jacksonianmarch

Paxton needs to be better. He’s got elite stuff. He shut down the Sox in YS by living down in the zone and going further down with the slider. You cannot go up in the zone vs boston. You have to go up and out of the zone. Staying letter high in Fenway vs the Sox is a recipe for disaster. CC may be the cure for what ails us. Nothing like a junk baller who throws nothing up in the zone to change the bat path of the Sox hitters. We don’t need ourbstarter to be good. If CC goes 5IP 3ER, it’ll be a humongous win. We don’t need 7IP 1ER. I’ll take it if it happens, but that’s not what’s needed

The guy barely averted a f***ing heart attack in the offseason

Crazy that we are relying on CC to be the stopper

Just got home in time to watch the Sox win. Wow. Paxton and Tanaka sucked the last two games. We gotta get some semblance of starting pitching tomorrow. Embarassing

Good thing I’m working tonight. No show for the pinstripes

Paxton relies more on power. His command isn’t as good nor needs to be as good as Tanaka’s. Paxton runs into trouble less with his in zone command but more with the walk. If he can limit the walk, he can juice up the heat into the high 90/s and get the batters to chase up with heat or down with the slider. When he starts walking guys, he dials it down to command it better and gets romped.

Tanaka does this once a year where he puts up a month’s worth of starts where you can barely use him. Then he goes on fire. Paxton is new territory for him. Outside of a 2-3 week absence, he’s been pretty healthy. His stuff is there, and he was rolling until his last start. German the same deal. His stuff has been good, but he lost it all vs Minn. he didn’t have anything that game. I have zero problem with giving either of those three the ball if the POs started today. What I do worry about is German teaching unreached territory for him in innings and the fragile Paxton staying healthy down the stretch. With Sevy potentially returning, we definitely need one more guy if only to ramp down Happ’s starts so his 2021 option doesn’t vest

Cashner is a bit of a Yankee killer, so this one could be tough for the boys in grey

we are over .600 against teams with a winning record

Exactly. And the one thing the Dodgers have done that the Yankees haven't is draft best player and most likely player to hit. The Yanks have gotten cute in their first rounds, drafting guys with character and "greater than the sum of their parts" and their first rounders usually flop. They make hay later in drafts by going for guys with one big skill and hone them. I wish they'd do that earlier. The Dodgers have been picking guys who can mash and pitchers with huge arms and they have hit in spades. It doesn't matter if they create a logjam, they'll deal the ones they think are the weakest and make additions like Machado last year or Greinke before that. Where the Yanks have dominated is the INTL forum. Their draft classes seem to hit every year, and it isn't always the top guys that do. I wish we would take a page from our IFA scouting and apply it to the draft. No more middle infield types with slick gloves. No more catchers who are gonna stay at the position but cannot hit. No more finesse pitchers who might be a #5 someday. F that. Give me power, hit ability, high velocity.

They have learned to fight back, but yeah, they are. The Twins have been known for late game meltdowns and that 10 inning epic was full of them

We should have about $10 mil to go before hitting the final threshold. With 2 months left in the season, we can almost afford to get Greinke, the higher paid player by AAV on the market. So money isn't gonna be the problem here. We are actually in a pretty good place financially for a large market team. As our prearb guys start to get expensive, we will start getting some cap relief. EE, Gardy, CC, Betances, and possibly Chapman fall off the AAV. We can replace their contributions internally aside from possibly Chapman. After 2020, Tanaka, Lemahieu and Ellsbury fall off. Clearly, we would look to re-up Lemahieu, but I doubt we would need to keep Tanaka at a big price and Ells is wasted space. The importance of keeping a pre-arb pipeline is key. For 2020, we will have Andujar, Torres, Tauchman, and Voit still on pre-arb deals with Montgomery, Judge, and Sanchez jumping into the first time arb land. Once Judge and Sanchez start to get expensive (2nd time though arb) we will be able to pay them with cash falling off the books. The way Cashman set this up is pretty good.

Your boys are 2-6 vs us and the first win was vs the Yankees C team lineup because Boone decided to rest everyone vs Price. Yesterday was the first game you guys won with us actually giving it our all. And you won quite convincingly. That being said, it's a single game and now the pen is rested.

Severino is throwing. They haven’t moved him to a mound. They’re handling him with kid gloves. Betances is in the same boat. Betances will be back sooner just due to his role. Severino has a real shot at being at least a 4-5IP pitcher by September. That’ll be enough with this pen. Maybe he can get to 100 pitches by PO time. Sevy has traditionally been nails for the beginning of seasons then fades late. Maybe with this injury, he is nails at the right time? Tanaka’s history is dominant in the postseason. Look it up, he’s been terrific. Paxton has some of the best stuff in the game and had been rolling until his last start. Same with German. I have no faith in CC or Happ in a PO setting. We need a starter or having them start on an extremely short leash would be a necessity.

Wins for pitchers isn’t entirely meaningless but it certainly isn’t the hallowed ground it once was.

Tanaka had nothing. Boone essentially burned him down to ash to save our pen. Paxton today who had been rolling before his last start. Seems like a theme. The rotation had been pretty solid until we ran into the final 2 games vs Colorado, the 3 in Minnesota and 1 in Boston. One full turn + 1 of dogshit

He’s been bad because of injuries. He’s been fragile in his time in NY. Trust me, I’d love him in the Bronx, but there is significant caution to be had with him. He’s an enormous frail pitcher who throws 100.

That's enough for me. Time to do some work and shut this crap off.

He's a finesse guy. When he cannot locate he is meat

You have the lefty in the pen and Moreland at the dish. Why not pull him now

What was that s***?

Boom. Tarpley up in the pen

We have gotten nothing from our rotation for 3 straight games. I think Boone is deciding to divebomb today to save the pen. I bet we go to Tarpley and burn him after this. You guys are gonna score 15 today

Another bad call, wow

Boone is pretty much just punting this game