until they broke. If a kid came in and struggled initially, he'd avoid the kid like the plague. Mo and Mendoza succeeded from the beginning so he got in his good graces.

Here is how I view Girardi. Girardi is still feeling his way through this team. There is a ton of turnover as well as a TON of injuries. Not many teams can handle losing their ace and then the guy who steps in as their ace. Essentially your top 2 starters. Then to have your #4 and #5 starters go down with injury and ineffectiveness. I said at the start of the yr that the yankees starters went 6 deep including Chamberlain. Well, 4 have missed significant time. Not to mention the turnover in the lineup. Jorge Posada was considered to be one of the most irreplaceable yankees since he broke into the bigs around 1998. He wasnt himself from day 1 and is now out for the yr. It is tough losing a player who hit .338 with 20HR and a .900+OPS and turning that into a guy who can barely OPS .600. While defense is certainly a factor, Posada's loss on the offensive side of the ball is unquestioned. Then you lose 3 weeks of ARod and Damon. Hideki Matsui, who was hitting .320 and last yr had a .800+OPS and 100+RBI season has missed 50 games and counting. Then factor in Cano and Melky going into the tank for the full yr for the most part and all things considered, Girardi has faced more adversity than can be imagined. In terms of what he has done, you really need to take a look at the culture that was left behind. Joe Torre was a guy who came into Yankee lore in the mid 90s as a National League manager in the AL. He bunted, hit and ran, bunted for hits, etc. That stopped being employed by him for some reason and we have seen too many ploddingly slow players bounce into DPs because of it. That being said, Girardi is an NL style manager and he was an NL style player. Bunting and hit and run are part of his game. Getting back to today's game, I agree wholeheartedly with bunting Jeter in that spot. He hits into DPs all day long, Lackey gets GIDPs like it is his job and Abreu is a dynamite hitter with RISP. It was the right call. In terms of his bullpen management, Girardi and Torre are on absolute opposite ends of the spectrum. Torre was a guy who pulled pitchers at 100 pitches or any time there was a hint of trouble from innings 6 on. Girardi is the kid of guy who lets pitchers get out of their own jams, even if they are obviously done. Torre wouldnt use the kids to save his life, using only 2 or 3 middle relievers ad nauseum and letting the other guys rot. Essentially making those 2 or 3 burn out by mid yr and the other guys rusty come time for them to be called upon. Girardi is not like that. He seems to use guys who are a bit green in key spots to get them battle tested. I am unsure if this is a way for him to toughen the kids up or a way for him to learn what these kids have. I would hope that he slots these guys into formed roles come next yr. Today was bad. Geise was dominating. Veras comes in and gets hit hard, but it wasnt all that obvious that he would do so. Edwar, OTOH, is a guy who is absolutely reliant on an off speed pitch and not necessarily best equipped for a must win game. Regardless, come next yr, I think Girardi will have made more progress than regress. I still think Veras is a closer in the making and we have turned Edwar from a waste heap guy to a middle reliever capable of eating innings. He also threw Robertson into the fire and it is obvious that he has the goods to get the job done. Throw in Melancon coming down the pipe and Marte now in the fold and our pen will have experience and solid power to start the yr. In terms of how Girardi is doing in terms of today, he gets a C from me, mostly for his choice of Edwar in a tied game against HR hitters. But I agreed with the bunt and am glad he let Geise get through 6. Regardless, it might be time for Joe to think about next yr and getting the kids into the games as much as possible. This team has taken on way too much water. If you want to point at something that our playoff teams with late season surges had in common was health. By the end of the yr, most of our guys came back. Hence, we made a hell of a run when guys came back fresh. This yr has been backwards. We started the yr healthy and are seeing guys drop off like flies as the season comes to a close.

Abreu is gone regardless IMO. I just dont see how we fit Matsui, Abreu, Nady and Damon in a lineup. Damon cannot man CF full time. Matsui cannot man LF full time. The easy answer is to move Nady to RF, Damon to LF and Matsui to DH.

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/61510 tell him to go screw

actually, the players are against the floor. Their reasoning is that a salary floor will soon be followed by a salary cap.

Rest for 1 week. Throwing program for 2 weeks. Re-eval in there somewhere and he could be throwing in our rotation before the end of the month. One thing to be stressed is that this injury can completely heal on its own and if it does, no further rest is warranted. It is imperative that the yankees ensure that the injury is 100% healed

Bruney was looking damn good at the beginning of the yr. Now, s/p injury, he has lost the life on his fastball. What I saw in April was a guy who could throw 98mph but instead, changed to a guy throwing 92 with a ton of life. Now that he has come back from injury, the straight heater is back. If he stays like this, he'll continue to get killed

http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=3524783 LOL. Just kidding on the title. Kid is in the dominican, hell, they probably spiked his rum.

BTW, for all the Molina naysayers, his CERA is 3.54 this yr. A full run better than Jorge's. Wow.

DJ Mitchell, the yankees 10th round pick and another tough sign will be in to take his physical tomorrow and will sign his contract. Bonus speculation is in the neighborhood of 500K, or 2nd round money. He is a tall wiry pitcher out of Clemson who was taken late due to his bonus demands. He doesnt throw overly hard, but he has good location of a solid 4 pitch arsenal and his fastball has natural sink, sitting in the 90-92 range

Feinsand is an idiot. You see, he broke the story yesterday that Pettitte had "arm stiffness". Once that was negated and Andy flat out denied it, he now says he has "tired arm." Stiffness and tired arm are two different things. Listen, if he wants to point out that Andy has been pathetic his last 2 starts, then fine. But look at the teams he faced. Regardless, Andy does this every yr. He is a lot streakier than most people realize and soon enough he will find it again. Probably not in time to save our season (unless TB or BOS go into the tank).

Of course it is about the money. But FACT is that both of our teams are big market clubs and losing a guy like Boras would hurt us in the long run talent-wise. Hell, just look at the last 2 yankee first rounders. Both fell due to money concerns (Brackman due to injury as well, but most draft experts considered him a top 10 pick even knowing he needed TJ). Cole was considered the top HS arm in the entire draft, and was set to be drafted, in a slotting perfect world right around slots 5-8.