jacksonianmarch

and the O's lost today.

Gritty at bats, worked Felix out (didn't hurt that he tweaked his back), feasted on the pen.

And Hafner is out again. Shoulder injury, MRI done, no read yet. Let's just say, he made it until Grandy could return

Encinas has been lights out but left his last game with elbow soreness. Uh oh

You do know that the Red Sox ERA this month is nearly 2 runs higher than the Yankees? So the whole out pitching thing isn't really happening at all. The numbers you are quoting are based upon an unsustainable April in which the sox had the highest BABIP and an unsustainably low ERA

Granderson is killing it in the minors and we have depth to not have to rush him. My guess is Grandy will see only righties to start. Right now, our 1b have a .720OPS with a .277OBP. Tex may not be the guy he once was, but he's an .800+OPS player and should have a mid .300's OBP, which is a major upgrade. Jeter is a wild card. But even with one leg he could OPS higher than .610, which is what our SS's are doing right now

Our 3b's have a .668OPS and that is considering Youk gave us 17 games at a .769OPS. Getting them back will be a massive upgrade over the s*** that's been there, even if they play below their career standards.

Based on rotoworld, all they did was XRays. I could be wrong. By the way, big ups to Middlebrooks. He is playing with a dislocated rib. That s*** hurts a lot

Your team was 20-8 on the heels of unsustainable offense based on a league high BABIP and an insane .330 BA with RISP. Your pitching had to regress a little since their insane, atypical April, and they have done just that. Your ERA in May is 4.76, good for 25th in baseball. Your ERA in April was 3.58, good for 8th in baseball Your R/PG in May is 3.8, good for 19th in baseball. Your R/G in April was 5.2, good for 3rd in baseball. All in all, your hitting corrected at the same time as your pitching. You're not as good as your April, you aren't as bad as your May. But all in all, your team isn't a 90 win club, IMO. You look at the Yankees and they are actually hitting like s*** this month (3.7 runs per game), but the pitching is carrying them. When the pitching starts to allow more runs, we should have some players back. Having Granderson out there every day and pulling out Nelson for Youkilis could only be good for this team. Honestly, I am shocked that the Yankees are in 1st right now. I knew that when healthy, this team was better than the sox and even without health, we are better. We get Youk, Grandy and Tex back within the next 3 weeks. A month after that ARod and Jeter should return. By that point, if you aren't ahead, you're gonna be buried

Once again, Chest XRays are 50% sensitive for rib fracture and a hairline rib fracture is undetectable on XRay. If they were really concerned, an MRI, CT or PET scan would have been better

He did. The Yankees wont continue to win 80% of 1 run games, We also aren't winning over 100 games this yr. I said before the yr that we were a 95 win team. After all the injuries, I had no idea. Now that some guys have turned up gold and we are starting to see the all-star injury brigade returning, I don't see a massive regression. We'll have stretches where we lose 7 out of 10, but we wont have too many of them. This team can pitch and they can hit just enough to win.

Yes, we tumbled so far. So, so far. We tumbled right into a 7-0 dominating performance. Oh, and Grandy comes back tomorrow.

You don't do well with reason, do you?

And in true Yankee fashion, we beat the f*** out of them in game 2. Thus far, our pitching has been awesome against the highest scoring team in the AL. Vidal Nuno was lights out and Warren has been shut down as well. The kids are kicking ass

We didn't have a chance. That split squad lineup was embarrassing

BTW, how about the play of our rookie pitchers. Preston Claiborne, Vidal Nuno, and Adam Warren have been lights out since coming on board. The only one who is a long term reliever is Claiborne. Warren is a guy who I thought was a safe bet to become a middle of the rotation starter and he might get that shot next yr, but thus far he's been an integral part of the pen as the swing man. We are starting to see some of the depth on the pitching end pitching in, and it is with the guys who aren't even considered elite prospects

Of course you do, lol. We wont stay playing .800 ball in 1 run games, but we also won't be winning all our games within a 3 run margin. Granderson is coming back. Youk and Tex aren't far behind.

7 of our losses are by 4 or more runs. Only 5 of our wins are by 4 or more runs. We are 23-13, so in games decided by a save run differential, we are 18-6. That means that when we get beat, we get our asses kicked. When we win, it's close.

It's very simple with the Yankees. They hit enough to take the lead. They pitch enough to hold the lead. They have a closer who is the best of all time. We get Grandy back on Tuesday and Youk shouldn't be far behind

Victorino was taken to the hospital last night for evaluation of his rib injury from crashing into the wall. He is questionable for Tuesday until all test results come back

Well, have a good night y'all. Another night of work

He's on the DL right now and we're gonna need him

After this series you get Matt Moore, David Price, and Alex Cobb. It's gonna be interesting to see what happens

Everyone was shooting the sherbet when the entire sox team was on a tear in April. Now, everyone is down on them. This is a .500 team, maybe more. And this "correction" is coming vs the worst teams in the league

Haters gonna hate