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All in all, the past few years Joe has been a wizard.

I've been whining about not improving the team for this year's stretch run. Especially with the pitching staff screaming injury.

But it is a good time for Yankee fans in spite of that. Severino, the way the old guys are hitting, getting closer to ending the contracts that have been strangling us, minor league is so improved. The future is brighter than it has been in a while.
 
Just hand the Jays the AL East already, the division is the least of the yankees worries right now they keep on sliding they won't even get the 2nd wild card. Now the lineup has hit a huge slump at the wrong time. Miller isn't as dominant as he was earlier in the season, and Ellsbury aside from him slumping he doesn't even attempt to steal bases anymore or run hard in the outfield something just doesn't look right. The yankees are like the car that keeps going into the shop for repairs rather then just getting a brand new car. Well see what happens going forward this is why I didnt get my hopes up. Just an incredibly streaky hot and cold team with no energy. The Jays on the other hand are on FIRE.
 
Ellsbury and Gardner are both weird and tough to have at the the top. They go from .260 to .320 and back twice a year but when they fade it's like a lead balloon. They don't run because Joe doesn't want to ruin the potential for the long ball and now he should be changing but isn't. Miller is fine, a sawed off blooper tied it up. Brantley owns every Yankee pitcher anyway so he was bound to get a hit. The only guys who have been hitting haven't been moved - Didi, Beltran and Headley should all be closer. I would turn it upside down and lead off Didi and bat Headley 2nd. Ellsbury is putrid and Gardner not much better. And as long as Brett continues to show up the umps even when he's wrong he won't get the benefit of the doubt ever, he's a dope. Can't get on ARod and Tex they were carrying for along time it's time for others. Beltran is trying I admit.

Crazy how they all slump together and it's not the pitching their facing they just can't hit suddenly. Oh well can they hold on for dear life or like you say, nothing left in the tank?

Good thing was how Severino came back from early control problems which led him to pitching behind int he count the first couple of innings. He calmed and was really impressive. Why didn't we see more change ups in the early innings? It's a go-to pitch and only threw 1 or 2 - not easy to pitching the majors behind and just throwing fastballs.
 
In my mind, if this season is lost, it's on Cashman.
Blue Jays improved. We did nothing & lost Pineda.
 
David 76 said:
In my mind, if this season is lost, it's on Cashman.
Blue Jays improved. We did nothing & lost Pineda.
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Agree to a point David but the theory would have been to get a pitcher right? But it's the hitting that is now losing ground not the pitching. The pitching has kept us in most every game and no one is hitting. We lost 3 of them 2-1,2-1, 1-0. No one thought they'd need a bat.
 
Agree that you can't fault Cashman when it's the offense costing them games. It would be like if Alderson made no moves and the Mets suddenly started losing game 8-7.

What did you want Cashman to do? Trade for Tulo, Bruce, or Upton? Probably not. You (general you, Yankees fans) probably wanted Cueto, Price or some other arm. Well, Cueto isn't going to help much when the team is scoring 0 or 1 per game.
 
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It is a long season and our pitching will catch up with us. It is fairly likely Nova's arm will go dead and Tanaka is millimeters from the DL. The only pitcher with a history of pitching a full MLB season is Sabathia. So I think we needed pitching help. And a second baseman. I know we lost the last 4 games do to lack of hitting, but that is not our big problem. I think only one of our five starters has pitched a full mlb season. And he is pitching the worst.
Fortunately, Severino looks good. So it hasn't been an issue yet. If he stays sharp, Pineda returns fine, CC, Tanaka and Nova get through the season, I'm wrong. But I think it was an irresponsible decision to stand put, especially with Pineda out and Severino not having thrown a pitch in the bigs yet.
And second base is a mystery to me. Drew Ackley, Ryan. It is a collection of guys who can't bat their weight and Refsnyder who they won't let play.
 
David 76 said:
It is a long season and our pitching will catch up with us. It is fairly likely Nova's arm will go dead and Tanaka is millimeters from the DL. The only pitcher with a history of pitching a full MLB season is Sabathia. So I think we needed pitching help. And a second baseman. I know we lost the last 4 games do to lack of hitting, but that is not our big problem. I think only one of our five starters has pitched a full mlb season. And he is pitching the worst.
Fortunately, Severino looks good. So it hasn't been an issue yet. If he stays sharp, Pineda returns fine, CC, Tanaka and Nova get through the season, I'm wrong. But I think it was an irresponsible decision to stand put, especially with Pineda out and Severino not having thrown a pitch in the bigs yet.
And second base is a mystery to me. Drew Ackley, Ryan. It is a collection of guys who can't bat their weight and Refsnyder who they won't let play.
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Yeah Ackely is the best they could do? Crazy
 
Now they are looking at Utley off waivers. Similar BA to Drew but with less power.
 
David 76 said:
Now they are looking at Utley off waivers. Similar BA to Drew but with less power.
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:confused:

Huge power outage and just hit outage. Afraid we saw the smoke and mirrors David and it's coming to an end quickly. Oh well unexpected fun while it lasted - Giants and UConn up next ;)
 
1B prospect Doug Bird on the way. To bat where...no clue.
 
At 65 years old, I don't think Doug Bird has much upside left.

I kid, I kid. Though it did take me a while to figure out that the reason I couldn't find this prospect on baseball reference was because his name is Greg Bird.
 
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mets1090 said:
At 65 years old, I don't think Doug Bird has much upside left.

I kid, I kid. Though it did take me a while to figure out that the reason I couldn't find this prospect on baseball reference was because his name is Greg Bird.
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You can kid your team is going the other way ;), good for you guys!
 
mets1090 said:
At 65 years old, I don't think Doug Bird has much upside left.

I kid, I kid. Though it did take me a while to figure out that the reason I couldn't find this prospect on baseball reference was because his name is Greg Bird.
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I loved Doug Bird!
 
mauconnfan said:
You can kid your team is going the other way ;), good for you guys!
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About time :mad:

History has me waiting for the next 1-8 stretch including getting swept by the Nationals though.
 
The old adage always come back to me.
You are never as good as you look when things are going well and you are never as bad as you look when thing are going bad.

This is a fun, pretty good team that momentarily looked great, but I don't think we will lose out either.

Bird would seem to be able to bat in the two places we don't need him. Can he play anything other than first or Dan Hurley?
 
David 76 said:
The old adage always come back to me.
You are never as good as you look when things are going well and you are never as bad as you look when thing are going bad.

This is a fun, pretty good team that momentarily looked great, but I don't think we will lose out either.

Bird would seem to be able to bat in the two places we don't need him. Can he play anything other than first or Dan Hurley?
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This the Yankees thead? Oh yeah, hope he can play CF or LF because the only guy who can hit in the OF right now is Beltran.
 
Beltran came up huge huh. Wow what a huge win especially with that crowd all revved up and then silencing them.
 
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The Bird is the word, but we do have to back up a day to acknowledge the A-Bomb from A-Rod
 
Once again the Yankees want to play enforcer of the "unwritten rules". How much do you want to bet that McCann was one of the voices yelling at Gomez from the dugout last night?
 
Excalibur said:
Once again the Yankees want to play enforcer of the "unwritten rules". How much do you want to bet that McCann was one of the voices yelling at Gomez from the dugout last night?
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And he shouldn't be? I mean Gomez is a known a**hole and deserves to be a target of a 95MPH fastball in the side tonight. Pretty simple ex, you get what you ask for.
 
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