jacksonianmarch

it wasnt a steal. He was running on the pitch, and either got a horrible jump or wasnt booking it. Either way, Jetes has a few SBs to this point, no need to try and incite. BTW, Harden is bringing it and giving up that out was a fantastic idea, Joe!!! I hate our manager.

you sick f***, lol.

I legitimately hate Joe Torre. You send a guy on 3-2 when you have a hitter up who K's 100 times a yr? Now ARod gets a hit and the inning is essentially over. I'd have loved 1st and 2nd, 1 out right now. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS! And, btw, you never give away outs against a guy who is this tough.

Andy settling down. This offense needs a jump start.

And if you think Wakefield will stay this dominant, I have some swampland in florida for sale. As for our options, to this point, we have guys who can give innings. Hell, even Rasner went 5+ last game and he is just a stop gap guy, not a prospect. And to put things in perspective, Wake would be gone too as we lost our #4 in Pavano. If your rotation was hurt as much as ours was, your rotation would be DMats Tavarez Hansack Lester ??? Not inspiring to say the least.

BTW, Trenton, the yankees AA team, has now thrown 46 consecutive scoreless innings. The pitching in this system is nice!

The way we typically beat Harden is wear him out a bit and tee off on him when he flattens out his breaking ball and fastball. To this point, we arent waiting him out enough. 37 pitches through 3 is too little.

this is what we do in April. Just topsy turvy results, offense on when the pitching isnt, defense off when the others are, etc. We will start to come together right about the time that our rotation settles back in. CMW is a very important starter for this team and getting him back will be nice.

What I like is that by May 1 all of our pitchers should be back. God willing.

Yeah he is. He is throwing a low 90s heater early and then ramping up to 98 with 2 strikes.

Not a very strong start to the game, especially with Harden on the hill.

2-0, Cano mustnt have seen it, WTF?

Good play, crap throw costs us a f***ing run. Fantastic.

If Torre continues to put workloads out as currently doled, they will be fine. Henn 8.2IP Vizcaino 8.1IP Proctor 7.1IP Bruney 7.0IP Farnsworth 5.1IP Rivera 4.0IP Myers 4.1IP Joe's biggest problem is that he falls in love with one pitcher and just burns him out. Once he burns them out, he moved onto the next guy and continues the trend until there is no bridge and Mo is tired. If he continues to dole out equal innings, our bullpen can handle it for the most part. If he reverts to old tendencies, then this pen will fall apart quickly.

we cannot be trading pitching until things solidify. Pavano will be back, unless he decides to get head in his porsche again, that is.

I am very excited about this kid. Not because he is on any watch lists or anything, but he can go from a so-so trading chip to a big time chip if he pitches well. Wright is no power pitcher. He'll sit 88-92 with the heater, has a very good changeup and curve. His recent dominance (FSL Pitcher of the Yr in 06) is owed to a new slurve which makes him even more deadly. He is a crafty lefty, a bit old for his league (24yrs old) who to this point last yr was considered a fringe prospect. But after going 12-3 with a 1.88ERA in 113IP last season, he started climbing the ranks. Unfortunately for him, the yankee pitching in the system got so deep that he was actually dropping in the yankee depth chart in terms of top pitching prospects. The yankees decided to add him to the 40 man this yr to avoid the rule 5 draft and thus far it has panned out. This offseason, his slurve was tightened and his arm slot was changed a bit. The new arm slow has given him a very sharp, sinking 2 seamer and hence is giving him lots of groundballs. In 2 starts, he is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA, 14IP 4H 1BB 19K and a solid 2.29 GB/FB ratio. Unfortunately, he has drawn the assignment of facing Cleveland, but if he pitches well, it could open a few eyes about a guy who was rated by some expert sources as being our 17th best SP prior to this season. As for Britton, he is a POWER armed fatboy who we got for free from the Orioles. He had a very strong season in his rookie yr last yr with a low 3's ERA in 50+IP of relief.

I am pretty excited about the prospects. Not about the current rotation. Better now than later.

ARod is locked in here. CMon ALEX!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2007/news/story?id=2837151 Oden's dad says his son is one and done.