There's a policy that starters who pitch the day before the All-Star break are not allowed to pitch in the All-Star game. That's why Sabathia and many other equally deserving starters were not named.
Why fill right field internally with one of the hottest hitters in baseball when we can pay $6 million and a couple prospects more to get a brand name who will walk at the end of the year?
This should allow us to put a few more games between us and the Yankees by September. A-Rod's been the Yankees second most valuable player this year and I can't believe I'm going to say this but Nunez is as big a downgrade defensively than he is offensively.
They're right about Miller. There's no way Miller's going to pitch effectively if he continues to allow this many baserunners and strike out so few batters. That's what I was saying when he was getting good results as far as runs scored. It's possible that Miller's simply nervous about getting another chance at the big leagues and over time he will get his walks down and his strikes up like they were in AAA. But I wouldn't count on it.
I'm really hoping to see Weiland's major league debut on Sunday. With is 3.00 ERA, 1.14 WHIP and 9.6 K/9, he deserves a chance over a washed up Millwood.
Farnsworth shuts the door on the Yankees and the Red Sox are half an inning away from having the best record in the AL with 3/5ths of their rotation on the DL.
I'm guessing they go with Millwood. Then once everyone sees that he's become a junkballer with a fastball in the 80's people will stop asking for him to be called up.
Colon has a history of being a comically bad major league pitcher since 2006. Maybe he's found something and turned a corner, maybe he hasn't. Either way, is it really worth getting butthurt over an 11 start track record?
The wheels have really fallen off on Colon. 13 baserunners in less than 5 innings and a mid 90's fastball. It looks like he's just slinging the ball up there.